Bill Parks

Just a working stiff trying to get by.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

It has the same feel like in high school you thought the smart kids were really smart. Then you went to college. So you busted your ass to become a smart kid in college and then you went to grad school are realized what really smart people are like. Then you went home for your tenth high school reunion.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@_HeHateMee_ Hard to believe but the WNBA is more thuggish than the 1980’s Detroit Pistons.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@atrupar That's like spending $80 to buy something that's on sale 20% off, and claiming you made money.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@PersiaL61 @marklevinshow They and their families will get a slice of every transaction. This will go down as one of the greatest grifts in history.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I think the compromise consensus position for pretty much everybody of good faith should be that the full text of the agreement be released. There’s no reason to take Trump’s word or Iran’s or random leakers’ word for it. Release the text, period.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@EliAfriatISR That’s a big “if.” Particularly since they’ve never lived up to any prior agreement.

[Leopold Aschenbrenner @leopoldasch]

Virtually nobody is pricing in what's coming in AI.

I wrote an essay series on the AGI strategic picture: from the trendlines in deep learning and counting the OOMs, to the international situation and The Project.

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Trump claims his deal is better than the Obama deal because the Iranian regime have told him they don't want a nuclear weapon

I'm speechless

[Pablo Malo @pitiklinov]

Este artículo explica por qué en las universidades americanas suelen mandar los peores académicos. Lo que ocurre sería esto:

Los profesores buenos (los que publican mucho, investigan bien y generan conocimiento) no quieren dejar su trabajo de investigación para ser administradores (decanos, rectores, etc.). Les gusta la libertad de investigar, tienen prestigio y no quieren perder tiempo en reuniones, papeleo y burocracia. Aunque los administradores ganan más dinero, para ellos es como un “castigo”.

En cambio, los profesores mediocres (los que no logran publicar lo suficiente ni conseguir plaza fija) ven la administración como su salvación. No tienen futuro como investigadores, así que se meten en cargos administrativos, donde sus habilidades burocráticas y de “política interna” les sirven.

El resultado es que las universidades terminan siendo dirigidas por personas que fracasaron en lo más importante (la investigación y la enseñanza), y ahora controlan y ponen reglas a los que sí lo hacen bien.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Every Trump foreign policy failure from Iran to Ukraine traces back to one source: JD Vance.

His isolationist cabal is dragging America into a dangerous abyss of retreat and appeasement.

Trump must stop listening to him now. The world needs America. (@realDonaldTrump)

[Soumitra Shukla @soumitrashukla9]

There is a new emergent caste system in academia. The high priests, thinking what they do is special and rare, look down on AI use as "slop."

Unfortunately for them, Fable / GPT 5.5 Pro can do in 10-15 min what they spent years learning and feeling special about.

So like true high priests they will develop more guardrails and initiation ceremonies to determine who enters the temple. This would be a mistake. The correct approach is to embrace AI use and do more creative science that was not possible before.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@DavidSacks Don’t buy it. The DoD’s previous kurfuffle abate presidents comment about Anthropic’s leadership under cut their credibility.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Anyone else NOT OK with the President of the United States sharing posts from the Iran regime foreign minister?

ANYONE???

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@BojanRadojici10 Dashboard, I'd love to see how you produced that.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@EthanHowar63832 @BrandonWarmke Because they know there’s no need?

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@BuzzPatterson Destroy it. Pay the global energy bill and bankrupt Iran.

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@IsraelArmyX @grok is this true?

[Bill Parks @BillP2001]

@DavidLimbaugh It's a 40-year-old helicopter, and it's a helicopter. Big heat signature, big radar signature, and slow.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

There's always a tweet