Nicole Behnam

In case you’re wondering who‘s arguing with you on the internet… here’s a video of people walking into a building and being “scanned” with a lint roller by a man who is not a security guard, no questions asked.

check your screen time cuties

you are feeling drained and lifeless because you are talking to a robot all day instead of looking into someone’s eyes as they beam with intensity and joy

@nikitabier @latentfidelity you really crushed this

What it’s like working at X

As someone who also uses both, whose friends also use both, it’s that last paragraph that stands out the most. Claude feels like an entity with perspective, values, something resembling judgment, and even direction. That’s why people send their embarrassing questions to GPT instead of Claude. Sometimes Claude’s “opinion” or “instruction” is too much or too strong.

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study

@udiWertheimer @tszzl 🎯

@tszzl “there are no bibles in san francisco”

If you're a parent, please encourage your kids to think entrepreneurially. Get on your favorite AI model. Say: "These are my passions. What company could I start?"

If everyone likes you, you are either inauthentic, dead, or throwing a party. Those are the only three options.

“I got turned down by all the top VCs. I offered them 25% of the company for $1 million. The same VCs that rejected me put a lot of money into my competitors. That was very motivational. So I made it my goal to put those companies out of business.” *Adam’s company now has a market cap of $150 billion.

TBPN acquisition paying for itself at this point.

@aubreystrobel that’s my girl tho

you’re at f1, i’m in omaha at the berkshire hathaway annual shareholders meeting we are not the same.

@zealcaiden @tylercosgrove 😂

@dezgoldie As if i would ever

@NicoleBehnam unblock me

@Joshmbivins A bar

Anthropic sales call was goated. 15 mins. Guy shows up basically says “It is what it is, player. Here is the link to sign up.” Then bounces.

Does he mog or no???

He changed his name to Sam Mogman guys

@beffjezos My first thought!!

@wongmjane I’d kill to have you as a party guest

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@itsajinkyaraj primarily

@NicoleBehnam especially b2c

@wongmjane Lmao yessss

@NicoleBehnam midlife crisis…