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Original research indicates that otherwise healthy young adults who report regular e-cigarette use exhibited evidence of abnormal cardiopulmonary responses to exercise and blunted pulmonary diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide recruitment.
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In the drama surrounding @AnthropicAI and Fable last week, the new conventional wisdom that emerged identified the clear lesson:
The frontier is becoming geopolitically scarce, so open-source wins.
It offered a certain amount of reassurance because if the closed frontier can be imposed by a letter from the U.S. Commerce Department, the future must belong to the weights that no government can barricade.
But that framing mistakes the relationship between them. The frontier and open source are not competing systems. They are successive stages of the same economic process. The frontier generates new capability. Open source absorbs it. Enterprises operationalize it.
The reason intelligence appears to commoditize is not that the frontier stops mattering, but that each new increment of capability eventually diffuses outward through the rest of the ecosystem.
This distinction matters because commoditization is not a state. It is a flow. Intelligence does not commoditize by standing still while the field catches up. It commoditizes by diffusing. New capability appears at the frontier and then spreads through distillation, open weights, lower-cost models, enterprise products, and agentic systems until yesterday’s breakthrough becomes tomorrow’s baseline.
Once you see how the process runs, last week stops looking like a verdict for open source and starts looking like something less comfortable: the first deliberate interruption of a mechanism the whole AI economy depends on.
What the Commerce Department severed was not simply access to the frontier. It severed the channels through which frontier capability becomes abundant.
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The thing is that the current environment is one where the sentiment is decidedly anti AI, and also a great deal of frustration with current admin policies, plus a lot of negative sentiment about the tech elite who collude with the government with political donations.
The benefits of AI aren't diffusing to individuals and it's currently viewed as an extractive technology due to the shorter term priorities of tech companies.
Trying to appeal to the government and kowtow might be sound business in the short term, but these are all actions that people can transparently see and can influence the choices of how voters choose their leaders to solve their problems.
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Trying to diffuse... by not diffusing anything. That's a novel method right there.
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But I just don’t in general atp because I’m not a mind reader and I seem to never know what’s going on😭 it’s like diffusing a bomb
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🧵 Western frontier labs gate AI capability behind opaque, vetted access tiers. China's leading labs invert this — diffusing it through permissively licensed open weights. Both are access-governance regimes; mirror images. New assessment.
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This was the topic I explored this week, but it's not just about the impact on Chinese models:
"Intelligence does not commoditize by standing still while the field catches up. It commoditizes by diffusing. New capability appears at the frontier and then spreads through distillation, open weights, lower-cost models, enterprise products, and agentic systems until yesterday’s breakthrough becomes tomorrow’s baseline."
decodingdiscontinuity.com/p/…
What happens to Chinese AI once American companies stop releasing frontier models internationally?
@gavinsbaker says that China's made a "terrible mistake" by relying on its own chips and distilling American models:
"It feels like the administration has been willing to let them buy H200s or B30s. And I think [the Chinese] have this crazy belief that, 'Oh, our own internal chips are good enough.' They're not."
"And what's making them think that is that Chinese labs are very, very good at distillation...we've all seen those iPhone farms in China. You know they've got the same thing for distillation. They've got 100,000 endpoints distilling these models across every API available."
"They've gotten really, really good at that. But all that goes away if people stop releasing these models at the frontier. And I think Mythos is a sign of things to come there."
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This was the topic I explored this week, but it's not just about the impact on Chinese models:
"Intelligence does not commoditize by standing still while the field catches up. It commoditizes by diffusing. New capability appears at the frontier and then spreads through distillation, open weights, lower-cost models, enterprise products, and agentic systems until yesterday’s breakthrough becomes tomorrow’s baseline."
decodingdiscontinuity.com/p/…
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Honcho Da Menace 🍿🎥🎬 retweeted
Before HDMI cords we had to match the colors to the tv like u were diffusing a bomb 😂😂💯
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And this is due to the freedom
Which obvs you see she too involved she not diffusing shit she adding her two cents
Boy can’t do wtf he want in there it’s “yes momma” lol
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We have clear wins for regulation in environmentalism and child labor laws, would be worth highlighting and diffusing knowledge of its failures
Governments have regulated water, cars, smoking, food, child labour… the wealthy interests of their day typically framed it as the death of capitalism & a war on liberty. They were wrong, life is now better for it. Now, finally, the debate is coming for big tech.
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Diffusing ur hair is so much more tiring than straightening it man
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🏴🏴 tiada perang melainkan perang kelas 🇲🇾🇲🇾 retweeted
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Remember before HDMI cables where you had to match the colors to the TV like you were diffusing a bomb
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Why is SAPS just standing there instead of diffusing the situation.
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Htown retweeted
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FormaL & Nadeshot react to Ghosty being STONED mid series 👀🤯
FormaL : "Dan is so high, he's spinning while diffusing, DUDE he looks so f*cking stoned, he's in slow motion"
Nadeshot : "his eyelids can't open they're like half way closed, I love him but what's going on there?"🗣️🍁
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