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[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

@MattPRD @Muse Hey there! UAE here :)

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

Bien Criteria y Mouro aquí, aunque sea indirectamente. Echo de menos un fondo soberano que se meta en estos líos.

Me gustaría saber si alguien de España Crece (@ICOgob) tiene idea de que esta compañía existe.

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

Related:
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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Analysis reveals Waymo’s self-driving vehicles were roughly 900% safer than human drivers across 25.3 million autonomous miles.

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

Told ya. Atoms está listo desde hace tiempo.

Se vienen reels de Peseto Loko

[EL MUNDO @elmundoes]

#ÚltimaHora 🔴 Uber recibe la autorización de la DGT para hacer la primera prueba de coches autónomos en Madrid y lanzar el servicio antes de fin de año https://t.co/VSaw4Wkziz

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

True story. Muy comentada entre la gente de Talgo, Sener y demás por estas tierras.

Hay varias más, seguramente apócrifas, como el que descarriló un tren porque estaba jugando al Candy Crush, o el que se llevó a su sobrino para que operase el tren mientras él dormía.

[eric ゑリｯ久 @shinobu_books]

Spain built a high speed train in Saudia Arabia and was going to simply dispatch their own drivers, however as the train went to Mecca, the drivers had to be followers of Islam.

So, they hired Saudis and brought them to Spain to learn how to operate the trains but they lacked concentration and ended up skipping stations.
In the end Spain hired Pakistani drivers.

[thijs @cdngdev]

i gave astra a robot, a paint brush, and a camera then asked it to paint the golden gate bridge in real life!

it figured out how to control the robot, and progressively got better throughout its attempts. the timelapse is sick

[bodila @51bodila]

Gavin Baker: "The Magnificent 7 ( Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla ) - today priced at $10-12 trillion, will for sure go to $50-100 trillion. But one or two of those companies will go extinct "

this is him on which AI companies will survive, Elon Musk's predictions - and where the safest money will be made

"Google, Meta, and xAI - the only foundation-model companies at the application layer that will have enterprise value in five years"

when AI could surpass all of humanity: "Elon predicted three years - I think five years is a reasonably safe prediction."

"There’s for sure FOMO. Our job as investors is not to give in to FOMO. If you gave in to FOMO in 2021, you went all in on crypto and application SaaS... Application SaaS, I think, is done."

"The leading labs in America have very effectively weaponized fear of China moving ahead of America. So there’s going to be no regulation - for better or worse."

bookmark & watch - read article below ↓

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

Tengo una idea, @vonderleyen 🧐

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Damn somehow I missed that Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence developers & researchers working on "advanced AI" to 20 years in prison (!!)

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Welles Crowther.

24 years old. Equities trader on the 104th floor of the South Tower. Former volunteer firefighter. He carried a red bandana in his back pocket every day because his father had given it to him as a boy. “One to show and one to blow.”

When the second plane hit, he called his mother.

“Mom, this is Welles. I wanted you to know that I’m okay.”

Those were the last words she ever heard from him.

He didn’t stay on 104.

He went down to the 78th-floor sky lobby, where people were burned, bleeding, and lost. Survivors later described a calm young man with a red bandana over his face who found the one working stairwell and started moving them.

He carried a woman on his back for 17 floors.

Then he told the group to keep going and turned around.

He went back up.

He did it more than once.

At least a dozen people who made it out later identified him from photographs as the stranger who saved them. They never knew his name that morning. They just knew the red bandana.

He could have walked out with them.

He didn’t.

They found his body months later in the wreckage, near the firefighters.

Think about the ordinary lives that continued because a 24-year-old kid in a suit decided the people on the 78th floor were his responsibility.

Birthdays. Weddings. Kids who grew up with their parents.

And a mother who only got that one short voicemail.

Welles Crowther. Hero.

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

@vinates @maisaAI_ Brillante

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Delta Flight 15 takes off from Frankfurt at dawn.

On board: 218 passengers. Families. Business travelers. A pregnant woman. Shirley Brooks-Jones, 65 years old, heading home to Columbus, Ohio.

Five hours into the flight, a note reaches the cockpit.

All U.S. airspace is closed. Land immediately.

The captain says nothing about why. He tells passengers it's a minor instrument problem. Privately, the crew already knows about the World Trade Center.

Gander International Airport. Newfoundland, Canada. Midday.

The plane touches down 400 miles off its route. Out the window, passengers count 38 other jumbo jets already parked on the tarmac.

By nightfall, 53 international flights sit grounded here. Nearly 6,600 people are stuck, with nowhere to go.

Nobody is allowed off.

For 28 hours, 218 people sit inside that plane. No real answers. No word on what's happening back home.

Here's what makes it worse: most of them don't yet know if their own families are safe.

Word finally spreads through the cabin. Two hijacked planes. The towers. The Pentagon. A field in Pennsylvania.

The plane goes silent.

Gander. Day two.

Passengers finally step off the aircraft. They're bused 45 kilometers to a town called Lewisporte.

Population: just over 3,300 people.

Lewisporte has no idea 218 strangers are about to double its guest capacity overnight. It doesn't matter.

The mayor puts out one call for bedding and food.

The whole town answers.

Schools close. Churches open. The Lions Club clears its hall and sets up cots by hand. High schoolers skip class to serve meals and translate for confused travelers.

The pregnant passenger is placed in a home across the street from urgent care.

Elderly passengers are welcomed into private houses, not shelters.

Phone lines are opened for free, unlimited, day and night.

When passengers try to pay shopkeepers back, the answer is always no.

Nobody in Lewisporte will take a dollar.

Local volunteers even bring out screech, the region's famous rum, and host a mock "screeching-in" ceremony to make the exhausted travelers laugh.

For three days, this town of fishermen and loggers cares for people it has never met and will likely never see again.

Brooks-Jones later calls it something simple.

She says: "the most beautiful experience I have ever had in my life."

Gander Airport. Three days later. Departure.

Flight 15 is finally cleared to fly home.

Before takeoff, Brooks-Jones asks the captain for one thing: permission to speak on the intercom.

He hands her the microphone.

She reminds everyone what Lewisporte just did for them. Then she asks for something back.

Pledge sheets start moving up the aisle.

Business travelers write checks. Strangers pass around pens. By the time wheels touch down in Atlanta, passengers have pledged $15,000.

Brooks-Jones doesn't stop there.

Back in Columbus, she calls the Columbus Foundation. An anonymous donor hears the story and matches it instantly, doubling it to $30,000.

In 2002, the fund gets a name: the Lewisporte Area Flight 15 Scholarship Fund.

It's built for one purpose. Send local kids to college.

More than two decades later.

The fund is still active.

It has sent more than 300 students from the Lewisporte area to college and trade school. Doctors. Nurses. Engineers. Teachers.

Some of them weren't born yet when Flight 15 landed.

Brooks-Jones has flown back to Newfoundland more than two dozen times since 2001. She still shows up for graduation ceremonies.

The friendships that started on cots in a high school gym are still going, more than 20 years on.

Most people who know this story didn't hear it from a history book.

They heard it from a Broadway stage. Lewisporte and Gander's kindness became a musical called "Come From Away." It has since played in cities across the world.

Few people watching that show realize the scholarship fund behind it is still cutting checks to real students, every single year.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

I had never heard this name before and I don't even know what to say.

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

We keep theorizing.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Excellent OpEd in the FT by Mario Draghi arguing that (1) without higher productivity Europe cannot sustain our social model; (2) that AI is our best possibility to do that; (3) that dependence on US and China makes this hard for sovereignty.
He proposes building up European compute, using our data advantage, and pooling corporate demand to finance it.
https://t.co/bWiWDmjoQ6

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[Marco Mascorro @Mascobot]

The most important thing I learned from Ray Kurzweil in the early days of Singularity U is how bad the human brain is at understanding exponential growth and rates of change, and how bad humans are at extrapolating from them. He was right.

The number one thing people have consistently gotten wrong about AI model capabilities is that they look at a snapshot of current capabilities rather than the rate of change and progress.

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

@vivasonico ¡Google no ha muerto! 🤣

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

Growth Is a Search Problem , by @joaquinmencia https://t.co/94bdQYFrsy

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

@danielgrifol @carlosrmaribona Related https://t.co/quSdr9VHZN

[Kurt Elster @kurtinc]

AI-pilled tech bros on X are a living example of the false consensus effect.

Case study from my neighbor's backyard. He had four friends over to brew beer: high school teacher, lawyer, physical therapist, CPA. All mid-30s, all college educated. AI came up. They'd used ChatGPT to write emails. That was as far as it went. They thought Claude was made by Google. When I asked if they used AI to shop, they were confused by the question. "Like Google Shopping?"

[Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug]

Holy shit. Anthropic caught Iran using Claude to target Navy bases, automate dossiers on Americans, and run influence campaigns on US social media. Details are insane. The morons uploaded everything including the organization plans of the Ayatollah's funderal lmao

[J. Mencía @joaquinmencia]

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[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

About a year ago, a Princeton student named Kyler Zhou was sitting in traffic in New Jersey. At some point he was so bored that he put on a podcast with… me 🙃

It was my usual talk about the talent crisis. About the smartest kids of a generation going to work for McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, while the biggest problems in the world go unsolved, blablabla, you may have heard it by now ;)

What’s interesting is what happened next. As soon as Kyler got home, he emailed me and The School for Moral Ambition (the organization we started to get talented people working on the world's biggest problems).

Kyler wanted to bring this to Princeton.

Well, we told him no 😅. We had just launched our first university fellowship at Harvard, and there was no capacity for a second campus...

Kyler decided to ignore us. Three days into the semester, he launched the first* Moral Ambition Chapter at a university in the United States. In just a few days, more than 120 Princeton students signed up. In November of last year I visited, and the energy was simply AMAZING.

Since then, everything has been escalating. Students have started Moral Ambition Chapters at Brown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown and 5 other campuses – often before we've heard of them.

Which brings me to today. After the launch of our Harvard Fellowship (8% of ALL Harvard juniors applied to the first cohort!), we're now also launching Moral Ambition Fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt and Stanford. The program is simple: twelve super talented students per campus, a $15,000 stipend, and a summer working full-time on the most important causes of our time, like lead poisoning or child poverty or ending factory farming or AI safety etc. – instead of polishing a boring corporate pitch deck.

It's just incredible to see how quickly this movement is growing. Every year, thousands of brilliant graduates are funneled into corporate careers that add little to the world. More and more of them are starting to walk the other way.

(For students: applications for Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Vanderbilt are open now. Stanford opens October 6. https://t.co/3dM17vtNbC)

* Brown University claims that they were actually the first – I've decided to stay neutral in this quarrel 😅