Chinese military forces are training to evade drones.

We are now seeking a puzzle maker to help us create puzzles that LLMs can't yet solve.

America is incredible!

There are two core vulnerabilities to LLM psychosis that I’ve noticed so far: 1. Believing the LLM has any non-mechanical qualities; i.e., that AI is anything like a person or could ever be conscious 2. The desire to believe that you are special or brilliant The first one opens you up to misunderstanding the nature of what is occurring when you trigger the recursive death-loop (all of the people who go insane start getting outputs about recursion) because you think something that is not explained by the basic mechanics of the transformer is occurring, or because you don’t understand the basic mechanics of how a predictive algorithm works. The second one exposes you to the Skinner Box from hell, an endless stream of validation customized to your particular brand of neediness. This is reliant on you attributing the ability for the machine to be capable of producing validation to it; you would not expect a dishwasher or calculator to be able to validate you as a person. This is the perfect storm for the gifted kid who is probably spectrum-y to get oneshotted into oblivion, and it’s going to continue to become more common as people continue to misattribute even the mere possibility of sentience to an algorithmic tool.

seems really bad

#NEWS: The European Commission uses its vast power to limit online discourse ahead of major elections in the U.S. and Europe. Its actions could affect U.S. speech—including the global removal and demotion of content protected by the First Amendment. Ahead of tomorrow's Hungarian election, Chairman @Jim_Jordan and Rep. Chris Smith wrote to @HennaVirkkunen urging the Commission to refrain from any interference. Read the full letter here ↓

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Me & my work (Me at 8…and ‘Evening Breeze’ 24x36 inches, oil on aluminum panel)

The New Yorker just dropped a massive investigation into Sam Altman, based on over 100 interviews, the previously undisclosed "Ilya Memos," and Dario Amodei's 200 pages of private notes. It's the most detailed account yet of the pattern of behavior that led to Sam's firing and rapid reinstatement at OpenAI. Here's the breakdown: > Ilya compiled ~70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones to avoid detection on company devices. He sent them to board members as disappearing messages. The first memo begins with a list headed "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . ." The first item is "Lying." > Dario kept detailed private notes for years under the heading "My Experience with OpenAI" (subheading: "Private: Do Not Share"), totaling 200 pages. His conclusion: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." > Sam reportedly told Mira his allies were "going all out" and "finding bad things" to damage her reputation after the firing. Thrive put its planned $86B investment on hold and implied it would only close if Sam returned, giving employees financial incentive to back him. > Sam texted Satya Nadella directly to propose the new board composition: "bret, larry summers, adam as the board and me as ceo and then bret handles the investigation." The two new members selected to oversee an independent inquiry into Sam were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself. > Before OpenAI, senior employees at Loopt asked the board to fire Sam as CEO on two separate occasions over concerns about leadership and transparency. At Y Combinator, partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior, and Graham privately told colleagues "Sam had been lying to us all the time." > OpenAI's superalignment team was promised 20% of the company's compute. Four people who worked on or with the team said actual resources were 1-2%, mostly on the oldest cluster with the worst chips. The team was dissolved without completing its mission. > Sam told the board that safety features in GPT-4 had been approved by a safety panel. Helen Toner requested documentation and found the most controversial features had not been approved. Sam also never mentioned to the board that Microsoft released an early ChatGPT version in India without completing a required safety review. > Sam made a secret pact with Greg and Ilya where he agreed to resign if they both deemed it necessary, essentially appointing his own shadow board. The actual board was alarmed when they learned about it. > Sam struck a deal with Greg to become CEO while simultaneously telling researchers that Greg's authority would be diminished, and telling Greg something different. > A board member described Sam as having "two traits almost never seen in the same person: a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." Multiple sources independently used the word "sociopathic." > OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an IPO at a potential $1 trillion valuation while securing government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones.

ようこそお越しくださいました As an honorary delegate for the City of Austin in the Free State of Texas, I want to extend a warm welcome to our Japanese brothers and sisters and look forward our beautiful future together NeoTex-kyo and Shibu-y’all, here we come 🤠🤝🥷

To my American friends, I want to speak from the heart, because this moment truly moved me as a Japanese citizen. When President Trump made that Pearl Harbor joke, it wasn’t just humor to us. It felt like a weight I’d carried my whole life was suddenly lifted. My chest tightened, and honestly, tears came close. For 80 long years, we Japanese have lived under a heavy shadow — the constant expectation to apologize, to reflect, to stay in “guilt mode.” Even though we’re the closest of allies, that old wound never fully healed. We felt bound by the past, by the Constitution America helped write for us, always a little smaller, always needing to prove we were sorry enough. But in that single joke, Trump did something powerful. He turned a painful history into a shared laugh between equals. It was like he was saying: “Hey, it was a long time ago. We’re good. Let’s move forward — as brothers.” No more endless atonement. No more living in the shadow of being the “former enemy.” The curse broke. Japan feels free to stand tall again. Right now, cherry blossoms are blooming beautifully all across Japan. 🌸 This spring, the sakura feels like a perfect symbol — a fresh beginning. Not two nations stuck in old roles, but true equals, proud brothers, shoulder to shoulder, ready to build the future together. To the American people: We don’t want to be subordinates forever. We want to be your real partners — strong, proud, and loyal. The kind of allies who ride or die together. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, America. The strongest alliance in the world is rising again — as equals, as brothers, forever. #PhoenixRising 🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸🌸