Jesse Heasman

VC / angel / building

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

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[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

Martyn's Law is a well meaning but dreadful piece of legislation (most laws named after people are).

It's the job of the police & security services to keep us safe from terrorists - not community volunteers etc.

[Anglofuturism @anglofuturismco]

To get the AI industry and manufacturing revival we want, Britain needs an energy settlement that lets them grow.

@jesseheasman argues that cheaper electricity is fundamental to those ambitions. He points to @fuseenergy's attempt to own more of the process of producing and supplying energy as an example: a company using the constraints that other businesses face as a competitive advantage.

The companies being built now are laying foundations for the next wave of industrial growth. Progress on energy costs is the first priority for getting British dynamism up and running.

Sponsored by Isembard.

[Aeron Laffere @aeronlaffere]

Underdiscussed because you won't catch a Westminster wonk venturing south of the river. The free state of Bermondsey, Greenwich, and Southwark is the new industrial base. Also the bakeries go crazy.

[Mark Mantis @TheGhostSleepi1]

You are starting to see mainstream architects rediscovering principles which work- classical proportions, bay windows etc. & an interesting move towards decorative brickwork. Proportion wise for example this Exeter project is almost Georgian if you add sash windows.

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

@anglofuturismco @tomough @CalumDrysdale @discoplomacy loved being almost live 🫡

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

Great to join the @anglofuturismco lads on the latest in UK tech and VC investment - Q3 is set to be another corker based on early figures

[Anglofuturism @anglofuturismco]

AI doom and Britain’s factory boom

Almost live from the King Charles III Space Station, our orbital thatched pub.

@tomough and @calumdrysdale welcome @discoplomacy on the AI frontier and Britain’s role in making it safer, then Jesse Heasman of https://t.co/IEHgchxufM on the money flowing into British chips, robotics and factories.

Plus Antarctic patrol ships, geothermal strawberries, protected bats and a manganese nodule with a CIA backstory.

Full episode below. Sponsored by Isembard.

[Anglofuturism @anglofuturismco]

AI doom and Britain’s factory boom

Almost live from the King Charles III Space Station, our orbital thatched pub.

@tomough and @calumdrysdale welcome @discoplomacy on the AI frontier and Britain’s role in making it safer, then Jesse Heasman of https://t.co/IEHgchxufM on the money flowing into British chips, robotics and factories.

Plus Antarctic patrol ships, geothermal strawberries, protected bats and a manganese nodule with a CIA backstory.

Full episode below. Sponsored by Isembard.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

A reminder that nobody has done the reading, and if you do that alone you’ll soon find yourself absurdly ahead of the curve

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

@BenRamanauskas @daniel_sawko Boshh

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

who is building the Kalypta blocker?

[Aida Baradari @aidaxbaradari]

Today, we’re releasing Kalypta, the first app to block AI notetakers in your meetings.

Granola? Wisprflow? Cluely? No more.

With Kalypta, you become inaudible to AI.

Your call continues normally.

[Keith Rabois @rabois]

99.9% likely.

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Free markets, free compute, free people

[Alexander Fitzgerald @AFitzgerald1992]

Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)

[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.

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

Nothing to see here

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Report reveals at least 62,199 people were arrested in Britain for “speech-related offenses” between 2021 & 2025.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.

Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let’s keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

bookmarking for l8r

[Arena Magazine @arenamag]

Read it here: https://t.co/KFjvVewzVg

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

@olddog7777 Gotta be done

[Laurie Owen @imlaurieowen]

proof of work

[Jesse Heasman @jesseheasman]

@rehan_m_baig haha - one sec I’ll WhatsApp him