Brandon Heimberg

[Brandon Heimberg @brandoh333]

@Rosemarry__vt Earthbound.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.

But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.

I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.

I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction.

But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Brandon Heimberg @brandoh333]

@Tokyo_pi1 I’m happy to see the level of consideration they have for each other, if they can figure out the finances they can figure out the rest together.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

GOOD NEWS PATRIOTS! WITH WASHINGTON SHUT DOWN, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM NOW THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. MY PLATFORM IS VERY SIMPLE: HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!), FREE SCHOOL MEALS (WOW PUDDING FOR EVERYONE), FREE CHILDCARE (THE MOMS LOVE ME! MORE BABIES!!) GOOD-PAYING JOBS, AND NO MORE EVIL TARIFFS!!! EGGS WILL BE FREE. HAIR GEL SUBSIDIES WILL BE AVAILABLE (BUT ONLY FOR HANDSOME DEMOCRATS) AND WE WILL ALSO LEGALIZE CANNABIS! CRIME WILL STAY LOW AND EVERYONE WILL BE HIGH ON PATRIOTISM. AND NO MORE TICKETMASTER FEES (FOR THE SWIFTIES, FEES STAY FOR KID ROCK!) THEY WILL CHANT USA! USA! BECAUSE WE WILL BE BACK AND “HOTTER” THAN EVER BEFORE. THANK YOU! — GCN

[Sam Altman @sama]

agree with lots of what jensen has been saying about ai and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world.

people will

1) do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up
2) still care very much about other people and what they do
3) still be very driven by creating and being useful to others

for sure jobs will be very different, and maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (people of the past might say that about us.)

betting against human's ability to want more stuff, find new ways to play status games, ability to find new methods for creative expression, etc is always a bad bet. maybe human money and machine money will be totally different things, who knows, but we have a LOT of main character energy.

more to come.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

We’re releasing the Epstein Files day one. There are no Epstein Files. Here’s video proof nothing happened. Ok we had to edit it. There are no Epstein Files. There are Epstein Files, but the Democrats made them. Why do you care so much about this Epstein guy? What are “Files”?

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

How To Choose A Good Partner

[Mike P @mikepat711]

“Holy shit, Tesla just made a car drive itself from the manufacturing line directly to the home of a customer without a human operator.”

“…yeah, but…”

No. Shut the fuck up and listen to me.

A car just drove itself from the production line of a factory to someone’s home with nobody in it. Do you need me to repeat that?

An automobile. From the production line, off the lot, across miles of public roads, and onto the lot of someone’s home. Autonomously. Nobody in the car. It drove itself.

Science fiction. But not fiction anymore.

Do you understand? You are alive on earth and this just occurred in real life. You are living in a sci fi novel, but it is real life.

Unbelievable. Humans are fucking unbelievable. I’m so happy.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Mamdani won. The establishment is in panic.

Billionaires are raising money against him; Trump is ranting; Islamophobes are on the loose.

They know what we know: Candidates who stand boldly with the working class can win not only in NYC, but anywhere.

Let's stand with Zohran.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Bring it on.

[Netflix @netflix]

i'm so small and tiny... she's so big and tall

[Ana @wavelettes]

having a severely autistic sibling is foundational to my worldview. being told to “be patient” while my boundaries were violated daily for over a decade didn’t teach me empathy. it taught me that in the absence of hierarchy, dysfunction wins. and the stable always pay the price.

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

“When Robotaxi”

“Where Robotaxi”

Nobody’s ever asking “How is Robotaxi” … smh

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City.

The deadline is Saturday.

[abby @abby4thepeople]

It's always shut the fuck up Friday