1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government 2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere 3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in 4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties 5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control

So much fun to run around this landscape - hoping we get Fable 5 back, but may just optimize with Opus 4.8 as much as possible.

Presenting MOONVEINS 15 minutes of Claude Code Fable 5 at "Extra" effort. Uploaded a single mp4 from Grok Imagine as the base point. Prompt: "OK, I'm new to this and three.js or whatever it's called, but i see a lot of people making open-world explorers that you can use in the browser and I"m curious if you can help me make one. I want it to be in a continuously generating world based on this photo/image/environment. I don't know what else you would need or how I would even play it when it's done, but I want to try it out!"

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk

I didn't believe this was real. @mattshumer_ was in my office, so I had him pull it up on my machine. It's 10x more detailed and expansive than he showed in his demo. Just watch this video, in full. It's almost unbelievable. But, it's very, very real.

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well: paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Really hard to imagine becoming a trillionaire and not wanting to immediately liquidate enough assets to give at least a few hundred billion to organizations making the world a better place.