2024 World Series Champions

six time pro bowlers can get knocked out too, Brandon

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

Why is every response and QT to this wrong lol. It’s because nobody knows what an agent is and if they have heard of, they have no idea what use they would have for it. I’m prob a top 10% AI user and I still don’t really get it. This is a marketing problem

[Josh Miller @joshm]

Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.

These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.

Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.

Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.

Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).

Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.

Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

@aakashgupta @ATabarrok @pangram

[hb @h3xenbrenner2]

even if you paused your game to be somewhere?

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

Is it possible we’re overupdating on Kimi here just a tad?

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

if you took almost any output from an LM of the last year, showed it to a version of yourself from five years ago, and said, “your future teenage kid wrote this,” you’d be ecstatic and think your future child was a genius. slop isn’t that which is bad—it’s that which is common.

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

@NatPurser people are only actively repulsed by ai slop if they have already read tons of ai slop imo

[roon @tszzl]

hypothesis:

the writing styles of language models are basically fine, they weren’t better in some halcyon before times. we just use them so much that we get annoyed by their mannerisms. they need to have a superhumanly diverse idiolect to not become grating

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

This is all very dumb and bad but has nobody at this company full of literal nerds thought of just…waiting like a month and putting out Fable with a different name and a tiny weight tweak? There’s zero chance anyone in government would catch on

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

REUTERS - "Sources" have revealed that the USG's decision to ban Mythos-class models was driven in part by their ominous name.

"We were in the Situation Room watching 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' with the megacorp doing 'Project Nemesis'," said our source. "At one point Marco Rubio said 'Plot hole, why is any government allowing something called "Project Nemesis" to proceed? Would we really do that?' We all laughed for a few seconds and then we decided that nothing called Mythos was ever going to see the light of day."

Another source within the national security community confirmed that this sentiment was widespread. "If we let a corporation go forward with some project they call 'Mythos' and all hell broke loose, it'd be our own damn fault for lack of genre-savviness," said one highly-placed official. "Half of what we natsec guys do all day boils down to us desperately trying not to be the oblivious government from a stereotypical disaster movie."

PR representatives for Anthropic were slow to respond, but eventually got back to us.

"We're decently sure that Mythos 5 will not be the AI that destroys the world," said their statement. "Maybe 5.2 or 5.3? The name 'Mythos' refers to a large body of related fiction. It's not ominous at all. We definitely didn't get any secret kicks out of naming it that. This is unfair discrimination."

Asked whether the USG had similar plans to impose restrictions on GPT 5.5-Pro -- which some evaluations showed as having similarly quantified abilities to Mythos in some dimensions, but which did not produce the same reported sense of a new intelligence leap -- administration officials were ambiguous.

"Our decision to restrict AI models is a complex function of their evals, their felt intelligence, how ominously they're named, the size of bribe directed at the Trump administration, and how much that CEO has personally pissed off administration officials," said one highly placed source on background. "That's why we don't want any written laws about it. Say OpenAI starts delivering bribes on the same level that Nvidia uses to ignore export restrictions on B200s, and names their next model series Cutekitten. They could easily get up to GPT 6.2 before running into trouble. We're currently considering how to weigh those political realities against the prospect of GPT 6.2's internal deployment within OpenAI building another AI, that builds another AI, that destroys the entire Earth and creates an expanding wave of death in the form of self-replicating space probes."

Long-standing "AI safety" organizations declined to comment, saying that they were too torn between laughing and screaming to figure out which emotion should predominate.

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

NYT: "You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist"

Tucker Carlson: "I have not said that"

NYT: You said, "Here's a leader mocking the Gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of Gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist?"

TC: "I actually did not say 'could this be the Antichrist?'"

NYT: ***plays clip of him saying exactly that***

TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips"

[wanye @xwanyex]

Everybody talks about sleep and sleep training, but to me the most unreasonable thing about babies is how they always want you to stand when you’re holding them. Don’t even dare sit down. Any particular advantage to standing? Is it more comfortable? Does it help us accomplish anything? Nope. Do it anyway! Do not sit on that couch. I’m going to need you to stand.

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

Because he knows a thousand dudes are gonna swarm and “break it up” within seconds. Basketball is so corny. Let these dudes hockey fight occasionally and see how their behavior changes lol

[🌧️ @wstgoat7]

Not a single fear shown in those eyes LMAOOO

[kev mahserejian @RotoSurgeon]

sean mcvay: let’s grab another weapon for stafford here or protection since we’ll be extending him off an mvp year

less snead seeing his buddy’s son available at pick 13:

[I Don’t Watch Film (Football Analytics) @NoFilm_Analysis]

I’m convinced Howie Roseman might genuinely be the only good drafting GM in the NFL and it pisses me off as a Giants fan

[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

if ANYONE stops ai development then we will ALL die of otherwise preventable illnesses

and even if you dont die, you will be forced to labor your entire life and will require tons of upfront capital in order to do anything significant

here is eliezer yudkowsky’s home address:

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

i see ppl talking about their babies waking up hourly at like 10 months. my baby went from doing this and acting like his crib was a vat of snakes to smiling and babbling happily every time we plop him in his crib because of one week of ferber.

the discourse around ferber traumatizing kids is a lie and is outright ruining ppl’s lives. my baby loves going to sleep now. his total crying per day was reduced by *hours* and my sanity fully restored. you’re not doing your kid any favors by not letting them learn self-soothing.

[Gainfully Employed Robot @Jube02]

Started/Going

[kingtisemedia @kingtisemedia]

Real hoops

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

Grown kids tell others (or me, especially) how much they miss it and to not wish it away, I want to punch them square in the teeth lol

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

I am going to also say, for anyone in the thick of it with 2+ kids especially if they’re little ones, it’s ok to look forward to no longer being in the thick of it. These posts are so funny because they highlight how quickly our brains dump the negative aspects of babies/toddlers

[Sanjeev @geniusparadox]

This was a moment that hit me this morning. My son is 9 now and stopped letting me or mrs bathe him a year ago. He eats on his own, has his own plans for sunday with his friends, is slowly losing the god-like innocence and many such changes. It has made me realise how quickly time has flew from him being the baby in our arms to a young boy. Thankfully daughter still wants me to feed her, wants me to carry her around and sing her laali to put her to sleep. But now i know this wont last forever and she too will soon ‘fly out’ of our arms.

My advise to all young parents- hold your kids close as much as you can while you can, time flies very fast and you will only wish you took more time out to have them as your little babies when you could! As hectic and tiring as it can be when they are little, later independent time is very boring and you will only be left wishing.

[2024 World Series Champions @JHaggrid]

It is absolutely exhausting, maddening at times…it takes everything from you and many people struggle keeping their mental health and marriage in tact as a result of it. And I love it! I love my kids and I would do it over 10 times out of 10. But everytime I hear someone with