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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.

This will be the first of many.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Yann’s comment on the Roadster reminded me of another Stanford professor I interacted with years ago. Highly positioned and theoretically brilliant, they can’t turn numbers into coordinated atoms.

Their manufacturing knowledge came from The Economist. Factory visits involved VIP treatment with executives as workers buzzed around. They don’t grasp how atoms move in production or the ingenuity of turning equations into reality through choreographed coordination.

The most impressive manufacturing engineers I’ve worked with weren’t Ivy League graduates, yet they create things that catch your heart. They turn theoretical math into reality—the real magicians.

A month at Tesla taught me more than the most prestigious school could.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Kushner’s fund owns 7% of a public holding company that in turn has invested in hundreds of other companies and funds

Meanwhile, CNN’s parent company owns 44% of a private equity fund (TCG 2.0-A) with a major stake in a company (Everlywell) whose new product was promoted on CNN this week (on Oct 1)

By CNN’s standard, CNN should perhaps focus on investigating CNN

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Never doom.
Always accelerate.
e/acc

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is Trust & Safety 2.0.

The last time we had media-generated panics like this (with Russiagate and Covid), social media companies created “trust & safety” teams to censor conservative and dissident voices. Those hires worked with left-wing NGOs like the SPLC to police public discourse and do an end-run around the First Amendment. It almost worked, until Elon bought Twitter and exposed the whole game in the Twitter Files.

This time the plan is to embed unfireable EA minders inside every AI company as the new trust-and-safety layer. The censorship and control will be far more comprehensive, but also more subtle. Anytime they don’t get what they want, this unaccountable NGO layer (with the veneer of “trust the experts” pseudoscience) will shriek to the press that the AI company is risking humanity, and they will be celebrated as “whistleblowers.”

These groups haven’t earned our trust, and their agenda is not our safety.

https://t.co/3eIsHxaC7h

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

How the hell do you laugh while the names of those murdered on 9/11 are being read aloud?

Why would you do so?

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Mandami and AOC sharing a good laugh while the names of 9/11 victims are read is quite the visual

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

What sports are all about.

[David @dayonefoundry]

"Hi I'm a Cybercab"
"And I'm a Waymo"

[Todd Headlee @ToddHeadleeAZ]

I thought @jaredkushner gave a spot on magnificent answer to the really nasty-toned question from @RichardEngel . Kudos to Jared 👏👏👏👏👏

[Nicholas Mugalli @RealNickMugalli]

This is my absolute favorite CNBC moment of all time. He never gave a shit even when it wasn’t popular…

Absolute legend! Happy retirement .@RickSantelli 🐐

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

@RickSantelli is retiring. And one can make the argument that this was his greatest moment ever in putting the pious @andrewrsorkin completely in his place over lockdowns.

Looking back now, who do you think was right at the time?

[JD Vance @JDVance]

The midterm elections present a very clear choice: crazy vs common sense. Democrats are fighting to open our borders, raise your taxes, and allow criminals to roam free on our streets. Republicans are fighting for an America we can all be proud of.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 https://t.co/5ajzizjI8F LIVES AGAIN: DSA EXPLORER 🚨
🕸️ MAP THE FAR-LEFT NETWORK AND THEIR FOREIGN SUPPORTS. 🌹

I've just launched the DSA Explorer, an interactive map of the Democratic Socialists of America and the wider anti-imperialist solidarity network. This map is based on over a year's worth of research that's collected within my setup.

Click any org, person, or project and walk the network one tie at a time. Start at DSA and see where it leads.

🖥️ Data-heavy! Best viewed on desktop.

📖 This is a preview of what's coming: DataRepublican v2.0 — a full site redesign — launches soon, ahead of my and @JoshuaLisec book UNELECTED (Passage Press, Oct 13).

And, yes, I can build similar maps for the Soros network, democracy organizations, and much more.

👇 Try it now (link in next post):

[Netwizzerd @Netwizzerd]

@SpaceX @elonmusk Incredible! So inspiring.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

Be a chainbreaker - Dad’s are everything ❤️

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Journalists are aggressively defending Fauci, despite his diaries showing that he repeatedly lied to the public. The reason is that, after years of dehumanizing Covid dissidents based on his lies, media elites can’t cope with the enormity of their failure. By @GalexyBrane

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This is the spirit that built this nation

Ryder Williams and Jordan Salinas