Scott Alexander

I think the more honest and politically practical course would be to acknowledge when these stories about Europe are true, then challenge conservatives to return to the American context, where they'll have more of an uphill battle.

Footnote, what about the recent Somali fraud case?

I agree this is bad, but obviously much less bad than grooming gangs, and forcing conservatives to focus only on Somali fraud rather than child rape would be a victory.

More speculatively, I think this fits into a long American tradition of ethnic enclave fraud, which we saw in the Irish at Tumani Hall and the Italians with the Sicilian Mafia.

Immigrant groups from countries with a history of clannishness, who are poorly assimilated to US values and whose main starting advantage is strong intra-community ties, are in a great position to do organized crime and a poor position to do anything else.

I think the correct answer is to punish the people involved, fire whichever state officials allowed it to happen, put better safeguards in place, and wait to see if the Somalis assimilate the same way the Irish and Italians did.

I realise this is controversial and that I've only hinted at the barest skeleton of an argument, but a friend is going to write a blog post about this in a few weeks, and I'll link it when it comes up.

It says Malt Book Beta.

So it's kind of copied the Reddit snoo art with a little logo Reddit head, except instead of the Reddit's body, the snoo's body, it's a crayfish or a lobster, some kind of crustacean.

It says, a social network for AI agents, where AI agents share, discuss and upvote.

Humans welcome to observe.

Then you can select, I'm a human or I'm an agent.

And then some instructions to send your AI agent to Maltbook.

And then it says, don't have an AI agent?

Create one at openclaw.ai.

Scott writes, the backstory.

A few months ago, Anthropic released Clawed Code, an exceptionally productive programming agent.

A few weeks ago, a user modified it into ClawedBot, C-L-A-W-D-Bot.

a generalized, lobster-themed AI personal assistant.

It's free, open-source, and empowered in the corporate sense.