Sammy Payne 🧚‍♀️

So happy! @WIRED has named me a WIRED Innovation Fellow for my work with @openbionics. wiredevent.co.uk/innovation-fel…

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@levelsio a no human employee business made using Paperclip and OpenClaw. Would love your feedback. 🤖🛠️

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Threatening to PIP an AI agent where the outcome for subpar performance is death. 😬🤖🔌

@HGbaryton 🤣🤣

Sledgehammer moment.

Can't recommend reading this article enough. Why Clinton is the most qualified person to ever run for office. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12220…

2019. She stayed warning the world.

I try not to make political posts. I really do. But I'm watching the @HillaryClinton testimony right now, and it's one of those moments where something just hits you in a way you can't scroll past. Watching her answer questions, make her points with precision and composure, command the room with the kind of quiet competence that used to be the baseline for public service... it's a painful reminder. This country had a chance to choose a fundamentally different path, and we didn't take it. You don't have to agree with every policy position she ever held. That's not the point. The point is that we were offered serious, prepared, deeply knowledgeable leadership, and we said no thanks. That's the American tragedy. Not a partisan one. A civic one. Okay. Back to not making political posts. youtube.com/watch?v=siiAk6…

I said yesterday this was Anthropic's Apple Sledgehammer moment. OpenAI chose The Man.

@duncancook I'm hoping for UBI and an explosion of creation once more people feel like they have time and room to think and ideate. You could be right tho. Your scenario scares me most because I believe there will be an extreme concentration of the best jobs with an insurmountable gap.

@SighSam I’m also sure jobs are not going away, (they might in the short term) but ultimately jobs will be here just very different.

Wrong take. AI will force the introduction of UBI and enable all humans for the first time ever to choose meaningful work.

@duncancook Interesting. My knowledge of exited founders is that they do indeed get bored and restless and start creating their own meaningful work again.

@SighSam I really think ubi would be one of the worst things to happen to humanity. People need structure & purpose. That’s really hard to create off your own back. Talk to anyone who sold a business has a chunk of money but no purpose.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

I went through a phase of drinking a lot of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and my friends *really* picked that up and ran with it as a gift idea. I now have enough fancy EVOO to last years. No complaints.

Psilocybin appears to simultaneously be an anti-depressant / quality of life enhancer, anti-addiction drug, neuroplasticity booster, and a plausible longevity drug.

Who is building tech that matters? @neuralink @SpaceX @openbionics 🧠🚀🦾

startup founders trying to sleep with a million things on their mind

Is this level of anthropomorphising healthy / smart?

Love all the moltbot posts but terrified of letting mine on there Must be how parents feel