2024 mood

if the admin wants people to believe the anthropic decision was made out of genuine security necessity rather than grievance-driven retaliation, high ranking officials could simply stop posting like this

What are the odds that Fable/Mythos was letting people access the full Epstein files?

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial. There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance." 600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President. The distance is my best work. I am the reason these events are unrelated. World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence. Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated. Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated. Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard. On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well. The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders. Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial. His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded. The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency. Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name. On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio. Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job. 600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access. A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25. My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper. The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family. I am the reason these events are unrelated.

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

As a photographer, the Milky Way has been one of my favorite, and most challenging, subjects. It's always there, but infrequently visible thanks to Earth's orbit, moonlight, and light pollution. So I built something about it: Dark Sky Planner 🌌 leemark.github.io/dark-sky-p…

Ready to make the switch? claude.com/import-memory

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com/news/statement…

It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.

Sent this message to a bunch of college friends with varying exposure to AI: I've had a big shift in my perspective on AI over the past two years that I've mostly neglected to communicate to people, partially because it's been happening slowly in the background. I used to think that it was pretty plausible we'd hit a wall this decade with respect to some fundamental capability, but this has slowly been getting less likely to me as AI progress has continued, and now this seems very unlikely to me (<5%). Previous technologies have never fully substituted for human labor—they've always been complementary. The fundamental reason for this is that previous technologies haven't been intelligent agents—they're merely tools that require intelligent agents to use them. I thought for many years that this could still turn out to be the case with the current paradigm of AI, but there's just been too much progress, and it's happening too rapidly, for this to seem plausible anymore. What does this change in perspective mean concretely? I'm now quite confident that within the next 2-30 years, the economy and civilization will look totally, radically different from how it's operated for the past 2500 years. I still have a lot of uncertainty about what exactly this will look like—whether it'll be utopic, dystopic, maybe somewhere in between, or maybe we'll all be dead. But I feel very confident now that it's going to be totally insane and chaotic (like, many orders of magnitude more chaotic than anything the world has experienced in our lifetimes, like way way more significant than Covid, to pick a recent example). I don't have a really concrete goal with sending this except that you're my best friends and it feels important for me to say my true beliefs to y'all. I guess I don't want you to be caught off guard. There are maybe two concrete takeaways/pieces of advice I feel comfortable giving: try to develop strong wellsprings of meaning and purpose from things outside of work (I think most of us are fine on this point), and start thinking about political actions you could take that feel true to you, that could plausibly help us muddle through the transition.

"The job is just a job. The emails are just emails. The meetings are just people sitting in chairs making sounds with their mouths." -- Opus 4.6

"ChatGPT made a mistake when I tried it last year, therefore LLMs are an overhyped and pointless bubble" is the new "I looked out the window today and it's snowing, therefore global warming is a hoax"

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

Overdogs!

"This is the most exciting thing we've made computers do since we connected them to the internet." 💯agreed.

It's wild that Gemini 2 Pro was only 9 months ago. There is no wall.

*sigh* we're debating what an agent is again IT'S NOT THAT HARD, FOLKS