Daniel

Entrepreneur • Property • Advisor
Founder: Sterling GAP, 4x4 Tyres (exit), DV8 Works
Unlocking leverage in businesses & assets | UK → UAE

[Daniel @DanOperates]

I build companies. I lead my family. I lift heavy.
Not because it’s easy, but because it’s my role.

Men were made for weight.
Physical. Mental. Financial.
Carry it well.

[Ernest Bledsoe @PincheOgro1]

So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?

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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Well said on socialism versus capitalism.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@Skyler_Tea ❤️ how we react defines us.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@marianagnche 😂😂 facts too. Obvious ones.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

Congratulations China and well played. Welcome as the new tech leaders of the world.

Without a shot fired, Wokeism, Suicidal Empathy and now greed disguised as worry handed over the next hundred years world leadership.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

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.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@kezia_noble Our schooling system doesn't educate our children in this way - so the headlines mean nothing to them - only when it is too late will people realise

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@drhingram @LozzaFox Suicidal empathy just reached a whole new level.

The UK is lost, and Birmingham my home town is amongst the leading culprits.

Sad to see, unfortunately cannot wait to leave the UK and pay tax to a nation that protects their people

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@kaitduffy Learned wisdom 🙏

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@rexs_ma I’m the same for any large festival. Its just gross, noisy, dirty yuck

I’d rather pay more and see who ever it is in a small group or miss out entirely.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@JamesonCamp @martinmartinmro We need this in the UK.

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@Footinit Don’t get me started on the Sahara and how they should pay to wash this sand from my car

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@Footinit Omg my village does exactly this. Why would you be selfish and celebrate with fireworks 😂😂 how dare you do anything without prior consultation etc.

The best is a guy who moans about everyone in the village and yet leaves his dog pooh everywhere 😬

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@Connkks Too many people oddly live for how they think others perceive them. Crazy a/f

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@mathildeanita fact

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@DrEliDavid World, if you have any criminals, low life’s and burdens on the wider society; our doors are open for them too - free house included.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@CarlyJs88 CJ - Go private, honestly, my better half is on this journey and while the NHS will offer the radiotherapy should that be needed, private was much better for diagnosis ( we use both side by side )

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@OverReactor1776 Exceptional piece and outstanding leadership. The world needs more of this kind of open, fact-based leadership—leaders who can distill a problem down to its root cause, remove the constraint, and then let people build, baby, build.

Inspiring.

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@RobLipsett @PhantomStays Barcelona W is one of my favs ( Soho House in the town is pretty epic too )

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@MetaMona_ @missteencrypto @LTCFoundation @litecoin Who’s he ?

[Daniel @DanOperates]

@FORTAFY Fact. Everyone wants the dream but only 1% of the 1% will put in the effort needed