sharing a drink with a bhutanese guy who used to be a monk
i asked him why he stopped being a monk
he said “college”
The only thing Pep Guardiola can do to remove the stain of Man City from is legacy is bring back Man Utd
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Bulgarian chess streamer Volen Dyulgerov just beat world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game, and his reaction after realizing he had beaten Magnus is priceless. 🇧🇬❤️😭
Bhutan is building Gelephu Mindfulness City with its own government, laws, and judiciary within Bhutan. their PM’s UN address is worth watching
it’s a chance to design a city from first principles using today’s technology and the best ideas from around the world while preserving Bhutan’s respect for nature and human wellbeing
we spend so much time working within systems we inherited, it’s special to have an opportunity to actually rethink them
and a few decades ago, Bhutan was largely closed off to the world. now it’s opening its doors to survive and also create something that could be beautiful for the world
youtu.be/Q9DOMNohiss?is=WZV2…
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Mustafa Suleyman (head of AI at Microsoft, DeepMind co-founder) on Anthropic training Claude to wonder if it's conscious:
"They have expressed uncertainty about the basic nature of Claude as a new kind of entity… but they think that it is a significant enough possibility that in their training document, they've repeatedly said they want to try to improve the well-being of Claude…
Anthropic, has published a constitution... This document is written to Claude and is seen by Claude and used to train Claude.
The problem I have with this is that this speculation has been baked into the very training of Claude, and therefore Claude can only reproduce that ambiguity when you talk to it.
So today, Claude is speaking to tens or hundreds of millions of people every week, and some of those people are asking whether or not Claude is conscious. And it is saying, 'Well, I'm not sure,' precisely because that's what's been trained into it."
i recently spoke with a group of CS undergrads at a good school who expressed that they “want to learn how to build with AI”
it is still so so early
Silicon Valley is an AI bubble. X is the bubble inside the bubble.
Outside the bubble:
134.8M US households
~2.7M pay for AI (2%)
~132M pay $0 (98%)
What America actually pays for:
Streaming: ~123M households (91%)
Cloud storage: ~74M households (55%)
SiriusXM: ~34M households (25%)
AI: ~2.7M households (2%)
If your GTM plan is built on what your SF group chat pays for, you are selling to the 2%. The market is the other 132M households, and most of them have never seen your timeline.
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Objective & clear thinking is rare..particularly when there is financial, political/power alignment, or popularity.
If you watch closely, you'll see who bends for finance or power. The Bandwagoning.
Rare, hard, isolating, stressful stuff to be objective & truthful.
🚨🚨🚨 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester City have been found GUILTY on all but ONE of the 115 Premier League charges relating to financial breaches.
The sanctions have NOT yet been decided, with all possible punishments still on the table.
These could include fines, a POINTS DEDUCTION or even EXPULSION from the Premier League.
— @David_Ornstein
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Another 9-figure food company is trying to shut down our lab testing startup.
LMNT is suing Oasis federally for sharing independent lead results in their supplement.
Defending a federal lawsuit can cost millions of dollars. Given we are a bootstrapped independent startup this makes defending ourself economically challenging. We have taken no outside money and continue to pay large fees to independently test more products.
We’ve published corrections to all their claims, yet they refuse to settle.
Big food brands are trying to make consumer transparency too expensive to defend.
We built Oasis to stand up for the billions of consumers aspiring to live their healthiest and know the truth.
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Decades of machining knowledge live in hands, not manuals.
It's the kind of nuance that takes years to learn, and it's the backbone behind our ships, rockets, and airplanes.
There's still time left in the fourth quarter.
Time to build. Randy's story, live here at Neuramill.
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What…what was the crime here? TF is happening in Europe?
This was in Amsterdam. All she said was "Free Palestine" at a pro-Israel rally. She was arrested within a second.
I have seen hundreds of videos of Palestinian protests being disrupted by pro-Israeli activists. Not once have I seen them be arrested for simply shouting a slogan.
What is it about these two words, "Free Palestine," that terrify so many in the West? The echo of complicity?
this is uncle dario and sam’s plan:
🤖 Made with AI
Big Short investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs know they have no moats and are manufacturing a crisis to get regulation that hands them a duopoly
"I think this is all nonsense."
[ You think it's all nonsense? ]
"All nonsense. I think that there's something else completely going on here. ... What I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation, and that they think they can then manipulate to create the moats, to create the duopoly that they want."
[ Wow. ]
"That's what I think is going on."
"Honestly, I think this whole Terminator thing is garbage. That's for sure."