Adam Hochfelder

Turks Capital Partners. University of Pennsylvania,Wharton School Instagram: AdamHochfelder

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

@DavidSacks is the smartest voice in AI. Very well said David. Anthropic doesn’t need someone else to act. If Dario is truly being altruistic, then he should just do what he suggests and stop with the politics. @theallinpod @chamath

[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.

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

North American data center vacancy is at 1%. Second consecutive year at 1%.
Inventory in the top four US markets grew 33% year-over-year — and vacancy still fell.
You cannot have a supply bubble in a market that absorbs literally everything it builds. This is the opposite of a bubble. #DataCenters

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Proud to be an American. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Golf Digest @GolfDigest]

The PGA Tour's new Returning Member Program criteria means Phil Mickelson does not qualify for reinstatement.

See more: https://t.co/rvqaRYeSiN

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

Champions!!!!

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Dancing with the Premier League champions 🕺

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Dancing with the Premier League champions 🕺

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Biden released Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “merchant of death” in exchange for Brittney Griner.

Trump got back Marc Fogel without releasing any terrorists.

The difference between a strong and weak President 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People who have been lifelong Democrats refuse to accept the clear reality that the Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic.

This trend is accelerating, not slowing down.

Knock, knock. Hello, Captain Obvious here!

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

Megyn Kelly nails it: “Why are they so unattractive? Why are the protesters so homely?”

[ACD MMA @acdmma_]

Ryan Garcia’s dad 😭😭😭

jokes aside, this is how MEN should apologize after an argument

[Rep. Elise Stefanik @RepStefanik]

"It should not be difficult to take a vote to condemn antisemitism in Congress, and yet, over 100 Democrats voted against that resolution condemning antisemitism. I think the Biden Administration needs to be much more strong when it comes to their support of Israel and call out those in the Democrat Party who are contributing to this rise in antisemitism." from my exclusive interview with @MorganOrtagus on @SiriusXMPatriot.

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

NO. Horrible idea. How about a petition calling for the release of the remaining 132 hostages. The fact that you won’t call for a release of the hostages proves that you and your team are anti-Semitic. Fuck you @IlhanMN and @AOC.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

I’ve joined over 380 world leaders in signing a joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Can you add your name to my petition if you agree we must use all of our resources to promote peace in Gaza?

The time for peace is NOW.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I find it difficult to believe that the @Harvard Corporation board could still be in unanimous support of President Gay.

They must now realize that they made a bad choice and that their continued support for President Gay is not just enormously damaging to Harvard, but it is also incredibly destructive to their own reputations.

When I first watched the train wreck begin to unfold at Harvard, I approached two friends on the Corporation board and requested a meeting with President Gay and the other directors as I thought I could help.

My requests for a meeting were ignored. Weeks went by. I continued to push. Finally, I was offered the opportunity to speak with Penny Pritzker, the board chair. I was told: “This is the protocol.”

The conversation with Penny was incredibly disappointing. It was clear that the board members had become deer in the headlights, were listening to bad ‘professional’ advice, and were unreceptive to input from outside the board room.

So I wrote my first public letter to the board, and received no response. Not even an acknowledgment from President Gay or the board that they had received the letter.

The situation got worse, and I was compelled to write a second letter.

I got no response.

The day after President Gay’s disastrous testimony I reached out again to my two friends on the board. One promised to call back and then ghosted me. The other did not respond to my texts, so I wrote a third letter.

Now, I am not the only person to have written strong letters to the Harvard board. They must have received literally hundreds of letters, emails, and calls.

I know because I have been copied and blind copied on many of these communications from some people I know and many people I do not.

We are well past the point where Claudine Gay is the only one to blame for the mess that is Harvard.

Ultimately, when management fails, the board needs to step in. It has failed to do so and nearly three months have passed.

As a result, the reputations of the eleven individuals who comprise the board are in the process of being destroyed. It is sad to watch this happen as there are some very high quality people on this board.

Why, you might ask, are they self destructing?

The principal reason I believe is that they are afraid of being called racists. They have concluded that if they fired President Gay, Harvard’s first black president, they would be cancelled and deemed racists.

They have failed to act out of fear.

They would also have to admit that they made a bad choice in selecting Gay, and acknowledge that they ignored concerns raised about Gay’s scholarship and leadership prior to appointing her.

Sometimes successful people have a hard time admitting mistakes, particularly when doing so will make the news.

So they have stuck their heads in the sand and they have made matters much worse.

Not only are they damaging Harvard’s and their own reputations, they are now materially damaging the black community.

By not acting to fire Gay for transgressions for which no other previous president of Harvard, administrator or faculty member would survive, they are telling the world that lower standards apply to black people at Harvard.

This is incredibly damaging to the many highly talented black faculty at Harvard.

Sadly, some will now question the legitimacy of faculty of color at Harvard because apparently lower academic and leadership standards are being applied to President Gay because of her intersectionality status.

In effect, the board’s failure to fire Gay delegitimizes other faculty of color at Harvard. This is very very wrong, and the Board needs to act now before more damage is done.

Someone on the Board must understand all of the above, but has yet to break ranks.

A word of advice: if you find yourself on a board which has lost its way and won’t reverse a disastrous decision for ego, personal fear, or other reasons, the best time to get off the board is now.

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

I will never give another dollar to @Penn @Pennalumni @PennAthletics I am going ask all of my fellow alumni to join me and instead donate to @RepStefanik !! @StopAntisemites PLEASE watch this video.

[Rep. Elise Stefanik @RepStefanik]

🚨🚨🚨Presidents of @Harvard @MIT and @Penn REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND ANTISEMITIC. They must all resign immediately today.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

Israeli meme game as strong as the IDF-

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

@_markpetchey Stop with the BS for clicks. @SabalenkaA was joking. She has the best sense of humor on the @WTA tour. She is one of the most well liked players and funniest players on both @WTA and @atptour . @MutuaMadridOpen @GaelenBet @andyroddick @PrakashAmritraj

[Mark Petchey @_markpetchey]

Imagine with all that’s going on in the world right now and being upset with the size of a cake.

If you judge everything based on the largess of the gift, it’s is not the giver of the gift that is the issue.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

If you want to understand what is going on in our schools, you have to listen to the students.

[Adam Hochfelder @AdamcHochfelder]

This is terrible. There is no justifiable reason for ES Building in Manhattan to be lit up for the Eagles. It’s no surprise that the stock of ESRT, the company that owns the building and made the decision on the lights, is down 58% over last 5 years. @art_stapleton @Realrclark25

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory.