Aditya Kulkarni

investment professional at kedaara | undergraduate from @bitspilaniindia | penning personal notes to that curious 80 y/o self

[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.

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

mom using claude code + anuroop is peak for a marathi mom @DarioAmodei 🧘🏻‍♀��

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Loved this, @RestIsScience 🥂

Learning about the divergent series back in 9th grade was fun and this brought back the memories

https://t.co/G22uhMZdGy

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Did the US just give a diplomatic & narrative cover to China wrt Taiwan? I guess time will tell.
#Venezuela

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

What a song, what a video! I love base and he has doubled down on it. True Indian culture. Happy to see how it shows the female warrior to be the one from Marathi culture. Crazy stuff!

@Hanumankind1 keep killing it!

https://t.co/YfxBgqhdnG

#runitup

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Travelled by Mumbai Monorail and Hyderabad Metro over last two weeks - what a smooth experience! 1/5th the price of cab-ride, less tiring. Only if we went all in on public transport :/

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

🚀

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

India's first private satellite constellation by @PixxelSpace showcases the exceptional talent of India's youth and highlights the expanding capabilities of our private sector in the space industry.

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

@LEVIS marketing: grab this the opportunity 🥂

[Magnus Carlsen @MagnusCarlsen]

Oh, I am definitely playing in jeans tomorrow

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

What an arc - from a meme coin to US Gov! A century down the line, reading the etymology of the word DOGE will surely be entertaining 😅

[Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE]

Working overtime to ensure your tax dollars will be spent wisely!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Thanks Ashok!

Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software.

Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist.

Btw, I never suggested that he say anything and I had no idea he wrote this until I saw it 10 mins ago!

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Today I learnt
1) EVMs work, silent voter is real, democracy is alive
2) money is not election
3) always take email sign-offs in a tech implementation project

Long day :’)

[Sam Altman @sama]

her

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Tom Hanks. Steven Spielberg. Gary Goetzman. A heartfelt WWII-era salute to aviation's glory. What a masterpiece! ♥️🥹 https://t.co/FCBLymp5jr

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

4-hr therapy session by @nikhilkamathcio - too good! ♥️

https://t.co/i355ap4f17

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Good friends at COP28.
#Melodi

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Still hard to believe Starship is real

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Lessons learnt:
- You are as good as the day you were when it mattered the most.
- The whole is better than sum of the parts. Australian unit with nerves of steel beat Indians with best stats

[Aditya Kulkarni @adityaykulkarni]

Hold my Vada Pav.

#INDvsAUSfinal