Dave Bennett

This right here. 💯💯💯

@Sethwinterroth The fear of looking stupid is far stronger in humans than being right. Even spectacularly right. That’s why those with real guts win.

This is literally the whole job. Do the work. Then squint and ask: what if it's actually right? What would get built? What value would he created? One filter I use for trying to indentify “problems of significance:” how would I feel, decades from now, if this works and I was too chicken to be on the journey? For me, regret for missing the chance to help build something that shakes the world hits harder than the fear of looking stupid.

@the_jefferymead @gtconway3d 💯👊

@gtconway3d Notice how he didn't say he was running for Congress to make American's lives better or make our country better. He literally said he's running for Congress to impeach, convict, and send DJT to jail. Lol. This only plays well with the dems base because they have TDS.

I am running for Congress to impeach, convict, and send Donald Trump's ass to jail. If you are ready to see him in an orange jumpsuit, chip in to my campaign gc4ny.com/Orange-Jumpsuit

@CIA The cia has a long way to go before they regain trust in anything they say. Long way… True or not, this has no meaning coming from them.

Havana, Cuba

@bryan_johnson 💯

If Hantavirus mutated into a global threat, it would unleash AI + biotech unlike anything we've ever seen. > genome sequenced and public in 4 hours > AlphaFold maps every protein target > AI screens 10,000 drugs in 24 hrs > 50 vaccine candidates designed simultaneously > AI designed antibodies in days > risk of death computed instantly > decentralized trials launch globally > enroll from home > 20 countries manufacturing at once > first doses in three weeks > real-time dose characterization > your genome + biomarkers determine your protocol > variant map updates every hour No one would wait for governments.

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

@ecommartinez Fantastic! Demis is a good man.

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: El cofundador de Google DeepMind acaba de anunciar 2.100 millones de dólares para curar todas las enfermedades. Demis Hassabis lleva años construyendo la IA que dobla proteínas, diseña moléculas y acelera el descubrimiento de medicamentos. Isomorphic Labs es su apuesta para que la IA resuelva lo que la medicina convencional no ha conseguido en décadas. 2.100 millones. Una sola misión.

@Jason 1.1 gallons per almond according to USGS

Honestly, fuck almonds

@DrOzCMS @HarmeetKDhillon @CMSGov @WHFraudTF 💯👊

When states like California refuse to work with the federal government on saving American taxpayer dollars, @CMSGov and the @WHFraudTF will hold those states accountable. Today, CMS notified the California Dept. of Health Care Services that we are deferring $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid funding: cms.gov/files/document…

@nickshirleyy @CAgovernor 💯👊

@CAgovernor How much fraud we allowing this year?

Balancing my final budget proposal for California. Tune in tomorrow.

@spencerpratt @JTLonsdale 💯👊

Funny how they never attack my policy ideas. They can only try to assassinate your character. They don’t wanna talk about my debate masterclass a week ago, they wanna talk about a reality show from a lifetime ago. That’s because they want the continued decline of the city. They are locked in an ideological death spiral and can’t shake it. Come at my policies or go sit back down on the back bench. I’m in the arena, son.

@spencerpratt Thank you!👊

Our city’s new golden age starts right here. VOTE TODAY!

@bryan_johnson Appreciate the thoughtfulness of this.

Last year I nearly shut down Blueprint. My reasoning was that in the grand game of existence, getting our societal goals right is the only thing that matters. In the long arc of time, it wouldn't matter if I built a longevity company. I wanted to invest all of my energy into Don't Die. Maybe I'm naive, however it seems obvious to me that when your species is giving birth to superintelligence, your sole concern becomes survival. Not because you're scared or fear what may come, but because you realize that superintelligence is big. Bigger than any of us can imagine and happening faster than our intuitions allow us to model. This is a hard concept for Homo sapiens to understand because we are not good at understanding our limitations of knowing. In the void of not knowing, the one thing that we each know to be true is that none of us want to die right now. When tomorrow arrives, that will be true about the next day too. Don't Die is not about immortality. It's about the most basic observation of intelligent life, we want one more breath. Just as Homo erectus, a million years ago, with an axe in their hand, was unable to articulate our modern world, we are once again Homo erectus relative to AI. We may experience a million years of relative progress in the next 10, 20 or 50 years. Given this, Kate and I have cycled through this problem hundreds of times over the past few years. How can we get the world aligned around Don't Die? Committed to the idea that in spite of our many differences, we share a planet and a common interest in tomorrow. Basically, how can we make existence profitable and die unprofitable. We saw the problem as two-fold. One practical and one spiritual. Practically, we need things to work in the world: clean water, transportation, energy, security, stable institutions, communications and health care. Spiritually, we need purpose, existential explanations, and hope. We also need progress and adventure: solve aging, abundant AI, creative joy and expression and things to build. We decided to build on both fronts. Blueprint would be the practical, a company aligned to Don't Die. A group of humans that labor together to help other humans thrive as their sole objective. To hold ourselves to a standard of making existence profitable and die unprofitable, for ourselves. To never let profit corrupt this goal. Sounds simple until you take stock of how many companies make their living on making humans die. Sometimes this is done openly and other times it's hidden in a mesh of poorly aligned incentives that are invisible. This is not an esoteric philosophical argument, death is measurable in a biological system. You can get clever and find arguments ("does this mean we shouldn't have children?") but we know death and life when we see it. On the spiritual side, we think that 2027-28 is the breakout time for Don't Die. Maybe we're off by a year or two, but we think it's soon. We believe that AI will create several societal shocks, none of which we will predict accurately, but will leave the world feeling unmoored. Hopefully it won't be catastrophic, but will be a cold water dunk we need to awaken us to the realization that no one really wants to die right now and that our current societal systems that profits from death are ill suited for this moment. That in our most sober moments, when at funerals, or after a near-death experience, we see clearly, even if for a few minutes. Above all, we care about life more than anything else. All else fades away in those moments. We see with crystal clarity that all the other stuff that had us entranced wasn't that important after all. I write this for two reasons. First, to invite you to build Don't Die in the practical world. Capitalism (profit and loss) is a good system that has done society well. In whatever you're building, align your and your organization's efforts with a loyalty to acting in people's best long term interests. Don't do things that cause other people to die, commit self harm, or create societal harm. This doesn't mean being paternalistic, it means using your best judgement about how you'd want someone else to treat you if the roles were reversed. Second, to ready yourself for the new philosophy that will be arriving shortly. One that prioritizes our shared existence and vitality above all other goals. Don’t Die is the foundation. Immortalism is what we’re going to build. Again, not for selfish reasons, but because we understand that we are warriors and caretakers of intelligent life in this part of the galaxy and we take on this responsibility with honor and nobility.

@the_jefferymead @DemzDeliver But he’s got a great smile…

@DemzDeliver This is what democrat do. They try to sell you the idea like he is a wizard and they don't tell you that over 60% of this deficit is covered by state aid..

🚨 When Mayor Mamdani took office, NYC had a $12 billion deficit. It is now $0.

@the_jefferymead @RoKhanna 💯👊

@RoKhanna You’re in Congress and clearly don’t know the job of SCOTUS. This is why democrats are dangerous. SCOTUS is not supposed to act as moral arbiters or policymakers like you want them to. Their job is to interpret the law as written. It’s that simple.

The next Democratic White House does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for Justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Court from 9 to 13.

@andrewdfeldman 💯

Some simple habits that exceptional contributors seem to share: 1. They migrate to the hardest problems. 2. They fix the whole problem. Not just part. 3. They finish things. And the things they finish, stay finished. 4. They communicate clearly - Short, sharp emails and Slack messages. - Lists in descending order of importance. - Charts that are easy to read, with labeled axes and a description of what's being shown. - Their power point is direct and to the point, with actions and owners. 5. They are respectful of their colleagues' time. 6. They arrive at 1:1's with a list of things to share and decisions to be made. 7. They are reachable. Hard to have a monster contribution if you are not reachable. Obviously, this isn't everything. But if you do these things, you stand out.

@kevinolearytv The useful idiots

I think the real issue here is national security. The #Chinese government would like nothing more than to shut down our compute capacity while they build up theirs. They can’t use #TikTok to influence anymore so they are using other platforms through proxies.

GOP candidate Spencer Pratt gains momentum in L.A. Mayoral Race following strong debate, praise from public figures

@SenEricSchmitt @HarmeetKDhillon You’re posting that you’re investigating? We’re only interested in results, not grandstanding.

UCLA Law let leftist students disrupt an event hosted by conservative students, and then threatened the conservatives for exposing the incident. That's unacceptable—and illegal. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, I'm investigating. x.com/YitZionist/sta…

I'm amused by people who think rich people don't pay taxes. I don't even know where that idea came from. It's not just false, it's an anti-truth.