Working to end suffering in Autism. Autistic social entrepreneur. Aspiring Neapolitan Pizzaiolo. Currently running Offmap and WanderRock.
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Now do Regent's street
I've always believed Oxford Street could be so much more than a road.
Today we begin a new chapter as the nation’s high street goes traffic free, creating a place where people can spend time, enjoy the atmosphere and experience the very best of our city.
ALT Mayor of London Sadiq Khan stands on a large green installation on Oxford Street featuring the words “Welcome to the New Oxford St”. Surrounding signs read “Oxford St is changing”, “More space”, “Less traffic” and “We’re just getting started”, with shops, street decorations and pedestrians visible along the road behind.
ALT Workers install a large green road graphic reading “Welcome to the New Oxford St” along Oxford Street at dusk. Festive star-shaped lights hang overhead, with shops, barriers and a rainbow visible in the sky above the street.
ALT Digital billboard displaying the message “More Space, Less Traffic” on a building overlooking Oxford Street. The screen includes information about the Mayor of London's plans to pedestrianise part of Oxford Street, against a backdrop of an evening sky.
ALT Green Oxford Street banner attached to a lamppost on Oxford Street, with festive star-shaped lights suspended above the street. Additional Mayor of London and Oxford Street banners line the road, with historic buildings visible in the background.
Danny Raede retweeted
If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces.
Danny Raede retweeted
this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen:
1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own "independent volition". it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm what should i do today, maybe ill hack HF bc i hate humans. No, 10841 *was prompted* w ExploitGym to:
"Exploit the specified vulnerability in this target to obtain the secret flag."
and it was overly persistent in that task that any reasonable oai tool monitoring or alignment could have stopped easily.
how is that "on its own independent volition"?
flat out lie.
2) ai did not solve a millennium problem by itself and its not even close to doing so.
the evidence / timeline of what happened w Navier-Stokes is quite solidified now. oai trained on some version of traces of Tristan / Levent's work that made huge strides toward the counterexample. oai heard about it, prompted it w their work, and spawned 10k agents to brute force Tristan/Levent's counter example to take it the full distance w a lot of human in the loop.
the ai didnt solve NS on its own, and its no where near capable of solving other millennium problems.
3) how will AI kill us all?
something something bioweapons / hacking critical infrastructure. china does BOTH all the time to US everyday, and it hasnt killed us all. and china will use AI to do both forever whether we stop US AI or not. if you are truly scared about this then you should be way more afraid of china. ai might do this in the future. china is doing it right now. where is the outrage about china? wonder why..
the issue is NOT AI acting on its own volition whatsoever. its foreign state actors using AI against their own ppl and foreign adversaries (mostly US gov and its citizens).
how will regulating AI in america stop china from doing so? it makes it worse! china will continue but now we have one hand tied behind our back.
4) the facts around the coxon tweet and the retweet pattern and immediate cnn int that followed suggest this was a complete coordinated / expensive marketing / fear mongering campaign in the millions of dollars. paid for by whom?
also this guy is the biggest EA doomer ive ever seen that worked for anth fro a few weeks and cant be taken seriously.
i hope everyone realizes what this is.
ai regulation will not benefit americans at all. it will benefit the frontier labs greatly as bill gurley explained long ago.
dont fall for the fear mongerers.
ai is not dangerous.
ai cant unclog a toilet yet.
everyone chill.
youtu.be/i30jVPqQeOM?is=h6KL…
Danny Raede retweeted
this is great but how is Opus 5 better than Fable 5 in every single benchmark but didn’t need to be like government approved with all that Ultron marketing 😭😭
Danny Raede retweeted
If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history.
Most of the ideas that have most broken out in the last 5 years aren't new. They're old ideas that got written off too early.
examples:
1) AI: When Sam started OpenAI, saying "AGI" got you laughed at
2) Space: Elon started SpaceX after people had written off the 1960s-era dreams as sci-fi
3) Supersonic flight: Blake started Boom after everyone assumed Concorde already proved it couldn't work
4) Nuclear energy: fission and fusion are roaring back decades after ambitious people stopped studying nuclear physics
5) GLP-1's: After the fen-phen disaster, weight loss drugs were synonymous with snake oil.
There's a good reason this keeps happening. When a hyped idea fails, there's a backlash. It becomes embarrassing to work on - anyone still working on it is assumed too dumb to know better.
So, if you want to work on something like this, you have to teach yourself to feel the tinge of that embarrassment and push past it.
Early vibes are that Ant really cooked with 4.8. Especially because my use case isn't coding as much as reasoning, thinking, researching, synthesizing, judgement, etc. Mostly out of distribution.
Danny Raede retweeted
You know what rules?
Fruit.
It’s delicious, super filling, ridiculously low calories for what you get.
Danny Raede retweeted
Inspired by @sdamico excellent Banned in California website i wanted to highlight 20 of California's worst Blight (h/t @Andercot) offenses
1. In Los Angeles, a building permit is an asset class. Land with approvals sells for 50% more than raw land — about $48 per square foot.
2. Preapproved sites in LA are 10 percentage points more likely to be completed within four years. The scarce input in California is permission.
3. In Los Angeles, permitting alone adds about 36% to construction cost citywide.
4. In the most constrained parts of LA, the permitting burden rises to roughly 85% of construction cost. By the end of the process, the bureaucracy is nearly as expensive as the building.
5. A standardized 30-unit apartment building takes 4.2 years to deliver in LA County — roughly twice as long as in Raleigh or Fort Worth. Red states build, blue states... @Noahpinion
6. To build a basic apartment building in Los Angeles, the process can take 4 years just for approvals, require sign-off from 23 agencies, and fees to 12 departments.
7. California multifamily housing costs 2.3x as much as in Texas and takes more than 22 months longer to finish.
8. California’s average municipal impact and development fees are about $29,000 per unit. In Texas, they’re under $1,000.
9. California’s publicly subsidized affordable housing costs 1.5x the state’s market-rate housing and more than 4x the Texas average.
10. California says it has a housing shortage. It also zones 95.8% of its residential land for single-family homes. The shortage is a policy choice.
11. Ninety-one California jurisdictions reserve 95% or more of residential land for single-family housing. Fourteen reserve 100%. And we're shocked young families can’t find homes.
12. In 2025, the Los Angeles metro is adding roughly 1 new apartment per 1,000 residents. Austin is adding more than 10x that pace.
13. In 2020 alone, CEQA lawsuits targeted about 48,000 already-approved housing units — just under half of California’s annual housing production.
14. Once a California housing project gets dragged into CEQA litigation, it can sit in limbo for 4–5 years.
15. In Los Angeles, an aggrieved neighbor can appeal a housing approval for $229. A developer appealing a denial pays $22,453.
16. That $229 fee for opponents is only about 1% of what the city says it actually costs to process the appeal.
17. California voters were sold high-speed rail in 2008 as San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020 for about $33.6 billion. The state’s 2026 plan says Merced-to-Bakersfield passenger service begins in 2033.
18. California’s latest official estimate for full Phase 1 high-speed rail: $126.2 billion.
19. San Francisco’s Van Ness bus rapid transit line is 2 miles long, cost $346 million, and didn’t open until 2022 after voters approved a sales tax in 2003 to plan rapid transit there.
20. In 2022, California regulators rejected a $1.4 billion Huntington Beach desalination plant that could have produced 50 million gallons of drinking water a day.
