Bernardo Reynolds

I build tools that make life a bit easier. Portuguese, islander, sportinguista, founder @priorhq, former product manager @Tuenti.

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@levelsio @eduardomanchon @lexrodba because you're making a general claim sampling data from one year with 2 extreme events. this is not hard to get if you're minimally intellectually honest. but it's been a while since you've sacrificed that for clout, just like with your dumb i'd do better with opus 5.5 take 😂

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@levelsio @eduardomanchon @lexrodba a side from the fact you're cherry picking a year with 2 extreme events? you used to be smarter than this but i guess it's all part of your jordan peterson glow up

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@jyriso ad hominem nationalism here too @levelsio?

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@levelsio @eduardomanchon @lexrodba lol you’ve been mogged for your attention seeking inflammatory takes, ad hominem nationalism is just fancy words for cope

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

Revolut got hacked just a few days and now this 😬

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

unhobbling

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

byspy

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Dutch intelligence with an in-depth warning about Chinese EVs. Follows today's MI5 warning. Europe's security services are screaming from the rooftops about the threat from Beijing while governments sit on their hands.

[Thomas Kwa @Kwathomas0]

I wish OpenAI were more
transparent about the publicly reported cyber incidents caused by our agents.

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

never thought i'd say this about all in cringe mafia and ai czar but spot on take

[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.

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@bot have this weird bug where after adding a secret through the secret card, messages stop appearing in the main window but i can see them in the sidebar?

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@adrianmg @loops <3

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

quando a incompetência até da pena 🥲

[Muttley 🍿 @XMuttley]

🪙 O estranho caso dos bitcoins que desapareceram da PJ

Em outubro de 2018 a Polícia Judiciária fez buscas em Vila Nova de Gaia e apreendeu 9,72 bitcoins, entre outros bens, que aparentemente provinham de operações de branqueamento de capitais.

Havia apenas um pequeno problema: aparentemente, na Diretoria do Norte da PJ ninguém sabia muito bem como aprrender aquilo.

Chamaram os "especialistas" da unidade de cibercrime, que criaram uma "paper wallet" e transferiram para lá os bitcoins que ficaram à guarda da PJ.

Para mexer no dinheiro era preciso uma coisa chamada chave privada.

Bens preciosos, apreendidos e que ficaram à guarda do Estado que era preciso guardar muito bem.
E a PJ guardou! Tão bem que as criptomoedas desapareceram!

O ficheiro com a chave privada esteve num computador da PJ, foi enviado por email, passou por inspetores, chegou ao Ministério Público e acabou impresso.

A magistrada titular do processo viria a explicar que a folha ficou junto ao scanner da impressora do gabinete.

Estamos perante segurança informática à portuguesa. Certamente, impresso num papel não apanha vírus.

Há até um pormenor delicioso.

O inspetor que enviou a chave da carteira avisou por email que o documento não devia ser junto ao processo porque alguém poderia digitalizá-lo e, palavras dele, fazer desaparecer o dinheiro.

Milagre: o dinheiro viria a desaparecer mesmo!

No dia 6 de outubro de 2018, quatro dias depois da apreensão, a carteira foi esvaziada em quatro movimentos.
Para movimentar aqueles bitcoins era necessária a chave privada.

Quem tinha a chave? Boa pergunta!
Tão boa que a Justiça passou anos a tentar responder.

O mais extraordinário é que ninguém parece ter dado pela falta dos bitcoins durante meses.
A descoberta aconteceu quando um inspetor preparava uma apresentação sobre...
apreensão de criptomoedas para o Banco de Portugal.

Foi consultar a carteira para preparar a apresentação e o inspector descobriu que o saldo era zero.

Aposto que foi PowerPoint memorável!

Abriu-se então um processo. Investigou-se quem teve acesso à carteira, por onde circulou o documento com a chave privada e para onde tinham ido as bitcoins.

Conclusão? Não foi possível descobrir quem as levou.

Processo arquivado. E é aqui que entra um nome hoje bastante conhecido.

Em outubro de 2018, o Diretor Nacional da Polícia Judiciária era Luís Neves, atual Ministro da Administração Interna.

O Diretor Nacional da PJ não soube que bitcoins apreendidos pela sua polícia desapareceram enquanto estavam à guarda da Justiça e do Estado Português?

Se soube, talvez fosse interessante saber o que fez...

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@businessbarista @zoink man congrats on being the most persistent subtweeter ever

[Steve ☕️ @coffeedev]

Crazy this was written two years ago, @leopoldasch truly was on point

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

this 👇

[Rob Davitt @robdavitt]

https://t.co/JQ6vpcB6nh

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

sounds about right

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

not all heroes use gstack

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

@balajis

[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

curious example to give: chat pushing glp-1 🙃 what could go wrong

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

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Designed to help you navigate medical care, not replace it.

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[Bernardo Reynolds @breyn]

Sean and others are goats but this made my day