Barstool Philosopher

Finance, Sports, Politics, Fine Art and anything else that I feel like talking about. FSU and Boston Sports.

[Tito Tran @TitoNTran]

The NASDAQ 100 lost $2.3 Trillion…

The KOSPI tonight:

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

Jim Cramer is a legend

[Ernest Bledsoe @PincheOgro1]

So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?

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[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

You are hiding an inordinate amount of adjustments in your EBITDA number, are you not?

[𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 @MoMohler]

The Crunchwrap supreme, is that farm to table? Excellent. Excellent. And the Baja Blast, is that locally sourced? Beautiful, great. We’ll have both for the table.

[Aaron @aaroncabrera_]

Mike Norvell at 8pm when the buyout hits

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Bulls make more than bears, so if anything being an optimist about life and about things in general is a great attribute as an investor. You just can’t be starry-eyed and naive.”

— Stanley Druckenmiller

[Wilson F. Ball @WillyFoosball]

The Monster Energy Big 12 Football Week 2 Recap

[tenso @distributedkv]

dream team for American acceleration.

[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.

[Barstool Philosopher @baselineballer]

iPhone Air should be the base iPhone going forward.

[Depressed Mathematician @retiremeplease]

im on my knees bloodied an Anthropic killbot pushes a gun into my temple
"any last words?"
"coxon was right"
"coxon?"
i grin through broken teeth
"coxon your face"
*BANG*

[droodle @droodbug]

when she has a foidian slip and accidentally reveals something she didn’t want to

[Benny Boy @Camel_Crushin]

You’re not driving an 18 wheeler. You’re driving a Hyundai Santa Fe. Make that right turn and let’s get fucking moving.

[Barstool Philosopher @baselineballer]

@Chris_Grosse I do C and E combined every other year for this almost exact situation (I pay to fly into Logan). Willing to do it anytime as well.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

If Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme, then the SSI tax could be suspended today for young people under 30, to help give them a boost on wages, and the program would continue to remain solvent.

[Barstool Philosopher @baselineballer]

@steveschale Jacksonville metropolitan area is crazy too.

[Barstool Philosopher @baselineballer]

@Undue_Risk It’s actually Jacksonville, FL. I don’t make the rules.

[J.C. Parets @JC_ParetsX]

If you find it hard to be bullish during a bull market maybe the stock market is not for you.