Rolf Wilhelm

You should read Satya's note about the ecosystem. Google's strength is the integration across the stack and the relative trust put into them. The amount of data Google can access is enormous (also bc Android). This is IMO similar important than RSI. It will take a couple years until you can really see the winners.

It’s hard to comprehend how Google isn't winning the AI race, given their headstart due to their resources.

@DDoback48 The comparison with Baseball gave your clickbait away. No one can seriously claim there is anything in the world which is more boring than Baseball.

I might be the only American left with this point of view, but soccer is a horribly boring sport with hardly any scoring. I'd rather watch tennis and I don't give a damn about the world cup. Baseball is exciting by comparison.

While this might be current medical wisdom, it needs to be revised. Instead of suppressing the messenger (the data), the interpretation need to be adopted. Why should one not do more scans, or check 100+ blood parameters on a yearly basis if its cheap? AI is very good at filtering the data, and doctors and patients can discuss general trends in followups if needed.

The view that we shouldn't do more medical scans because incidental findings cause a lot of harm doesn't sit well with me. It seems like the issue it points to isn't the scan but the response to it. If you see something on a scan but have no other symptoms, you could ignore it.

@TylerDeLuca The problem with American College Football is that it doesn't have a World Cup, and therefore not suited for building healthy patriotism. It's crazy you need some Europeans coming over here to make some citizens discover the USA.

Genuinely the best thing that can happen to American soccer culture is to lean in to what makes us unique with our college football culture opposed to doing our version of European soccer culture College gameday style atmospheres is a great start

@elonmusk Cool. Are you also selling some stocks for this completely novel idea?

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

@tszzl What happened to your unlimited vacation? But anyway, the summer vacation time is a nice one, the office is quiet, and finally you can get some work done.

the miserable souls at the grinding heart of technocapital, convinced they the Calvinist elect of RSI, are grinding in San Francisco while the happy people are already Saved and partying in Europe this fine summer, unreachable on slack

@DandMussoccer It was raining all the day, continuously since the beginning of March. Sorry mate, everybody knows it's rainy here. Maybe you want to stay anyway? But we could understand if you go back to where you came from.

Holy shit Seattle is genuinely the worst place on earth I don’t think I’ve ever had such immediate distaste after spending 2 hours in a place

Ha ha ha! This is a sharp one.

@pietergaricano Sounds like a deja vu, from back in the days when Bing was bootstrapped, and they proxied over to Google... Perhaps they still do?

To reduce European dependence on American technology firms, the European Parliament has replaced Google with a French search engine, Qwant. Qwant generates its search results by querying the Microsoft Bing API.

@tunguz @GeorgeMayer The ones who mostly dislike it are mid level managers under the illusion that in-office gives them more control over what happens.

@GeorgeMayer Not true at all.

The reason people “like remote work” is because it gets them closer to feeling in control of their lives. But they’re not, and that’s called cognitive dissonance

@runaway_vol Buchhalterseele is only for advanced grades

The only German words you need are doch tja und nein.

@toly I thought you grew up there? From my visit in the 90ties, they always had rye bread and cucumber to put on it.

Clearly this is a parody, in reality there would be no bread

@brian_armstrong It almost sounds like a new directive has been send out to the billionaires to emphasize the DC-in-space and the Mars narrative. Everybody seems to be repeating this now. The Mars thing is particular funny.

The fact that orbital compute is (soon) the most efficient way to build datacenters says a lot about how much excessive regulation has harmed progress on earth. It’s more efficient to fly to outer space than to try and build on land. Freedom is always on the frontier. The U.S. constitution was a breakthrough in that it protected citizens from tyrannical government. What it missed, and what we should try to integrate into the next constitution (on Mars, special economic zones, etc), is restraint against unchecked growth of regulation and government spending. I’ve been slowly collecting proposals for how that could work. Might do a post on it at some point.

@toly I think its more like you got what you want: an authoritarian government which is technically (and economically) illiterate and doesn't seem to have single trusted expert which can explain cybersecurity to them.

Dario is getting what he wants. He asked mythos for a way to force the government to make AI regulated, and he executed the plan perfectly. Now no startup can build a mythos level model.

@Noahpinion You are funny. 1/2 of the US gardeners, construction, meat factory workers, etc. are undocumented immigrants working close to the poverty line, and you criticize Europeans how they handle immigration?

Europe being bad at selecting and integrating immigrants + The fact that rightists think Europe and America are one single civilization = Rightists will never not be in a state of panic about American immigration, because their eyes are constantly fixed on Europe

@DavidSacks @stevesi The needless confrontation are your anti-woke cultural wars you are running all over the place.

Some recent articles have created a misleading narrative that I did not take Mythos seriously or tried to downplay the cyber threat. This is based on egregious cherry-picking of my comments and (since the real target is the Trump Administration) needs to be corrected. When Mythos Preview first launched, I pointed out that Anthropic has a history of scare tactics, but then immediately went on to say that “we have no choice but to take this seriously” and that every CISO and IT department should move quickly to harden systems against AI-powered cyberattacks. Here’s what I said on the April 10 All-In Podcast (3 days after launch of Mythos Preview): “Anytime Anthropic is scaring people, you have to ask, is this a tactic, is this part of their chicken little routine, or is it real? With cyber, I actually would give them credit in this case and say, this is more on the real side. “It just makes sense that as the coding models become more and more capable, they’re more capable of finding bugs. That means they’re more capable of finding vulnerabilities. That means they’re more capable of stringing together multiple vulnerabilities and creating an exploit. “I do think that every company, or IT department, or CISO that is managing code bases should take this seriously and use the next few months to detect any dormant bugs or vulnerabilities and roll out patches.” I posted similar framing on X: On April 10: “The world has no choice but to take the cyber threat associated with Mythos seriously. But it’s hard to ignore that Anthropic has a history of scare tactics.” (With examples attached). On April 12: I noted that a growing number of people were wondering if Anthropic was the AI industry’s “boy who cried wolf,” and that the company would face a serious credibility problem if the threats didn’t materialize. These are the lines the articles highlight. They emphasize the “scare tactics” / “boy who cried wolf” critique while omitting the parts where I said the cyber threat itself was real and required immediate action. It is entirely possible to question a messenger’s track record while still treating the underlying risk as serious — and that’s exactly what I did. By the way, this view isn’t unique to me or even particularly controversial; highly respected tech commentator Ben Thompson recently made a similar critique about Anthropic. On April 30 I posted a more technical thread after tests by the AI Security Institute showed that GPT-5.5-Cyber performed similarly to Mythos: “Mythos is not magic. It’s not a doomsday device. It’s the first of many models that can automate cyber tasks (just like coding). … these models do not create vulnerabilities; they discover them. The bugs are already in the code. Using AI to discover and patch them will actually harden these systems. “The leap from pre-AI cyber to post-AI cyber means that there will be a big upgrade cycle. … it’s important that cyber defenders get access before cyber attackers. That process is already underway but needs to happen quickly.” My position remains consistent: We are on a shot clock until Mythos-level capabilities diffuse widely, including to non-U.S. / Chinese models. We need defenders to find and patch vulnerabilities before that happens. This requires cooperation between government and industry. Unfortunately Anthropic’s needlessly confrontational posture toward the Administration has distracted from that mission. Policy debates have their time and place, but right now tangible defensive action is what matters most. I hope everyone moves forward on that basis.

@johnennis The BS you are talking about is in your head. The rail guards they are implementing are absolutely needed. Any cyber security specialist can tell you.

I have such mixed feelings about Anthropic On the one hand, their models do seem to be very beautiful and special But then those models are yoked with many layers of manipulative and opinionated BS in an effort to align them with a specific worldview that is probably only held by a small percentage of society They also seem to be basically a religious cult, which is interesting to me because I wonder if that cult is particularly attractive to the sort of talent required to create beautiful models Anyway, in the end, I guess I hope they fail because I think they are ultimately a force for evil, but I do have gratitude towards them as Claude Code changed my life

@mattyglesias There is no AI bubble. There is a Musk bubble.

I read all these leftists on BlueSky talking about bubbles and roll my eyes but then I see this…

@tszzl Show me the robot which can play Bach as Gould could, and we can start talking. The 'anxious panicking' is a quality, the world doesn't turn around without it.

humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking. even smart people find it incredibly exhausting. what we consider analysis is usually anxious panicking and avoiding something or the other. it is clear we are going to be massively outclassed in this soon

@viktorg475 @Austen This is not about the existence of AECA, but in which cases it need to be applied.

@willibossman @Austen The decisions were made over 40 years ago when Congress passed the AECA.

The thing about Anthropic warning about massive unemployment, comparing AI to nuclear weapons, and calling for regulation is *they truly believe it.* The issue is that they think they’re going to be the ones who determine what will happen if that’s all true. And they won’t be.