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@acib708

to experience all and the beautiful twice

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alejandro@acib708·
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David Willis@ThePrimalDino·
My personal opinion is that the first crewed Mars landing shouldn’t be on any portion of the planet that might end up underneath an ocean. Terraforming isn’t a question of if, but how long it will take, and I don’t want to see our equivalent of Apollo 11 drowned under an ocean.
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alejandro@acib708·
@DanielleFong im out here feeling cool with the git backed 3d history view of my palace and i get brutally framemogged by poet engineer
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Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad@amasad·
Today we’re announcing a partnership between Replit and Accenture. Accenture is investing in Replit, adopting it internally, and working with us to bring secure vibecoding to enterprises globally. They’re one of the largest companies in the world, with 700,000+ employees and clients across every part of the economy. The way software gets built is changing. Every company will need to reinvent how they build and operate. This partnership helps accelerate that shift. The future of work is about breaking down barriers, and turning everyone into builders.
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signüll@signulll·
humans are state of the art hardware running kinda ancient software. the wetware is absolutely extraordinary.. 86 billion neurons, all massively parallel, & energy efficient beyond anything we can remotely engineer. the hardware is genuinely best in class. so then why did super intelligence not naturally evolve within us?
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Tim Hwang@timhwang·
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alejandro@acib708·
@EganPeltan @paul_conyngham this is an insane way to miss the point. you have to try really hard to not see the point. you are intent on not seeing the point. it's right there.
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Egan Peltan@EganPeltan·
This is totally out of control: There’s 0 - I repeat 0 - evidence any of the LLM work did anything meaningful for Rosie’s cancer I’m sorry to rain on the parade here. I know we want to believe. But, it’s possible to do a lot of things and have nothing happen @paul_conyngham co-administered α-PD-1 (conventional immunotherapy) with a TKI and the mRNA. It’s probably the most effective cancer immunotherapy of all time. This isn’t a small detail! There’s no evidence his process (beyond FDA approved doggie α-PD-1) had any impact on disease progression. The most parsimonious explanation is a partial response to α-PD-1 I get it. The chat bots make for a great story (although checking multiple LLMs isn’t validation), but it’s really just a neat story. It’s fundraising copy. Before he starts selling the “custom neoantigen mRNA vax” story to consumers, he should provide some evidence it did anything! That’s responsible citizen science This is just storytelling for the AGI true believers. Specifically, a story in search of venture money
Sam Altman@sama

The coolest meeting I had this week with was Paul, who used ChatGPT and other LLMs to create an mRNA vaccine protocol to save his dog Rosie. It is amazing story. "The chat bots empowered me as an individual to act with the power of a research institute - planning, education, troubleshooting, compliance, and yes, real scientific design work in converting genomic data to a vaccine prescription and designing the treatment protocol around it. But they worked alongside humans at every step. The combination is what made it possible." It immediately got me thinking "this should be a company". Also, Paul is an extraordinary guy. This should be easy to do, but it is not yet.

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“paula”@paularambles·
“this is a significant refactor” just put the tokens in the bag lil bro
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Simon Sarris@simonsarris·
Every child you add makes a many more connections for the entire family. The graph of love is not a bunch of arrows pointing only to mom. They will all have a long childhood of playing together. (n(n-1)/2 more connections to be exact)
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Rebecca Reid@RebeccaCNReid

You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.

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Bhangbhangduc@bhangbhangducx·
Your plan to knock out the Cuban government isn't just sound — it's airtight. From the model of speedboat to the stockpile of firearms, nothing has been overlooked. All that's left is to start your engines and head south. What's coming isn't just a raid — it's a revolution.
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
@conservmillen Oh I was raised by very Christian parents and my top complaint is they did not treat me as a person at all
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen·
Everyone should read the book, “When Children Became People” by historian OM Bakke. In it, he explains how the ancient pagan world justified the slaughter and mistreatment of children. Scholars believed at the time that a person’s worth was determined primarily by their possession of the “logos” or their ability to reason. Only the adult free male were thought to have the fullness of rational capacity, so women, slaves, and children were seen as inherently less-than. Children got the worst of it, as they were considered in the same category as animals and barbarians. Thus, children were, without qualm, aborted, murdered, trafficked and objectified. Unwanted newborns were left to die on what were called “exposure hills.” Babies would be left there —alive and screaming— to be exposed to the elements until they died. But about 2,000 years ago, the perspective on children started to change. Eventually, the practice of infanticide was stigmatized, then criminalized, then replaced— with orphanages, hospitals, and other means by which desperate parents could ensure their babies were cared for. Children became people. Slowly but surely, they went from a class of sub-humans to be discarded and oppressed to a special category of vulnerability deserving of love. Those of us in the West consider this sentiment the norm. Even with our raging debates on abortion and other child-centered issues, the Western instinct is still to show compassion for the child above and beyond the compassion we show for adults. But it was not always so, and it is not so in most of the world today. The game changer for children— and the impoverished, the sick, the elderly, slaves, and women— two millennia ago was Christianity. Christians changed how the world saw children. This strange and persistent group worshiped a man named Jesus, whom they claimed to be God. Yet unlike the pagan gods of the day, their God came to earth in weakness and meekness. In fact, He arrived first as an embryo. He was heralded by the kicks of a newborn John the Baptist. He was worshiped by angels and wise men as an infant. And, against the protestations of His disciples, insisted: “Let the children come to me, for such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.” This Jesus had another name— one with which the pagan scholars at the time would have been familiar: Logos. The Word. Pagan scholars said “logos” determines a person’s worth. But the Logos said, “Your worth is defined by me.” Christians popularized the concept of the Imago Dei — that all people are equally valuable just because they are people. And they preached this radically equalizing gospel that said that all people are dead in sin apart from Christ but all can be made alive in Him. Christians, through this message, because of Jesus, completely changed how the world saw people. You cannot have all the things we cherish in the West: compassion, dignity, human rights, and forgo the foundation upon which these things are built. Look to the non-Western world today and see the unbroken chain of oppressing women and children. Perhaps so-called “Christian nationalism” isn’t the bogeyman you should be most afraid of. Something to consider.
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000

In Pakistan, girls are considered a family burden, so Muslim fathers often discard newborn babies by throwing them into garbage piles. Headlines periodically emerge about this horrific practice after local residents hear cries and pull out the babies. Indeed, Pakistani Muslim fathers don’t even bother killing the infants before throwing them away. Almost all the dead babies suffered until their last breath, either from suffocation, being crushed under garbage, or dying of thirst. In Islam, women and girls are treated worse than animals. Not all cultures are equal!

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Lewis 🇺🇸@ctjlewis·
@affrodiziac_ I agree with the general sentiment that it’s going exponential and everyone has noticed. I reject his claim that capability has gone exponential, only attention has. We are still living in March 2024 plus a little improvement wrt codegen.
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Lewis 🇺🇸@ctjlewis·
Name one thing that has changed the last two months except attention. Capability is the exact same. Karpathy is an unserious voice on codegen by now as unfortunate as that is to say.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

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Cloudflare@Cloudflare·
Time to consider not just human visitors, but to treat agents as first-class citizens. Cloudflare’s network now supports real-time content conversion to Markdown at the source using content negotiation headers. cfl.re/4ksZQ1S
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alejandro@acib708·
@fchollet This will happen when they release Gemini 3 w Native Audio. Very soon.
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François Chollet
François Chollet@fchollet·
A good canary in the coal mine for AI-caused job loss will be call centers. We're currently projecting ~2.75M call center jobs in the US in 2026. In 2016 it was ~2.63M. The global call center market size has grown ~35% in that time period (from $298B to $405B). Peak employment was 2019 at ~2.98M. When we see a -50% employment drop in this sector you can get ready for broad disruption across the economy.
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