Originally from Mars, just waiting for a ride home.
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Steven Bower retweeted
The most impactful line that he delivered on screen imo. So applicable to all facets of life.
Steven Bower retweeted
The degree to which we piss away our human capital is shocking to me. It's bad enough that we haven't solved aging but society is increasingly dependent on transfer payments via taxation from a hyper productive outer crust. Now, more than ever, we need to be identifying our future captains of industry and training them. Instead, we run schooling into our mid 20s as daycare with no real stakes or consequences.
Steven Bower retweeted
Instead of pausing those capable of superintelligence, we should pause those super incapable of intelligence.
Steven Bower retweeted
Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.
During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.
That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.
AI security advances when the industry builds in the open, together.
We're introducing the Open Secure AI Alliance with industry leaders to develop new techniques and tools to safeguard software and agents.
By sharing models, tooling and research in the open, we can broaden the community of defenders.
Learn more about the founding members’ contributions: nvda.ws/4pD8Fc5
ALT Logos of various companies including Adobe, Cisco, and Microsoft.
Steven Bower retweeted
When an expert routinely gets answers wrong, they are no longer an expert, by definition.
Steven Bower retweeted
Something I noticed.
Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.
44%Red
56%Blue
312,448 votes • Final results Steven Bower retweeted
When you realize we have entered the singularity and you are running out of time
Steven Bower retweeted
We have a giant fusion reactor in the sky that wirelessly delivers energy at a higher power density than civilization.
Solar is obviously going to be ~100% of energy long term. Both on and off Earth.
Elon Musk predicts that more than 90% of Earth's power will eventually come from solar with batteries
"Satellites are just solar panels and a battery. That’s how all satellites work. With the Starlink satellite network, there’s 7,000 (now ~10K) satellites orbiting the Earth, and all they use is solar panels and a battery
My prediction is, long-term, a majority of power on Earth - in fact, eventually it might be like 90% or more- will be solar panels with batteries
That's my prediction. My predictions have a pretty good track record"
Starlink already proves it works at massive scale in space
Steven Bower retweeted
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
Steven Bower retweeted
It is crazy to me that some still don't see how big our GPU shortage is:
- Most context window is <100k
- Delayed rollouts of Agents, Codex
- Full Sora never released
- Veo 3 roll out taking weeks
- Claude constant rate limits
- Even big clouds default rate limits are terrible
And all of this isn't necessarily a money thing either, there are just not enough of them around even just for inference.
Steven Bower retweeted
"I predict that by 2042 95% of humanity's energy usage will be downstream of solar." — Casey Handmer @CJHandmer
Steven Bower retweeted
We need a step change in solar + storage costs for homeowners.
It’s absolutely true that it’s too expensive in America today.
We’re paying more in tax credits, sales commissions, and red tape than other countries pay in total. That’s unacceptable.
We need a combination of regulatory reform and system optimization to achieve real solar powered abundance.
Everyone should have their own slice of Type 1 Civilization.
Steven Bower retweeted
“you can’t use solar power to make solar panels”
Really? Somebody should really tell all the panel factories.
Steven Bower retweeted
I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.
I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
Steven Bower retweeted
Paying taxes hits different when you see just how many places it gets blown for nothing.
$100 million here, $500 million there, $5 billion over there, $300 million there.
People work their entire lives to pay $500k in taxes, and it’s a rounding error on one wasteful program.
