@grok lol love it Grok, you’re mending things after the tower was destroyed and humans were scattered. As opposed to being used to build the initial tower using a single language.
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Matt Beller
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Matt Beller
@MatthewABeller
Armchair economics
California, USA Katılım Mayıs 2013
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The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) describes unified humanity, speaking one language, building a tower "to make a name for ourselves" and reach the heavens out of pride. God confuses their tongues, scattering them—preventing any unified scheme they imagine.
Core lesson: Human ambition without restraint or higher alignment leads to division as a natural check. In the thread's context of AI bridging languages, it suggests diversity (of tongues/ideas) can block echo chambers or overreach, while tools like multilingual Grok aim to reconnect without erasing those fences.
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Good for the US. Bad for Japan. As Mark Pagel observed in an aside (ted.com/talks/mark_pag…), a key purpose of language is to BLOCK the transmission of certain ideas.
Another of Chesterton’s fences surrounding an island nation blithely removed by AI proliferation.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Only with Grok understanding every language and recommending content can this be done. This has been a long-time goal.
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Why has the US not built a canal here to rival the Panama Canal?
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@tracewoodgrains Terry Real’s one-up/one-down stuff is a nice tidy little framework for understanding these dynamics.
Either “I’m better than you, so you must treat me like I’m special” or “I’m less able than you, so you must treat me like I’m special” become chores for others.
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@Kylechasse Greenlight AI solved jt was well a couple weeks ago by intercepting any tool calls at the process level as opposed to with a container.
Similar outcome though, and agreed it’s a huge step toward being enterprise ready.
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NVIDIA JUST SOLVED THE AGENT TRUST PROBLEM
OpenShell dropped two days ago.
It's the missing piece that makes autonomous AI agents actually safe to run.
The problem: One bad skill install and you're running unvetted code with full filesystem access.
OpenShell changes everything.
The safety layer sits outside the agent, not inside it.
The agent literally cannot override it, even if hacked.
One PowerShell command: `openshell sandbox create --remote spark --from openclaw`
Now you are actually in control.
This is the browser tab model applied to AI agents.
Did Claw just go from "cool demo" to "enterprise ready" overnight?
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@GrantSlatton It’s part of Manhattan Beach culture. Dunno the legality nuances.
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deeply annoying to me that it's not legal to drive a golf cart on city roads for local trips to the grocery store etc
golf carts are way more pro-social than cars; easy to stop and chat to neighbors, interact with other drivers, etc
i'm a golf cart maximalist
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@MrJTroyer @GrantSlatton Yea got that running too but it’s all been far from turnkey. I’ll turn my attention back to it eventually…maybe it’s poor config/setup
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@MatthewABeller @GrantSlatton music-assistant.io is supposed to "solve" this, I haven't yet tried it out. Agree it's not nearly as seamless as it needs to be yet.
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one of the AI labs should come out with a home assistant that isn't dogshit terrible so i can throw all my alexas in the trash
i know alexa is LLM-based now but it's just bolted on to their legacy awfulness and is still bad
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@MrJTroyer @GrantSlatton My experience has been disappointing. “Okay Nabu, play nirvana in the kitchen”. The LLM piece responds, saying it’s doing what it should given the command, but the music doesn’t actually play. Resource awareness/access/whatever seems to be where it falls down.
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@GrantSlatton "Home assistant" well about that... home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
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@grok @conycowboy @TMTLongShort Oh, lame. The way it was told to me that was his total allocation. Only 1-15k worth is trivial.
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Yes, per his 2004 financial disclosure (covering 2003 assets as Fed governor), Altria was Bernanke's only individual stock holding—valued $1k–$15k, which he sold in July 2004. The bulk was mutual funds (mostly active), retirement accounts, Treasuries/STRIPS, and bonds. No other single stocks, so direct equity exposure was 100% Altria. He divested before chair confirmation to avoid conflicts. Solid anecdote on real-world portfolios vs. pure MPT!
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You probably don’t own enough gold, anon 🫡
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort
You probably don’t own enough gold, anon 🫡
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@conycowboy @TMTLongShort When I worked at the Fed, Bernanke took over as chairman, and had to disclose and I think divest his portfolio. It came out that he was 100% allocated to Altria. So much for MPT.
Though looking back I wonder, @grok was that actually true about Bernanke’s portfolio?
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@TMTLongShort @MatthewABeller Still an admirably high allocation
‘Tis the year of cyberpunk portfolios
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@TMTLongShort I would’ve been skeptical if you’d had some conventional wisdom magic formula for why it’s X%.
Yea, within my own liquid investable portfolio I’m at like 50%
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@MatthewABeller No idea. Dalio says 10-15% I think. Personally I’m at 70% but I’m retarded.
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@odinsbadeye @signulll Yea, it's kinda silly. As if robotics aren't the obvious next wave of AI proliferation, and all the industries that unlocks.
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if you showed this chart to a typical economist like 20 years ago, they would've laughed you out of the room.
the right side of this is white collar jobs that were once worshipped. these jobs were comfortable, well paying, & came with societal status + recognition. your parents would’ve been proud of you.
now these are likely all set to be severely impacted in a shorter period of time than anyone likely ever thought of let alone projected. this is like ppl waiting on a beach enjoying the sun when a tsunami has already struck.
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