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Now: Cover business for @moreperfectus Before: Management consultant for ten years. Write a newsletter on retail/cpg https://nitter.cf/t.co/NnlmrPY4h1
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The man arrested for planting a secret recording device at OpenAI's headquarters is a Venture Partner of a VC firm alongside the son of a senior Saudi intelligence official:
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Listening to David Axelrod tell @jonfavs that corruption arguments against Susan Collins are inadvisable demonstrates that a perpetual class of affluent consultants are ill-suited to a populist moment with widespread cynicism.
Elites can't see each other's corruption!
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Princeton didn’t consider Anne Carson worthy of a recommendation for tenure, and she couldn’t continue teaching at McGill after its Department of Classics was shut down.
Now, everyone wants to claim her as their own …
This makes me so sad. I average 3 hours a day and part of that is professional obligations. I feel addicted and leave my phone in my bedroom after 6pm.
I can’t believe the average is more than double.
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How much are @DeionSanders and Nick Saban getting paid to support the Protect College Sports Act? Neither of them ties their shoes for free.
if you ever feel embarrassed about something you did/said at work, just remember that one time someone earnestly tried to convince the pope that a chat bot had a soul.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Victor Wembanyama was asked if he would ever sign a deal with a sports betting company: “Absolutely not. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it.”
I broadly agree with what he’s saying, but let’s not forget that Gates’ wife divorced him over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
💵 Bill Gates warns that AI is set to eliminate jobs on a massive scale. Of those who predict it will create more jobs than it destroys, he said, "I don't understand what they're thinking."
Gates said coding is the first profession where AI has become reliable enough to replace human workers, and predicted accounting, legal work, telesales and customer support will follow within a few years.
He rejected the argument that cheaper AI will create enough new demand to keep people employed. Longer-lasting tires, he noted, didn't make people drive more; they just meant fewer jobs making tires.
Gates said the disruption could last 20 years or more before AI delivers what he called "super abundance.” He says this generation's job is to get through it with humanity still in control, keeping bioterror events and job losses to a minimum "over what's probably a 20 year plus transition period."
He proposed making companies pay the same payroll tax on AI and robot labor as on human workers, and designating child care, elder care and parts of medicine and education as "human reserved" jobs.
🎥 Ezra Klein / NYT (YouTube)
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Maybe it's just a sign of our affluence and technological sophistication but the fact that so much brain power and money is being spent trying to 'solve' such meaningless problems as restaurant reservations is depressing. We used to send people to the moon.
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first
"And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation."
"But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up."
"And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?"
"So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?"
"And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."
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before AI there was no way to tell a restaurant that it’s your birthday
i’m imagining a world in the not so distant future where restaurant servers can sing “happy birthday” to you and even bring out a little dessert with candles…thanks to AI of course
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first
"And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation."
"But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up."
"And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?"
"So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?"
"And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."
also, i have an investigation on this very thing releasing 10/8.
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
It’s fun seeing people realize in real time that the only actual business case for AI is optimizing existing data assets, which inevitably delivers little if any value to the overall system
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
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The thing about a 20 slide deck previously taking hours to construct vs having AI now do it in minutes is that the hours it took to create it in the old world meant that everything was thoughtful, crafted, and scrutinized. In the hands of someone good, it made for breakthrough work.
AI is making everyone "think" they are good, but it's getting really tired really fast. I'd say that >50% of the slides I see now are claudeslop.
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amazing -- Karl Rove lists Ken Paxton's scandals: "You've got a guy who has multiple girlfriends and $200,000 worth of home improvements from a corrupt business guy for whom he does favors. My personal favorite is the Uber account in the name of David P. Since he drives around in a car that has [state] license plates, it made it a little difficult to have assignations with one of his mistresses, so the corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
The average Facebook user is not well versed in consumer privacy rights. This is the type of thing you write when you’re drunk or being paid by the industry.
What these people don’t realize (because they are largely anti-social) is that people watch sports because they are social.
No one wants to watch a game with a headset on sitting next to a friend with a headset on.
This is one of the most important parts of Meta connect. Meta got the rights to immersive sports. This is HUGE. They got the rights to showcase new broadcasting for football, etc., but most importantly they got UFC. You can now watch ringside immersive UFC. Apple couldn't pull it off. Meta (for now) has eaten their lunch.
