@TylerAlterman I always thought it was sort of implied: ~because what else is there? we must go on
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Rob
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Dune is my favorite sci fi series. But it's kind of weird that Herbert devoted 1000s of pages to humanity's survival strategy and 0 pages to what survival is for
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I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed
Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know.
It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ?
Seems daft
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@cryptopunk7213 "autonomously built itself"
you people are insufferable
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fuck me china just launched the 1st AI model that autonomously built itself... and its as good as claude opus 4.6 and gpt-5.4
- minimax M2.7 trained itself through 100+ rounds of autonomous self-improvement. 30% gain. No humans involved - what the actual f*ck
- model now handles 30-50% of the AI lab's OWN AI research
- beats gemini 3.1 at coding and pretty much matches opus 4.6 + gpt 5.4 😶 (china used to lag now they match
- doesn't require crazy hardware to run (single a30 gpu)
- absolutely CRUSHES tasks: financial modelling, coding, openclaw - one-shotted
the chinese have officially caught up. self-improving ai is a real thing.
all researchers did was set an objective and the model figured the rest out.
i wasn't expecting this from minimax. im now wondering wtf deepseek is going to be like.
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MiniMax_Agent@MiniMaxAgent
MiniMax-M2.7 just landed in MiniMax Agent. The model helped build itself. Now it's here to build for you. ↓ Try Now: agent.minimax.io
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@kevinyang "yo openclaw, I shared my meetings with you in this folder on google drive. check every so often and write actionable to trello. here's an api key"
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@kevinyang I'm assuming there is more but this demo makes your agent seem trivial
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We raised $6.5M to build the agent for professionals.
When your reputation is on the line, you need an agent that's reliable, secure, and one step ahead.
Try it now at serif.ai
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@ItamarLevyOr @AndyMasley I don't think you even know what you just said
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@AndyMasley You need to understand that even though paul atreides can canonically see the future, and is following the only course of action that persists humanity, he is actually a bad man.
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Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAX
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It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
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Great men of history had little to no introspection.
The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.
@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:
David: You don't have any levels of introspection?
Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.
David: Why?
Marc: Move forward. Go!
I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.
Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
He just woke up and was like:
I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.
Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.
All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.
Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.
The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.
And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.
We need to criticize the individual.
The individual needs to self criticize.
The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.
It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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@mil0theminer @trickdidi It’s probably a one-person AI-first company that teaches you how to create your own one-person AI-first company.
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They’ll never say what the company is though
Ryan Carson@ryancarson
What running an agent-first company looks like in 2026
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There are no good arguments against this beyond aesthetics. All the quotes are unable to explain themselves beyond it "being obvious". Humans already do this shit with animals that have a pre-frontal cortex and that's like infinity times worse.
Kai Micah Mills@kaimicahmills
the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
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@kenwheeler "u changed ur mind, ha!"
(not defending sam here but this is juvenile)
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> it’s an open foundation
> no wait it’s actually sort of a company lol
> no wait it’ll be utopia and you’ll be issued compute as ubi
> no wait now it’s a public utility and you have to pay for it
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
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@kyeburchard @Andercot yep. "skill" is sort of a misnomer imo. they are more like heuristics or guidelines
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I give it about 3-6 months before any kind of skills.md file is also pointless.
The same thing happened to vector databases and langchain and every other 'product' built in the narrowing gap of model competencies.
@levelsio@levelsio
Thank god MCP is dead Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was It's all dumb abstractions that AI doesn't need because AI's are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there which is APIs
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@SenSanders dude really said we need to pause anything "more powerful than gpt4"
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We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here’s why.
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@teortaxesTex none of us are immune to the calcification of the mind
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How can he orchestrate these titanic things but force Grok Imagine on us is beyond me. It's like Walt Disney eating canned chili every day, or something. Slightly insane personal quirk.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI. Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software. You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind). This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal. In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this.
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