20+ years building enterprise software, ~14 at Microsoft: the NYPD Domain Awareness System, Rio 2016 Olympics results, and helping big customers adopt Azure and GenAI.
Now I'm looking for my next role as a Technical PM in AI. If you're hiring, my DMs are open.
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Listen to all three minutes. No notes, just a mom who doesn't play about her kids.
This is the new standard for parents who care about what their kids are learning in school.
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Esse vídeo da Yasmin Senna @senna_yasmim tinha que alcançar o mundo inteiro. Você sabe o que é Marxismo Cultural?!👇🏼
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🗣️ATENÇÃO | Flávio Bolsonaro posta em suas redes sociais um pronunciamento à Nação antes do início do julgamento no STF que pode determinar a abertura de uma investigação contra o Ministro Alexandre de Moraes.
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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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🇧🇷🇵🇹🔥 A influenciadora portuguesa Rute Souza fez um desabafo que certamente vai incomodar muita gente. Ela criticou brasileiros que vivem em Portugal, mas usam as redes sociais para fazer campanha para Lula e defender a esquerda brasileira. E o questionamento é simples: se vocês escolheram Portugal para viver, um país com uma realidade política e econômica diferente da brasileira, por que fazer campanha para trazer de volta ao Brasil justamente o projeto político que vocês deixaram para trás? A mensagem dela foi direta: se Lula vencer, voltem para o Brasil e vivam sob o governo que ajudaram a eleger. Você concorda com a Rute?
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A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.
She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going.. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
