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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.
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Jun 13
Call me a conspiracist but they can’t be that stupid. Everyone knew this is where it would lead. Why did they pursue this strategy?
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
Jun 12
tech people trying to politely untangle the logic of democrats today, explaining how wealth is really held, produced, and all the good the industry is doing as if people like sanders or mamdani or kanna care — they don’t. they just want your shit. please understand this already.
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
Jun 12
Wow. Today is really exposing the endless stream of bitter, jealous people who need to shit on someone else’s success just to feel better about their own empty pathetic lives
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Jun 12
Owner of the newspaper is a billionaire who inherited their wealth. Elon build spaceships, cures the blind and electrified the entire automotive industry. He created vastly more wealth for others in the process of becoming a trillionaire himself. Envy is a terrible thing.
Jun 11
Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Jun 11
Frontier labs will be nationalized. We're just living through a brief wild west period.
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Jun 8
Even worse, we have to suffer those patronizing public announcements where they explain how they alone "get it" ahead of everyone else, modern age ring-bearers who have to do what they must. /barf
Jun 8
Everyone who over-hired or lowered the bar too much in the 2021-2023 wave, or isn’t growing as fast as budgeted, now pretends they’re laying people off “due to AI productivity.”
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Jun 6
Accurate.
Jun 5
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
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Take my money
Jun 2
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
May 30
In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.
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May 29
Would watch
May 28
There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.
The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.
To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.
A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.
The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.
It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.
Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.
In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.
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May 28
Managed decline
This hotel I'm at in the Netherlands apart from having the AC limited to 23°C/74°F
Also will NOT clean your room by default to save the 🌍 🍃 environment unless you explicitly put this sign outside (we did and they still didn't come to clean ofc)
There's also no amenities at all unless you ask for it to contribute to "a more sustainable future"
Even the coffee machine talks about how it's "a force for good" and "protecting natural ecosystems"
Western Europe is so fucking tiring
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May 25
This times every other profession or human activity. AI is a growth catalyst not a job killer.
May 24
Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?
A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.
We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.
Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
May 23
AI is creating a weird HR crisis because the best engineering work in the agentic era is deletion. And deletion will never get you promoted.
Here is an example of the paradox:
Jerry spends six months building a sophisticated image analysis pipeline. Custom scaffolding, real-time frame extraction, a vision pre-processor that compresses and annotates before sending context back to the LLM. Thousands of lines. A system design doc. A launch review. Bob gets promoted. The work is visible, legible, and frankly impressive. Bravo Bob!
Now Jeff comes in. Jeff looks at the pipeline and realizes the model does not need any of it. The last generation required that scaffolding. This one does not. Bob has 0 incentive to delete his work. Jeff goes and deletes 4,000 lines in one day. The system is faster, cheaper, more reliable. Token efficiency up 40%. Latency cut in half.
Jeff will likely not get promoted for his one day scaffolding deletion.
This is the core problem. Traditional engineering culture rewards addition. More features, more abstractions, more infrastructure. But elite agentic engineering is subtractive. The job is to remove every layer standing between the model and the task. Every unnecessary hop, every redundant transformation, every scaffolding that made sense six months ago and is now just dead weight.
The engineer who keeps code close to the model, who deletes a lot, this person is doing the highest-leverage work available. And they look like they are barely working haha!
How do we promote the Jeff?
in order to remain on the frontier of capabilities you basically have to throw out all your AI code every 6 months and build it from scratch
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May 22
It’s AGI
May 22
The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope.
It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before.
Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.”
The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence.
We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard?
The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”.
But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks”. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence.
The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate.
Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over.
If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
May 19
Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."
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May 15
The real Cretan diet
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Average balkan diet is like
Breakfast: coffee and cigarette
Lunch: coffee and cigarette
Dinner: 2kg grilled meat, bread, baklava, 2 liters of rakija from a coca cola bottle with a sprite cap
Life expectancy: 90 years
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Nikos Moraitakis retweeted
May 11
Managers across tech are getting wiped out. The ones who survive will be the ones who stayed close enough to the work. We’ve seen this play out before. In 2008, the financial companies that went bust had one thing in common: their leaders had no idea what was actually happening on the inside. They were managers of managers. The same thing is true today. If you are not using AI yourself at least 10% of your time, you are in the business of listening to other people tell you things you don't know are true.
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