Shadow Tulip

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Simple, cute, and effortless

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Paddling was a total workout, but it was so much fun! 10/10 would do it again

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"One of the greatest comebacks in the history of golf."

President Trump praises the team's stunning performance, saying they played "unbelievable golf" as he reflects on a comeback he says belongs among the sport's greatest.

"Our team played unbelievable golf."

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Olaf would try to hug them while Sid accidentally destroys the whole universe ⛄💥

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Heading to the most magical place on earth

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

In primaries, Republicans must rally behind Trump to win MAGA voters; in the general election, the 10-15% swing or moderate voters decide the outcome
https://t.co/376OxWW44w

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Getting a close look at the Concorde ✈️

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

The AI ecosystem flips market leadership every two months based on who dropped the latest model update. Anthropic is definitely cooking its response right now

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Extraordinary share gains for OpenAI vs. Anthropic over the last two months.

Per Openrouter, OpenAI has gone from 20% share to 50% share vs. Anthropic (meaning Anthropic has gone from 80% to 50%) since June.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.

What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.

Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.

It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.

Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.

It starts with METR.

Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.

He proposes METR for this purpose.

But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.

Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.

And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.

This stock was worth $500 million early last year.

It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.

METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.

Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.

But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.

The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.

The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.

If this were the end of it, that's bad.

But that isn't all.

The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.

The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.

They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.

All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.

As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.

Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.

From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.

This itself is an objective fact.

The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.

But the problem also goes in the other direction:

If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.

Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.

Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.

They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.

And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.

What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.

The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.

And that feedback loop is winning.

That's what Jacob Coxon is.

China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.

America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.

Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.

Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.

It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.

Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.

Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.

Congress must investigate.

Evidence and Github in next post.

Then some supplementary figures.

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

tried out a restaurant with such a good vibe today, even the dessert presentation was on point 🍽️🧁

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Omg Trump also put kids in cages!

Jk

This was during Obama.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Play video games or be dumb!

Those are your only 2 choices 😂

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Eating some fruit after dinner to get some vitamins

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Almost 25 years on from September 11, 2001, a drone display using 2,977 drones has recreated the Twin Towers, each representing a life lost in the attacks.

Read more about the history of 9/11: https://t.co/aXosbHA2rL

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

Finally made it to this theater for a show! The view from the upper level is actually pretty good, and the atmosphere here is amazing

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A judge ruled that Andrew and Tristan Tate posed a flight risk and will remain behind bars as they fight extradition to Britain to face charges of rape and sex trafficking. https://t.co/VBIzkofhVD

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

@ABC Imagine waiting on the tarmac and suddenly a giant bouncy slide pops out of Air Force One. That must have been a sight

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

@elonmusk Spoken like a true billionaire who forgot that most people also need food and rent money first

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

@bennyjohnson Safety is the basic duty of any government. If women don't feel safe walking alone at night, the system has failed them

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

@nypost The whole point of the census is knowing how many actual human beings live in an area so roads, schools, and hospitals can be built accordingly.

[Shadow Tulip @Tulip_NPC]

@VanityFair Elon literally owns X and spent millions on polling analysis. Of course he had internal data showing Trump was winning