Steven Smith

@BitcoinConner @nvk China will release them faster and better

Terrifying precedent. What will this mean for open source models?

@haremfinacer @bronzeagemantis They know they are going to have to take what you have and they want it where they can grab it.

Absurd. Safetyism is a cancer that has afflicted the entire Anglo world. You can run chatbots locally no permission required. Also uncensored.

@BrianRoemmele There are many who will fight abundance. And we are not at all set up to encourage high agency self actualization or however you wish to frame it. Unearned ease has typically been socially and personally destructive. It doesn’t by itself lead to pro social behavior.

If you want to know the future, take 15 minutes to hear what it will be like. This interview will help show you a compass point and help you build a map. Listen up and listen in…

@VCore65122 @CryptoHayes Was going to say I remember that place. Should have been in church.

@CryptoHayes Can't believe Club Space is still open. Going on almost 30 years?

Went to church this morning and the Lord told me that my keynote for Consensus Miami shall be “We Don’t Need No Regulation”

@liderfiscal @saifedean The thing about kids is that they will eventually take stock of you and your behavior.

ULTIMA HORA 🆘La hija del senador republicano estadounidense Jay Block: 🆘 "Israel le paga dinero a mi padre y él difunde propaganda. Me avergüenzo mucho por esta situación. Creo que mi padre le ha vendido su alma al diablo. ¡Espero que su carrera termine!" #IsraelisGenocidalEntity

@syncognia Sandbagging was incredibly common especially among the gifted. You might be 10x better but you won't get 10x the pay. So if they paid 10xer 2x as much as the mediocre guy, many would output 2.5x as much, slack and still look good. Now 10x is tablestakes.

Before LLM assisted coding, devs where milking tasks. Now they look like under-performers. This explains a lot.

@zanehengsperger And they could all run on our agentic business operating system.

there are 1000 supply chain companies to be reinvented that no one has attempted in america in the last decade

@CoachDanGo @threadreaderapp unroll

Here's the study: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Over the past 34 years the average Chinese man became, on average, 3 inches taller than his grandfather. But entire population can't rewrite its DNA in 35 years. So what made them grow so fast? The answer might surprise you.

@a16z @LokiJulianus @pmarca I turned off permissions in cursor well over a year ago and learned to let it rip. If you didn’t start climbing that ladder you have no idea what is possible today. People who did start then have huge agentic systems now. I’m closing on a million LOC since Jan. With one partner.

.@pmarca says AI is the biggest technological revolution of his life: "This is the biggest technological revolution of my life. This is clearly bigger than the internet. The comps on this are things like the microprocessor, the steam engine, and electricity." "The neural network as an idea continued to be explored in academia for the last 80 years. And essentially it didn't work, it was decade after decade of excessive optimism, followed by disappointment." "Then basically we all saw what happened with the ChatGPT moment. All of a sudden it crystallized, and it was like, 'Oh my God, it turns out it works.' We're sort of three years into effectively an 80-year revolution."

@BrianRoemmele @grok can you answer this?

@BrianRoemmele Who produced this video? Is this a humanoid robot co producing a self promotion video?

This will be the last war where humans were materially involved in the building of humanoid robots. The escape velocity is when you own the ability to do what this factory is doing in your garage with a scrappy open source robot making robots. Computers in the 1940s filled massive rooms. You hold in your hands more power than all the computers in the world up to 1964. Don’t believe anyone who says it won’t happen. It will and faster than anyone can comprehend.

So that’s what the swap lines were about

I have a whole plan for reform of that system. No time to get into it. But rest assured if you want to be a "non-profit" you better be discounting services with donations, charging everyone fairly, and not lathering up management with millions in pay. I have no problem with a for profit hospital owned and operated by doctors operating under the hippocratic oath. Look at @SurgeryCenterOK

@sstackmore @MaryBowdenMD @elonmusk That’s because of insurance and government interference in insurance. You think making them pay more taxes would make this better?! Just means increased costs.

They stole a nonprofit. It’s not right.

@MbtHawk @MaryBowdenMD @elonmusk Have you ever looked at an itemized hospital bill? They are total scams.

@MaryBowdenMD @elonmusk Why would you want to tax hospitals? They’re already wildly un affordable and you want to make it worse.

@MaryBowdenMD @elonmusk Normalize the term "NPINO" = Non Profit In Name Only. Generally they run for the benefit of management. Just count the number of people earning six and seven figures.

@elonmusk We need to do away with “nonprofits.” These are the top 20 in Texas ranked by income…. Most are hospitals.

@PhilosophyOfPhy @threadreaderapp unroll

At Bell Labs in the late 1940s, where most doors were closed and equations were treated like weapons-grade material, one researcher rode a unicycle down the hallway and juggled to clear his mind. That was Claude Shannon. From the outside, it did not look like serious work. Bell Labs was a place built on rigor, deadlines, and problems tied directly to the future of communication systems. The stakes were not abstract. Telephone networks had to scale. Signals had to survive noise. Every improvement mattered. Across the hall, Richard Hamming watched all this with a mix of curiosity and skepticism. Hamming was disciplined, methodical, and deeply focused on getting results. He believed in hard problems and sustained attention. And yet, here was Shannon, building gadgets, playing with mechanical toys, riding that unicycle, and seemingly drifting between ideas. At first glance, it raised an uncomfortable question. How much real work could someone like that actually be doing? But Bell Labs had a way of revealing answers slowly. Conversations mattered there. Hallways mattered. Ideas did not stay confined to notebooks. Hamming began to notice something. Shannon’s door was almost always open. People walked in and out constantly. Engineers, physicists, mathematicians. Problems were discussed casually, often without immediate purpose. Bits of circuit design, logic, probability, switching systems, all mixed together in loose, unfinished conversations. It looked unfocused. It was anything but. Hamming would later describe a pattern he saw clearly over time. Many researchers kept their doors closed. They believed it helped them concentrate, to push forward on well-defined problems without interruption. And for a while, it worked. They produced solid, incremental results. But the world moved on. The problems evolved. The frameworks changed. And those who stayed locked inside their narrow focus often found themselves working on questions that were no longer central. Shannon operated differently. His open door was not a lack of discipline. It was a deliberate exposure to ideas. He allowed interruptions because they carried information. Each conversation was a small input from another domain. Over time, those inputs began to connect. What looked like distraction was actually cross-pollination. By 1948, those scattered threads came together in a single, decisive leap. Shannon published A Mathematical Theory of Communication. In it, he connected ideas that had existed separately: the logic of switching circuits, rooted in George Boole’s algebra; the physical reality of communication systems; and the probabilistic concept of Entropy. He reframed communication itself. Not as signals in wires, but as information that could be measured, encoded, transmitted, and recovered despite noise. The work did not just solve existing problems. It defined an entirely new field, Information Theory. From the outside, it might have looked like Shannon had been wandering. In reality, he had been working on the right problem. Hamming took that lesson seriously. He began to distinguish between doing work and doing important work. Many people, he realized, stay busy solving well-posed problems that lead to incremental progress. It is safe, productive, and often rewarded. But Great Work requires something else. It requires choosing problems that matter, even if they are not clearly defined yet. It requires tolerating periods that look unproductive. It requires, at times, an open door. Hamming would later reflect that those who shut themselves away to “get work done” often missed the larger shift happening around them. Meanwhile, someone like Shannon, who seemed to be frittering away time, was quietly assembling the pieces of a new intellectual framework. Bell Labs did not just produce answers. It revealed a deeper rule. It is not enough to work hard. You have to work on the right things, even when it does not look like work at all.

"only one reality to map"

@MarketsPuke @DavidGiglioCA Guess I'm going to Mars then.

@sstackmore @DavidGiglioCA Babylon repeats, and it likely will after we gone, but we haven't even had the real imperial phase yet. I'm not condoning it. It just is what it is.

Meanwhile, on planet Earth, most Americans believed they were voting for the liberation of their own nation...

@MarketsPuke @DavidGiglioCA The Roman empire was conquered by Christianity. Likely ours will be too. But first...

@sstackmore @DavidGiglioCA I don't make the rules, but in the reality of things, I totally agree. As a matter of fact all of this was telegraphed anyway prior to the inaugural. x.com/MarketsPuke/st…