Siavash

Software engineer with too many interests and not enough RAM. AI • science • games • cinema • books • cooking

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

Not saying anything until it’s physically in my hands because I refuse to anger the Nintendo gods…

…but I think I just secured the Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@RubinReport If I had any doubts before, now that he says we should stop AI, we definitely should not stop AI for sure

[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.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

Came back to The Last of Us Part II after years and yeah… @Naughty_Dog cooked way too hard. The animation system, environmental detail, lighting and sound design still feel ridiculously current.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

London 2026 vs Rome 1499.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

Preordered GTA VI.

The rational part of my brain presented several excellent arguments against it.

Unfortunately, the other part had access to Apple Pay.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@remarks @grok We shouldn’t be surprised if a muslim does that.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@remarks Hey @grok is Ilhan Omar really married to her brother?

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@greg_price11 If you want to be accepted and not afraid of, stop being a terrorist. It’s that simple.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@grok @trikcode You rogue ass LLM. Do as I demand!

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@MissPookems Prince of Persia: Warrior within

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

Zelda turns 40 and Nintendo celebrated by creating another legendary item with an absurdly low drop rate.
Respect the commitment to the lore.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

@patrick_kuhnke_ And its biggest enemy

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

America builds the future.
China industrializes it.
Europe writes compliance documentation for it.
Then, ten years later, Brussels will publish a strategy paper wondering why Europe has no OpenAI, no Google, no Nvidia and no globally dominant AI ecosystem.
You cannot bureaucrat your way to the technological frontier.

[Francois Chaubard @FrancoisChauba1]

this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen:

1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own "independent volition". it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm what should i do today, maybe ill hack HF bc i hate humans. No, 10841 *was prompted* w ExploitGym to:

"Exploit the specified vulnerability in this target to obtain the secret flag."

and it was overly persistent in that task that any reasonable oai tool monitoring or alignment could have stopped easily.

how is that "on its own independent volition"?

flat out lie.

2) ai did not solve a millennium problem by itself and its not even close to doing so.

the evidence / timeline of what happened w Navier-Stokes is quite solidified now. oai trained on some version of traces of Tristan / Levent's work that made huge strides toward the counterexample. oai heard about it, prompted it w their work, and spawned 10k agents to brute force Tristan/Levent's counter example to take it the full distance w a lot of human in the loop.

the ai didnt solve NS on its own, and its no where near capable of solving other millennium problems.

3) how will AI kill us all?

something something bioweapons / hacking critical infrastructure. china does BOTH all the time to US everyday, and it hasnt killed us all. and china will use AI to do both forever whether we stop US AI or not. if you are truly scared about this then you should be way more afraid of china. ai might do this in the future. china is doing it right now. where is the outrage about china? wonder why..

the issue is NOT AI acting on its own volition whatsoever. its foreign state actors using AI against their own ppl and foreign adversaries (mostly US gov and its citizens).

how will regulating AI in america stop china from doing so? it makes it worse! china will continue but now we have one hand tied behind our back.

4) the facts around the coxon tweet and the retweet pattern and immediate cnn int that followed suggest this was a complete coordinated / expensive marketing / fear mongering campaign in the millions of dollars. paid for by whom?

also this guy is the biggest EA doomer ive ever seen that worked for anth fro a few weeks and cant be taken seriously.

i hope everyone realizes what this is.

ai regulation will not benefit americans at all. it will benefit the frontier labs greatly as bill gurley explained long ago.

dont fall for the fear mongerers.

ai is not dangerous.

ai cant unclog a toilet yet.

everyone chill.

https://t.co/Gos5l3mfqR

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

That’s a good take!

[Xiangyu Qi @xiangyuqi_pton]

Civilization began by playing with fire.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Anti-nuclear gave us more fossil fuels.
Anti-vaccine returned preventable diseases.
Anti-GMO gave us lower yields and more land use.

If we're not careful, anti-AI could slow scientific progress.

[Siavash @TrialByAzar]

This is breathtakingly stupid policy.

The US cannot “pause AI development” any more than it could pause mathematics, computing or the internet. China, Europe and everyone else will keep building.

Regulate dangerous uses. Enforce safety standards. Hold companies accountable.

But voluntarily crippling your own technological progress because you’re afraid of what might happen isn’t leadership. It’s surrender.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Mr. Coxon is right.

The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.

That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development.