FIGHT UNFAIR 🇺🇸

FIGHT UNFAIR 🇺🇸

I think GLM 5.2 points to a 7 months gap currently It's around Opus 4.7-4.8 level, all told (modulo vision which in Opus's case is garbage anyway). Mythos reached Preview status (≥ Opus 4.8, functionally) by early Feb 2026. This means full PRC Mythos ("Fable") by Nov-Dec'26.

What's your current timeline for china to reach Fable class ? GLM-5.2 certainly shorten the gap.

After yesterday's major Variety piece about the death of Hollywood, an anonymous Hollywood insider writes what Gene Maddaus and everyone else is afraid to. "Maddaus, being a mainstream journalist, rattles off all the acceptable explanations. California’s failure to compete with production incentives of other states. California’s harsh environmental and labor regulations. Even California’s bureaucratic incompetence. But of course he never mentions the real reason, which is the mentality behind all of these superficial causes. That Hollywood isn’t dying of old age or infirmity. But that it’s killing itself." Read full article just published here: mamathemagazine.com/the-inex…

Aaron Brown’s phenomenal piece of the affordability crisis (I was a glorified repeated editor he kindly added as a co-author, Mike was in-between). Hint — most of what you read, and certainly what you hear from politicians and activists, is not, you know, right.

Nassim Taleb on the AI selloff: the pioneers usually aren't the winners. They're more likely to be the losers. He's not betting against AI - someone will make a fortune on the software and hardware. His point is it doesn't have to be today's hot names. History rhymes: the early car makers, the early airlines, the early PC makers mostly got wiped out. His call is blunt: expect bankruptcies in the software space, and much of a rally built on a handful of names getting erased. "The pioneers are not necessarily the winners - they're probably more likely to be the losers." "A lot of the gains in the stock market are going to be eradicated." "Forget current volatility - it's not representative of the real risk we're facing." ~8 min, free. the man who bet on the last crash on where the AI trade actually goes wrong ↓

Joe Rogan just revealed that presidents and former presidents personally pressured Spotify to have him removed for "vaccine misinformation." And not one of them apologized when his questions turned out to be right. He says he still can't talk about most of it. What he will say is that the campaign was coordinated, expensive, and came from the very top. ROGAN: "They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There was PACs involved." ROGAN: "I can't even talk about it. But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation." ROGAN: "And it turned out to be right. All of it." ROGAN: "Not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction, not a single mea culpa, not a single 'we were wrong.'" The pressure failed. Joe's audience grew. And the people who tried to silence him never had to answer for any of it...

'Why is a flat-screen TV affordable and a college education not?...Because Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable.' By @reason's Aaron Brown, Michael Mendelson, @CliffordAsness thedispatch.com/article/affo…

Did autodidacts found Western Culture? The first occurrence of the word "autodidact" (αὐτοδίδακτος) is in Homer's Odyssey. It's book 22, Odysseus has just slaughtered the suitors. The bard Phemius "who sang for them under compulsion," emerges from hiding to plead for his life. He makes his case while holding Odysseus by the knees (suppliant style). His claim to be "self taught" is not a plea for pity ("I couldn't afford an MFA degree!") but rather a suggestion of his divine inspiration. Telemachus turns to his dad, and backs up Phemius "Leave the bard be, he's one of the good ones". Phemius lives. Before universities and degree programs and schools, artists (and intellectuals) were credentialed on competence alone. You could tell if the Muse was with them or not.

“We need to see what it looks like from inside the glasses” is perhaps the best distillation of the Silicon Valley mindset I’ve ever read

This guy can’t fool me. He’s three overweight cats in a trench coat.

This guy can’t fool me. He’s three overweight cats in a trench coat.