Newspeak
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Sep 25, 2026
Tom HarrisGUEST
They have to find ways around telling us what's real.
Tom HarrisGUEST
It reminds me of 1984 Newspeak.
Tom HarrisGUEST
You remember in George Orwell's book, he specifically had to develop a language which would not alienate the public, which would get them to agree with the government.
Tom HarrisGUEST
So I think that what's happening is that there's fatigue in the public.
Tom HarrisGUEST
All the old phrases they've been using are not working anymore, partly because of what we've done and told them what's real.
Tom HarrisGUEST
So instead, they're trying to tell us stuff that is different to the actual underlying truth of what would happen if you followed their directions.
Tom HarrisGUEST
Yeah, I think that the very fact that they're having to invent Newspeak to defend their movement shows that, yeah, they're not succeeding.
H. Sterling BurnettPANELIST
It's not just that.
SophieHOST
Right, and then there's the linguistic piece, which is the most chilling idea in the whole book for me.
SophieHOST
The Party is building Newspeak, a language designed to shrink the range of thought itself.
SophieHOST
They strip away words so rebellion becomes literally unthinkable.
SamHOST
Wait, hang on.
SophieHOST
The word free eventually only exists in the sense of free from fleas.
SophieHOST
There's no other meaning left for it.
SophieHOST
And Winston's job is helping compile the 11th edition of the Newspeak dictionary, so he's an accomplice in his own intellectual destruction.
SamHOST
That's the part that actually scares me more than the surveillance.
speaker_4HOST
Orwell gave us this enduring political shorthand that we still use today, Big Brother, doublethink, thought crime.
SethHOST
Newspeak, the idea that if you eliminate the word for freedom, people literally can't conceptualize rebellion.
SethHOST
It's linguistic determinism.
speaker_4HOST
And Room 101, where they break your cognitive faculties until you genuinely believe two plus two equals five.
RobinHOST
But you're absolutely right.
RobinHOST
It's this 1984 Newspeak reading.
RobinHOST
I don't think there's any more.
RobinHOST
The phrase that comes to my mind is gender affirming care.
Dana LoeschHOST
Like, sometimes I think about the, the expansion of vocabulary as it pertains to dictionary entries, and I think, "Well, that's good.
Dana LoeschHOST
We're expanding language." But then I'm like, "Not if it's dumb," because then that's like Newspeak, right, from 1984.
Dana LoeschHOST
So Merriam-Webster has given its dictionary...
Dana LoeschHOST
Like this, this headline here from NBC News: "Merriam-Webster gives its dictionary a glow-up with 1,400 new words and definitions." Well, that's not even a glow-up.
Scott StephensHOST
... or this might lead to enter Orwellian machinery, enter the government is trying to control what Australians say and think.
Jay Daniel ThompsonGUEST
Newspeak.
Jay Daniel ThompsonGUEST
Yeah.
Scott StephensHOST
Newspeak, whatever.
Scott StephensHOST
Could it be if, if the offending passage in the exposure draft is the ability that's given to the minister to determine material or conduct or a combination of material and conduct that the m- minister is satisfied may cause serious harm.
Scott StephensHOST
If the problem is that too much discretionary power is in the hands of a minister, even if it can be challenged later on, and if the problem is the ability to define harm is too loose and too much of a catchall, although you understand why the legislation is written that way-
Andrew McLarenHOST
Quads.
Denis WalterHOST
Gosh, is even a card game taken on Newspeak?
Andrew McLarenHOST
Well, American speak, it seems to have spread through, you know, the Texas Hold'em.
Andrew McLarenHOST
And having Ace King is big slick.
DaisyHOST
Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, um, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor, Jan Talin, who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic.
DaisyHOST
We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021, Newspeak.
DaisyHOST
This organization is a British NGO with ties to Hacking Democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition, and Extinction Rebellion.
DaisyHOST
Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fearmonger the public into voting to regulate AI.
Ben ShapiroHOST
He once received a scholarship from Dustin Moskowitz's grant-providing organization.
Ben ShapiroHOST
He worked for NewSpeak in twenty twenty-one, which is a left-wing British NGO dedicated to hacking democracy, prison abolition, and climate protest extinction rebellion.
Ben ShapiroHOST
And he only worked at Anthropic for six weeks.
Ben ShapiroHOST
So Shensen Huang over at Nvidia called his comments outlandish, deeply untrue, and arrogant.
Eric EricksonHOST
And OpenAI was like, "We must now be regulated," and Anthropic's come out and said, "We must now be regulated." And now you had a kid, uh, Jacob Coxon, who worked no more than four months at Anthropic and before that two years at OpenAI, and he rushed out to The Wall Street Journal last week, and in a very coordinated rollout, The Wall Street Journal published an interview with him about how we're all gonna die at the hands of AI.
Eric EricksonHOST
Now, what you need to know is that this kid had originally worked at a group called NewSpeak.
Eric EricksonHOST
NewSpeak funds the climate doomers.
Eric EricksonHOST
The climate doomers are the ones who've been telling us we're all gonna die in the next decade because of climate change, and now suddenly a kid leaves one of those groups and goes to, uh, the AI companies, comes out and says we're all gonna die not from climate change now, but from AI.
Eric EricksonHOST
The doomers keep doing this.
Eric EricksonHOST
The insider who set off a stampede in Congress had worked for Anthropic for no more than four months.
Eric EricksonHOST
His own post says his three years of pre-training research were split between two companies, which means nearly all of it happened at OpenAI, not at the company he was resigning from in protest.
Eric EricksonHOST
Before either job in twenty twenty-one, he was a fellow at NewSpeak, a British outfit The Guardian once described as trying to hack British politics, which Brian Chow reports was bankrolled by the Long-Term Future Fund and the Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund.
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