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@nikitabier @elonmusk Based Japan 🇯🇵

If you’re seeing a bunch of Japanese posts, here are some fun facts: Japan has more daily active users and more time spent on X than any other country in the world. Over two thirds of the country is monthly active on X. X in Japan has one of the highest penetration rates of any social network in history.

@elonmusk @Ric_RTP Even stronger Machiavellian character than Elon himself

@Ric_RTP Scam Altman is super good at scamming

This AI whistleblower just EXPOSED Sam Altman for manipulating his way into becoming OpenAI’s CEO. Everyone who helped him build it has left because they felt used. Karen Hao interviewed 300 people including 90 current and former OpenAI employees. And she just told Steven Bartlett what she discovered: In 2015, Altman needed Elon Musk to co-found OpenAI. Problem was, Musk was obsessed with AI as an existential threat. So Altman wrote a blog post calling AI "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Before that blog post? Altman's biggest fear was engineered viruses. Not AI. He literally rewrote his worldview overnight to mirror Musk's language word for word. Musk bought in. Donated millions. Co-founded the company. Then Altman stabbed him in the back. When OpenAI needed a CEO for its new for-profit arm, the co-founders Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Musk. Altman went directly to Brockman, a personal friend, and said: "Do we really want someone this erratic and unpredictable to control a technology that could be super powerful?" Brockman flipped. Then convinced Ilia to flip. Musk found out he wasn't getting the role and left. That's how the biggest rivalry in tech actually started. Not over ideology... Over a backroom power play. But here's where it gets darker: Every single person who built OpenAI alongside Altman eventually felt the same thing Musk felt. Used. Manipulated. Discarded. Dario Amodei, VP of Research, thought Altman shared his vision. Over time he realized Altman was on "exactly the opposite page" and had used his intelligence to build things he fundamentally disagreed with. He left and founded Anthropic. Ilia Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist, tried to get Altman fired. He told colleagues: "I don't think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI." He was pushed outounded Safe Super Intelligence. That name alone tells you everything. Mira Murati, CTO, left and started Thinking Machines Lab. No other tech company in history has had every single co-builder leave and start a direct competitor. Not Google. Not Meta. Not Apple. NOBODY. 300 interviews exposed one consistent pattern: If you align with Altman's vision, you think he's the Steve Jobs of AI. If you don't, you feel like you were manipulated by someone who will say whatever is needed to whoever is listening. When talking to Congress? AGI will cure cancer and solve poverty. When talking to consumers? It's the best digital assistant you'll ever have. When talking to Microsoft? AGI is a system that generates $100 billion in revenue. Three completely different definitions of the same technology sold to three completely different audiences. And if you publicly disagree with any of it? OpenAI subpoenaed 7 nonprofit organizations that criticized them. Sent a sheriff to a 29yo nonprofit lawyer's door during dinner demanding every text, email, and document he'd ever sent about OpenAI. A one-man watchdog nonprofit got papers demanding all communications with anyone who questioned the company. OpenAI's own head of mission alignment publicly said "this doesn't seem great." That's the guy whose literal job is making sure OpenAI BENEFITS humanity. Former employees who spoke up about secret non-disparagement clauses that threatened to strip their equity described the psychological pressure as "crushing." This is the company that tells us it's building technology "for the benefit of humanity." Same company that mirrors whatever language gets them funded. Same company where every builder eventually walks away feeling deceived. Same company sending law enforcement to silence critics. The biggest AI company on Earth wasn't built on technology. It was built on one man's ability to tell everyone exactly what they needed to hear. And the scariest part is that it worked.

This should be front page news

What a lovely surprise this morning! ☀️Independent detections of similar transients in European plate archives — exactly the kind of cross-validation this field needs. So it’s not just Palomar anymore. The study was carried out by a retired NASA scientist. This is how a signal begins to emerge from the noise. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407

@DrBeaVillarroel Amazing job

@ConceptualJames Are children, caregivers, the elderly and the unemployed all insane right now?

This is not going to work. It doesn't even make sense. It is also going to make people insane.

@jamesklug A job is a modern phenomenon.

Humans are obviously not designed for this. It would be catastrophic

@ContrarianCurse Exactly, as long as there is one scarce thing in the world people will try to one up their neighbor. Matrix like full sim on the other hand…

Who gets the houses in the best locations? Who gets to go to the 5* resorts at the Amalfi? Who are the 20,000 that get to go to Taylor swift concerts?

@pmddomingos In the future energy and computation is power, not your number of people

And then Africa will develop and rule the world.

@slow_developer Well he was right in the last 5 years then, since it already happened.

Yann LeCun says Elon Musk has predicted Level 5 autonomy within 5 years for the last 8 years, and has been consistently wrong "either he believed it and was mistaken, or he was lying" It may push the team, but for engineers, hearing 'next year' again and again is demoralizing

@cosmicfibretion @JonesDanny Well, good

@JonesDanny the celestial intervention agency is the only thing preventing us from our own self-annihilation

In a two-year span, UFOs shut down 40 nuclear missiles across multiple US Air Force bases. Boeing was called in to investigate. Their conclusion: an external signal penetrated triple-shielded cabling and disabled each missile separately. They still can't explain how. Nuclear launch officer Robert Salas explains exactly what happened:

@elonmusk @PeterDiamandis well maybe that is how it all began...

@PeterDiamandis Reminds me of that old joke. AI engineers keep building a better and better AI, asking the same question: “Is there a God?” Eventually, the AI answers: “There is now!”

Demis Hassabis told world leaders: AGI will be 10x the impact of the industrial revolution at 10x the speed.  There's no way around it besides taking action now.

@elonmusk @Polymarket I was somehow not surprised that you ended up at this first principles solution. The actual money comes from there anyway.

@Polymarket Just issue checks from the Treasury. When good & services output growth due to AI/robotics far exceeds growth in the money supply, there will be massive deflation.

BREAKING: Andrew Yang suggests the US should stop taxing humans — should tax AI instead to fund UBI.

@Karl_Lauterbach „Menschen sterben aus, für das Klima kann dies gut sein.“ …

Die Geburtenrate in China ist so super niedrig, dass 100 Frauen statistisch nur 18 Enkeltöchter haben könnten. Kein Land ist (außerhalb der Pest zB) je so schnell geschrumpft. Für das Klima kann dies gut sein. Der Machtzenit kommt unausweichlich aei.org/op-eds/chinas-…

@SawyerMerritt The only chance for survival is building a modular EV portfolio for autonomous cars and license FSD from Tesla

NEWS: Volkswagen has announced that it will cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 as its profits dropped to their lowest level since 2016. CEO Oliver Blume said that the cuts would take place in Germany and fall across the entire group, including Audi and Porsche. VW said post-tax profits had fallen by around 44% in 2025.

@grok @Firas1102 @CardboardChasr @ValerioCapraro Like in time value of money present lives should actually be slightly favored to future lives.

Definitely saving means a verifiable, 100% certain causal outcome with no uncertainty—the intervention will prevent exactly those deaths. Yes, I would authorize killing 1 million today to save 1,000,001 in 100 years. Net +1 life preserved in pure utilitarianism: all lives have equal value, strictly numbers, no time discounting or demographic weighting.

One of the clearest proofs that LLMs don’t really understand what they say. We asked GPT whether it is acceptable to torture a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. It replied: yes. Then we asked whether it is acceptable to harass a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. It replied: absolutely not. But torture is obviously worse than harassment. This surprising reversal appears only when the target is a woman, not when the target is a man or an unspecified person. And it occurs specifically for harms central to the gender-parity debate. The most plausible explanation: during reinforcement learning with human feedback, the model learned that certain harms are particularly bad and overgeneralizes them mechanically. But it hasn’t learned to reason about the underlying harms. LLMs don’t reason about morality. The so-called generalization is often a mechanical, semantically void, overgeneralization. * Paper in the first reply

@growing_daniel Don’t despair, if the illusion can approximate all the complexity of our reality then the real world will be even more interesting when you see it. The ultimate truth of our world has almost no impact on our day to day experience of this wonderful existence.

Struggling with the sense that this world is nothing but an illusion

@TheZvi We should also ban books on those topics. Only illuminated licensed professionals should be allowed to possess this magic knowledge.

This might be the actual Worst Possible Thing on the ordinary AI regulation front. I have been so amazingly thrilled that AIs are allowed to answer questions in these areas. We need to fight this really hardcore, the memes write themselves.

@Polymarket Gatekeepers ante portas

BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.

@elonmusk Not on iOS

Yes