Omair Shahid

Product of progressive public policy; raised by public libraries and public education that produced a passion for politics. and apparently alliteration

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

“When you choose who to follow on Twitter, you are choosing your future thoughts.”

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Reading a tweet is a bit like downloading an (attacker-controlled) executable that you instantly run on your brain. Each one elicits emotions, suggests knowledge, nudges world-view.

In the future it might feel surprising that we allowed direct, untrusted information to brain.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

@bloom_lion @FlicksandChill She only says “oh fuck” once he starts the hypothetical admitting he’s an alien, not the Hogwarts or Obama giveaways.

She’s reacting to him going off script and screwing up their plan, not suddenly realizing Hal was right.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Yeah but the wrong kind

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@jeneserois autism and technoreligiosity

[Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 @DStrachman]

Existential hope is one of my favorite ideas. Mitigating risk is important but if we don't have a vision for something better we will steer into our fear.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Everything is computer

[Rafa Schwinger 🇻🇦 @Rafa_Schwinger]

Any sort of electric heater that people have should be a computer. That is the obvious way to solve this issue. Due to the constraints of thermodynamics, simply heating up resistance to produce heat is the worst possible way to use electric energy. and much cleaner than just burning gas somewhere.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Epistemic exceptionalism is a banger

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do”

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Chamath fed Dario Amodei's own essays into Claude and asked for a psychological profile. What came back should be required reading for every investor in frontier AI.

The model identified a pattern.

Dario distrusts other labs. He distrusts authoritarian states. He distrusts markets to distribute the gains fairly. He distrusts institutions to move fast enough. And after Mythos, he distrusts the government to wield power transparently. That is a very long list of untrustworthy actors.

The list of trustworthy ones is conspicuously short. And it has a suspicious tendency to resolve toward people who reason the way he does, operating under rules he helped design.

Claude named it precisely. Not megalomania. Epistemic exceptionalism.

The quiet, defensible conviction that disagreement is always downstream of error. That when your safety framework requires someone to hold the keys and your analysis keeps concluding every other key holder cannot be trusted, you have built a machine that outputs the same answer no matter what you feed it.

The tell was a single word.

When the Mythos situation collapsed, Anthropic called it a misunderstanding. That word choice under pressure assumes that if everyone simply understood correctly, they would agree with him.

Sacks put it simply on the pod. They believe AI is super dangerous and only they are virtuous enough to control it.

That is not a safety framework.

That is a monopoly with a philosophy attached.

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[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

The Entire History of You

[roon @tszzl]

this will be true across all walks of life

I would expect our whole lives to be recorded and the sheer signal density of your physical and digital presence to go 10,000x

agents and computers to sift through all of it

really it’s a form of worship of human life

[Kelechi || Brand Designer @Kelechigraphixs]

I was like WOW 😯..

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

You can just decide to do stuff

[Sarah Marilyn @sarah_marilyn_]

@netcapgirl And the anti-datacenter public opinion wave has to be stopped. This is the new hill I will die on

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

Congrats to @nyknicks . America’s more fun when New York’s happy

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Childhood dream come true tonight

[Jeff Eisenband @JeffEisenband]

PG: Stephon Marbury
SG: Jamal Crawford
SF: Quentin Richardson
PF: Zach Randolph
C: Eddy Curry
Bench: David Lee, Nate Robinson, Jared Jeffries, Wilson Chandler, Fred Jones

I thought the 2007-08 Knicks were a title contender.

They went 23-59.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Once a Knick, always a Knick 💙🧡

THIS ONE IS FOR THEM.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Have you heard the myth of “Jack of Blades”?

[Brooklyn! @imbabybrooklyn]

fable was pretty good tbh

[Jonathan Rousseau @RousseauJ]

@JDabz87 I need this on a shirt

[sydney @demiurgently]

always thought harry potter series was unrealistically pessimistic about how few characters would care to learn more how the magic actually works & then u watch people interact with llms

[renji @brickroad7]

Fable is an early look into the bureaucratic hell Anthropic wants to create in AI.

3 month delay to get released.
Randomly routed in biology, cyber and distillation.
Weird sociopathic quiet harmfulness in ml topics.
Goes away on June 22.
Have to apply to get access to 'real' Mythos.

What an exhausting tiresome dystopia.

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

Most exciting Fable news this week

[Fable @fable]

Fable launches February 23, 2027.

Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is everything, and fairytale endings are never guaranteed.

✨ Pre-Order to receive the Pre-Order Content Pack, featuring the questionably heroic Chicken Suit and a collection of charming in-game gifts: https://t.co/AAMTOsZV9b

*Pre-orders open later today

#Fable #FableTheGame #XBOXShowcase | @WeArePlayground

[Omair Shahid @OmairS]

@jalenbrunson1 wanted to be @SteveNash

@wemby needs to be @kaj33

[Colb @___Colb___]

7’5” and wants to be Kobe Bryant I just don’t understand.

[Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell]

@stanverrett Although, my Dad, Bill Russell, had some advice on guarding Kareem’s sky hook! Really smart stuff!