NoFriendlyFire

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

Life lesson: always listen to Cassandras.

[ShortShort News @ShortShort_News]

Japanese professor, Murakami of Tokyo University of Science made an amazing finding.

The Pfizer's vaccine contains the SV40 sequence which is known as a promoter of the cancer virus. The SV40 sequence is completely unnecessary to produce the mRNA vaccine.

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

More deep, nobody cares about the UK anymore

[Philip Pilkington @philippilk]

The boomers and Gen-Xers are, in my experience, completely flummoxed by the loss of prestige of British educational institutions. Part of the “deal” for working in overcrowded London was to try to get your kid into Eton-then-Cambridge. Increasingly no one outside of UK cares. 🇬🇧

[LongTheThesis @LongTheThesis]

Exactly. "Human Capital" is just a polite term for thermodynamic energy.

A fiat system carrying $35T in debt requires infinite, compounding energy to survive. Inflation is the transmission mechanism used to quietly siphon your labor while you sleep.

You aren't building a career. You are generating yield for the matrix.

[WikiLeaks @WikiQLeaks]

Pfizer and Moderna synthetic mRNA can persist 3.5 years in the body and produce an endless supply of the potentially lethal Wuhan Spike protein. As antibodies switch from neutralizing IgG1, IgG2 to useless IgG4, Spike becomes unopposed and cellular and tissue level damage sets

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter a dude living off his dad stolen money, pretending he won the same amount at poker games 😂

[Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright]

Fauci Senior Advisor David Morens pleads guilty to "Conspiracy to Commit Offenses and to Defraud the United States" in connection with conspiring with Fauci, Daszak, Keusch, and others to defraud the public about NIH-funded gain-of-function research and the origin of COVID.

[David Boxenhorn @davidboxenhorn]

Everyone is a conservative about what they know best.

-- Conquest’s First Law

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter Told you ;)

https://t.co/XAGrLqdYdx

[Jafar Najafov @JafarNajafov]

Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history.

Here is exactly what happened.

Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice.

But the storage was not the part that broke the internet.

The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected.

They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting.

They never told you.

David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not.

Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model.

Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result.

J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time.

Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built.

This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance.

They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened.

The developer community did not forget that.

WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter Forget the plagiarism, literally the whole thesis is just smart sounding words put one next to the other, to say nothing of substance. With nice pictures. Decolonization studies is objectively an academia scam for kids who want to have fun, there is demand so there is an offer...

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Those that announce they want an honest conversation are first ones to listen & believe the lies.

Let the lies begin with the announcement of an honest conversation.

Stop expecting others to tell you the truth.

It's your job to manage the lies. Not their job to tell the truth.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Surf what you think: swim in how they think.

Think about that.

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

Ppl finally getting it is al PR. AI doomers are just useful idiots doing free marketing.

[Nobody Special @JG_Nuke]

Anyone else notice that all these stories about AI hacking things are coming from company press releases and not whistleblowers?

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Invert, always invert. Jacobi

Most of us feel comfortable with our knowing and uncomfortable with our not.

Invert. In multi-dimensional multiplicative interactions spaces & complex domains, you should be comfortable with your not and uncomfortable with your knowing.

Know that.

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter @cursor_ai Codex is currently strong ;)

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

Reminder there is no bigger sin in uk than misspell

[Jane Coleman @JaneBColeman]

This is brutal - from John McWhorter on the Arday Cambridge fiasco:

"The youngest-ever black professor at Cambridge properly should have been a physical education teacher who did some after-hours tutoring. A make-believe academic who misspelled paltry as poultry in the title slide of a keynote address instead scaled the heights of Britain’s Harvard because of his skin color and his exceptionally long dreadlocks."

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

"Everything is sales"

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Vibe coding is proving that success has never been about having “good ideas.”

When you can convert an idea into working deployable software within days, idea-folk should be cashing in. They aren’t.

It’s always been about connections, inherited advantage and privilege.

There is an opportunity structure to society that guarantees circumstances win over effort.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

If you listen to all the traders, Market Wizards Etc, they don't talk about making money they talk about not losing it.

They don't talk about how much they made, they focus on minimizing the losses .

Apply that to life. Don't focus on the happiness.

Minimize the misery.

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter Here is when they reduced "compute power" for the old model...just before introducing a new model...so now the new model looks comparatively better than the old one 😉

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter I ve see that more than once, it is usually management reducing power/compute for a model class, without telling anyone. The reality is we buy a bundled product made of 3 components: IP (foundational models + architecture), compute and data, with no separate pricing.

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter Meaning, when Opus answers you today it is not the same Opus with all the amazing performances as advertised, it is a "Opus subset optimized with token limits" that answers you. Management decides what amount of compute users are allowed, based on costs vs market competition

[NoFriendlyFire @NoFriendlyFireX]

@ivrespecter No user ever got to use a "full" industrial LLM (anthropic, openai or gemini), meaning all parameters engagement like in an open w. model, and this is due to power/compute costs. The game atm is to keep you as much connected as possible using the least amount of compute possible.