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[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.

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@dnapway That certainly wasn’t Jesus’ playbook!

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@netflixsports Camara coverage is a disaster

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@GuyAdami Biden AND Harris? Huh???? I know we can temporarily lose that “feel” in the markets, but this is just too big a miss.

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@AHaschi Well, just remember the 80-20 rule. We should be more concerned with what the 20% think and do!

[JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974]

Man ask Megyn Kelly to rank President Obama. Says he was his favorite President and it was great seeing a beautiful black man in office.

LEFTIST : "It was nice to see a beautiful black man back in office"

Megyn Kelly walks an OBAMA supporter back through his president years and shows him why he is so decisive and how he injected racism into our society and finally why she thinks that Obama was not only a bad president but was a bad man.

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@trendlyric Who is directing this coverage??? Glad to see @BKoepka back, but why is CBS fixated on his struggles today? I’d much rather see Jake Knapp, who finished-15!! Bozos in charge at @CBSSports

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@thebigsmooth1 @espn Who is directing this coverage??? Glad to see @BKoepka back, but why is CBS fixated on his struggles today? I’d much rather see Jake Knapp, who finished-15!! Bozos in charge at @CBSSports

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@SteveSchmidtSES 🤡 show

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@JohnKasich How about just obeying the law and quit amping up the temperature??

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@KeithOlbermann Well @KeithOlbermann you may notice a pattern that many intelligent people aren’t smooth talkers or snake oil salesman…like @CAgovernor Their minds work at a different speed and level than what you are accustomed. Just try to keep up!

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This is insane.

With no desire to stop the fraud, California politicians insist that they will start taxing property and assets of the richest Californians now.

When these richest Californians leave, which I guarantee they will, especially when they understand the extent of the rot, the middle class will be the only group left to plug the hole because they are the largest collective taxpayers in the state.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The Legacy Media no longer sees it as their responsibility to bring transparency and accountability to the government. Rather, as loyal members of the Democrat Party, they deflect attention and punish critics so their fellow Party members can loot and plunder the American people.

[Glenn Youngkin @GlennYoungkin]

What a night in Blacksburg! Thank you @MrsErikaKirk, @TPUSA, and the thousands of students who packed into Burruss Hall tonight for making sure America’s Turning Point endures.

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@TheEconomist Canceling my subscription tomorrow!!!

[MLB @MLB]

Billy Wagner will forever be known as the first left-handed relief pitcher to be inducted into the @BaseballHall 😮

Take a deep dive into Wagner's incredible Hall of Fame career: https://t.co/pXwm8aQjMN

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@IanJaeger29 Best news ever! Need a realtor?

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@Timothy_Bellman @PressSec Following that logic, @JoeBiden should have resined in Aug 2021 with the colossal Afghanistan withdrawal debacle

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@johnlu0x @elonmusk Yeah….that makes a lot sense… 🙄