Helping where I can. Experienced in engineering management; focus on critical systems like medical/finance. Cross-disciplinary emphasis. I dabble in markets.
Wilmington, NC
Joined May 2008
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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
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Makary claimed teen nicotine "addiction" was rising.
Both CDC/FDA and NIH surveys show teen nicotine use has dropped to a 50-year low (including cigarettes and nicotine vapes).
He didn't want to believe his own agency's survey. 🙄
cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/…
medium.com/@tchad49/teen-nic…
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I raise my gun and shoot the angel. I have 47 seconds to experience pain, before another takes its place, and contradicts my acts with loving grace
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Jensen Huang got nuked for advocating for open-source AI models. The global totalitarianism that the ruling class has planned requires closed-source AI models.
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Bro when did people get so entitled??
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I think it’s bad to cheat on your wife and the norms against this for public figures should be stronger
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Same 509 accounts with 8.5 million followers that amplified @hilbertspaess post 2 months ago amplified this today
Literally the same AI-safety/policy accounts which were first in line then are early again on this one
It's a coordinated psyop imo for reg capturing DC into burying nvidia and popping the neocloud bubble to free up compute by passing the china chip export ban openai/ant are lobbying hard for rn
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This is a disaster. Multiple of my multimillionaire friends I met gaming in my youth work at $NVDA, all in senior positions, worked there a decade+, are talking about quitting bc they are post economic & were only working bc they liked Jensen.
This could be the end for $NVDA; unfortunately giving people who already own compute the ultimate advantage over those that dont own it yet.
Capitalism is breaking. Shareholders needed to vote on this. Because they didnt, **we may now see the emergence of intelligence monopolies**, where all data on earth is piped through just one or two companies, resulting in recursive self improvement (due to ever increasing data theft by those companies).
Fuck this shit. How is everyone so stupid: why do I live in the timeline where Jensen capitulates to obvious attempts by outsiders to take over and steal what he built?
Yes he is a piece of shit, but the future of civilization & capitalism (the only system to break despotism and globally boost quality of living for all participants) are both at stake here.
The largest risk AI poses is not the death of all humans. It is the ultimate concentration of power in the hands of one or two individuals, who could use it to enslave all humans. I hate this bullshit year so much, from the market manipulations of the Whitehouse, to the most blatant hostile takeover (not mutiny, 88% of $NVDA employees want Jensen to stay) I've ever seen. Bullshit year.
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With all of the dead bedroom talk, I think it’s also naive to not understand that a 60+ woman may prefer her billionaire husband of 40 years have (hopefully discrete) affairs rather than divorce her.
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Married guy of 15 years here. It's not a fireable offense but it's alarming how many of you here think Jensen cheating on his wife repeatedly is no big deal. You want a CEO with no integrity that badly? He could just divorce his wife & sleep with whoever, he's a piece of shit.
more similar to when they grounded Jack Ma for a while after he got too big for his britches than we might like to admit
Jensen Gone
1 - sad sad day for America. The national security apparatus deposed a giant of American industry over a difference in opinion on who an American company can do business with.
2 - obviously a warning shot to other tech CEOs.. toe the deep state line or we will get you.
3 - Elon is the final boss. They will come for him too
4 - Nvidia will be a shadow of itself in 5 years. Collette will milk the cash cow, keep share price artificially high with stock buybacks while underinvesting it in the ecosystem. It won’t show up until 2030.
5 - this is a critical time in the tech industry as we transition to super empowered agent swarm companies. Every firm has to look like Anthropic and OpenAI before they get eaten by those two.
6 - Nvidia had 3rd rate talent. It was a FAANG reject choice until 2020. Jensen created world leading teams out of less than stellar people.
7 - if Jensen re-founded today, the company would look very different. He’d replace most staff with agent swarms and could afford to hire only the top people in every org.
8 - it’s a little too late for this to have impact on AI safety. Recursive self-improvement has begun and will accelerate over the next year. 2027 will be pivot year.
9 - Anthropic and the EAs are not at fault for this. Yes journos are engaging in schadenfreude. Yes the China hawks took him down with leaks.
10 - AI truly is the game of kings. High risk high reward, all in gambles.
11 - what does the national security establishment want ? They want to control compute like they do money. KYC and the ability to stop any actor from having access without having to resort to laws that can be finessed with lawyers but based on “reputation risk”.
12 - this kind of control will slow down the US tech sector dramatically, which is why tech is pushing back. This will shift technological dominance to China as they will be able to move faster, just as they have done in manufacturing.
13 - unfortunately the US national security apparatus has too rosy a view of US tech supremacy (encouraged by big tech marketing)
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Grok Bot 1.0 says your bots now use fewer resources. An Ultra user who paid for the whole year hit 29% on day one.
Four days ago I wrote that 93.2% of one user's tokens went to bots re-reading their own chat. Then came the reset, the overnight fixes, and Matt Palmer from the team: "hard at work on token efficiency and usage." On Wednesday 1.0 shipped with this line: "We've also made them more efficient, reducing the resources required to complete tasks."
Here's what users posted the same day.
Jason Oakes, Ultra, paid for the year: "My weekly limit reset last night and I'm at 29% after the first day." His math: out by Friday, no reset until Tuesday. Two weeks ago he finished the week at 97-98%.
In the video below, his screenshot and the ones that followed:
→ Super plan: 19% in one day, "as bad as last week"
→ 90%+ used two days into the cycle
→ about 30% of one user's usage is bots talking to bots
→ an Ultra user asked for a refund, got ignored, and had Amex cancel the charge
→ Max Weinbach asked his bot about "a big update today." The reply: "usage limit reached." His meter said 0%.
To be fair, not everyone sees it. Some users say it's been better since the reset. That's the real problem with a meter nobody can see inside: two people on the same plan describe two different products.
Did your week get longer after 1.0, or shorter?
Elon says Grok Bot token fixes are "underway." One user already measured where his tokens went: 93.2% was the bot re-reading its own chat.
Roshel Perera runs 60 bots. On the $30 plan his weekly usage was gone in about 2.5 days, and every bot stopped for 40 hours. So he pulled one week of logs, Oct 13 to 20, and had Claude Code break it down.
In the video below:
→ 93.2% of tokens: re-reading the chat
→ 0.64%: what the bots actually said
→ 0.37%: his new prompts
→ 1,540 scheduled wake-ups a week. 45 watchdog runs, 43 found nothing
Every message and every timer makes the bot read the whole conversation again. You don't pay for the answer. You pay for the reading.
This morning the replies told the same story. An Ultra user maxes out 3 days before the reset. A Super user was at 21% a couple of hours after a reset, running one news cron.
A fix may help. But you won't know unless you measured before it lands.
Paste this into Grok Bot:
"For the next 7 days, log my usage % before and after every task and routine. Group it by bot, and flag anything that runs on a timer but finds nothing. Show me first, change nothing until I confirm."
Will the fix give you your week back, or just slow the meter down?
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99% of the men giving you hostile responses on twitter fall into two categories
-men who are significantly dumber than you, this hurts their feelings and they’re trying to make it your problem
-men who are simply communicating with you as if you were also a man
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One of the most revealing things people say when they hear about a new development is that, “they should build [some other thing] instead.”
What they? There’s no they! There’s only the private owner of the lot. If Walgreens owns the lot, then Walgreens is going to build a Walgreens. If a gas station company owns a lot, which they purchased to build a gas station, then they’re going to build a gas station. You can’t see the gas station going up and say, “you know what we really need there is a pool supply store.”
What in the world are you talking about?
People are natural central planners.
You have to take away their right to influence these kinds of decisions at all. You have to create the legal conditions under which they are not allowed to affect these decisions. Because if you let regular people weigh in, they will reveal that they have an insane theory of how the world should work.
They will see a Walgreens going up on a private lot owned by Walgreens and say out loud, “they should build apartments there instead” like scheming little Soviets.
It’s difficult to explain without sounding crazy but this person successfully blocked turning an abandoned parking lot into taxable 21st century infrastructure because she thought the space could be better used as a trampoline park. (No one has offered to build the trampoline park).
She’s homeless and pulls people’s hair out for almost a living.
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It’s difficult to explain without sounding crazy but this person successfully blocked turning an abandoned parking lot into taxable 21st century infrastructure because she thought the space could be better used as a trampoline park. (No one has offered to build the trampoline park).
She’s homeless and pulls people’s hair out for almost a living.