Don't be concerned when an AI passes the Turing test - be concerned when it fails the Turing test, on purpose.

Claude code was struggling and taking too long so I dropped it some code that works and it's using that. That's going to be a rare event.

It would be delightful if you pulled an @elonmusk , bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review.

Offhand — * Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case. * Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet). * Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such). * 180 on many issues around BLM. * Lack of effective response from science funding bodies. * Denial of aerosolized transmission. * Changing of trial readouts so that they’d occur after the election. (Confirmed to me by senior OWS officials.) * Crazy criteria for vaccine distribution. * Adamant insistence on vaccine efficacy beyond what was supported by data. * Almost complete lack of follow-through on OWS (on pan-variant vaccines). I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that stick out.

A great recruiting pitch is Naval’s quote: be part of something bigger than yourself, but on your own terms. Joining is underrated for founder types. Once people experience what it’s like to be on an incredible team, they wonder why they didn’t do it sooner, if only to learn how to build one.

Ironically, in tech things are moving so quickly that only the unemployed will be current on the tech.

When you give your vibe-coded chess game the ability to chat while playing.

Google will be the next Google.

Still on track.

Today marks 10yrs since the Bataclan massacre. Muslims slaughtered 130 and maimed 683. Victims were castrated, raped, disembowelled and tortured before execution. French authorities suppressed this fact for 'social cohesion'. This image was taken moments before the attack.🇫🇷

There used to be a fountain at the center of the Civic Center Plaza in SF. It was removed in 2003 because: > It's become an intolerable situation, and we don't have additional resources to continually clean it," said Alex Mamak, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works. Department crews clean out human filth and hypodermic needles every morning, only to find a new mess the next morning, Mamak said. This makes me want a new ranking of cities: ornamental fountains per capita. That is, those with the affinity for beauty to construct them, and with the social trust and dignity to sustain them.

You can't book a Waymo on the peninsula yet but they seem to be ramping up. Drove next to 2 empty waymos the past week - one on El Camino and one on 101.

I can’t imagine the horrors happening inside a private home school that violated Palo Alto city code. God forbid they were learning calculus. Pray for these children.

A developed society isn’t one where the poor can buy a car, but where the rich still take public transport.

🚀Section 174 was fixed with retroactive relief. We're back. 🚀Tech boom tech employment boom starts Monday.

Someone is going to fund Soham aren’t they.

Recommendation: @levie <> @lessin you two should debate the value and future of AI agents. Maybe @eriktorenberg could host.

Seems like OpenAI picked up Microsoft's ability to name products along with the investment.

1993: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" 2025: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're an agent"

Earthquake!