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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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Replying to @elonmusk @CryptoArch3
My only objection so far to your polls was when you made your CEO vote look like a retreat.
Also, when you're asking for advice, you don't have to take it. If you had run your businesses on 51% of whatever people though you should do, every one of them would have been a failure.
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Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist.
Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms.
And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble.
They took 194 undergraduates and split them up.
One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience.
The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor.
The AI didn't just win. It embarrassed the institution.
Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom.
They scored 30% higher on the final assessment.
And they did it in less time.
Let that sink in.
A piece of software sitting on a laptop outperformed a world-class faculty in one of the most elite learning environments on Earth.
Universities have always justified their exorbitant tuition with two things: access to elite knowledge and the physical classroom experience.
This study just proved both of those moats are gone.
When software can teach you complex physics twice as well as a $60,000-a-year institution, the math of higher education breaks permanently.
The AI didn't just give the students answers. It used strict pedagogical guardrails. It guided. It questioned. It forced the students to do the cognitive work.
It offered perfect, one-to-one tutoring, personalized to the exact moment a student misunderstood a concept.
That level of attention is mathematically impossible to scale in a physical lecture hall.
For a thousand years, the university was the only place to get a premium education.
Now, it’s the bottleneck.
If AI can double your learning speed for a fraction of the cost, what exactly are students taking on decades of debt to pay for?
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2017: Austin spent $35 million on homelessness. 2,036 homeless counted.
2025: $118 million. 3,238 homeless.
Spending more than tripled and homelessness went up 59%.
If you service the homeless lifestyle, you will get more of it.
The NGOs that run this system get paid by the problem of homelessness, so they have no reason to end it -- in fact, their only incentive is to make sure the problem grows.
The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
Incentives determine outcomes
If you give an NGO a certain number of dollars per homeless person, they will never solve homelessness
SF spends more than $1b/yr (up 5x) and the homeless population has only grown
NGO fraud is so insane, man.
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By popular request, a new, easier way to see Under The Hood. (You can still download a JSON file, too.)
See your report at nitter.cf/i/jf/under_the_hood
We’ve expanded Under The Hood after seeing people’s appreciation of more transparency into government-required content filtering.
In addition to showing labels applied to your account and posts in the prior month, Under The Hood now shows if your account or posts had their visibility limited because of required compliance with local law(s).
For example, you can see if any of your posts were withheld in a country following a legal demand – and which country.
We’re making this Under The Hood update available to all accounts that meet the basic eligibility criteria (10+ posts in prior month, account at least one year old).
You can get your report at nitter.cf/i/under_the_hood
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X just pushed more For You Recommendation Algorithm code to GitHub. Credit to @XOpenSource.
What this drop does to your feed:
- Quoted replies get a harder spam look. Quote-replies now go through the full reply scorer, not the short one. Quoting someone in a reply can get a stricter spam score.
- Coordinated spam checks skip 80k+ accounts. The auto scan now skips accounts over 80k followers, up from 50k. Under 80k, coordinated-spam scoring still runs.
- Graphic posts can show a blur instead of vanishing. NSFW and gore can land behind a blur overlay, so the rest of your feed stays. You may still see a blurred graphic post instead of it being dropped.
- Legal takedowns can show a tombstone. A withheld post can show a local-law placeholder instead of a hole in the feed. The post is still hidden. You see a tombstone, not the original.
- New-user stranger ranking is now a live switch. X can raise or lower how much new users see people they do not follow, without a code push. Default is still almost zero. If they turn it up, For You gets more strangers.
github.com/xai-org/x-algorit…
X just pushed more For You Recommendation Algorithm code to GitHub. Credit to @XOpenSource.
What this drop does to your feed:
- Under the Hood shows legal withholds. You can see if a post or account was hidden in a country after a legal demand, and which country. The report shows it. Your post can still be withheld in that country.
- Viral hidden-adult videos get a harder Grok look. Videos with 512+ likes get extra Grok reasoning when checked against hidden-adult spam examples. A popular video that looks like those examples can get a spam label.
- Dwell-regret ranking experiment is gone. For You ranking is back to the regular weighted mix, so scores are simpler and more consistent. If that experiment was boosting posts you sit on, the mix can shift.
- For You can pull extra cold-start posts. A separate retrieval lane can surface newer or less-seen posts when the switch is on. The lane defaults off. When it is on, more unfamiliar posts can show up.
- Super Follows posts survive a flaky check. Exclusive posts keep their subscriber control if the Super Follows lookup fails, instead of vanishing. A failed check can leave the post unevaluated, so it may wait for the next pass.
github.com/xai-org/x-algorit…
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I picked up my new Tesla model Y on Saturday. The whole process of picking it up took like 5 minutes. I never want to deal with a car salesman ever again. I immediately had the FSD drive me home for 45 minutes. I’ve used FSD for like 90%+ of my miles since Saturday morning. Literally feels like magic. Has handled issues on the road better than I would have at times. It saw a fox potentially running across the road last night before I saw it. Just remarkable technology.
Thank you to everyone who replied to my post a few weeks back saying I’d be an idiot not to get a Tesla.
It’s only been 2.5 days and idk that I can ever go back to a regular car as my daily driver?
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Nikita makes a really good point. If everyone has X Money, why can't we buy things right off the timeline yet.
This should be a thing!
Replying to @deobfuscations
If I can’t collect money from Timeline, then the association to X has little to no significance.
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It never ceases to amaze how many supposedly educated people do not understand what “the press” means in the First Amendment. It refers to the press in the sense of publishing, historically the printing press. It does not create a privileged class called “journalists” with special constitutional rights unavailable to everyone else. The First Amendment protects the same freedom of speech for everyone, exactly as it should, and, as a second step, the press, as in the freedom to disseminate information, because freedom of speech is useless without the right to disseminate it. This is all very elementary stuff, and yet there are still countless people running around claiming that so-called journalists have special rights.
The president said it plainly in the Oval Office, describing his own planned action as a “ban on the free press.”
The Constitution protects the freedom of the press from government interference. That protection does not depend on whether the president likes a news organization’s coverage, agrees with its reporting, or approves of the questions its journalists ask.
This is about more than the rights of journalists. It is about the right of the American people to receive a full and independent account of the activities, policies and decisions of whoever occupies the nation’s highest office.
The WHCA stands in defense of our colleagues at CNN, MSNOW, and POLITICO who are being singled out for doing their jobs.
- Jacqui Heinrich, WHCA President
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Generative AI unlocks the purest form of artistic expression 🌈 ☀️
This is my submission to the Lumara Film Festival:
Black Thunder
A retro fantasy sci-fi adventure for fans of practical-effects spectacle, bizarre creatures, outrageous heroes, cosmic mythology, dark comedy, and the gloriously unhinged genre movies of the 1980s
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METR's attempt to become the priest-caste over US Al companies should be seen as an extension of the general British and EU tendency to regulate what they cannot build. UK elites try to control American speech through the Online Safety Act. METR capture of American labs would be the equivalent for AI.
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Conservatives: "Let's add a provision to the AI safety bill that prohibits companies from creating 'guardrails' for things that have nothing to do with safety, like hate speech."
Liberals: "no, that's evil."
You know this is how it's going to go down, @ESYudkowsky
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
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You have to be either a moron or a liar to think that Musk is a con man.
Con men never actually deliver anything of substance.
Musk puts rockets into space, cars on the road, builds microchips, digs tunnels, etc...
He delivers real results.
'Musk' Review: Alex Gibney's Mammoth Elon Musk Doc Is a Poleaxing Portrait of the Tech Titan as a Con Man Given Way Too Much Power to Be Stopped hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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JUST IN: 𝕏 has surged to #1 among news apps in nearly all European countries.
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“If you believe in equal rights, then what do ‘women’s rights,’ ‘gay rights,’ etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.”
— Thomas Sowell
Just to understand how insane SpaceX’s Raptor 3 is, compare ONE engine with the RS-25 powering NASA’s SLS
Raptor 3:
~617,000 lbf sea-level thrust
~1,525 kg
~3.1 m tall
~1.3 m wide
RS-25:
~418,000 lbf sea-level thrust
~3,515 kg
~4.3 m tall
~2.4 m wide
Raptor 3 is ~28% shorter, ~46% narrower and ~57% lighter…
Yet ONE Raptor 3 produces nearly 50% MORE sea-level thrust
That gives it roughly 3× the sea-level thrust-to-weight ratio
That is an absurd amount of power packed into such a compact engine
SpaceX made Raptor 3 more powerful, lighter, reusable and so radically simplified that when it was revealed, ULA CEO Tory Bruno thought it was a “partially assembled” engine
It was the complete engine
And then comes the ridiculous part…
Super Heavy packs 33 Raptor 3s underneath ONE booster
A wall of 33 engines producing roughly 20 million pounds of thrust
One Raptor 3 is insane engineering
33 of them firing together is what turns Super Heavy into an absolute monster