David Sharette retweeted
This kind of sloppiness is inexcusable. Why would you publicly announce something as dramatic as a live-streamed execution if you weren’t absolutely sure you wanted to do it and hadn’t already thought through all of the very predicable and inevitable blowback you would get? This makes it seem like they just kind of off the cuff floated the idea of killing someone on a live stream and then changed their mind when people were upset about it. Totally ridiculous, no matter how you feel about the public execution idea. No excuse to handle it this way. You need to go into something like this very thoughtfully, with seriousness of purpose and a sense of the gravity of the situation. Instead we get a casual announcement of a public execution and then a casual retraction on social media a few days later. Absurd.
David Sharette retweeted
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
David Sharette retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
David Sharette retweeted
One year ago, we tragically lost a fearless patriot. A champion for freedom and for our country.
Charlie Kirk changed the course of American history. His courage, conviction, and love of country will never be forgotten. ❤️
"Well done, good and faithful servant"
David Sharette retweeted
These women look exactly as I imagined and this story played out exactly as every right winger on this site predicted
WATCH: Three female Lindsay Clancy jurors RAGED at one patriotic male juror who REFUSED to find a mu*derer GUILTY by reason of insanity, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial. The most D*MNING admission came when one female juror couldn’t understand why “he had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay VICIOUSLY killer her children.”
“He was very arrogant. He really did not take anything that anybody said.”
These women are PATHETIC COWARDS!
Credit: NBC10 Boston
This guy deserves a medal. In fact, Tucker said it right when he said that avoiding the COVID vaccine in 2021 is one of the greatest achievements of one’s life. Few were able to pull it off.
Another really amazing pandemic clip.
October, 2021. CNN sends a reporter to Miami to investigate a school that is considered "anti-vax."
While there the reporter runs into a parent who says that he is not going to have his children get the Covid vaccine.
While being harassed by the CNN lackey, the parent says that fully vaccinated people are still dying from Covid and that Fauci is not the best scientist in the world. The CNN clown scoffs at him and tells him he is wrong.
This exact same week the former head of the CDC Robert Redfield said that more than 40% of people who died from Covid over the past 6-8 weeks in Maryland were fully vaccinated. Soon after, the CEO of Pfizer said publicly that two doses of the vaccine offered almost no protection at all against Covid.
The parent was right. The arrogant CNN reporter was wrong.
David Sharette retweeted
Spot on.
Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
David Sharette retweeted
This is so dark. And not one of the people apologized. Instead many continue to double down. Insane.
David Sharette retweeted
Watching @SecKennedy completely dismantle Dana Bash on CNN was one of the best things I saw all weekend. The audacity from her—knowing everything we know now—is sickening. She KNOWS what she is doing and I bet that during this conversation, her producers were throwing everything at the wall to try and make RFK Jr. seem like the crazy one. Well, that failed...
We know that Fauci lied about masks, social distancing, gain-of-function research, natural immunity, and transmission, and they’re STILL attempting to silence people. If this isn't enough to make you question everything the mainstream media says, I don't know what will.
David Sharette retweeted
.@SecKennedy on @CNNSOTU this morning:
“The thing that did the most damage to our country [during COVID] was the lockdowns that shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country — with no due process, no just compensation — all of our churches, closed our schools.”
David Sharette retweeted
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I know you're flustered now, and it is…”
CNN’s Dana Bash: “I'm not flustered at all.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy, or do you see your job as telling the truth to the American people?”
Dana Bash: “I see my job as telling the truth. And the truth is that there is study after study after study. It's one of the most studied things out there in science.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You're repeating it like a parrot. You're repeating it like a parrot.”
“I have actually read the science.”
“Let's you and I come back here and debate the science.”
Dana Bash: “I'm not debating this with you.”
Robert F. Kennedy: “Of course you won't. All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, trust the experts.”
“That's what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything, about masks, about the social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID.”
“[Fauci] was lying, and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you're rolling out the experts again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of.”
“Your job is to tell the truth to the American public.”
David Sharette retweeted
.@SecKennedy to @DanaBashCNN: “None of the eight vaccines that are administered during the first six months of life have ever been studied for a relationship to autism."
David Sharette retweeted
Rough day for CNN & Dana Bash.
They did everything in their power to demonize @RobertKennedyJr and he came on top.
Respect for his perseverance!