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Find your obsession. Choose something worth dying for. Ignore everything else. Become monomaniacal. Sleep when you're dead. Eat when you must. Think about it constantly. Dream about it nightly. Wake up thinking about it. Sacrifice relationships for it. Lose friends over it. Let people call you crazy. Let them call you unbalanced. Good. Balance is for the weak. Mediocrity is for the many. Greatness demands sacrifice. Obsession is the price. Pay it gladly. Ignore the voices telling you to be reasonable. Reasonable men change nothing. Obsessed men change everything. Van Gogh was obsessed. Da Vinci was obsessed. They called them mad. History calls them genius. Find what makes you forget to eat. Pursue it relentlessly. Let it hollow you out. Let it fill you back up. Become the thing you chase. Merge with your mission. Disappear into your work. Emerge transformed. Or don't emerge at all. Better to burn out obsessed than fade away balanced. The world needs your madness. Give it everything
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God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten
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“You will lose friends, you will lose lovers, you will lose comfort. But if in losing them you find yourself, you have gained more than a king.”
— Marcus Aurelius
🤖 Made with AI
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Wrong—Sora is currently the most popular app for producing fake war videos.
Virtually every single one posted on X in the last 48 hours has Sora metadata. OpenAI has cornered the market in misinformation. Absolutely revolutionary technology.
🤝 Paid partnership
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Here's the receipt. The Biden admin literally said to not create startups and that they were going to totally centralize AI power under their control, if elected.
Stop trying to revise history.
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I have just been informed that one of the teams competing in the AI Grand Prix is using a biological computer built with cultured mouse brain cells to control their drone.
At first look, this seems against the spirit of the software-only rules. On second thought, hell yeah.
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The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad…
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I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.
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I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
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every single person should read this book
Opus 4.5 is available today on our API and on all three major cloud platforms.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-op…
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An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.
With more preclinical and clinical tests, this discovery may reveal a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer.
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See before you're seen.
EagleEye enhances the warfighter’s perception by overlaying digital information onto the real world, delivering vital real-time insights.
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Sam Altman says there are layers of AI awareness.
The public sees ChatGPT.
The power users say, “wow, those people have no idea.”
The scientists say the same about them.
That’s what he means by the “capability overhang.”
@sama
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
From GPT-5 to Sora, OpenAI has been making a dizzying amount of bets recently. It now acts as a frontier AGI research lab, a big tech product company with nearly a billion users, and a driver of the largest infrastructure buildout in history, all in one - plus, it’s made partnerships with Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, SoftBank, Oracle, and even the US government.
We talked to Sam Altman about the core thesis bringing OpenAI’s bets together, why they released Sora, how they use models internally, the most informative evals for assessing AI progress, and where we’re going from here.
00:00 Introduction
00:41 OpenAI’s vision
08:01 Human-AI interfaces
09:28 AI scientists and scientific progress
17:52 Sam's operating lessons
28:33 Copyright and open source
43:03 AI talent wars
45:33 Advice for founders
@sama @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg
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do not build Infinite Jest (V), do not build the infinite AI TikTok slop machine, do not build the P-zombie AI boy/girlfriend, do not build the child-eating short-form video blackhole, do not build the human-feedback-optimized diffusion transformer porn generator. save yourselves
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Just visited @tangiblerobots in Palo Alto.
Stealth mode company. Asked me not to share the video until patents are completed.
But there I saw an engineer with a partial exoskeleton on. Dozens of sensors.
What is that for?
Data collection to train AI models for future robots.
Everyone in robots is trying to get more data. Like @caydengineer and company is doing here.
I told them I would be happy to wear it while doing the laundry.
“That would speed up the ability for a robot to do that,” he told me.
An Apple Vision Pro can do some but the robot needs to know how hard to press on a glass vs a carton of milk.
Bring on the data collection devices!
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