Sean 🔰

Into AI, UK politics, Network States, complex systems.

What comes after AGI?

@SeidoAI

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

Crazy how often top execs can get played by relatively simple political moves. Feel like founders are especially susceptible to this, never having been in the trenches themselves.

I've seen some shocking "shoot yourself in the foot" moments from execs at 9 figure businesses who succumbed to playground tactics.

It makes you realise the most fantastical thing about GoT is these convoluted political chess moves that are almost never ever warranted in real life because you can just read The Prince & 48 Laws of Power like recipe books and hike your way up the corporate ladder.

Real life is much more boring.

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

i still sometimes marvel at the shamelessness of these lieutenants who promised they would deliver GPT-4 (despite never having done anything materially comparable before), when they expected they could just extort a blueprint of how to get there from me.

best case: i cower in fear and cough up the plans, execute on it, and they get credit for "leadership success".

worst case: i refuse and quit, so now there's no one left to question their power.

(great win-win political chess move. it's no wonder they made it that far at meta.)

won't name names yet since there's some chance they've all found god at new places, but let's see :)

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"immigrants do not suddenly become more trusting when they arrive in high-trust societies...the relative trust deficit may even persist intergenerationally. Furthermore, the presence of immigrants may erode social capital within the receiving society" https://t.co/ty1scHyKco

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

A really good proxy for how much I will like a company is

"how easy does this company make it for me to contact them?"

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

SUPERB! Trevor Phillip's BEAUTIFULLY exposes David Lammy and Labour's sickening hypocrisy.

He shows him the receipts of them ALL saying it's ok to feel "fury" and "anger" over George Floyd, while they criticise Farage for saying the same about Henry Nowak.

Satisfying to watch.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

The Network State is an idea waiting in the wings for its moment.

Fundamentally too difficult while territory is hard to acquire, @SpaceX are about to change that forever.

Network states are tailor-made for space.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@s8mb The fact that Keir determined this moral posturing was worth his time tells you all you need to know about the efficacy & priorities of our current PM.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@halvarflake If your brain is atrophying you're not thinking hard enough about the new challenges that effective agentic coding presents.

The skills have changed, you need to learn the new ones.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@Barney_H_Y No he doesn't, he also doesn't know the definition of nationalism. Second rate thinkers in Labour abound.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

Money is the greatest coordination mechanism of all time, allows you to abstract entire inputs / outputs to your business to a 1D number.

Shit would be so much harder without it. Try vertical integration to find out more.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@lucasmeijer Bcz you don't have a way to enforce coherence/ground truth. I'm working on an open source solution to this (hint: use graphs)

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@fchollet https://t.co/m4InwliCUp

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@fchollet I'm building an open source project to do this. Link in comments.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

I love Descartes', "I think therefore I am".

Thinking is a prerequisite for knowing you are, but not for being itself. He could have said "I see, therefore I am" and it would have been equally as true.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

In 2026 a report a bug button is the highest leverage button on your app

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@davidmanheim @jankulveit @gleech I agree, you seem to have chosen the wrong target for your monologue.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

@davidmanheim @jankulveit @gleech No.

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

Gentrification is good. Hate me.

[Sebastian Milbank @SebMilbank]

In some London boroughs, 2 in 5 properties are socially rented. Vast swathes of prime, inner london land is occupied by decaying, poorly managed council housing, inhabited by an economically inactive population. My latest for the @Telegraph https://t.co/VZD5gSszE4

[Sean 🔰 @SystemAlignment]

The Claude App needs to let you customise the UI with claude code. @bcherny