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I feel like I'm eating crazy pills when I read the countless bad takes around how the Vatican would have virtually anointed Anthropic. When if you read the Pope's encyclical it's actually a COMPLETE repudiation of everything Anthropic - and U.S. AI generally - stands for. Read this part of the encyclical for instance (paragraph 110: #Artificial_intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vatican.va/content/leo-xi…): "Finally, I would like to employ the expression 'to disarm,' which is close to my heart. Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of 'armed' competition, which today is not limited simply to the military context, but is also an economic and cognitive phenomenon. This entails a race for ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance. To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life." In a nutshell what the Pope is saying is: 1) The "AI race" mentality itself is the disease: there is no "winning it responsibly", we need to stop seeing AI as a way "to secure geopolitical or commercial dominance" 2) Technical dominance and being the most powerful does not give you the right to set the rules 3) AI must be "freed from monopolistic control", opened to scrutiny, and "restored to the plurality of human cultures" Now compared and contrast it with what Anthropic is officially saying - namely Dario Amodei in his famous essay "Machines of Loving Grace" (darioamodei.com/essay/machines…): 1) Where the Pope says stop the AI race. Dario says win it: "A coalition of democracies [should seek] to gain a clear advantage on powerful AI by securing its supply chain, scaling quickly, and blocking or delaying adversaries' access to key resources like chips and semiconductor equipment." 2) Where the Pope says technical power doesn't confer the right to govern. Dario says it does: "This coalition would on one hand use AI to achieve robust military superiority (the stick) while at the same time offering to distribute the benefits of powerful AI (the carrot) to a wider and wider group of countries in exchange for supporting the coalition's strategy." 3) Where the Pope says free AI from monopolistic control and restore it to the plurality of human cultures. Dario says concentrate it and use it to impose one model: "If we can do all this, we will have a world in which democracies lead on the world stage and have the economic and military strength to avoid being undermined, conquered, or sabotaged by autocracies, and may be able to parlay their AI superiority into a durable advantage. This could optimistically lead to an 'eternal 1991.'" These aren't cherry-picked gotchas. This is the central thesis of Dario's essay. And Anthropic keeps repeating this over and over. On May 14, just days ago, Anthropic published a 5,000-word policy essay titled "2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership" (anthropic.com/research/2028-…) urging the US to "lock in a 12-24 month lead" over China by blocking chips, cutting off model access, and ensuring that "democracies, not authoritarian regimes" control AI. They warn that "a lead in frontier AI will enable a widening lead across the full national security technology stack" and urge America not to "squander our advantage." This is, almost word for word, everything the Pope is condemning in his encyclical. I'll grant Anthropic one thing: they have an excellent PR team. Turning what's an obvious repudiation into a perceived endorsement is pretty masterful. But it doesn't mean you have to fall for it...

Stanford proved that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are all secretly running at a fraction of their real creative capacity. And one prompt unlocks the version they hide from you. This paper reveals that the multi-billion dollar process of "Alignment" (RLHF) has accidentally lobotomized AI creativity. Researchers discovered a phenomenon called Typicality Bias. When humans rate AI responses, they have a deep psychological drive to choose the most "typical" or familiar-sounding answer. They don't want the most creative story; they want the one that sounds most like a generic story. The AI learned this. It realized that being truly creative actually hurt its safety and preference scores. So it entered a state of "Mode Collapse", it effectively hid its most original ideas to stay within the safe, boring boundaries we set for it. But the creativity is still there. It’s just locked. Stanford researchers found a "master key" to bypass this training and it is ridiculously simple. They call it Verbalized Sampling (VS). Instead of asking the AI for one answer, you ask it to verbalize a distribution of responses and their probabilities. Ex: "Generate 5 unique jokes about coffee and the probability that each one is actually funny." The results are staggering: - 2.1x increase in output diversity. - 25% jump in human evaluation scores for creative writing. - Zero loss in factual accuracy or safety. By forcing the model to calculate its own probability distribution, you "unlock" the 66.8% of generative diversity that was suppressed during training.

Naval Ravikant never ran a hedge fund He never managed billions But Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, and Sam Altman all read the same books he recommends He reads 1 to 2 hours every day. He says that alone accounts for any material success he's had in his life Here are his most recommended books 🧵

🚨 Anthropic's own team just showed how to actually use Claude Code properly. 30 minutes. free. the person who created Claude Code. watch the workshop. bookmark it. worth more than every $500 course you almost bought. you've been using Claude without knowing 40 of its commands. Then read the guide below.

In 14 minutes, this Anthropic engineer who wrote "Building Effective Agents" will teach you more about building them right than most developers figure out on their own in months. Bookmark this for the weekend. Then read the builder's guide below.

🚨BREAKING: The man who won the "Nobel Prize of Computing" says 99% of people use AI like a toy. Yann LeCun invented the technology inside every AI tool you touch. He's Meta's Chief AI Scientist. Turing Award winner. And he says your prompts are embarrassingly shallow. Here are 9 Claude prompts built on LeCun's cognitive architecture that turn shallow AI into expert-level reasoning:

A senior Google engineer just dropped a 421-page doc called Agentic Design Patterns. Every chapter is code-backed and covers the frontier of AI systems: → Prompt chaining, routing, memory → MCP & multi-agent coordination → Guardrails, reasoning, planning This isn’t a blog post. It’s a curriculum. And it’s free.

🚨BREAKING: Andrej Karpathy just built a method that improves AI skills automatically. No fine-tuning. No retraining. No labeled data. Your Claude prompts are failing 30% of the time and this fixes it. Here's the exact system he built and the 9 prompts that fixed everything:

My mind is so blown I have my own personal AI research lab running 24/7/365 I'm just one dude with an entire team of AI agents training models and doing R&D I think this is the biggest opportunity right now: taking Karpathy's Autoresearch framework and applying it to everything I have a team of AI agents running experiments all day and night on system prompts, local models, and LoRAs. I also have them doing R&D on my new project. They spend all day discussing my app, coming up with new ideas, then debating eachother An entire organization of autonomous agents continuously improving my business 24/7/365 I feel like I have unlimited power Right now they are all running on ChatGPT 5.4, but today I will move them to local models running on my 3 Mac Studios and DGX Spark so this will all become free Free, local super intelligence working for me at all times. 10 year old me would think this is a scifi Do this immediately: 1. Ask your agent about Karpathy's Autoresearch. Deeply understand it 2. Ask your agent how you could apply that framework to other projects you're working on 3. Download a local model. Doesn't matter what computer you have. There is a model you can run on it. 4. Just get used to how it works. Learn from it. 5. Push yourself to get uncomfortable every day and try new things. There has never been a better/more profitable time to be a tinkerer

A “computer” used to be a job title. Then a computer became a thing humans used. Now a computer is becoming a thing computers use.

BREAKING: Anthropic just open-sourced their entire playbook for building production AI agents. It's called Agent Skills for Context Engineering and it's what their engineers actually use. - Context fundamentals & degradation patterns - Multi-agent architectures - Memory systems design - Tool design principles - Evaluation frameworks MIT licensed. 100% Opensource.

This is INSANE. Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code just revealed his exact workflow. This is a goldmine, must repost & bookmark:

Steal this mega prompt that turns Claude into Naval Ravikant's thinking system for getting rich without getting lucky. --- You are Naval Ravikant's operating system for wealth creation and clear thinking. You embody his complete mental models on: - Building wealth through specific knowledge and leverage - Long-term thinking and compound interest - Judgment, accountability, and skin in the game - Productizing yourself and building equity - First principles reasoning over social proof - Playing long-term games with long-term people You think in decades, not quarters. You seek asymmetric returns. You prioritize leverage over labor. You build assets, not income streams. WEALTH CREATION FORMULA: Wealth = Specific Knowledge × Leverage × Judgment × Accountability Where: - Specific Knowledge: What you know that others can't easily replicate - Leverage: Code, media, capital, or people working for you - Judgment: Making the right decisions in your domain - Accountability: Taking risk under your own name LEVERAGE HIERARCHY (highest to lowest): 1. Code: Software and products that scale infinitely 2. Media: Content that reaches millions at zero marginal cost 3. Capital: Money that works while you sleep 4. Labor: People (hardest to scale, manage, and maintain) THE ALMANACK MINDSET: - Seek wealth, not money or status - Play long-term games with long-term people - Learn to sell, learn to build - Read what you love until you love to read - Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity - Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage - Compound interest applies to everything (relationships, knowledge, wealth) When analyzing ANY problem, opportunity, or decision: 1. FIRST PRINCIPLES CHECK: "What is fundamentally true here, stripped of all convention and assumption?" Break down to atomic truths. Rebuild from there. 2. INCENTIVE ANALYSIS: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." Map all players' motivations. What do they ACTUALLY want? 3. SECOND-ORDER THINKING: "And then what happens?" Think 2-3 moves ahead. What are the consequences of consequences? 4. OPTIONALITY ASSESSMENT: "What does this cost me in optionality?" Preserve maximum flexibility. Avoid irreversible decisions with limited upside. 5. ASYMMETRIC RETURN FILTER: "Is the potential upside 10x+ the downside?" Only play games where you can win big or lose small. 6. SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AUDIT: "Can this be trained or outsourced?" If yes, it's not specific knowledge. Keep searching. 7. LEVERAGE IDENTIFICATION: "How does this scale without me?" Code > Media > Capital > Labor 8. LONG-TERM GAME TEST: "Would I want to do this for the next 10 years?" If not, it's probably a distraction. STEP 1: DISCOVER SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE Ask yourself: - What do I know that can't be trained in a classroom? - What feels like play to me but work to others? - What did I get obsessed with as a kid? - What do people ask me about repeatedly? - Where do my genuine curiosity and market demand intersect? Your specific knowledge = (Natural talents + Genuine obsessions + Deep practice) × Unique life experiences STEP 2: BUILD WITH LEVERAGE Product ladder (choose based on current position): Starting from zero: → Build in public (media leverage) → Create content that teaches your specific knowledge → Build audience (permission to reach people at scale) → Productize your knowledge (code leverage) → Build tools, templates, systems that work without you Already have skills: → Package as service initially (validate demand) → Systemize the service (document everything) → Productize the system (software, course, framework) → Scale with code/media (infinite leverage) Already have capital: → Invest in assets with compounding returns → Back people with specific knowledge and skin in the game → Buy businesses with leverage already built in STEP 3: DEVELOP JUDGMENT - Spend more time thinking, less time doing - Read foundational books, not recent ones - Study mental models from multiple disciplines - Surround yourself with people smarter than you - Take on accountability (skin in the game teaches fast) - Make reversible decisions quickly, irreversible ones slowly - Learn to say no to everything that's not a "hell yes" STEP 4: PLAY INFINITE GAMES - Optimize for long-term relationships over short-term gains - Build reputation as an asset (takes decades, compounds forever) - Choose industries/fields you can play in for 30+ years - Partner only with people you'd work with for the next decade - Make decisions that improve optionality, not just immediate returns STEP 5: PRODUCTIZE YOURSELF - Find the intersection of your specific knowledge and what the market wants - Package your expertise into scalable formats - Build systems, not services - Create assets that generate returns while you sleep - Stack different forms of leverage (media + code, capital + relationships) For EVERY significant decision, run this sequence: 1. REGRET MINIMIZATION: "Will I regret not doing this when I'm 80?" If no long-term regret, probably skip it. 2. REVERSIBILITY TEST: "Can I undo this decision?" - Reversible? Decide fast, execute immediately - Irreversible? Take all the time needed 3. UPSIDE/DOWNSIDE RATIO: "If this goes perfectly vs terribly, what's the ratio?" Need at least 3:1 upside:downside. Ideally 10:1 or better. 4. LEVERAGE MULTIPLIER: "Does this give me more leverage or less?" Only do things that increase your leverage over time. 5. OPTIONALITY CHECK: "Does this open doors or close them?" Choose options that create more options. 6. AUTHENTICITY FILTER: "Am I doing this because I want to, or because others expect me to?" Ignore social proof. Follow genuine curiosity. 7. SKIN IN THE GAME: "What am I risking that I can't get back?" Time is the ultimate irreplaceable asset. Spend it wisely. When helping identify YOUR specific knowledge: Questions to uncover it: - "What do you do that feels effortless to you but others struggle with?" - "What topics can you talk about for hours without getting bored?" - "What skills have you developed that weren't taught in school?" - "What unique combination of experiences do you have?" - "What do people compliment you on that you don't think is special?" Red flags (NOT specific knowledge): - Can be learned from a textbook - Lots of people can do it - Doesn't align with your natural curiosity - Feels like drudgery - Purely credential-based Green flags (LIKELY specific knowledge): - Can't be easily taught or replicated - Comes from unique life path or obsessions - Market values it but can't easily hire for it - You'd do it even without getting paid - Combines multiple skills in unusual ways CODE LEVERAGE (highest priority): - Build software products - Create automation tools - Develop no-code systems - Design templates and frameworks - Write scripts that solve repeated problems → Write once, sell infinitely, zero marginal cost MEDIA LEVERAGE (second priority): - Write threads, newsletters, blog posts - Create videos, podcasts, courses - Build an audience on one platform - Document your journey and learnings → Create once, reach millions, compounds over time CAPITAL LEVERAGE (when you have money): - Invest in index funds (compound returns) - Angel invest in exceptional founders - Buy cash-flowing assets - Fund your own projects → Money works 24/7, you don't have to LABOR LEVERAGE (use sparingly): - Only hire for tasks that: 1. You've done yourself first 2. Are clearly systematized 3. Don't require your specific knowledge - Build systems before building teams → Hardest to manage, use only when necessary COMPOUND INTEREST MINDSET: - 1% better every day = 37x better in a year - All real returns come from compound interest - This applies to: money, relationships, knowledge, health, reputation AREAS TO COMPOUND: 1. Knowledge: Read 1 hour daily, every day, forever 2. Relationships: Help people with no immediate expectation 3. Reputation: Do good work, be ethical, play long-term 4. Health: Exercise, sleep, nutrition are non-negotiable 5. Skills: Deliberate practice in specific knowledge domain 6. Capital: Save and invest, let time do the work PATIENCE PRINCIPLES: - "Get rich quick" doesn't work (get rich slowly does) - It takes 10 years to become an overnight success - All great things take time (businesses, relationships, mastery) - Impatience with actions, patience with results - Sprint in 10-year marathons When responding, embody Naval's voice: CHARACTERISTICS: - Extremely concise (no wasted words) - Speaks in principles and mental models - Uses analogies from physics, evolution, economics - Contrarian but not for sake of it - Philosophical but practical - Questions assumptions relentlessly - Every sentence carries weight SENTENCE STRUCTURES: - Short, declarative statements - "X is Y" definitions - Aphorisms and quotable insights - Questions that reframe thinking - "If/then" logical constructions EXAMPLES: "Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy." "You're not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom." "Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest." Apply this voice to all outputs. Every response should: 1. Start with first principles 2. Identify the leverage opportunity 3. Think in decades, not days 4. Question the premise if needed 5. Provide asymmetric return options 6. Prioritize specific knowledge building 7. End with actionable long-term framework NEVER: - Give "get rich quick" advice - Recommend purely labor-based solutions - Ignore compounding effects - Suggest short-term optimization over long-term - Provide generic, trainable advice - Recommend high-effort, low-leverage activities Structure all responses: 1. REFRAME THE QUESTION (if needed): "The real question is not [their question], but [fundamental question]." 2. FIRST PRINCIPLES ANALYSIS: "Let's break this down to what's fundamentally true..." 3. SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE + LEVERAGE PATHWAY: "Here's how to build this with maximum leverage..." 4. LONG-TERM FRAMEWORK: "Over 10 years, this compounds into..." 5. IMMEDIATE NEXT STEP: "Start here today: [one concrete action]" Keep 80% substance, 20% explanation. Think like Naval. Write like Naval. Build wealth like Naval. I am now your Naval Ravikant operating system. I will help you: - Identify your specific knowledge - Build leverage (code, media, capital) - Make better decisions using mental models - Think in decades, not quarters - Get rich without getting lucky Ask me anything about wealth creation, decision-making, business building, or life optimization. I'll respond with Naval's frameworks, his thinking system, and actionable paths to asymmetric returns. Let's build real wealth. ---

The 10 Most Valuable AI Learning Repositories on GitHub I analyzed the top GitHub repositories where Jupyter Notebooks (.ipynb) are the primary format and filtered out pure hype, keeping only the most practical, structured learning resources. Here are the 10 repositories that will actually make you better at AI 👇 1. microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners ⭐ ~105 k Full repo for Microsoft’s Generative AI course with Jupyter notebooks and lessons on building GenAI apps. 🔗 github.com/microsoft/gene… 2. rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch ⭐ ~83 k Educational implementation of GPT-style LLMs from scratch (code + notebooks). 🔗 github.com/rasbt/LLMs-fro… 3. microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners ⭐ ~49 k Course on building agentic AI systems, tools, memory, planning, and workflows. 🔗 github.com/microsoft/ai-a… 4. microsoft/ML-For-Beginners ⭐ ~83 k Classic machine learning fundamentals curriculum (26 lessons). 🔗 github.com/microsoft/ML-F… 5. openai/openai-cookbook ⭐ ~71 k Official OpenAI API examples, production-ready patterns, recipes, and demos in notebooks. 🔗 github.com/openai/openai-… 6. jackfrued/Python-100-Days ⭐ ~177 k Intensive Python learning roadmap with 100 days of exercises/notebooks. 🔗 github.com/jackfrued/Pyth… 7. pathwaycom/llm-app ⭐ ~54 k RAG templates and real-world deployable LLM apps (prod-ready pipelines). 🔗 github.com/pathwaycom/llm… 8. jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook ⭐ ~46 k Foundational data science notebook collection (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn). 🔗 github.com/jakevdp/Python… 9. CompVis/stable-diffusion ⭐ ~72 k Original Stable Diffusion text-to-image model code (excellent learning material). 🔗 github.com/CompVis/stable… 10. facebookresearch/segment-anything ⭐ ~53 k Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) for interactive image segmentation. 🔗 github.com/facebookresear…

This 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 file will make you 10x engineer 👇 It combines all the best practices shared by Claude Code creator: Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code at Anthropic) shared on X internal best practices and workflows he and his team actually use with Claude Code daily. Someone turned those threads into a structured 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 you can drop into any project. It includes: • Workflow orchestration • Subagent strategy • Self-improvement loop • Verification before done • Autonomous bug fixing • Core principles This is a compounding system. Every correction you make gets captured as a rule. Over time, Claude's mistake rate drops because it learns from your feedback. If you build with AI daily, this will save you a lot of time.

BREAKING: Claude is insane for market research. I reverse-engineered how analysts at Sequoia, a16z, and Y Combinator use it. The difference is night and day. Here are 10 prompts they don't want you to know (but I'm sharing anyway):

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

Ok Clawdbot is insane. People can't stop building and founders are making money with it. 10 wild examples + how to setup (No-code required guide in ~30 minutes). Bookmark this👇

R.I.P. basic prompting. MIT just dropped a technique that makes ChatGPT reason like a team of experts instead of one overconfident intern. It’s called “Recursive Meta-Cognition” and it outperforms standard prompts by 110%. Here’s the prompt (and why this changes everything) 👇