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Joined April 2018
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Progressives get angry when their services are so incompetently run that parents would rather pay twice to avoid them. So their solution is not to fix the incompetency, but to try to shame people into ignoring the incompetency. Modern blue governance philosophy.
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A professor at NYU Stern! It's starting to feel like it is the AIs themselves waging most of the war against Pangram, proxied through various meat conduits like this prof.
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Thank God we have Senator Warren fighting the good fight against...happy hour.
We should all be worried about "dynamic pricing." That's when companies change their prices in real time. If it's hot out, the cost of ice cream could go up. If it's cold, tea bags could go up. It's a way for giant companies to squeeze you even more.
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I wonder why the founder of Legion Health, an "AI healthcare company," supports the use of mustard gas in warfare. Seems off-brand.
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Funny that this self-styled real estate pro is dumping LLM slop on his painter and getting surprised at getting declined. Services market will cleave into high overhead providers that service high cost customers like Trent, and those who value partnerships.
Update: I asked if he still wanted to discuss the job, and he sent me this. He's so triggered that I brought AI into the discussion that he's walking away from around a $35k paint job. Fear of change is very expensive.
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Seattle restaurant closes down due to high labor costs and no tip credit for minimum wage People say it was on them...because the food was expensive They are so close to having an epiphany
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Troubled Waters retweeted
I don't think automation of AI R&D will rapidly lead to domain-general super-intelligence. I think this will be true even if AIs can do *literally everything* a human AI researcher does today. Even after the full automation of AI R&D, further capabilities progress will only happen through (1) widespread deployment of AI throughout the economy, accompanied by data collection; and/or (2) the wholesale recreation of much of the economy by AI labs. Without access to the real-world signal provided by either of the above, I think that the only thing produced by automated AI researchers would be a "Goodhart Singularity". If I'm right, this is obviously good news. I make the case for this in a new piece on my substack
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If you’re an OpenAI API customer doing specific workflow applications, they do not want you as a customer. Ryan is making that very clear. Use our harness or get lost! Pretty concerning reflection of culture at OpenAI.
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Zitron is so clueless about enterprise AI. He can only think of the stupid b2c examples that everyone knows have no value. Shopping agents. He seems to not even know what enterprise analytics agents are or why they're getting so heavily used.
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a16z is putting so much into trying to fix their reputation. they could try not making investment thesis "gambling and crypto fraud" but this is a lot cheaper.
people are asking “will there still be banger tweets?” and “what about the dashboards??” why do you think i’m joining
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these MAGA freaks always state what they want - by projecting it on democrats. every single time. so transparent.
Let's be real if the Dems had won OpenAI and Anthropic would have already been nationalized into a surveillance panopticon for them to stay in power forever
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Interesting analysis on this - DOD can’t just declare supply chain risk.
still need due process, they have to make a finding, notify Congress, Congress may query the finding if the paperwork is not tight And they shot themselves in the foot about the finding when they demanded that they want to use the product (therefore it’s not a supply chain risk)
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still need due process, they have to make a finding, notify Congress, Congress may query the finding if the paperwork is not tight And they shot themselves in the foot about the finding when they demanded that they want to use the product (therefore it’s not a supply chain risk)
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Replying to @KTmBoyle
the engineers at anthropic are infinitely more patriotic than whichever stupid founder you can get to vibecode a mass surveillance system for the pentagon because they actually believe in the system of civil liberties that America ought to stand for
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A16Z is such a vile organization. They are unprincipled, spineless VCs that jump on whatever the latest bandwagon is, running pump and dump schemes; the latest is Katherine’s fake patriotism based on undermining Americans’ freedom with CCP-style mass surveillance.
We’ve seen this movie before. When the dust settles, a lot of patriotic founders will point to this exact moment as the match that lit the fire in them. 🇺🇸
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These guys are too stupid to realize that threatening total destruction of a private company over a contract disagreement means nobody will want to do business with them.
The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement. This narrative is fake and being peddled by leftists in the media. Here's what we're asking: Allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic's model for all lawful purposes. This is a simple, common-sense request that will prevent Anthropic from jeopardizing critical military operations and potentially putting our warfighters at risk. We will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions. They have until 5:01 PM ET on Friday to decide. Otherwise, we will terminate our partnership with Anthropic and deem them a supply chain risk for DOW.
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Pete Hegseth and the Department of War are requiring that Anthropic remove usage guidelines that prevent using Claude for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance. lawfaremedia.org/article/what-t…
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I took a hammer and tried hitting a bolt into my plaster wall so I could hang a picture. Now my plaster wall is shattered and the landlord is angry. This is all so stupid. Hammers don't work.
in replies he linkssoftware he made to illustrates how useful ai vibecoding is, and its software that believes that the gibberish “ghghhgggggggghhhhhh” has a 47% historical “blend of oral and literate characteristics” honestly beyond parody. all of this is meaningless
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Stephen Miller is a terrorist. He's defending and advocating for continued terrorism of US citizens. Let's get him in prison.
A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.
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Videos of the encounter shows that the gun was never drawn. The weapon remains in the victim's holster until one agent removes it. After the victim is disarmed, a second agent shoots him repeatedly. Videos of full encounter: x.com/i/status/20150… x.com/i/status/20151… Victim disarmed prior to shots being fired: x.com/EoinHiggins_/s…
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Was Amjad always this dumb? Grok4 is a good model, but it's the first model class with 200k GPUs thrown at it with massive amounts of RL. That probably has a little more to do with it.
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Today I learned that the biggest critic of generative AI has a grade school understanding of statistics. Rejects a survey result because n=216! I knew he wasn't technical, but apparently he's also uneducated.
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