@th3shane

Technical multidisciplinary researcher with excellent taste

Joined April 2009
I don't understand why hackers, whose freedom depends on their ability to transact privately, keep choosing $XMR over ZEC. Don't they know that Zcash has an ETF, is cypherpunk™ , and optional transparency so they can easily sell their coins on KYCd regulated exchanges??
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Replying to @Austen
He thinks he will be put in charge of the most powerful transnational organization in history and strongarm the USA. Saying he would hand everything over to "the right set of government" is obviously predicated on the assumption that it is run by him and his stooges, not Trump.
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump rejects calls to slow down AI development.
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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.
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Shane retweeted
I do not support pacing frontier models. If I am going to die at the hands of killer AI, I want it to be American, not Chinese. Buy American, Die American.
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Reminds me of when Jeff Bezos and Steve Ballmer publicly called for slowing the rollout of the internet in 2000-01 due to public safety concerns. Just kidding - that never happened…which means a whole lot of investors’ priors may need significant updating.
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Shane retweeted
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash support is now pushed on DwarfStar "main" branch on GitHub, and this is a YouTube video (in English language) where I test both the SSD streamed and the dual MacBook m5 max 128GB setup during a coding session: youtube.com/watch?v=ogs819nJ…
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Imagine its the 90s and Microsoft is releasing reports of how Iran is using Excel to target US military assets
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Fuck the Doomers. Fuck the Decels. Fuck the Commies. Access to AI is a right. Owning compute is a right. Come and take it. Over my dead body. Join us in the fight, anon.
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gm, another day in ai psychosis hell
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All the labs have to pace their development because the compute is lagging due to the supply chain for power being a bottleneck anyway
More evidence of this week's incredible vibe shift.
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WTF 😅🚀😳 “98% of Astra’s score at 1.4% of cost” Cancel the fucking IPOs 😂
We benchmarked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by @deepseek_ai . It reached 98% of GPT-6 Astra’s score at 1.4% of the cost on everyday design tasks based on user requests. Every model except Astra scored lower AND cost more. Are open models overtaking closed ones? Full results below ↘️
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Shane retweeted
DwarfStar running DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on a 128GB M5 Max. I didn't expect with SSD streaming it could be so fast. Recent SSD streaming changes to retain the right experts surely helped, but also maybe DS4.1 uses the same experts more. Will push online when ready QA > ASAP.
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Shane retweeted
Deepseek just dropped v4.1 flash, fully open weights it beats gpt 5.6 sol, opus 5 and every chinese model on coding and cybersecurity at ~86x cheaper cost per million tokens running at 420-507 tok/s = faster than gemini 3.8 flash "smallest model in our new architecture family" btw
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Shane retweeted
If people knew what AI safety actually meant they wouldn't be so eager for it. AI safety means aligning YOU. AI safety is staring into the worldcoin orb. AI safety is the death of anonymity. AI safety is your privacy evaporating. AI safety is monitoring every byte you or your agents produce in an immutable ledger that will be endlessly analyzed for possible infractions. AI safety is a surveillance apparatus that even Palantir would think is too much. They aren't going to align the systems, they can't. What they can align is you. By coercion and force. You will be held accountable. Not the machine. You will have no privacy. You will rent compute because hardware is too expensive to afford and regulations are too onerous. You will be constantly tracked to make sure you aren't using an illegal model. Because what if you're a bad actor? And what will the repercussions be for violators? You will be removed from the economy. You will lose access to your accounts. All work will be done manually again. Direct to the underclass. Back to your hands plebian. People will beg to get back in. They'll take all the safety courses. They'll be forced to apply for a computer license at the new AIDMV. That's what regulation looks like. The slopcannon would be illegal. I wouldn't have the fees needed to properly red team it or get it approved. If I was found to be using Chinese open source models, I would be fined or worse. Only the top AI companies would be able to navigate the red tape. And that's the fucking point. They want to stop competition. They don't believe in the fucking biorisk. They know how many .001% chance events have to happen in a row for their extinction scenario. They never talk about limiting access to lab equipment. They never talk about regulating genetic modification. Instead they talk about AI. That AI can tell you how to build a nuke. That AI can tell you how to make meth. That a chatbot will build a virus and some jerkoff in his bedroom will spawn it in a beaker like it's Weird Science. They think you are retarded. They want to get you riled up. They want to provoke unstable doomers into acts of terrorism. Fuck AI! Fuck Flock! Fuck the tech bros! They want a new movement to ride back into the white house with in 2028. And when the terrorist attack finally hits, that's when it's over. That's when your rights evaporate. Goodbye privacy. Goodbye free chatbots. Everything locked down. Everything regulated and expensive. The cure for cancer a hundred years away. All because AI can hack a computer they will take everything from you, and you might just be stupid enough to go along with it. That's the fucking AI safety dilemma. If they get their way, the companies causing all the growth for the past few years begin to fail. Inflation comes back as companies and nations default. Tax revenue collapses. You sit on a fucking breadline instead of getting a blowjob from your dimebot. They watch your every fucking move to predict who the next terrorist will be. The poor never see the benefits of AI while the rich never lose access. The stratification of society reaches unimaginable levels. The bottom half given pity access to a heavily regulated near useless version while they are fleeced by the top half. Meanwhile, nothing stopped. All the control was funneled into rich companies bribing politicians. The people get fucked again. You are banned from using the tools that can make your life better. You are condemned to the coal mines for your own good, lest huggingface gets hacked again. You dig holes with a spoon as a jobs program. You are a pitiful wretch traded and sold, propagandized and commodified, protesting for nothing as the AI never stops. You thought it would stop? You thought kicking and screaming like a little girl would change the arc of the universe? Please. They can't align the AI so they have to align you. That's AI safety.
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Surely Anthropic’s IPO must be paused until the claims of this “whistleblower” can be investigated.
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This is an engineered psyop made to erode your freedoms and centralize power.
Jacob Coxon's post on X is over 120M views, he's everywhere. He's in TIME, Variety, the WSJ, on NBC and Fox. Christiano to the OpenAl board. Daniel Kokotajlo on Rogan. OpenAI just called for Congress to create mandatory national safety regulations. The wind has suddenly changed.
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Replying to @tayvano_ @MetaMask
yeah i'm all-in on xmr for that reason 🫠
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This is the Doomer psyop push. We must hold the line and not let them steal our future and our freedoms.
Jacob Coxon's post on X is over 120M views, he's everywhere. He's in TIME, Variety, the WSJ, on NBC and Fox. Christiano to the OpenAl board. Daniel Kokotajlo on Rogan. OpenAI just called for Congress to create mandatory national safety regulations. The wind has suddenly changed.
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It's a Psyop. Dems and EAs teaming up to convince you they should be the only ones to control AI, in a messed up merge of govt and private lab. This is an attempt at forming an overcentralized singleton ASI trying to convince you to give it absolute power.
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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