Timothy O'Brien

[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

@TheAliceSmith And they said Elon painted inaccurate pictures of Europe 🤣

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😑

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

nvm I was wrong. I see it now. the reason Fable can't erase is because it is stupid. that's all there is to it. while simplifying Bend (goal: 6k → 5k lines), I came across another dumb function. I asked Fable to remove it.

it said: "no"

I asked why.

it justified: "F is needed because of X"

but X wasn't a thing that happens!

I said: "X can never happen."

it said: "you're right. but F is needed because of Y"

but Y wasn't a thing that happens either!!

I said: "Y can never happen."

it said: "you're wrong. it can. see: <code>"

Fable was right. <code> existed. but it was stupid.

I said: "<code> is AI slop, and should die because <reason>"

it said: "you're right. <code> dies too."

I asked: "... so? can F be removed, then?"

it said: "no, because <reason>"

but reason was ALSO stupid.

I said: "look. this is the code you want: <code>"

it said: "holy shit. that is brilliant. with this, F can be removed."

...

so basically, I had to untangle 4-5 layers of stupid stacked, and even after that, it STILL couldn't see the way out. I had to spell out the solution for it to click

so, being very realistic: this simplification would NEVER have landed autonomously. which is a shame, because it means I still need to work, and I hate working. AGI isn't there yet, and Bend's simplification pass must be done by some human. me being the human 😓 it will be worth it though. at this pace, I expect an Aug 12 launch

that said, and this is the interesting part, none of Fable's code was *wrong*. as far as I can tell, it all worked. it was just done in a stupid, contrived way. so it could make it work, but it couldn't make it elegant

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

And this was the US under Biden:

[Crunio | CGメディア @Botan_cr]

Claude （Opus 5）とThree.jsで構築したプロシージャル砂漠デモを公開した開発者(Any-Reputation8118氏)

GPUクリップマップ、TSLシェーダー、コンピュートシェーダーを活用し、メッシュやテクスチャなしで地形を生成。足跡による砂の変形やGPUクロス、物理ベース天空までリアルタイム描画を実現する。

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The Islamic regime is preparing to hang 18-year-old Shervin Bagherian for participating in the January 2026 protests.

His family has just been called for a final visit. He has been moved into solitary confinement.

This kid is only 18.

DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Imagine a world where you cannot use fire without paying tribute to the powerful because gods believe fire is too dangerous and humans are unfit to use it.

[Mason @webdevMason]

How normal well-adjusted people become libertarians

[Hot Rails — oz/acc @hot_rails]

This is the magnificent library @AnthropicAI amassed, before pulping it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.

These people do not understand Civilization.

[Pid⚡ - e/acc @PichlerD]

What if my wish is a security audit

[Timothy O'Brien @Brien38522]

@tszzl @JeremyKritz Why not just outcompete them? Why do we need to infiltrate and destroy them?

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Thank you for writing this. It is something I have tried to alert folks about, quite repeatedly for the last decade. We have lost 100s of one of a kind manuscripts and books from these folks and Anthropic is the worse offender. They have spent millions going around the world draining private and public libraries of books.

We are the Amnesia Generation and this is The Great Forgetting.

[Depressed Mathematician @retiremeplease]

One can produce the most remarkable result in 100 years in a field as extraordinarily technical and difficult as harmonic analysis/geometric measure theory and still have their intelligence and achievement discredited because they didn't peak in high school on timed math puzzles. What are we doing here lmao

[1024 @1024DevHub]

😂

[Timothy O'Brien @Brien38522]

@Jonathan_Blow @onehappyfellow That description sounds more like Set theory. Category theory is a different beast; high-level, not low-level, as I understand it.

[Seventh @seventhmeal]

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Something is at war with us, “us” being regular citizens who want things to work and to be left alone. We’re slow to react because we think in terms of nations. Our enemies are mafias that wear our governments like a cloak to defeat our eyes, and fly our flags to disarm our minds

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Nobody is saying that all software has to be open source. What they’re saying is that open-weight AI should be allowed. By implication, they’re rejecting your company’s incessant machinations to kneecap the open model ecosystem. Read the room.

[Barbell Financial 💪🏻💰 @BarbellFi]

40% income tax on everything I earn

6.625% sales tax on everything I buy

4% inflation tax on everything I save

$10k/year tax on property I own

I’m tired boss 😔

[Howard ✡. 🟦🇮🇱🎗🧡 @HowardA_AtLaw]

Some background on Mamdani.

His mother, a Hollywood director wrote to the Oscars demanding that Gal Gadot be banned for being Jewish

His father, a Columbia professor wrote an essay praising and urging to normalize suicide bombings

He was raised to hate and harm Jews.