Mike

Sometimes we’re so focused on advancing human civilization that we forget the human part.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@Cerrone_Battle Exactly. Never understood him not initiating more but nowadays your star has to get all the touches so he can pump up his superstar stats.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@firstadopter Don’t be insulting to people. Why do you assume Openai and Anthropic is necessarily credit good?

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@JonesOnTheNBA The coach couldn’t figure out how to run a lumbering center off the floor instead choosing to bomb away from 3 but it’s Jaylen Brown’s fault.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@NoaDalzell I guess it’s true, Lebron hates the Celtics so much he’s willing to ring chase in Philadelphia just to recreate Ray Allen II.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

As the Trump administration held nuclear talks with Saudi Arabia, the president’s private business was moving into a crown-prince-backed development in the country—announcing a hotel, golf and residential project bearing Donald Trump’s name.

Full story: https://t.co/KkiBH0OT7l

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@Merridew__ Too soon

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Tricking the US Government to protect frontier labs’ business model by using a China boogeyman is a mistake.

It is protecting the equity of 5,000 people who are investors in OAI and Ant at the sale of everyone else. This would be a terribly stupid decision.

Let the market sort this out!

The events of the past few weeks may simply mean that the frontier labs’ business model is not good and that their revenues aren’t sustainable.

That’s ok. It’s ok to have a business model that worked for some time then all of a sudden didn’t (remember Groupon)!

This still leaves a lot of value for a lot of other American companies:

- CPUs
- GPUs
- hyperscalers
- neoclouds
- rack manufacturers
- electricity and power
- skilled trades
- application layer AI

None of this value goes away. In fact, if the model layers’ costs decrease by 10-100x, competition would accelerate and I would argue that the value to everyone else will go up more than what is lost.

Let the free market sort this out vs allowing two companies whose stock is owned by less than 5,000 people decide this for America.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

🎯

[Andrew Hiesinger @AndrewHiesinger]

Trump had to impose new tariffs to make his $100k API worth it. Needs more geopolitical uncertainty to make his posts more impactful.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

This is fucking insane. It’s the most corrupt administration in American history.

And you don’t even know the half of it .

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So let me get this straight. Taylor Farms lettuce gets linked to the cyclospora outbreak. The CEO visits the White House and donates to Trump. Then the FDA says the positive finding was a “false positive.”

Nothing suspicious about that at all.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora.

He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@StoolGreenie Come on. You’re talking about Dort.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@PatrickMoorhead Lower price causes more demand. Who knew the Chinese would be the ones standing in the way of duopoly pricing.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@deanwball No agenda here from Openai guy. So higher prices and duopoly profits are accelerationists but lower prices and proliferation of technology is decelerationist? Guess progress slowed from lower semiconductor and bandwidth costs.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@vkhosla Take a look at the researchers at these labs. Many if not most are not home grown. If you’re not going to fix the education problem the least you can do is stop keeping out the self-motivated learners and the ones studying the most difficult subjects.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@dagoat1983 @cptdankkk Agree Shaq was dominating because of his size but in the current NBA with pace and space, he probably gets run off the court trading 3s for 2s.

[Mike @ThePauper1]

@cptdankkk Love the honesty!