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@james_acton32 @BrendanNyhan This is not a serious analysis. You don’t even consider an option where they just do whatever the US demands?

Unless we get lucky and a pro-U.S. government forms (here's hoping!), the new Iranian regime seems pretty likely to draw two conclusions. 1. Get nukes ASAP. Kim Jong-un has them and is thriving. Saddam, Gaddafi, and Khamenei don't and they aren't doing so well. (1/2)

@Steve_Sailer @disclosetv Most of those names don’t seem to be WASPs nor born and raised in California?

@disclosetv Bohemian Grove tends to be made up of the old WASP Republican elite of Northern California: i.e., people who aren't powerful enough to control Northern California.

NEW - List of Bohemian Grove members allegedly leaked: Conan O’Brien, Michael Bloomberg, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Paul Pelosi, Jimmy Buffett, Charles Koch, Henry Kissinger, Clint Eastwood and Justice Clarence Thomas are among the extensive list of over 2,000 members — NYP

@runaway_vol Completely untrue if you’re training the right martial arts

martial arts are amazing because they can train a 5’7 guy to understand that he will never have a chance against an untrained 6’3 guy who has 50 pounds on him

@geerlingguy Tbf they’re not profiting at all currently. Anthropic lost over $5B last year lol

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more. These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

@TheChiefNerd If humans built the AI, why is the cost of all of human evolution only included for the human but not the AI?

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

@JeremiahDJohns Without Whole Food = racist food desert With Whole Foods = racist gentrification

I hate the thing people do where they describe a city getting nicer as some kind of evil, anti-black, anti-poor conspiracy. If you tell folks that having nice, walkable communities with fun stuff is gentrification, you're just gonna make them like gentrification.

@staysaasy They should still fire Tim Cook though

Think different

@buccocapital That’s not a good pint because it isn’t true. Maybe a larger % of the context is available in the codebase compared to what you could get from other professions but it’s nowhere near 100%.

I thought Dwarkesh had a good point that software engineering is the only job where the full context needed to do the job is available to an AI agent (via the code base) And I didn’t think Dario had a good answer for why automating other jobs will be as easy

@MostlyMonkey For sales? This isn’t a researcher

Seems low.

@DSDOConnor That guy’s article is dumb, but this post is even dumber. I’m a software engineer and AI writes 90% of my code. That is revolutionary. That doesn’t mean it’s going to take my job, but to claim it’s done nothing and “impoverished” us is misinformed Luddite motivated reasoning.

This article is delusional nonsense from an aspiring upstart kid in the AI industry who is trying to break into the club by proving how zealously and deceptively he can sing its praises. Generative AI became a big thing in 2022 (ChatGPT). Immediately, pundits around the world promised it would radically revolutionalize everything within months. Here we are in 2026, and it's revolutionized *nothing*. It has impoverished us, it has cost trillions, it has gobbled up electricity we need for real things, it has greatly harmed education, relationships, and even society's grasp of truth itself. All the while, it's done remarkably little on the positive side. Moreover, AI isn't getting better. It's getting worse. I don't know what planet this kid is from to claim it's suddenly getting everything right. I've found it recently hallucinating even more often than it used to. AI won't take many jobs. If only. Managing it, powering it, administering it, etc., is requiring far more effort (and always will require far more effort) than it saves us. It is the new Tower of Babel. It will fail to deliver on all of its promises (and even most of its threats). But it will become the host for the Image of the Beast, because delusional articles like this one have by now succeeded in convincing the world that AI is superintelligent, even though it is, and always will be, far less intelligent than a 7 year old. Please read Part 4 of The First and Last Deception.

@tlakomy Fuck CSS. Glad I only ever did the bare minimum to get things working and never properly learned it lol

We are the only generation that had to learn CSS.

@jbulltard1 I don’t really understand what you’re talking about. Their product is expensive but works well. I’ve never had trouble getting decent support from them via chat either. Idk about $150B, haven’t looked at their numbers, but they’re a good company.

i cannot believe they're discussing stripe IPO at $150b, I am forced to use stripe, it is a complete trash can. They charge way too much and customer service is near zero even for people like me who process huge amounts with them. I don't buy puts ever but id short this at $150b

@Microinteracti1 This reads like AI slop

🇳🇴 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has redefined what uphill sprinting looks like in modern cross country skiing. His acceleration on steep climbs is not just strong. It is violent, explosive, almost biomechanically unfair. While others grind, he shifts gears. His technique combines absurd leg turnover, perfect weight transfer, and upper body timing that keeps his skis gliding when everyone else is fighting friction. In Norway, people understand exactly what they are watching. This is technical evolution in real time. It is not just fitness. It is efficiency under lactate. It is sprint mechanics applied to terrain that traditionally rewards diesel engines. Klæbo’s uphill sprinting is not just fast. It changes race tactics. It forces competitors to attack earlier. It reshapes pacing strategy. That is why his impact is bigger than medals. He has shifted the ceiling of what is physically possible in modern sprint skiing. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@AndrewSolender Consumer companies that waste money on Super Bowl ads are not the entirety of the US economy. It is bleak though.

my takeaway from the super bowl ads is that the entire american economy is being propped up by AI, weight loss drugs, cryptocurrency and gambling

@GramsciGordon @DPearsonPHL lol dude they just need to be able to still pass a driving test. You’re saying that even if they can’t do that we can’t take their license unless they have someone else to drive them to the grocery store?

@DPearsonPHL I get it and broadly agree, but until elderly people are given cheap and easy access to transportation for grocery shopping, doctor visits, or leisurely activities with loved ones, this is gonna keep happening. And imposing an age limit punishes everybody needlessly.

Imagine one of these victims being a family member of yours, and realizing that we sacrificed their life because asking that people over 80 prove that they are still capable of driving safely would be "mean" or "unfair."

@sama How is the ad deceptive? You’re not going to serve ads based on user queries? You’re claiming your ads are going to be generic banner ads with no targeting?

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

@our_decay This happened to me and I just destroyed the ball in frustration.

I got the circle spring from a blender bottle stuck on the dishwasher somehow and now it’s become a topological problem that I straight up don’t have the spatial IQ to solve

@codetaur @jtalexander That’s not true. An infinite universe does not mean everything imaginable exists. You can just have a finite set of things duplicated an infinite number of times.

@jtalexander what's especially funny about irreducible complexity retards is that even if you're right, it doesn't matter. this would still randomly happen somewhere in an infinite universe, there is no number you can assign to how unlikely this is where it doesn't still happen randomly

This happened because some water got stirred around funny btw

@Dioscuri_Castor @HansMahncke This is wrong. All elites throughout history have not been this decadent and incompetent. It’s also wrong to say 100% of the current elite class are engaging in Epstein degeneracy.

@v8previa @HansMahncke ALL elites are like this. Every single one. The sooner you abandon this "there are some good ones tho..." mentality, the better.

While there is no evidence that Zohran Mamdani is Jeffrey Epstein’s son, the fact that his mother appears in the Epstein files highlights a much broader and deeper problem, which is the incestuous nature of elite networks. At a certain level, everyone seems to know everyone, work for everyone, or is connected through some opaque web of professional and personal ties. A supposedly random figure from the squalor of Uganda rises all the way to mayor of New York, only for it to later emerge that his mother is deeply embedded in elite circles. The same pattern shows up again and again. James Comey’s daughter just happened to be a lead federal prosecutor on the Epstein case. The judge who presided over the trial of Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, the one who helped seed the Russiagate hoax, is married to Lisa Page’s lawyer. Page, of course, was involved with Peter Strzok, who is one of the central figures in that same hoax. And to complete the circle, Merrick Garland officiated their wedding. None of this requires conspiracy theories. It requires only acknowledging how small, closed, and self-protecting these elite worlds are. Fix elite incestuousness, and a lot of other problems will disappear on their own.

@johnloeber Yes I believe you answered your own question at the end. I think it really was just a reaction to 2015-16 Trump rhetoric.

Mayor Frey of Minneapolis said a similar thing, and I'm just so confused. 1. Obviously this is logistically impossible; no, the United States cannot handle eight billion people tomorrow. The infrastructure would collapse. 2. How did full open borders become a left position? Historically, left parties — worker labor movements — were always strongly opposed to immigration because it competes so aggressively with the labor of the working class. Famous San Francisco labor organizer Cesar Chavez used to run his own border control force. Bernie Sanders used to be an immigration restrictionist. Even the Democrat party under Bill Clinton, or when Hillary was running, was just very plainly opposed to illegal immigration. When did this stuff change? When did the polar opposite become mainstream? Was it, like so many other things, just a knee-jerk reaction to Trump in 2015 when he said "build the wall"?