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Stephen Sylwester retweeted
It took me 27 years to realize that the ultimate cheat code to life is just having confidence.
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
If Hamas stopped fighting, there would be peace.
If Israel stopped fighting, it would cease to exist.
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The song appears to be part of public backlash against an unpopular campaign that the regime launched in August to discipline young people against “indecent behaviour.” Police have carried out arrests and raids on private parties and imposed strict closing times on bars, nightclubs, and concert venues. ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/I…
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At the airport, watching a dad with his probably seven-month-old. He has her in the air, shifting her around mechanically, like a robot. She’s kicking her legs and squealing.
Mom comes back from the bathroom and immediately straps the baby to her chest. She leans in and snuggles.
Nobody tells Dad to engage in stimulating play with his child. Nobody tells Mom to pull her close and soothe her.
They interact with the same child differently because men and women are different.
Children don't need two adults tossing them in the air. They don't need two parents soothing and comforting them. All stimulation and no security leaves them unmoored; all comfort and no challenge leaves them afraid to venture out.
Children need one parent who promotes attachment and one parent who promotes independence.
Children need a mother and a father.
A culture that treats either one as optional asks children to go without so adults can feel affirmed.
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The house is loud and messy because of small kids, and then one day it's clean and quiet and you're sad, with almost nothing in between to enjoy.
You really have no option but to say "this is good" when it's loud and messy bc that's your only chance to enjoy it.
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
Replying to @HunterBiden @base
I tried man.
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Replying to @HunterBiden @Samwise_Ganji
Can we go ahead and skip the arc where you launch a token of some kind?
For every reddit doomer, there's a hundred quiet bloomers. Online discourse is dominated by malcontents and their neuroses. But the real world is full of people leaning into the future with optimism. It's fair to have butterflies, fair to feel anxious, but don't you dare doom 🌷
DHH isn’t crazy.
“The wise see what’s coming and prepare.” — Proverbs 22:3
@dhh just adapting faster than everyone else!!!
Rust. Speed. AI. Agents. CLI. Etc
The future is already here. #railsworld
#rust
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
My friend just saved over $1,000 a year because of Meta Muse.
I walked her (a non-techie who has never used an AI agent) through the Muse setup.
She connected it to Gmail, asked it to review all of her subscriptions.
It flagged a bunch she had no idea she was paying for - a lot were hooked up to an old Delta credit card on autopay.
She canceled Paramount+, Clear, Spotify Audiobook, a skin cream, etc.
She just saved $1,300 per year.
Start to finish was 22 minutes.
And that included changing her avatar to a sloth.
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
People who drank more coffee had less body fat, less visceral fat, and more lean mass than less-frequent or non-drinkers.
The biggest benefit was seen at 5 or more cups per day.
And for men, every extra cup per day was associated with a ~10 ng/dL higher total testosterone. Higher coffee intake was also associated with better glucose and insulin regulation in men.
This was an observational study, but mechanistic and experimental evidence actually supports coffee's benefits on metabolic and hormonal health. I'm willing to believe there's a real link here rather than draw a conclusion such as "coffee drinkers live healthier lives in general."
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
A 37-year-old man with a rare blood disease was being sent to hospice.
An AI model searched thousands of existing drugs and ranked a combination no one had tried for his condition.
He responded within a week. He is in remission.
The drugs were already on the shelf. The AI model found the match.
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
Talk to 100 women,
You'll find 1 wife material.
Meet 100 men,
You'll find 1 loyal friend.
Send 100 emails,
You'll land 1 big client.
Take more shots. Life is a numbers game
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
Caring too much about the opinions of random strangers is a fantastic way to become insane.
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BREAKING: AI Doomers Are Buying Potemkin Articles
The AI debate is more fake than you can imagine:
Of the 6 participants in this Guardian article, including the journalist and publisher, 6/6 are paid by AI Doomer megadonors.
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The AI safety nonprofits around Anthropic promote an Anthropic-aligned Doomer narrative, whether Tarbell Fellows in popular media, or METR in evaluations.
All rely on Moskovitz's Anthropic stock worth $7 billion, which the parent funding org sits on.
This stock increases in value if Anthropic grows; many of these orgs claim independence from Anthropic, but none of them are, because of their funding lineage through Moskovitz's stock -- not to mention the frontier lab monoculture.
The Anthropic-aligned nonprofits are journalistic and regulatory facades to promote AI Doomerism, which promotes bigger IPOs and regulatory capture, presumably by, e.g. METR, which Anthropic controls through its funding funnels.
The more Anthropic succeeds, the more the AI Doom narrative expands through these orgs, because more money means more funding for AI Doom. It is an organically self-amplifying machine.
Anthropic promotes the problem -- AI Doom -- and promotes itself as the solution -- AI Safety -- which means control of regulation by Anthropic.
AI Doom is now deafening and will become louder the more financial success Anthropic has.
China is more optimistic about AI than America because it doesn't have Anthropic.
The system is structured as a self-amplifying regulatory capture machine. Anthropic couldn't stop itself, even if it wanted.
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.
And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.
This stock was worth $500 million early last year.
It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.
METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.
Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.
The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.
The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.
If this were the end of it, that's bad.
But that isn't all.
The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.
The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.
They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.
All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.
As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.
Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.
From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.
This itself is an objective fact.
The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.
But the problem also goes in the other direction:
If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.
Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.
Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.
They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.
And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.
What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.
The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.
And that feedback loop is winning.
That's what Jacob Coxon is.
China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.
America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.
Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.
Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.
It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.
Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.
Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.
Congress must investigate.
Evidence and Github in next post.
Then some supplementary figures.
Stephen Sylwester retweeted
Tarbell fellows -- funded from the money pile that comes from Anthropic -- wrote undisclosed Time 100 AI profiles.
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No punches pulled by @bgurley @theallinpod on the still unresolved Covid origins, calling out influential virology insiders who were blockers of an investigation.
"My p(2nd Covid) is way higher than my p(doom). And if their models are so ****ing smart, tell me what happened here."
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley
(0:00) Bill Gurley takes the stage at the All-In Summit
(1:29) Bill's Presentation: Searching for Feynman
Links to additional resources mentioned in talk and used in research:
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