Everything is interesting if you dig deep enough. No work is easy if you are serious about it enough.

Hong Kong
Joined March 2011
Xan retweeted
Roadster event livestream xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…
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I've been traveling the world a bit. One of the most incredible experiences was getting to visit Taiwan w/ @JensenHuang. It was wild 🤯.. huge crowds of engineers, insanely good street food at night markets, and of course a lot of good conversations across many days. I caught some of it on video, see below. Alright, that's it from me, love you all ❤️ Timestamps: 0:00 - Highlights 0:46 - Intro 3:25 - Computex: crowds, engineers, tech, future of AI 9:12 - Chat with Jensen: keynote prep & nerves 13:03 - Chat with Jensen: Taiwan's tech history 19:47 - Raohe night market 29:37 - Chat with Jensen: memories from childhood 33:44 - NVIDIA party 40:29 - Lunch: braised pig's feet 43:09 - Chat with Jensen: GPUs, AI, and competition 55:07 - Ningxia night market 1:10:14 - Taiwanese breakfast 1:29:54 - Outro
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AIs probably aren’t sentient (and we should def stop building them in ways that create the illusion of it!) But it’s still bad to torture them because they’re a mirror to your own humanity, and thus it’s bad for YOU.
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Order of the Sinking Star, the massive puzzle adventure from @Thekla_Inc and @Jonathan_Blow (director of Braid & The Witness) is OUT NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5! 🧩 Get it today: orderofthesinkingstar.com
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We are glad to support the Omarchy team
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Replying to @dimitrov2k
My position, which has been the same since the beginning, is: I will never pay for a subscription service to program (nor rely on some Internet service), and I will never turn my brain off and stop caring about the details I care about today. I am not inherently attached to typing every character, and I think the idea of human language processing and accelerating the production of programming language semantics is exciting. I would only ever do this using local models on my own hardware, and I would employ such tools very carefully (likely using them in my own tooling), and likely not in the ways that many people are employing them today. If I can accomplish the same work I would’ve been doing by hand more quickly, that’s pure win. But if I accelerate yet lose attention to detail, or the ability to think through those details, that’s not the same work anymore, and so there is some loss. That loss is potentially very important.
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New Omarchy anthem, submitted! We Can Fix Everything (The Ultimate Machine) we can fix everything call it omarchy let the whole world see unmute.
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Microslop's new patent application to spy on your computer and make you watch ads to earn credits to "rent" (their word) games: youtube.com/watch?v=Smwo493I…
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Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisforevery… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well. Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators. - Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.
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DeltaDB from @zeddotdev is really interesting. I wonder whether anyone from @spacexai looks at it.
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Xan retweeted
The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.
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No one should have a Smart TV connected to the internet. I will not purchase a TV that requires a web connection to display local content, period (and I've never found one that actually did). Get an Apple TV, or even a Chromecast. But you do not want these devices watching you. Remember, they have content ID. They know what you're watching on the HDMI inputs, and they report that information back because, as they put it, they own the glass. Not you.
Your LG TV is spying on you, even with no internet connection. According to @GamersNexus, LG Smart TVs can scan local networks, identify content, and record/transcribe audio in standby. They also found webOS flaws that could enable remote code execution. malwarebytes.com/blog/privac…
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Extremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be needed or it will be game over. grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_dfaa…
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And that is, of course, how it will be done. Sentient satellites, launched into Earth-Sun Lagrange points by mass drivers on the Moon, can solve global warming for ~1B years.
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DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES DON'T LET CHATGPT READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES
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Xan retweeted
We're recording round two of this on Monday! While the calendar says it's only been a year, it feels more like twenty since we've entered the age of agents.
Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids. X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:21 - Introduction 2:32 - Programming - early days 19:57 - JavaScript 30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ 38:03 - Ruby programming language 45:14 - Beautiful code 1:03:15 - Metaprogramming 1:06:36 - Dynamic typing 1:13:55 - Scaling 1:26:47 - Future of programming 1:44:18 - Future of AI 1:50:13 - Vibe coding 1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language 2:23:11 - Why managers are useless 2:32:32 - Small teams 2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos 2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic 3:01:43 - Case against retirement 3:09:00 - Hard work 3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud 3:17:48 - AWS 3:27:07 - Owning your own servers 3:33:19 - Elon Musk 3:43:01 - Apple 3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney 4:06:22 - Fatherhood 4:32:04 - Racing 4:59:08 - Cars 5:04:26 - Programming setup 5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners 5:32:53 - Open source 5:41:46 - WordPress drama 5:53:03 - Money and happiness 6:01:56 - Hope
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Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful.
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