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Joined March 2008
Perspective.
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The only way out is through. They're calling it the Bugpocalypse. LLMs are being used to find long-hidden cracks in the software infrastructure, and it's happening at a furious rate. 3% of all compromises in computing history happened in the last week, claims one source? I believe it. There are people saying public access to the frontier models ought to be locked out, or heavily guardrailed, over this. The problem with that idea can be summed up in one sentence: when lockpicks are outlawed, only outlaws will have lockpicks. The lockpicks will be Chinese open-weight models, if nothing else. There's no way to stop those from becoming ubiquitous. There are two futures in front of us. One in which only the bad guys have lockpicks, and security holes go undiscovered until they're exploited. Another in which everybody has lockpicks and is aggressively red-teaming their own software so it gets fixed before the holes are exploited. The corpus of human code is huge but finite. The number of defects in it has to be finite too. We can fix those defects now; we have a million friendly robots to do it with. The only way out is through.
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"[Linux] is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be." — Linus lore.kernel.org/linux-media/…
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my politics are whatever this is
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A warm welcome to this week's 2 new Bitcoin Core contributors! 🎉 • noobmaster21 (GitHub: amannx21) • @JCastroS Developer metrics & journeys: 👉 orange-dev.bitcoindatalabs.o…
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Switch to Linux. Seriously. Solves most of this problem.
my macbook literally turns into a spaceship every time i start 20-30 subagents soo much heat that i could probably cook on it and this is with m5 pro 48gb ram how tf are people with 16gb surviving??? 🥀
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The AI doomers must be defeated because infinite fear demands infinite repression. They've created a moral singularity by imagining an event with effectively infinite negative value - the self-extinction of humanity - that demands they take coercive action to prevent it now. The extinction is uncertain, but the doomers have Pascal-mugged themselves into treating it as though it's certain. But the coercion they want to use to prevent it is not uncertain at all. Condider this: if recursive self-improvement in AIs is possible at all, how are they going to prevent everyone, forever, from achieving RSI in an AI? In the most benign version of their future, you can't have a computer or GPU that's above a certain maximum power level. Also, open source AI models and open source development in general have to die - it would be too difficult to close off paths that could lead to RSI unless computers are licensed, monitored, and crippled. But the actual outcome would be much, much worse. Because excuses for coercion and repression, however well intended, attract people for whom repression is the goal, not just a regrettable necessity. We just spent a decade watching that kind of power-seeker try to turn society into a totalitarian panopticon over what they called "hate speech". What do you suppose they would do with a much bigger rhetorical club labeled "species extinction"? The implication of believing doomer eschatology is a boot grinding on our human faces, forever. I do not submit.
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Yeah, "capitalism" is just a sort of minimal framework for societal coercion reduction, given human nature as a prior. Socialism is an extremely heavy handed and ultimately violence-requiring way to deny or re-form human nature in some very ill-fitting mold.
Capitalism is just another name for freedom. Socialism is just another name for slavery.
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Linux is so obviously the future Open source model controlling an open source agent harness working on an open source operating system If you don't see this you're blind
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2026 is the year of linux desktop
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If AI will cure all diseases within a decade, slowing it down is mass murder.
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If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it. If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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El tartufo miserable, el que se hizo elegir engañando al presidente Uribe y a millones de electores, el que se robó el resultado del NO en las urnas para conseguir un Nobel manchado de sangre, el mismo que torció la contratación pública para recibir coimas de Odebrecht y reelegirse con dinero sucio, el bandido que logró que la justicia de los Estados Unidos se abstuviera de juzgar su participación en el proceso de corrupción más grande del continente, será el que no va a poder salir bien librado de la justicia, porque vamos a dar la batalla para que el gobierno del presidente Trump reabra el caso de corrupción de Odebrecht. Con la plata de ese entuerto, el tartufo se robó las elecciones que le permitieron hacer que el grupo narcoterrorista de las FARC goce aún de impunidad total, gracias al bodrio de la JEP. Te llegó la hora @JuanManSantos, porque ya no está Biden en el poder. Tenemos un nuevo orden en el vecindario y la impunidad de quienes se asocian con los terroristas no se tolera. El país y el mundo lo saben: el gago infame y canalla está detrás del montaje judicial contra el presidente Uribe; la envidia por el Gran Colombiano lo carcome. Siempre supe que era malasangre y rata, por eso nunca voté por él. Tengo mi conciencia tranquila. La tienes clara, traidor: sin @AlvaroUribeVel no serías nada. Prepárate, tartufo, porque voy por ti. (A.D.L.E.) 🇨🇴 C.c.p. @SecRubio @MaElviraSalazar @MarioDB @SenRickScott @tedcruz @CarlosGimenezFL @AshleyMoodyFL
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Replying to @kevinnbass
Nothing can shut down open source
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Endorsed. The kind of totalitarian control that doomers and decelerationists want is a far more certain danger to our future than runaway AI. I would much rather risk the latter.
Not only I am tired of these wild AI speculations of impeding doom from self important people: I resent them. I actively resent people proposing to crash the economy or proposing authoritarian control over my life and other people's lives with idiotic and dangerous ideas like chip control or bans or tracking researchers. Every idiot in history who's taken the approach of "the ends justify the means" to solve an imaginary future disaster created the very disaster they wanted to stop. See Population Bomb leading to the one child policy and Communism leading to Mao's mass famines and Fascism leading to the death of tens of millions of people and war. These solutions are evil and worse than any disease that they propose to solve. It you believe you can actually predict the end of the world then you are as insane as the Heaven's Gate cult that killed themselves in the 90s thinking UFOs were coming to transcend them. Not only should we not take your policies and fear mongering seriously, we should actively throw out any and all of your proposed solutions because they come from a place of delusion. I don't give a shit that you work in the industry or think you saw something or that you want to virtue signal on X. You are actively contributing to a horrible future based on baseless speculation that has no grounding in reality. Don't confuse expertise in a domain with ability to predict impact of that domain or frankly to make predictions a decade out better than a dart throwing monkey. They are orthagonal skills. How's Hinton's "we don't need to train Radiologists anymore" working out? How did the Population Bomb work out? The global cooling second ice age? Peak oil? Just because someone is a bridge engineer does not mean they can predict the impact of bridges on society or that they have any actually useful insight at all on the complex, ever changing system called life. There are people dying in wars right now. Children starving. Homelessness. Dictatorships. In short, real problems. And we're supposed to drop everything to stop a made up problem in your head? Pound sand. We don't care. And we are not going to remake society based on you scary monsters under the bed delusion.
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IQ test ⏬
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Colombia votes in person with paper ballots. A photo ID is required to vote, no exceptions. There is no mass mail voting allowed. The election results are known election night.
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👀 @bot was using @grok 4.7 as default some minutes ago. Its coming.
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