Ben 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵

European morning feed is so slow that all I see are posts from two days ago.

🚨 RESPECT ORDERS - You don’t need to break the law to be criminalised in Britain. You just need to annoy the wrong person. The government is pushing through something called a Respect Order, part of the new Crime and Policing Bill now moving through Parliament. Respect Orders are civil, not criminal, so they don’t require a jury or criminal standard of proof. Just someone saying you’re causing a nuisance, even online! 
If someone complains, that you're too loud, too disruptive, too opinionated, you can be banned from: ▪️Posting on social media ▪️Attending a protest ▪️Speaking in a public place ▪️Even entering certain areas All without ever being charged with a crime. And if you break the order?
well … that’s a crime. You could be fined, arrested, or jailed for up to two years. It’s pre-crime policing and It’s about control, not safety. It’s a ban on dissent.

Legitimately cannot express how much anyone facing existential dread about their career amidst AI uncertainty should read “Only The Paranoid Survive.”

If you are running a consulting business and you are deploying Anthropic or OpenAI directly into your organization (I’m looking at you PwC and Accenture) you are letting the fox into the hen house. OpenAI and Anthropic are openly funding and starting competitors to you while also using your usage to drive more success for them. This is not a failure on their part but a failure on your part. Consulting businesses that understand this are adopting a control plane that allows them to arbitrate where tokens go and who generates tokens for them. Controlling the tokens is controlling the spice (Dune). This was a key pillar of 8090’s global partnership with EY and they key feature of our Software Factory. We control token generation and can direct them to any model provider. We are close to another global partnership and will announce it soon. These organizations refuse to accept the disruption standing still or, even worse, by adopting and accelerating the companies who want to disrupt them.

I get why the tech outcomes drive some people insane. I’ve joined companies 12 months “too late”, and merely made a good amount of money instead of generational wealth The people who joined before me weren’t any better or smarter. They just got lucky. Just like someone looks at me and thinks I got lucky The pure randomness of it all can either drive you crazy or give you an appreciation for the role of luck. But at the end of the day you are in the driver’s seat. You choose your perspective What I have come to learn is the people who think they alone earned their accomplishments are the most unhappy. The people with gratitude for the role luck played in their success are able to keep striving for more without losing their mind They have come to acknowledge that while they can shape the world around them, and tilt the odds in their favor ever so slightly, ultimately a lot of it is out of their hands

Everyone certainly knows that good looks are an inherited trait. Beautiful parents usually produce beautiful children. What many fail to understand is that children are, literally, the cause of their own existence and therefore their own beauty. They fail to understand it because they only think in terms of efficient and material causes (‘by whom’ and ‘with what’). But your parents had a purpose in making you, that purpose caused them to go through the act of making and raising you, and that purpose is you. And in that more complete sense, you are a necessary (if not sufficient) cause of your own existence and everything that flows from that. This logic can be extended to other inheritances, like wealth. Perhaps your father earned a lot of money, and never spent much of it, then at the end of his life he wrote down a will that said it was all to go to you. In that will, he states quite clearly that you are the cause of that store of wealth. You are its purpose for existing. Without you, it might have been spent, or never even earned. The inability to perceive purpose in chains of events, and to see that purposiveness is fundamental to all life, is largely a result of the overly mechanistic vision of life conveyed through Newtonian-Darwinian science. The result is impoverished souls who cannot see the vital forces that animate existence. We are all driven by an inner purpose that seeks to express itself in the world. In some it is stronger. In some it is weaker. But that drive to express our inner purpose, that need to externalize it, generates all that is new; like material wealth, works of art, and even new life itself through reproduction. Knowing that you yourself were someone’s purpose, however small or large, obliterates the whole idea of luck, and it frees you from this oppressive notion that you are a ‘product of forces’ with no end or meaning to your existence. You have your own purpose, and by following it and letting it act through you, you bring new causes into being.

john rawls and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Even 30B models are crushing grad level math. The hard to escape conclusion is math isn’t actually that hard. Humans are just really bad at it. Writing a 40 page short story with narrative consistency probably requires more intelligence than winning an IMO gold medal