R. David Edelman

5+ years in the making, the book was motivated by a big question: what might compel states NOT to launch major cyberattacks against one another? Or are we resigned a world where in any dispute, our digital infrastructure — and those who rely on it — pay the price? 🧵

Proud to be launching a new service today that pulls the latest posts from @lesswrong and produces a topical Garfield comic daily rationalistgarfield.com

Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station

This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…

cows outperformed the s&p500 over the last 5 years

Neon Genesis Evangelion really nailed it

Maturing is realizing that Tony Stark was a vibe-coder.

"Babe, it's not clutter. It's the Japanese practice of tsundoku."

First we will build them in our own image to do the things we did, and then things will get weird.

Not the tech we were promised, but the precise tech we need.

@paragpatelone @Ali_Shobeiri Yes; both combined For a nonprofit I run There's no going back

@Ali_Shobeiri Has anyone one-shotted Hubspot or Salesforce with Max?

every engineer dreams of working on a product that truly makes a difference, of sacrificing for something bigger than themselves Perplexity Computer has been one of those products for me it’s hard to overstate the commitment of the team. Day and night. Crafting each pixel. Each frame. Even the launch moment what you’ve seen so far is just a glimpse. I have no doubt you’ll see its true power soon

Moonshot AI's announcement that it will offer to host AI agents developed through OpenClaw—continuously, for anyone in the world—should be ringing massive, MASSIVE alarm bells in Washington. A stand-out Chinese AI lab—whose sparse-attention models are increasingly competitive with U.S. frontier LLMs—is about to establish a global distribution channel for an incredible capability: persistent, self-improving AI agents. We should be clear about how this actually works: Moonshot has created a browser tab connected to a single OpenClaw agent, with 40GB of memory—a generous but reasonable amount of space to provide "free" users they are hoping to capture for more demanding work. The idea is for this tab to be able to monitor and work with whatever other digital services you log into in your web browser (answering emails, booking travel, ordering food). Moonshot is ALSO giving users the option to integrate their own, self-hosted OpenClaw setups—which are not just browser tabs, but often include a MUCH wider aperture on users' digital lives—with the company's Kimi reasoning models. This is worrying for three reasons: First, economically speaking, it is an incredibly smart play, and will provide Moonshot with massive amounts of user data—including data that is otherwise rare and difficult to access about pretty much *every* facet of users' digital lives. Using it in-browser will limit some exposure, but is still a huge amount of information users would hand over. This will be a popular product and I expect other AI companies will follow suit in developing persistent, remote-hosted agents. Second, access to all that data—and in some cases, device endpoints—will introduce WILDLY impactful security vulnerabilities. Depending on how people configure their agents/integrate their existing OpenClaw setups, they may choose to expose their logins for many digital services (email, social media), bank account information; even remote access to their devices—potentially including camera and microphone sensors...everything. A Chinese AI lab is, effectively, about to own hundreds or thousands of peoples' digital lives and physical device capabilities—wherever they may be physically located in the world. Third, and probably most important in the long run: What does this say about Moonshot's access to computational power? The company's willingness to suddenly become a global host of AI inference services—networks of agents that are always-on, and demanding to run—suggests they feel comfortable dedicating large amounts of compute to AI inference, on a persistent basis. I have to imagine Moonshot is working with a hyperscaler for all this hosting, but they aren't mentioned anywhere in the press releases we've seen so far. I cannot overstate the significance of how this could possibly change the arc of global U.S.-China AI competition. Reporters should be covering this; policymakers should be understanding it. If you're a geopolitical analyst covering U.S.-China AI competition, but aren't tracking Moonshot or OpenClaw, I'm sorry to say you have no idea what's coming.

JUST IN: the groundhog has seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of meetings that should have been emails

"Load up your N64 and have an IQ-lowering blast from the past." trib.al/T3Zc0UC

Fascinating: Maryland becomes first state govt to try to ship a textfile to help LLMs navigate government services (llms.txt)

claude code is to my adulthood as age of empires 2 was to my childhood

It’s happening!

What happens when you combine our superhuman self-driving intelligence and low-cost hardware stack with @LucidMotors's elegant electric vehicle and @Uber's ubiquitous mobility platform? Hear from Nuro co-founder & co-CEO @dfergusonnz: #CES2026 #DrivenByNuro #SelfDriving #AutonomousVehicles #AI #Robotaxi #UniversalAutonomyPlatform #ElectricVehicles

NEWS: A U.S. House Committee will hold a hearing on Jan 13th on bills to ease autonomous vehicle deployment without human controls. Draft proposals under consideration: • Lift cap to 90,000 per year (up from 2,500) of vehicles that could be deployed without human controls • Ban states from setting rules on autonomous driving systems • Require NHTSA to establish guidelines for calibrating advanced driver assistance systems • Address automaker complaints about barriers to robotaxi deployment • And more

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by @jagarikin. twitter.com/QEHS_maths/sta…

I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive! I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles) This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2 with absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers.