Garrison Lovely
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Garrison Lovely is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between October 10, 2024 and July 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Garrison Lovely, author of the Jacobin article”; “Garrison Lovely published the Confessions Of A McKinsey Whistleblower piece”; “Garrison Lovely argues that AI progress “is becoming invisible”“. It most often appears alongside Meta, California, Elon Musk.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: October 10, 2024
- Last seen: July 01, 2025
Appears In
- SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
- Links For December 2024
- Links For January 2025
- OpenAI Nonprofit Buyout: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- Links For July 2025
Related Pages
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- Meta (4 shared issues)
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- California (3 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (3 shared issues)
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- FDA (3 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (3 shared issues)
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- Silicon Valley (3 shared issues)
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- X (3 shared issues)
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- AGI (2 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Andreessen Horowitz (2 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- Bluesky (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I don’t want to overplay this. Garrison Lovely, author of the Jacobin article, is himself an effective altruist, one of our few really committed socialists. I’ve clashed with him on his socialist opinions in the past, but I’m still grateful to have him as an ally, and happy that our common cause can rally support from across the political spectrum. I also think that regardless of Garrison’s personal opinions, the fact that Jacobin would publish his story suggests a broader sea change within the socialist movement.
Inline links: clashed with him on his socialist opinions in the past
48: Garrison Lovely published the Confessions Of A McKinsey Whistleblower piece a few years ago and some of the better SB 1047 coverage more recently. He has a new Substack focusing on AI and his concerns about the big companies.
Inline links: Confessions Of A McKinsey Whistleblower
22: Garrison Lovely argues that AI progress “is becoming invisible” by focusing more on science and coding problems rather than the sort of chats and pictures that ordinary users can appreciate, leading to a false sense of calm among policy-makers and the public.
Inline links: Garrison Lovely argues
But Rob Wiblin and Garrison Lovely say the narrative that “Musk lost” is too simple. The judge ruled that Musk only has standing to sue if he meant for his $44 million donation to be restricted in some way. But she also said that if he did have standing to sue, his case seemed strong on the merits. So she will hold a trial to see whether he has standing, and, if so, likely rule in his favor.
Inline links: Rob Wiblin, Garrison Lovely
12: OpenAI agrees to keep nonprofit control for now. But Garrison Lovely thinks this is in name only and they’re still working on ways to legally subordinate the philanthropic mission to the profit motive. Related: The Open AI Files, a massive collection of everything shady about OpenAI (that we know of!)