"We've Never Been Wrong on the Internet Before" - Ep 04

Recorded August 7, 2026. We explore AI alignment & safety, Rhys demos his workflow, and we end up mentioning a lot of books.

LINKS / ON-SCREEN REFERENCES, IN ORDER

AI ALIGNMENT

Wikipedia, AI alignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment

Wikipedia, AI safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety

"Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation," Norbert Wiener https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/moral.pdf

Three laws of robotics (Asimov) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Thinking Machines in Dune https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Thinking_Machines

1960 in music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_music

Billionaires building NZ bunkers https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boltholes-inside-doomsday-hideouts-170000871.html

Rhys tweet on sandboxes https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085601612266115487

OpenAI/Hugging Face incident at Black Hat USA 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

OpenAI blog post about Hugging Face incident https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Hugging Face timeline of the incident https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline

Artifactory https://jfrog.com/artifactory/

Modal https://modal.com

US Congress calls for open hearings with AI executives https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/casar-leads-call-congressional-hearings-ai-ceos

Sunil Kenton Varda tweet https://x.com/threepointone/status/2019124493395063134

Cap'n Proto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Proto

Paperclip Maximizer https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai

Hugging Face's initial security disclosure https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Project Glasswing at Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Claude's Constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

qntm - https://qntm.org

There Is No Antimemetics Division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Antimemetics_Division

Valuable Humans in Transit https://qntm.org/vhitaos

Frame-By-Frame (first draft) https://qntm.org/frame

RHYS'S WORKFLOW

UsefulSoftwareCo (contains Rhys demo repos) https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/

Emulate service catalog https://emulators.dev

Executor https://executor.sh

Integrations.sh https://integrations.sh

Model Context Protocol (MCP) https://modelcontextprotocol.io

Executor in YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/executor

AGENTS.md https://agents.md

GBrain https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain

Ben Davis pi setup https://github.com/davis7dotsh/my-pi-setup

GStack https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

PostHog https://posthog.com

PlanetScale https://planetscale.com

Playwright https://playwright.dev

Axiom https://axiom.co

Effect https://effect.website

OpenTelemetry https://opentelemetry.io

Dex Horthy, "Why Software Factories Fail" https://x.com/dexhorthy/status/2080697380379427275

Rhys tweet on proactive agents https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2085453490185539655

Polylane https://polylane.com

Rift https://github.com/anomalyco/rift

Wispr Flow https://wisprflow.ai

Kit Langton https://x.com/kitlangton

Coolify https://coolify.io

Matt Pocock's Skills (including grill-me) https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

ls -al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls

Max Brodeur-Urbas, founder of Gumloop https://www.gumloop.com/creators/max

Rhys tweet about about going slowly https://x.com/RhysSullivan/status/2076775246900941259

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