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There’s so much straight truth about human nature and just doing creative things in one of my all time favorite poems by “Archy” aka Don Marquis, an Evening Sun newspaper columnist in New York writing a century ago.
Read the whole thing (link in reply below) and internalize the point.
pete the parrot and shakespeare
i got acquainted with
a parrot named pete recently
who is an interesting bird
pete says he used
to belong to the fellow
that ran the mermaid tavern
in london then i said
you must have known
shakespeare know him said pete
poor mutt i knew him well
he called me pete and i called him
bill but why do you say poor mutt
well said pete bill was a
disappointed man and was always
boring his friends about what
he might have been and done
if he only had a fair break
two or three pints of sack
and sherris and the tears
would trickle down into his
beard and his beard would get
soppy and wilt his collar
i remember one night when
bill and ben jonson and
frankie beaumont
were sopping it up
here i am ben says bill
nothing but a lousy playwright
and with anything like luck
in the breaks i might have been
a fairly decent sonnet writer
i might have been a poet
if i had kept away from the theatre
yes says ben i ve often
thought of that bill
but one consolation is
you are making pretty good money
out of the theatre
money money says bill what the hell
is money what i want is to be
a poet not a business man
these damned cheap shows
i turn out to keep the
theatre running break my heart
slap stick comedies and
blood and thunder tragedies
and melodramas say i wonder
if that boy heard you order
another bottle frankie
the only compensation is that i get
a chance now and then
to stick in a little poetry
when nobody is looking
but hells bells that isn t
what i want to do
i want to write sonnets and
songs and spenserian stanzas
and i might have done it too
if i hadn t got
into this frightful show game
business business business
grind grind grind
what a life for a man
that might have been a poet
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
Jun 13
The next great American novel is going to be written by someone the literary world would never take seriously, and that’s exactly why it will be a masterpiece. Nobody with a MFA from a fancy school, a book deal, an agent, a trust fund can write this era of America. It’s not possible. All they can do is stand outside and describe it with pretty words. It’ll come from somebody who lived the last 20 years of this country from inside its throat. They won’t have to describe anything because they’ve been breathing it, eating it, surviving it, and begging it for mercy. That’s the ONLY next great American novel worth reading. If it’s you, don’t stop.
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As the bots turn…
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
"You could hear him crying. We called him 'Crybaby Morgoth'. He got collared like a dog. It was beautiful. Tremendous. The Elves....very tremendous people."
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
“You knew the first trillionaire?”
“I didn’t say I knew him. I said he replied ‘Wow!’ on my post once.”
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Show us where on the doll Elon’s trillion dollars hurt you.
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Sadly, when you count for inflation, he’s still just a billionaire.
Trillion dollars don’t go as far as it used to.
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
Jun 12
The most expensive tweet of all time.
10 May 2020
F*ck Elon Musk.
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Wanted to see this happen there for decades.
Hell yes.
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
Jun 10
> Dario puts the odds of civilizational collapse from AI at 10–25%
What do yall suppose are the baseline odds of civilizational collapse
For which civilizations
Jun 10
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei:
"some of the early companies we gave Mythos to said – this is a super weapon. please don't release this"
on leaving OpenAI: "when you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are – that makes it very hard to continue"
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code:
"90% of code at Anthropic is written by Claude. a lot of Claude Code's code is written by Claude Code"
Dario puts the odds of civilizational collapse from AI at 10–25%
47 minutes. free. Dario, Daniela, Boris – the deepest look inside Anthropic ever filmed
bookmark & watch ↓
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
Jun 9
Internalize this until it is obvious to you. Until you don’t have to think about it anymore. And you will feel like you suddenly have X-ray vision.
open.substack.com/pub/matthe…
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Jun 10
I’ve heard it said by many leaders in the western world that riots are the voice of the unheard.
Jun 9
BREAKING:
Rioters are breaking into migrant HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation, a form of taxpayer-funded housing for asylum seekers) in Belfast and setting them ablaze.
It’s a difficult night for firefighters in Belfast with fires reported in several parts of the city.
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Jun 10
Ah, looks like Kurt beat me to it.
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I’ve been told that violence is the voice of the unheard
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One thing @matthewdmarsden, @AmandaMilius and others go off on like a broken record when we get together (for years now!) is the simple fact that you can just go buy and sell movies.
It's crazy to many of us that no right-leaning media company even seems to really try. . .
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Jun 9
But you'd have to internalize this point:
"Of course Obsession didn’t become a hit because people organically 'found it'...It became a hit, like everything else does, because a company wisely spent millions of professional marketing on a 750k movie that was refreshingly entertaining."
matthewjpeterson.substack.co…
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Capstone, the company that financed ‘OBSESSION’, is estimated to make $45M - $50M from the film after its success.
They will share this with the creative team, including director Curry Barker.
(Source: thewrap.com/creative-content…)
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Jun 9
The success of Obsession proves the rule.
OBSESSION is back at the #1 spot in America, surpassing SCARY MOVIE this Monday.
This is unprecedented, this century, for a movie heading into its fifth week in peak summer (June/July).
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Jun 9
Internalize this until it is obvious to you. Until you don’t have to think about it anymore. And you will feel like you suddenly have X-ray vision.
open.substack.com/pub/matthe…
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Jun 10
Capstone, the company that financed ‘OBSESSION’, is estimated to make $45M - $50M from the film after its success.
They will share this with the creative team, including director Curry Barker.
(Source: thewrap.com/creative-content…)
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Matthew J. Peterson retweeted
Jun 9
“Ambition is essential - you are trying to clear the whole damn table, right? Otherwise, why play the game?”
Jun 9
But you'd have to internalize this point:
"Of course Obsession didn’t become a hit because people organically 'found it'...It became a hit, like everything else does, because a company wisely spent millions of professional marketing on a 750k movie that was refreshingly entertaining."
matthewjpeterson.substack.co…
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