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"they will deliberately seek discomfort and sacrifice, because the pain will be the only way they have of proving definitively that they can think well of themselves, that they remain human beings." from Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man

@scottastevenson @fchollet indeed, these are the kind of views that worry me about savants like @fchollet

@fchollet Intuition is hyperdimensional pattern matching. Very often it is most effective just to act on it rather than try to codify it.

@nassaujuan @luke_drago_ @Waymo 🤣

@luke_drago_ @Waymo golden calf??

what do i have to do to get the waymo merch box?

@alexanderrX_ @OpenAIDevs 😂 –––––––someone needs to go outside... (with more em-dashes)

@OpenAIDevs reset my weekly limit pls

It’s 5/5. What are you building with GPT-5.5?

@alexanderrX_ @steiner_marwin 🔥

@steiner_marwin some is imagined, sure. doesn’t change the underlying point. an unstressed body is a soft one. an unstressed mind is the same. people who’ve never had to deal with much struggle to deal with anything

the assumption now is that work should be stress free. it shouldn’t. stress is what you feel when you’re being asked to do something slightly beyond your current ability. take it away and people stop adapting, then decide the world owes them the conditions they prefer.

@dhh Yes! I’ll have two, one to keep sealed. 🪿

Half the joy of collecting retro gaming is the box art, the cartridges, the artifacts. We've lost something important giving up on those physical manifestations of software. Comeback?

@luke_drago_ 11k is cheap for the size and location, sounds like you scored there too, holding a moving out party?

Need a startup office in SF? We’ve got a 3200ish sq ft office in an old brick building on Sansome Street in FiDi. Lots of light, multiple meeting rooms, and a sick boba place right below it. Going for around 11.5k a month. DM me for details.

@niclane7 @flwrlabs @huggingface 💪🏻🦾

Yesterday, we introduced Lizzy 7B, a UK-built open-weight frontier language model. The first SOTA LLM by @flwrlabs, now available in preview from @huggingface. For all the momentum in AI globally, there has been a surprising gap much closer to home. The UK has world-leading research, strong institutions, and deep technical talent, yet until now it has lacked a state-of-the-art, sovereign, open-weight language model built for its own ecosystem. That absence has limited how organizations can deploy AI in ways that are fully aligned with local context, regulation, and infrastructure. Lizzy is designed to address that gap directly. Developed entirely in the United Kingdom, Lizzy 7B has been built from the ground up to operate within UK-specific environments. From training through evaluation, it reflects local language, institutions, and domain-specific use cases. This results in a model that is not only capable in general terms, but meaningfully aligned with how AI is actually used across sectors such as financial services, public infrastructure, and government systems. In benchmarking, Lizzy already demonstrates top performance among European open-weight models in its class, matching or exceeding the previous best European sovereign models such as Apertus 8B and EuroLLM 9B. It also introduces targeted evaluations focused on factual accuracy and stylistic alignment within UK contexts, combining strong general capability with local relevance. Lizzy model weights are available, enabling immediate testing, integration, and deployment. It is compatible with modern inference frameworks and supports a wide range of infrastructure environments, allowing organizations to retain full control over their data, compute, and compliance requirements. Lizzy builds on years of research across the full AI stack, including work published at ICLR, NeurIPS, and MLSys. It draws from advances in model architectures, optimization, and distributed training across heterogeneous systems, enabling scalable development at a lower cost. This preview marks the beginning of a broader effort at Flower Labs to advance sovereign AI capabilities, starting in the UK and expanding across Europe and beyond. The aim is to enable organizations to build and deploy high-performance AI that is not only powerful, but aligned with their own environments and needs. Lizzy 7B marks a milestone for UK AI sovereignty and for Flower Labs, as its first state-of-the-art frontier model made widely available.

@DavidDeutschOxf “an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature” —Shanahan said

Someone out there seems to know that an LLM is not an AGI, nor will better LLMs ever be AGIs.

@shaunmmaguire @tbpn “waking up from its toddlerhood” 😂

@tbpn true

Sequoia’s @shaunmmaguire says Silicon Valley is undergoing a "Copernican" shift and waking up to the fact that it revolves around a set of much larger industries, not the other way around: "In Silicon Valley, [there's] almost this Copernican principle — where people used to believe that the world revolved around the Earth, then realized that it revolves around the sun." "There's a Silicon Valley parallel where people think that all of technology, all of industry, revolves around Silicon Valley, but it's actually kind of the opposite." "Silicon Valley is Earth, and there are these much bigger forces and bodies, which include energy, the chemical industry, these giant supply chains, and the semiconductor industry, which has been around for a very long time. It was pretty advanced, and people in Silicon Valley forgot about it." "I don't like the language of other industries pivoting into AI. I actually think it's the opposite." "I think it's like Silicon Valley is waking up from its toddlerhood and realizing that there were these giant industries that we underestimated, and they're actually really freaking good at what they do. And we can all benefit by working together." From his appearance in March.

of blooms and blossoms their fiery softness — take it now or blink and it’s gone

this can’t be answered within your own framework or by refining your four axes. The missing axes aren’t more properties of compression, they’re properties of the context in which compression occurs, who compresses, for whom, under what constraints, with what consequences for action

So I think it's becoming increasingly clear that efficiency and losslessness, across both compression and decompression, together represent four potential axes along which we can begin to parameterize the space of possible (intelligent) minds. But what are the others? (12/12)

I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity. We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)

@luke_drago_ @thkostolansky can’t wait to see what you guys been baking 💪🏻🦾

@thkostolansky wait until they find out how much more we have to release...

trellis more like trending x.com/i/trending/203…

@luke_drago_ 🙋🏻‍♂️

anyone want to review some technical docs pre-launch…

@IterIntellectus <fully automated passive income mode>

lol what’s happening?

@RogerThisdell not playing this without a follow-back 🙈

In a semiotic sense, are phenomenological representations...

@HarryStebbings indeed, very few could do those jobs and even fewer would want to

I have interviewed 150 Public company CEOs. I have never met a matter a happy one.

@mbrendan1 Ah, but one crypto prefix: de-centralized associations.

Two words. One nobiliary particle: Alexis de Tocqueville

@naval yes but we can take it one level below: Taste is having the courage of your own convictions.

Good taste is judgement refined through creation and criticism - criticism not just from flawed proxies like people and awards, but criticism from nature and free markets.

@Willob you know it's great when it has a great name ☺️

U haven’t even seen the half of what we can do with Mako yet When we talk more about the use cases we are cooking on people in maritime robotics are gonna lose their mind Customers can’t believe what they can do w the platform Our price and capability level shocks them And this is before we even integrate it with ASVs The team is absolutely cooking

@mbrendan1 oh the wild and precious life... 🌞🦗 - sent a DM

tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious context window