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Brian Costello retweeted
Palmer Luckey reveals the startup he'd build today: oxytocin doping to end divorce
"I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling."
"We understand mammal pair bonding pretty well. There's a lot of people who want to stay together. Most of the people who don't want to stay together should stay together, especially for their kids."
"And we can, if people think SSRIs are fine, which they're not, but if they were, then oxytocin doping to stay together is definitely fine."
"It's the mammal pair bonding chemical. There's things you can do to increase the uptake, and it's very well understood. Also, totally unregulated, which is great. Unregulated spaces are a lot easier to do. You can go buy a kilogram of oxytocin on Sigma Aldrich Chemical Supply right now, and if you do that, maybe you won't die alone."
"It's pure biology. It's used for women who don't bond with their kids, and now for women who don't bond with their husbands. It's also used for kids with various neurological issues, some kids with autism who struggle with pair bonding."
"The cool thing is it's a self-reinforcing loop. We understand that very well. Unlike most drugs, it doesn't form a chemical dependency. It actually unburdens you from a chemical dependency."
Brian Costello retweeted
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” Winnie the Pooh.
Brian Costello retweeted
computational intelligence is good
and can apply to both minds made of protein and minds made of silicon
both are doing computations
both are intellegent
and the term isn't packed full of hollywood movie fiction
@realDonaldTrump idea to rename AI is spot-on. We should go with what @erichorvitz from @Microsoft laid out below.
“Artificial” frames this new tech as an imitation of human intelligence. “Superior” and “supreme” imply we’re beneath it. “Extreme” adds hype without explaining the capability.
"Computational intelligence" is a much better true description. These systems use computation to learn patterns, draw inferences, and solve problems. The breakthrough is expanding what computers can do and what people can accomplish with them. Let's name the capability without declaring it superior to the people it should benefit.
LOL funny, the world is over.
EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti...
Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST)👇
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Brian Costello retweeted
Well put, @DillonLoomis. The fearmongering’s not just about regulatory capture. Every warning about AI’s destructive potential also advertises its supposed power. If AI can replace workers, businesses need it to compete on costs. If it can overwhelm cybersecurity, businesses need it to defend themselves. If rivals are adopting it, waiting becomes a risk. This is why @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI are aligned on the messaging.
Instead of asking if the product delivers enough value to justify the expense, the customer believes they can’t afford to go without it. The warning creates urgency. Urgency helps unlock budgets. And the companies driving the fear and selling AI are positioned to capture that spending.
There is huge commercial incentive around the fear approach, which is independent of regulation. The risks don’t have to be invented for the fear messaging to serve that purpose. A sincere warning can also be a powerful sales pitch. The best source of free PR and urgency is another security incident. Look at the marketing benefit of a short-tenured employee saying he is leaving because AI is going to kill everybody. This turned into a free global marketing event.
This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now. It's critical everyone understands the situation because this is just the beginning of the AI infowars and psyops
Jacob Coxon, a relatively unknown AI researcher, gives the WSJ an exclusive story about his resignation from Anthropic and his concerns about AI
Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years. This post now has over 149M views. For reference, Ilya Sutskever (a very well known AI name) left OpenAI in 2024 and his announcement post has fewer than 6M views as of today
Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI-doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor (Jaan Tallinn) who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic
We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021 (Newspeak). This organization is a British NGO with ties to hacking democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition and extinction rebellion
Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fear monger the public into voting to regulate AI. It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd
It would also place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process
Elon then points out how none of this feels organic, and Jacob decides to take a shot at him for firing some xAI researchers
Meanwhile, we know Anthropic has publicly asked the government to audit and block frontier models and Anthropic has run a state-by-state campaign for rules that only large AI labs trigger, meaning the rules are structured around barriers only frontier labs can easily clear (limiting competition)
There is extensive Anthropic personnel and financial overlap with the groups that wrote the Biden-era AI policies. It is well known information you can seek out if you want the detail
This all seemingly comes back to regulatory capture and political motives. None of this feels natural. Jacob can say these are his real views all he wants, and they may be, but there is clearly far more to the story
Well put, @DillonLoomis. The fearmongering’s not just about regulatory capture. Every warning about AI’s destructive potential also advertises its supposed power. If AI can replace workers, businesses need it to compete on costs. If it can overwhelm cybersecurity, businesses need it to defend themselves. If rivals are adopting it, waiting becomes a risk. This is why @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI are aligned on the messaging.
Instead of asking if the product delivers enough value to justify the expense, the customer believes they can’t afford to go without it. The warning creates urgency. Urgency helps unlock budgets. And the companies driving the fear and selling AI are positioned to capture that spending.
There is huge commercial incentive around the fear approach, which is independent of regulation. The risks don’t have to be invented for the fear messaging to serve that purpose. A sincere warning can also be a powerful sales pitch. The best source of free PR and urgency is another security incident. Look at the marketing benefit of a short-tenured employee saying he is leaving because AI is going to kill everybody. This turned into a free global marketing event.
This story is fascinating and is easily one of the most important things happening at the intersection of AI and politics right now. It's critical everyone understands the situation because this is just the beginning of the AI infowars and psyops
Jacob Coxon, a relatively unknown AI researcher, gives the WSJ an exclusive story about his resignation from Anthropic and his concerns about AI
Twenty minutes after the WSJ story drops, Jacob posts on X about how he's concerned that AI could kill us all in a few years. This post now has over 149M views. For reference, Ilya Sutskever (a very well known AI name) left OpenAI in 2024 and his announcement post has fewer than 6M views as of today
Bear in mind, Jacob Coxon's X account had no prior posting activity public, but it is immediately reposted and boosted by numerous AI-doomer policy advocacy nonprofits funded by the same donor (Jaan Tallinn) who just happens to be one of the leading investors in Anthropic
We find out Jacob Coxon, who worked at Anthropic for only a few weeks, worked for a left-wing political advocacy group in 2021 (Newspeak). This organization is a British NGO with ties to hacking democracy, Hillary Clinton, prison abolition and extinction rebellion
Many major Democrat politicians are now using Jacob's X post to fear monger the public into voting to regulate AI. It just so happens Bernie Sanders has a bill already written to ban artificial superintelligence (ASI) and to create a new federal agency to protect the public from the dangers of AI. This bill was announced just one week ago on September 3rd
It would also place a temporary pause on "advanced AI" until a new federal regulator exists and has issued safety rules and a model-review process
Elon then points out how none of this feels organic, and Jacob decides to take a shot at him for firing some xAI researchers
Meanwhile, we know Anthropic has publicly asked the government to audit and block frontier models and Anthropic has run a state-by-state campaign for rules that only large AI labs trigger, meaning the rules are structured around barriers only frontier labs can easily clear (limiting competition)
There is extensive Anthropic personnel and financial overlap with the groups that wrote the Biden-era AI policies. It is well known information you can seek out if you want the detail
This all seemingly comes back to regulatory capture and political motives. None of this feels natural. Jacob can say these are his real views all he wants, and they may be, but there is clearly far more to the story
25 years later, we still pause, reflect, and remember that morning like it was yesterday. Lives lost, the many families forever changed, and the heroes who ran toward danger that day and still do today. We will never and should never forget. 🇺🇸 #NeverForget #September11
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Brian Costello retweeted
This is completely absurd. @NYCMayor just banned student-facing generative AI through 8th grade. Meanwhile China, the country America is supposedly terrified of losing the AI race to, is moving in the opposite strategic direction. Its 2026–2030 State Council education plan calls for AI education “across all school stages.” And this isn’t Alibaba or Tencent lobbying school boards. It’s Beijing.
Five central government agencies are pushing the strategy down nationally into curricula, grade-specific objectives, class hours, teacher training and AI education infrastructure. So while China is treating AI literacy from primary school onward as national human-capital strategy, Mamdani is congratulating himself for keeping New York’s children away from the defining technology of their generation.
Genius plan. While the country is investing trillions, Mandami, wants to make sure Chinese kids are systematically taught AI before New York kids are. Even his fellow communists don't agree with him.
Just because technology is everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere.
The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way.
This week, we announced a moratorium on all generative AI for public school students in 2K through 8th grade.
Because New Yorkers deserve to know that their kids will receive a high-quality education. They deserve to know that their children’s data won’t be mined by Big Tech. And they deserve to know that their children’s growth won’t be compromised for a corporation’s bottom line.
This is completely absurd. @NYCMayor just banned student-facing generative AI through 8th grade. Meanwhile China, the country America is supposedly terrified of losing the AI race to, is moving in the opposite strategic direction. Its 2026–2030 State Council education plan calls for AI education “across all school stages.” And this isn’t Alibaba or Tencent lobbying school boards. It’s Beijing.
Five central government agencies are pushing the strategy down nationally into curricula, grade-specific objectives, class hours, teacher training and AI education infrastructure. So while China is treating AI literacy from primary school onward as national human-capital strategy, Mamdani is congratulating himself for keeping New York’s children away from the defining technology of their generation.
Genius plan. While the country is investing trillions, Mandami, wants to make sure Chinese kids are systematically taught AI before New York kids are. Even his fellow communists don't agree with him.
Just because technology is everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere.
The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way.
This week, we announced a moratorium on all generative AI for public school students in 2K through 8th grade.
Because New Yorkers deserve to know that their kids will receive a high-quality education. They deserve to know that their children’s data won’t be mined by Big Tech. And they deserve to know that their children’s growth won’t be compromised for a corporation’s bottom line.
Brian Costello retweeted
Big idea Brian. Agree completely.
A thinking processor wouldn’t run tokens.
It would run operators: hypothesis generation, constraint checking, working-memory rewrite, and a cheap verifier.
The LLM’s job was to discover those operators. Hardware’s job is to stop rediscovering them every forward pass.
Imagine a processor that could run @karpathy’s “algorithms of thinking” directly without needing to run a giant LLM at all. If we could extract the cognitive machinery he believes exists inside today’s models and embed it directly in the processor, the model itself would stop being the center of AI. That would change everything. @dwarkesh_sp
Brian Costello retweeted
It’s great to see Nvidia supporting open-source AI in a big way. Keeping innovation decentralized and accessible is the key to avoiding an unsafe and dystopian future where advanced AI capabilities are centralized and controlled by only a few hands.
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.
NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia…
Brian Costello retweeted
So the defense of your anthropomorphizing software language is:
“Imagine they were aliens.”
Perfect. LOL.
Yes, if humans build software that gives models memory, tools, credentials, persistence, coordination, access to training systems and the ability to keep acting, smarter models may get much better at exploiting that setup.
That would be a serious engineering problem.
It would not mean we discovered an alien civilization.
If your software can rewrite its environment, influence successor models and operate outside intended boundaries, the first conclusion should be: you built a dangerously permissive system.
Not: the aliens have arrived.
The risk is real. The civilization is storytelling with a purpose.