When Julius Caesar was 32 he cried at the feet of a statue of Alexander The Great because he had achieved so little compared to him.
He later went on to rule the Roman world, become deified, lay the blueprint for european leadership for nearly 2,000 years and even had a month named after him.
It's never too late to get started.
@knockouttrader If they do *not* double the memory production capacity, they spend no capital and keep the supply-demand firmly in their favor. Stonks go up. Then, why do they decide to create a problem for themselves by increasing capacity?
imagining a dude who grinded his ass out of abject poverty from the indus plain or mekong delta to work for their foreign service being hectored for rejecting a cargill grain shipment by someone who got a 2.8 at georgetown SFS and realizing that's how 75% of US diplomacy works
Anthropic’s last round was apparently a bloodbath behind the scenes. A GP at a prominent fund had dinner with Dario three times before their allocation was slashed to zero. At least four other tier-one funds got pulled at the last minute.
Their crime? Passing on the Series B, the hardest round Dario ever had to raise (led by Spark). In venture conviction is all that counts.
Joe Rogan speechless after learning from NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller that aliens use “Quantum Entanglement” to travel instantaneously:
THALLER: “I don’t want your listeners to think I’m saying something stupid.”
ROGAN: “It’s not stupid. Quantum entanglement just means two things can be connected regardless of the physical distance apart.”
THALLER: “It’s real. Space and time don’t matter. Aliens would be able to respond to each other instantaneously because they’re entangled.”
ROGAN: “This is so bananas. So then what are humans entangled to?”
THALLER: “If humans all came from The Big Bang does that mean we’re connected to everything in the universe in some way?”
ROGAN: “You think this is how some super advanced intelligent life form would travel?”
THALLER: “It would make a lot more sense than using a spaceship.”
680 runs at strike rate of 243 with 45.3 average across 15 games sounds unreal already. But here’s how absurd Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s IPL 2026 really is:
A batter scoring 45 off 19 balls every single innings for 15 times would still strike slower & average lower than him. A team scoring 290 in 20 overs every match would still finish with a lower strike rate.
He sustained that violence across an entire tournament.
I don't think we fully understand what we're watching.
My read is that Anthropic is trying to align every major source of power behind itself. First the government, through the whole "AI safety" framing. Then public opinion, through selective refusals around defense work. And now religion.
Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.
What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.
"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."
"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."
These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.
And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.
Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."
The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.