Tech gave me everything I have Its capacity to lift people into abundance is incredible and there is nothing like it We must make that into prosperity for everyone

Sense making right now requires getting close to the work and being close to the tech.

Cette vidéo est un véritable cauchemar éveillé pour l'écologiste décroissant. Un robot qui traque la nuit les pathogènes et les nuisibles à la lumière ultraviolette, sans un gramme de produit chimique, ce n'est pas un gadget... De quoi faire s'effondrer toute la théologie écologiste. Ici, c'est bien l'entrepreneur et le marché qui offrent une solution réellement efficace aux défis environnementaux. Pas de contrainte, pas de retour en arrière et pas de renoncement. L'entrepreneur résout le problème en créant de l'abondance là où l'on nous promettait la pénurie. Le rôle du progrès a toujours été celui-là : produire de l'abondance à partir de la rareté naturelle avec comme moyen ultime l'ingéniosité humaine. Reste alors une question : si la technologie résout réellement les problèmes que l'écologisme prétend combattre, pourquoi l'écologisme la déteste-t-il à ce point ? Tout simplement parce que ce qu'il veut, ce n'est pas une nature préservée, c'est une société administrée, dont il serait aux manettes. Comme toutes les autres idéologies constructivistes, socialistes et collectivistes, ce qui importe vraiment à l'écologiste ce n'est pas de résoudre les défis de son temps, c'est de régner sur les hommes de son temps. Le héros sera toujours l'entrepreneur, jamais celui qui le déteste.

The cool thing about the open source harness tools like hermes, openclaw, gbrain, etc is that you totally avoid vendor lock in while still getting gains from advanced closed models. Don’t be enslaved to any single provider, keep building up your personal AI stack.

In AI most people are still trying to use old maps on a new territory. Throw the maps away. It's time to draw new ones. The only way you can do it is walking the land.

Jackie Fielder weaponized a dead cat then immediately pumped a crypto scam. When a Waymo killed a neighborhood cat named KitKat in the Mission she rushed to hold press conferences and rallies demanding bans on self-driving cars. Critics called it cynical political theater since human drivers kill millions of animals every year. Right after the rally she jumped on X and started hyping the $KITKAT memecoin on Solana. Watchdogs called it a classic PUMP-and-DUMP. She never disclosed if she held a stake or cashed out while retail investors got wrecked. A formal ethics complaint was filed against her for using her public office to promote a speculative financial grift. This is the same “Democratic Socialist” who rails against corporate greed and chairs the committee that polices it. While you struggled to pay rent she was pumping a crypto scam off a dead cat. This is staggering hypocrisy and self-dealing. Jackie Fielder must resign.

"The Regents vote went completely contradictory to the faculty recommendation to retain the SAT...what I keep hearing from people is your faculty want this. 1400, 1600, whatever. And the January 2020 report that unanimously recommended retaining standardized testing from the faculty, which the Board of Regents then unanimously voted against." -- President Milliken (just now in a meeting of the Assembly of the Academic Senate) O.M.G.

To celebrate 🎇2⃣5⃣0⃣🇺🇸 let's start a new American tradition. Buy a book about America & give it to a young person at your 4th of July party or barbeque. They'll have a book to read this summer that will teach them history & increase their appreciation for our great country!🗽

Good take My guess is - demand for intelligence is near infinite - but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months - 20% of workloads will still run on latest gen models where IQ maxing is important (scientific breakthroughs, higher level ochestrator agents?) - rough analogy might be what % of macbooks or gaming PCs sold have the maxed out specs for CPU/GPU, prices are falling much faster than Moore's law here though - this leads me to think the limiting factor will be energy and compute, not better models At Coinbase we're working hard on routing prompts to cheaper models where appropriate, and in some cases have been able to keep costs roughly flat, while token usage continues to grow exponentially.

It’s naive to think anything is backfiring here. This is part of the expected plan for reg capture. Of course the govt steps in such that you design and define the rules you already follow but are now required by your rivals. For their AI could be too dangerous.

Some reads from the current Fable ban situation: - Vagueposting that a model can hack everything has consequences if you then end up releasing anyway. Saying other models also can after the fact is not enough. - Asking for regulation when you can't specify exactly what regulation has predictable consequences. - The ratchet is clearly moving towards license raj - There are many who want an implicit license raj (AISI testing with power to block) but it's the same thing in practice. It is bad. Bad for safety, since now there's no choice but to accelerate for others. - There's no way to allow models to be used "at large" going forward if the govt treats models as weapons. - This is *fantastic* for Chinese models. - The govt is ofc overstepping but honestly if you didn't expect that then you're naive! - Leopold's narrative is almost too on the nose. - Safetyists have wanted "perfect safety" as a goal, which is unachievable, and I've said a thousand times before it will backfire. This is the backfire. - This *still* assumes the old view that the individual model is the bad part and not a system, which will inevitably lead to bad governance. - This will get reversed in a bit and the model will get released (license raj), but the precedent is set. And many will say "ah this was bad but at least we got a license raj". They will be wrong. - Openai has more breathing room for a better model to be released. And they're toning down the rhetoric. This will help them. - Competition is good.

I wish the significance of the model came from more people actually using it and coming to their own conclusions But yes most people in the world learn about it through signifiers and not through interacting with that which is signified

This recent @bchesky podcast with @patrick_oshag belongs to the hall of fame of tech podcast episodes. Very likely the deepest founder conversation after the Steve Jobs lost interview in the 90s. Currently it has 90k views; it deserves 100X more views. youtube.com/watch?v=eURcW5_u…

⚡️This was a sovereignty collision, and Anthropic lost. The jailbreak was probably the trigger, not the true object. The true object is control over the deployment of frontier cognition before the state has absorbed the defensive, intelligence, and cyber implications of that cognition being globally available. Anthropic’s mistake, if reporting is right, was treating the government pause request like a normal policy disagreement. A frontier lab cannot tell the national-security state to pound sand after the state has decided the model creates adversarial uplift. That immediately converts a technical dispute into a power dispute. Power disputes with the U.S. government do not end with the company setting the rules. The government likely panicked, but the panic came from a real structural fear: once a model is strong enough to give skilled operators leverage, safeguards become legally and politically insufficient. No one in government can bet national defense on “we think jailbreaks are narrow.” The question becomes: what happens when the best adversarial user finds the non-narrow one before CISA, NSA, Anthropic, or the defense ecosystem adapts? That is why the “few weeks” line matters. The state is buying time to ingest the model’s defensive utility before the rest of the world gets equal access. That is the arms-race logic. Commercial release cannot front-run sovereign hardening anymore. Fable comes back, but the frontier era just changed. Access will probably return in a tiered, monitored, more identity-bound form. U.S.-verified users first. Enterprise and government customers first. Foreign national access constrained or delayed. Cyber capability harder-gated. More retention. More surveillance. More pre-release state review. More quiet coordination. Less “launch and patch.” More “clear and deploy.” The bigger consequence is industry-wide. Every frontier lab just learned the actual rule: cooperate before launch or get governed after launch. The next models will go through government review windows that look voluntary on paper and mandatory in practice. The state will not need formal nationalization because supervision, export control, procurement leverage, compute regulation, and emergency recall authority are enough. Anthropic may be technically right and strategically doomed on the argument. Perfect jailbreak resistance is impossible. Narrow jailbreaks exist everywhere. Their process complaint is legitimate. But national security does not care about clean process once the perceived downside is adversary uplift from a frontier system. This is the first visible recall-risk event for frontier AI. That is the real phase change. AI labs are no longer just companies shipping models. They are strategic cognition operators under sovereign tolerance. The public still sees apps. The state sees capability transfer. The state frame wins. Fable was probably too capable, too global, too fast, and too imperfectly controllable for the government’s comfort. Anthropic tried to defend it as a commercial product with safeguards. The government treated it like a dual-use system with insufficient national absorption time. That is the new regime. Fable returns wounded. Anthropic gets put on a shorter leash. Other labs bend early. Frontier AI becomes quietly licensed. Public access to the strongest cognition narrows over time. The open frontier was shorter than people thought.

“Give up the failed experiment of the last six years.” UC faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools are supporting their STEM colleagues with a new letter calling for a return to standardized tests in admissions.

The end-game for Anthropic is becoming government controlled by a single nation. As Thiel once said: Going IPO is like a government takeover (quasi empowering CFO, lawyers, etc as govt actors). Regulatory capture for capability oversight is a step towards monopoly.

Tyler Cowen on the Fable/Mythos event. The issue with point 5 is that we are probably less than a year away from powerful RSI. Once automated researchers reach parity, the USG 𝘤𝘢𝘯 nationalize the labs and run them effectively, without any of the people currently working there.

over the course of adding features to this app, fable found one difficult. it turns out a certain apple API for programmatically moving windows between spaces silently stopped working 2 years ago. it found extensive discussion about this and numerous hacky workarounds other apps had gone with over the years, and told me basically my options were slow automated mouse dragging or partially disabling system integrity protection. but this is 2026. we're in a post unit-distance-world so i knew better. i asked it to try to figure a good workaround anyway, even though apparently nobody else had. about 30 minutes later it discovered that the api did in fact still work to swap *between displays*, and always placed the window on the active space. and switching active spaces was still easy to do programmatically. and that there was a fully functional virtual display API it could use. it composed all of this to "bounce" windows to the virtual display, shift active space, and then bounce back, as a way to quickly and programmatically bulk shift windows between spaces. this doesn't require any disabling of SIP and relies entirely on existing macOS apis. people know about all of these things individually, but as far as i can tell no one on the internet has figured out how to compose them for programmatic window-space movement. hammerspoon still has an open issue where the best workaround is various forms of window dragging: github.com/Hammerspoon/hamme… maybe at this point ur role as an engineer is primarily telling fable to be even more ambitious than it thinks it should be

Berkeley math professor: “Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.” Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.” It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”

The pricing model determines what you build. Charge for outcomes and you're forced to invest in software that compounds. Charge for time and you never will. Pricing isn't downstream of the product. It IS the product decision.

According to Grok, Andrej Karpathy is an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card recipient, not a US citizen. Thus under these new restrictions he is not permitted to use, or work on, Mythos 5 or Fable 5 as of 5:21pm tonight.