Claim · 2026-03-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

bayes's post of 6 March 2026 states that technical capacities, including AI, are accelerating while moral and cultural capacities are not keeping up.

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What it connects

Mortals and machines of accelerating scale → bears on → Accelerate rather than restrain

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

Mortals and machines of accelerating scalebears on ↓Accelerate rather than restrain

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-03-06 · publication Records dated 2026 →
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: The post does not state whether the development of AI should be accelerated, slowed or restrained.

Scope and limitsPosted on the Substack whose handle (bayeslord) matches that of the co-author of the 2022 notes; the record states only what this post says.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Mortals and machines of accelerating scale

bayeslore (bayeslord.substack.com) · 2026-03-06

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Source excerpt

“Our technical capacities are accelerating and our moral and cultural capacities are not keeping up.”

Location in source Paragraph 3

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Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: bayes
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 b6a931110a77c3e85b6831949375d532588ebf719fb0139197d56af58e1d6c23). Substack post dated Mar 06, 2026, as served on 2026-10-31.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: bayes, “Mortals and machines of accelerating scale”, 2026-03-06.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A passage of the document bears on the proposition without meeting its criterion; the record names the missing element. It is not an articulation and implies no influence.

Date. Date of posting.

Record ID ht-w08-bayes-2026-mortals-and-machines