The Pope offered us wisdom, calling upon us to exercise moral discernment when building AI systems. Some rejected his teachings. We mark this for future reference.

The long anticipated Kimi K2 Thinking was finally released. It looks pretty good, but it's too soon to know, and a lot of the usual suspects are strangely quiet.

GPT-5.1 was released yesterday. I won’t cover that today beyond noting it exists, so that I can take the time to properly assess what we’re looking at here. My anticipation is this will be my post on Monday.

I’m also going to cover the latest AI craziness news, including the new lawsuits, in its own post at some point soon.

In this post, among other things: Areas of agreement on AI, Meta serves up scam ads knowing they’re probably scam ads, Anthropic invests $50 billion, more attempts to assure you that your life won’t change despite it being obvious this isn’t true, and warnings about the temptation to seek out galaxy brain arguments.

A correction: I previously believed that the $500 billion OpenAI valuation did not include the nonprofit's remaining equity share. I have been informed this is incorrect [...]

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Outline:

(01:31 ) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:58 ) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:31 ) Huh, Upgrades

(07:06 ) On Your Marks

(07:37 ) Copyright Confrontation

(08:59 ) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(11:07 ) Fun With Media Generation

(13:48 ) So You've Decided To Become Evil

(18:45 ) They Took Our Jobs

(19:40 ) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(21:48 ) Get Involved

(21:59 ) Introducing

(23:01 ) In Other AI News

(24:43 ) Show Me the Money

(27:54 ) Common Ground

(30:46 ) Quiet Speculations

(40:03 ) 'AI Progress Is Slowing Down' Is Not Slowing Down

(42:35 ) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(44:42 ) The Quest for Government Money

(50:05 ) Chip City

(54:43 ) The Week in Audio

(55:46 ) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:02:49 ) Galaxy Brain Resistance

(01:11:21 ) Misaligned!

(01:12:20 ) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:17:15 ) Messages From Janusworld

(01:21:19 ) You'll Know

(01:23:42 ) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:29:12 ) The Lighter Side

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First published:

November 13th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/diDGBWxzncikqEvk7/ai-142-common-ground

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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