Husband, father, builder, leader. I lead platform & AI pre-sales architects at Zoom. Previously AWS, Cisco.
Washington, DC Metro Area
Joined April 2008
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If you really want to end scarcity and provide high quality medical care, housing, goods for everyone, let's get to work building these data centers. The superintelligence isn't going to build itself (yet)
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I think there is way too much concern expressed about verification of AI output in everyday work due to a risk of factual errors.
It used to be true, but data on more recent models suggest they beat human experts, including PhD specialists, in finding facts and checking claims.
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AI is the only path towards affordable health care and greater health for everyone
Stopping its progress effectively costs lives
Don't let the politicians lie to you to tax more of your money for inefficient bureaucratic incumbent systems – at Titusville, FL
Democrats won Congress and are starting to talk policy. Their emerging agenda: expand federal healthcare spending while imposing new restrictions on AI.
This combination is fiscally ruinous and we do not need to wait to see 7% yields on 10Y treasuries to reach this conclusion.
Like it or not, AI is our engine for economic growth and expanding our tax base. Like it or not, AI is also our best shot at taming healthcare costs: automating administrative work, expanding clinicians’ capacity, and delivering more care without a proportional increase in expensive human labor.
Look at how demanding the arithmetic already is. Even if real GDP grows 5% every year starting in 2027 - an extraordinarily strong growth assumption (~8% nominal) - and we add no new spending commitments, we'd STILL run a $400B deficit in 2035.
This is an agenda that will lock young Americans into a debt burden that consumes decades of future prosperity: more taxes, more national income diverted to interest, and less room to save, invest, and build wealth as we age.
If you are under the age of 50, think long and hard about your future. If you have children, think about the country they will inherit. A vote for this platform is a vote for leaving the next generation worse off than your own.
Every policy decision entails tradeoffs and I didn't hear an outstanding alternative proposal in 2025/2026. But these are your views and you're over 50, you should be ashamed. If these are your views and you're under 50, you should spend some more time thinking about your views.
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
The useless slop is coming for our jobs and the fancy autocomplete is going to kill us all? Did I get that right?
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I have a nice solution to the data center stuff
Lets ban all the people who dont want them from using them, the use goes down and we dont need to build anymore.
Easy, sounds ljke a win win for all
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Correct.
Have been saying this for 4 years now.
Stopping AI development is effectively economic and civilizational suicide.
Parenting in 2026
Raising my child on techno optimistic slopcore to inoculate against the decel mind-virus.
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We cannot afford to stop the race
It's literally existential.
Anyone arguing for datacenter ban is parroting talking points in the interest of the CCP
