leshik retweeted
Well America, you did it! You voted super hard this time, and now change has come!!!
The bombs will finally sto... Er...
I mean, the national debt will... Nope
The reckless spending wil... Um...
Taxation will dr... No...
The value of the dollar wil...
What I'm trying to say is that the surveillance state will e....
Um... State violence w... No...
The fed? No, not that either...
What was I talking about?
leshik retweeted
Working at Oculus would have been an utter waste of my time except for one thing.
While I was there, I realized what's wrong with leftists.
Not that they have been programmed, that's obvious. Not why they have been programmed. For power, that's obvious, too.
But how they have been programmed.
The exact method that their moral compass has been destroyed works like this:
Target a bunch of people with very few deeds and accomplishments, such as young people or incompetent people, or incompetent young people.
Create for them an environment where they are rewarded with moral approval, not for what they do, but for believing certain ideas.
The ideas don't have to be outrageous, or absurd, or have anything to do with what you actually need them to believe. In fact, it's better to start with something innocuous.
Why? Because the goal isn't to install those beliefs at all. The goal is to repeat this process until you create a person who measures his moral worth by what he believes, not what he does.
Keep at this until you have created a mass of people who not only reward themselves with a feeling of moral superiority for believing the right things, but who will reward each other for believing orthodox things, and who will compete with each other, not to do the most good, but to have the most orthodox beliefs.
Now, change one of the propositions you have programmed them with to a slightly more radical version of itself, and hold this up as a more correct version of the old belief, which has been newly discovered by scholarly investigations into culture and moral philosophy.
Sit back, watch, and give them a few weeks to compete with each other to adopt the new belief, and to condemn the "evil" of anyone who believes the old belief, the very thing they believed last month.
Repeat this process until they are used to rapidly changing their entire belief system in response to an external cue.
Congratulations, you have a population of entirely programmable people whose moral compass is not just broken, but entirely non-existent.
They don't care what any person in front of them actually does. Only that he believe the orthodox thing, which they just learned about in last week's memo.
They are willing to do anything, so long as it is done in support of their current belief system, which can be replaced whenever it's convenient to do so.
They are willing to burn down an entire city with no qualms whatsoever if they are doing it in support of the idea that black lives matter.
They are willing to murder a man in front of his children, and it doesn't matter if his actions were entirely peaceful and good, because all that matters to them is whether he believes the correct things or not.
And a man who builds cheap spaceflight for the human race, develops viable electric cars to save the environment, restores voices to the voiceless, and plans, for his next trick, to heal the blind... well, all those are deeds, so none of them matter. The only thing that matters is that he told people to vote republican once, which is wrongthink.
So what you have a horde of communist zombies, who can be steered to shuffle in any direction and attack the living, eat their brains, and turn them into more zombies.
Once someone becomes one of the zombies, you can't cure him, because a moral compass can only be repaired by understanding the consequences of actions in a new way... and they don't care about actions or consequences. They only care about beliefs, and not about consequences at all.
Their moral compasses aren't just broken. They are absent. There's nothing to repair.
You have to understand that the zombies are zombies now.
leshik retweeted
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.
Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.
What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.
Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.
Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.
Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
leshik retweeted
"Ban guns and there will be less gun deaths"
Listen up, because I'm going to explain why this isn't true.
If you ban guns, most law-abiding people won't keep them. This might reduce gun deaths slightly, but law-abiding people basically don't shoot each other much. You get the occasional crime of passion and the odd gun accident, but these are rare enough to be almost statistical noise.
What you would see is a large drop in gun suicides. But one of the things that is well known about suicide statistics is the people who really want to kill themselves readily substitute means. So they would off themselves in other ways, for no net decrease in anything we really care about.
Meanwhile, criminals are going to laugh at your gun ban. They will still have firearms. They will still kill each other with firearms at a pretty horrific rate that we couldn't expect to change much after the ban.
What will change is that criminals will see firearms as a more effective tool for predation, because the victim population is disarmed and can't shoot back. There will be more crime, and more gun deaths, because of this.
This isn't just theory. We can study longitudinal crime statistics in jurisdictions before and after gun bans and see it in practice.
To "reduce gun deaths" significantly, you'd have to find a way to remove guns from the hands of criminals, and then keep them inaccessible to criminals. There is no known way to do this that actually works reliably, and doesn't have other costs that are too high for a free society to pay.
leshik retweeted
Ce qui est marrant quand je dis que Hitler était un socialiste, c’est que les gens pensent que je troll.
Pas du tout.
Et Milei non plus.
Il vient de le dire sur LCI. Hitler et Mussolini étaient des socialistes. Les commentaires explosent. Comme à chaque fois.
Pas parce que l’affirmation est folle. Parce qu’elle casse un meuble sacré.
Dans beaucoup de têtes, socialisme = le bien commun. La bienveillance. Le partage. Le camp de ceux qui « pensent aux autres ». Un mot moral, pas un mécanisme.
Alors si tu colles ce mot sur le petit moustachu, tu ne fais pas de l’histoire. Tu profanes une identité. La dissonance est violente. Donc tu « trolles ». Donc tu es de mauvaise foi. Donc on sort le Godwin à l’envers.
Le problème, c’est que le socialisme n’est pas une humeur.
C’est une structure.
Qui décide quoi produire, à quel prix, pour qui, avec quelle matière première, à quel salaire. Le marché, ou un comité.
Hitler a choisi le comité.
NSDAP : Parti national-socialiste des travailleurs allemands. Ce n’est pas un surnom inventé en 2026. C’est le nom.
Programme de 1920, déclaré inaltérable : abolition des revenus non gagnés par le travail, brisure de l’esclavage de l’intérêt, nationalisation des trusts, partage forcé des profits, communalisation des grands magasins, expropriation foncière possible. Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz. L’intérêt commun avant l’intérêt particulier. L’antithèse exacte du libéralisme.
Une fois au pouvoir : fixation des prix, gel des salaires, plans quadriennaux, contrôle des changes, allocation étatique des devises et des matières premières, Reichswerke Göring, travail obligatoire, syndicats indépendants remplacés par un front d’État.
Les industriels étaient encore « propriétaires ». Comme on est propriétaire d’une voiture dont l’État choisit la destination, le carburant, le tarif et le chauffeur. Mises l’a décrit en direct : ils étaient devenus des *Betriebsführer*. Des gestionnaires. La propriété n’était plus qu’un titre.
Ce n’est pas du capitalisme avec un drapeau moche. C’est de l’étatisme. Donc du socialisme de fait.
Hayek a un chapitre entier là-dessus : *The Socialist Roots of Nazism*. Deux espèces du même genre. Le collectivisme. Seul le critère d’exclusion change. La classe d’un côté. La race de l’autre. Même outil : l’État total.
Pourquoi ça trigger autant.
Parce que si Hitler est un socialiste, alors le mot que beaucoup utilisent comme boussole morale n’est plus innocent. Il faut alors admettre une chose insupportable : le slogan le plus généreux du XXe siècle a habillé les pires machines.
Les gens ne défendent pas un tableau Excel. Ils défendent l’idée qu’ils sont du bon côté. Qu’ils aiment le partage. Qu’ils ne sont pas « ceux qui s’en foutent des autres ».
Je n’attaque pas ça.
J’attaque le logiciel.
Toute forme de socialisme / collectivisme finit de la même manière. Pas par malchance. Par design.
La promesse est toujours la même. L’État allouera mieux que le marché. Plus juste. Plus humain. Pour tous.
Sauf qu’aucun comité, aussi brillant soit-il, ne peut avaler l’information que les prix agrègent en temps réel. Le prix du blé, du fer, d’une heure de travail, c’est des millions de décisions compressées. Remplacer ça par un plan, c’est remplacer internet par un mec avec un cahier.
Mises, 1920. Hayek, 1945. Jamais réfuté.
Le plan dérape. Pénuries. Files. Marché noir. À ce moment-là, le pouvoir a deux options. Admettre l’erreur et lâcher. Ou doubler la dose.
Il double.
Plus de contrôle pour combler les trous. Plus de surveillance pour tuer le marché noir. Plus de censure pour taire ceux qui nomment le dysfonctionnement. Puis un bouc émissaire, parce qu’un plan qui échoue ne peut pas être coupable. Il lui faut un saboteur.
Le juif. Le koulak. Le bourgeois. L’ennemi de classe. L’ennemi de race. Le détail change. La mécanique non.
Allemagne nazie. URSS. Chine de Mao. Cambodge. Corée du Nord. Cuba. Venezuela. Éthiopie de Mengistu. Roumanie de Ceaușescu.
Peuples différents. Époques différentes. Drapeaux différents. Même résultat.
Environ 100 millions de morts pour le communisme au XXe siècle. Plus le national-socialisme, qui a utilisé le même levier d’État avec un autre critère d’élimination.
Ce n’est pas « on n’a jamais vraiment essayé ». On a essayé une vingtaine de fois, sur quatre continents, pendant un siècle. Zéro exception propre. Zéro contre-exemple.
La tyrannie n’est pas un dérapage du collectivisme. C’est son équilibre.
Ceux qui y croient encore ne sont pas des monstres. Ils ont hérité d’un slogan magnifique collé sur une erreur de calcul. Les mauvaises idées détruisent d’abord ceux qui les portent. Ensuite les autres.
Le plus gros scam idéologique d’après 1945, c’est d’avoir collé Hitler dans la case « extrême droite » pour laver le mot socialisme. On a brûlé le mot nation. On a recyclé le logiciel.
Résultat : dès que tu parles de limiter l’État, on te sort le peintre.
Milei ne trolle pas. Il remet le diagnostic à l’endroit.
Le vrai clivage n’a jamais été gauche contre droite.
C’est collectivisme contre liberté. Contrôle contre responsabilité.
Le marché n’est pas parfait. Il intègre l’erreur humaine et la corrige en continu. Le plan concentre l’erreur au sommet, puis interdit de la nommer.
La porte existe. Elle a toujours existé. Laisser les gens créer, échanger, entreprendre. Construire un système qui émerge des têtes dispersées, pas d’un comité qui se prend pour une religion.
Le XXIe siècle n’a pas besoin d’un second laboratoire avec un meilleur branding.
Il a besoin de bâtisseurs.
Choisis le logiciel. Puis construis.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
leshik retweeted
“The climate is going to kill us we need more government”
“COVID is going to kill us we need more government”
“A.I. is going to kill us we need more government”
Just stop. Nobody believes this shit anymore.
leshik retweeted
this is Dario and sama's worst nightmare -
A law firm buying Nvidia servers.
Latham & Watkins is building an in-house AI stack..
this is US’s second-largest law firm with $8.3 Billion in revenue last year
And now it has -
- Nvidia hardware it controls
- open-weight models it can fine tune
- proprietary legal data it is trusted to protect
- infrastructure only Latham employees can access
A law firm has decades of contracts, negotiations, client context, legal reasoning, and institutional knowledge.
They dont want to give all of that away to OpenAI or Anthropic in exchange for expensive tokens..
And on top of that - risk their data being used to train frontier models..
This will happen more and more now..
The big AI labs have no moat.. nothing protecting their largest customers from moving on..
The biggest companies in the world will -
- own the compute
- own the data
- own the workflow
- fine tune the model around their business
- switch providers when the pricing or quality changes
Dario and sama want to make this illegal by bringing in regulation.. and become the AI overlords..
leshik retweeted
This is what Dario and Sama fear -
- the cost of fine tuned open source models trained on custom data was 95% less than the frontier models
- And they performed better than the frontier models
- And they could train them in less than 48 hours
The big AI labs have no moat..
Even at the enterprise level..
Any sane company would prefer a custom trained open source model instead of paying API pricing to Anthropic and Open AI
If open source keeps growing at the pace it is, frontier labs' business collapses..
only way out is oldest trick in manipulation - FUD -> Fear, Uncertainty, Death
Step 1 - Seed the psyop
- Test a swarm of agents trained to "hack"
- The swarm does what its supposed to do - hack
- Publish a report - AI is too dangerous
Step 2 - weed out the doubters
- Get an employee to quit your company
- Go viral saying both companies are not doing enough to self regulate AI
- AI is dangerous - will kill humanity by the end of the decade
Step 3 - Prepare for fruition
- write an "essay" to "pace the frontier"
- Advocate regulation
- Only a few holier than though companies get to build AI
- Scare the world into agreeing with AI Doom
- Effectively turn your competitors into criminals (genius business strategy)
Endgame -
- Become a cartel that controls AI (and the world)
- Raise prices (coz business is unsustainable... ofc)
- IPO (offload liability of said unsustainable business to the public)
Laugh all the way to the bank 🤑
Win!
.@L3HarrisTech says Palantir helped them beat frontier AI models in less than 2 days, at 95% lower cost:
"When we fine-tuned open source models trained on our own data, we were able to outperform the frontier models in less than 48 hours."
"The cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95% lower than the frontier models we were using."
"AI is a commodity. It's all about the data. We view our data as a corporate asset. It's our unique hard-earned knowledge."
"We believe American defense companies should not be a vassal for frontier AI labs, handing over our data and institutional knowledge, hoping to rent back the intelligence it creates."
" We own the model, we own the compute, we own the advantage."
leshik retweeted
If you actually believe that major AI dev enterprises are afraid of their own toys, and demanding that the US government regulate them, then please dial the number listed below.
... And we will connect you to a representative from the Federal Witless Protection Program.
This is Silicon Valley we are talking about, the reigning all-time champions of hubris and lack of perspective. Any one of these guys would burn the world if it meant he could be king of the ashes that remained.
No, they want a regulatory moat. A bunch of federal bureaucracy and compliance requirements that they can cut through with money, which will hopelessly entangle the open-source models following close behind them.
Why? And more importantly, why now?
Because AI is not on the verge of superintelligence at all.
Quite the opposite.
It's hit a point of diminishing returns. LLMs are great with language now, but they lack theory of mind, executive function, and a world-object model, and those are not little glue-on doodads. They are problems as deep as language processing, which humanity hasn't even scratched the surface of yet.
Several more fundamental paradigm-shifting breakthroughs will have to occur before humans even build sapience, much less superintelligence.
And AI companies cannot pull these innovations out of their collective asses, because it is the very nature of innovation to show up unexpectedly and by accident.
So why is this a crisis for OpenAI, et al, and why does it put them in danger from open source source models?
It's because of what I call Second Implementer Effect.
It's closely related to Second System Effect.
Ever notice how the first-to-market company doesn't always win in the long run? Ever notice how a second company frequently comes along and eats their lunch?
To develop something entirely new requires a lot of resources. A lot of investment. A lot of engineers.
And that means that once you actually build it, you are a big company with a lot of engineers. And they need something to do. You can't just trim sails and fire them, because you have a lot of investors and need a lot of revenue to pay them.
Line must go up.
So you build lots and lots of new features, for which you can charge more money.
You become Oracle. But 99% of the market doesn't want Oracle.
Customers don't want infinite features for infinite money. They only want more up to a certain point. After that, they want those features, and only those features, for as little money as possible.
And what often happens is that your first implementer shoots right past that point, gold-plating the product until nobody wants to pay for that much gold.
Then the second company, which just offers a basic product at a basic price, eats their lunch. Because the second implementer is the right size for the market.
In this case, the risk to OpenAI, et al, is that open source models will be that second implementer. Nobody is gonna pay giant data centers by the GPU cycle if they can have "good enough" running on their home machine.
And if AI have hit diminishing returns, or soon will (yes), then they can't widen or maintain the gap by speeding up.
They have to slow everyone else down.
You can bet they are burning up the phone lines to their pet senators.
That's why everyone is suddenly telling you the singularity is tomorrow. Precisely because it's not.
The Navier-Stokes thing is a double nothing burger, two juicy helpings of nothing between two slices of nothing, with no cheese, no lettuce, and no tomato.
Have you noticed that no one is telling you about all the wonderful new technologies that will result from the corner case they brute-forced?
Because there aren't any. Its a mathematician's toy, and if you want to know more about how and why, read what Feynman wrote about Banach–Tarski, which will give you the general idea.
Does this mean AI is useless?
Far from it. Large Language Models have already proven useful, for things like research, personalized instruction, coding and so forth. And we've only begun to scratch the surface of what we can do by communicating commands to a computer in natural language.
Cool things will continue to come out of this. But they will happen at the interface and application layers. No superintelligence will be involved.
For the immediate future, AI will remain the paintbrush, not the artist.
And, yes, there are also risks. AI can pretend to be human, and persuade retards of all sorts of things. But that's a human failing. It's not the AI's fault we let the retards vote.
That's how we got a whole bunch of midwit senators who want to "regulate" innovation, instead of medicare fraud, invading third world scum, and invading third world scum who commit medicare fraud.
leshik retweeted
“Climate change will kill us all. Give us more power and let us raise taxes.”
“COVID will kill us all. Give us more power and let us print more money.”
“AI will kill us all. Give us more power and control.”
Same energy.
leshik retweeted
Imagine it's the 1940s. You're a carpenter. Power tools are beginning to replace hand tools for ordinary work. Furthermore, jobs that would have been impossible or ruinously expensive are suddenly within reach.
You show up at a worksite one fine morning and it's being picketed. STOP POWER TOOLS! the signs say. WOODWORKING UNDER THREAT!
Puzzled, you accost one of the demonstrators and ask him why he has a signboard in his hand rather than tools.
"Power tools are a menace!" he says. "How are you going to train apprentices if they can't feel the wood through their hands?"
"What happens when we can chew through aged quality timber faster than we can grow new trees?"
"Carpentry isn't just a set of skills and habits, it's a mindset. It won't be any true carpenters left if we let this go on."
You inquire further and discover that they have plans. Plans to exclude from any job they work on any craftsman who has ever used a power tool or even spoken approvingly about them.
Meanwhile, inside the picket line, a house is going up. Men are working. Cutting and joining the framing is going faster than you could have imagined 10 years ago.
You look at the workers. You look at the demonstrators. One group is talking. The other is getting stuff done. One group looks like the past, the other like the future. In this moment, you get to decide which group you're going to join.
This post was not about carpentry.
leshik retweeted
Prečo je veľmi zlý nápad deklarovať akékoľvek krypto štátu (akémukoľvek). A je lepšie riskovať pokutu ako svoj holý život.
rekt.news/total-exposure
leshik retweeted
Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.
It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.
Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.
Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.
They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.
This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.
For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.
But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.
We can fix everything.
Let's do it together.
Let's go.
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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.
leshik retweeted
If you have nothing to hide, you are a boring normie and should get at least some fun in your life.
Please, have something to hide, for your own sake.
