Mark Treiber

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[Martin Skold @MartinSkold2]

I could make a cheap joke about how he probably wrote this with AI, but there’s a bigger point to be made.

There’s a point in the book version of Jurassic Park where the company counsel, Gennaro (who is not dead and has not been eaten off of a restroom toilet seat by a T-Rex as in the film), essentially tells the group to pack it in and get ready to evacuate, because the Costa Rican military (which exists in the book but not so much in real life) is going to firebomb the island and solve the problem.

Grant corners him and physically grabs him, pointing out that there will be no way to know for sure if they’ve gotten everything if they don’t do a complete survey of the island’s dinosaur breeding sites, and demanding that he face up to the situation he and his megalomaniacal bosses helped create and do his part.

That’s what this looks like, only no one is playing Grant and there isn’t even a fig leaf of a promise that the danger will be contained and the situation rationalized.

If you think you’ve created a monster, that may unleash a bio weapon or similar (as alluded to in the letter and has actually been discussed by various AI safety luminaries), and there is no way to fix it within your company, you do -not- get to go and pursue a poetry degree. (So that what, anyway? You can write something your program can’t think of?)

You should be testifying before every government body that will hear your information, giving interviews, writing like mad, shouting from the rooftops if you have to - and when somebody listens you should at least have something prepared that can tell them about what’s going on and what is and isn’t possible to deal with it.

And you should be prepared to face legal consequences yourself, or else offer -extra- help in exchange for immunity. If need be, and if it is that bad, you should be prepared to spend the rest of your life, or however long it takes, fixing your and your colleagues’ mistake.

And if it isn’t that bad, don’t fire off a parting shot like this - it’s pulling the fire alarm on the way out the door.

One or the other - but not this.

[Mark Treiber @31Tribes]

@Zephyr_hg Gamma

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Let me try to articulate what I think the most important economic challenge of the current moment really is.

[Anish Acharya @illscience]

https://t.co/MoVeOzXfVA

[Bucknell MBasketball @Bucknell_MBB]

We're devastated to learn of the passing of Bucknell Athletics Hall-of-Famer and a Bison hoops legend Bill Courtney '92. Our deepest condolences to Bill's family and the Temple basketball program.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We needed a good retrospective on American culture in the first quarter of the 21st century. David Marx has written one. You should buy it!

https://t.co/YNRhNlhc3F

[Mark Treiber @31Tribes]

@mikefutia reels

[Bryan Hoch ⚾️ @BryanHoch]

Some Statcast on Aaron Judge's HR: It was off a 99.7 mph pitch that was 1.2 feet inside (vs. the center of the zone). It’s the first time in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), regular season or postseason combined, that a hitter has homered off a 99-plus mph pitch that also was that far inside.

[Conrad Hackett @conradhackett]

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction.

[Nathan Hubbard @NathanCHubbard]

Honestly I’m just happy for Jim Nantz, I would’ve paid so much to sit close enough to hear him call that comeback under his breath like you know he just did

[Aaron Levie @levie]

This is key. We should be strategically targeting growth areas of investment and manufacturing. We need houses, energy, chip production, robotics, aerospace, cars, defense, and so on. What we don’t need is a mad scramble to onshore everything, which just inflates prices.

[Paris Hilton @ParisHilton]

Beyond proud to see #MyFriendDaisy at no. 6 on @ApplePodcasts 🙏🥰🩷 Let’s get it to the top 5! https://t.co/zhFAzJMuER

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

In what fucking world was Trump ever competent to be president of the United States. This is a rhetorical question. 😡😡😡👇

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Correct. People also fail to realize that we have a trade surplus for services. Why ? Because capital flows to where there are profits. AI, Software, tech in general generates huge profits and equity valuations. Making “stuff” doesn’t

No matter the tariffs , capital isn’t going to start flowing to non-tech manufacturing , simply because it’s not profitable enough.

Particularly when Americans won’t pay a premium for made in the USA and we aren’t as good at Robotics as other countries.

[Daniel Poneman @DanielPoneman]

Should I release a “schools that still owe players a lot of NIL money they promised and never paid this season, but now are recruiting new players promising even bigger money they likely won’t pay either” list?

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

You can’t make this shit up.

Dumbest administration in US history.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

cartoon of the day

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:

1. Alienate your friends
2. Destroy your stable business environment
3. Slaughter your golden goose (science & research)
https://t.co/iCum1kzgVE

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

"When you add it all up – Trump’s concessions to Putin, insults to Zelenskyy, extortion of Ukraine, bad negotiation tactics and refusal to enforce a peace deal – there’s no evidence that Trump is serious about mediating a peace, and there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that all he cares about is courting Putin." https://t.co/jaeE6stItz

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump and Vance