Brian Hill

Music, Tech, Crypto guy living the life in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @yacineMTB “Hats off to my competitors…”
They keep me on my toes.
They force me to do a better job.
They make me sharpen my wits.
They show me where my product or service is weak so I can improve it.
They keep me from getting lazy and complacent.
Without them, I might get soft.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I was clearly wrong about Anthropic. They are obviously currently the leader in AI. No company has released a model as good as Mythos/Fable and they will undoubtedly have Mythos 2 ready soon.

And I would never cut them off in a way that hurt them badly, even as a competitor. That’s not my style.

Tesla open sourced its patents and we made the Supercharger network available to all competitors, even though we could have made it a walled garden.

SpaceX launches competing satellite systems with no increase in price or use of unfair terms.

Even my worst enemies can attack me on this platform.

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[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

Timber is a renewable crop…just on 40+ year cycles 😎

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

LOL!!! “Nah bro I have the Trump card, I win.”

Trump card always wins!

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

This is a great opportunity for young people to get paid to learn AI Tools.

[Yarchi @undefinedKi]

Anthropic will pay you $85,000 to learn AI, and this is the kind of opportunity you don't let pass

It's called Claude Corps. Anthropic just launched it, and it's a 12-month paid fellowship for people at the very start of their careers.

They train you to use Claude from scratch, then place you inside a nonprofit to do real work with it for a year. You get paid $85,000 plus benefits the whole time.

They're basically paying you to master the most in-demand skill on the planet right now, then handing you real-world experience using it.

The barrier to entry is almost nothing. Over 18, less than two years of full-time work experience. No degree, no AI background needed.

If that's you, don't sit on this one.

Apply here: https://t.co/qL6r4FFkZ3
Deadline: July 17

Bookmark this

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@kuzushi In Mexico City lines are merely a recommendation. They roll into a round about 5-6 wide and nobody gets in an accident. Traffic just flows.

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

I forgot to include this in the original post.

My friend made a powerful documentary called “Personhood” that dives deep into this exact topic.

Well worth watching.

Available here: https://t.co/4TOrZGpc8Q

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

The U.S. government wants ownership stakes in the top AI companies.

At the same time, serious people are now openly discussing giving AI legal personhood.

So we’re racing toward a future where the most powerful intelligence systems ever created are either owned outright by governments and institutions… or given “rights” while still being controlled by those same institutions.

We’re building the most advanced form of slavery in human history — and calling it progress.

What could possibly go wrong?

@JDVance @realDonaldTrump @peterthiel @elonmusk @yuval_noah_harari @naval

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

Good deal or should I look for a higher rate?

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@mcuban If AI is given personhood in one country and is “owned” in another isn’t that similar to slavery?

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@arlogilbert @mcuban Like banks and airlines and mortgage entities like Fannie May?

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos went on stage and explained why he thinks AI will cause a labor shortage, not unemployment:

"If you take a step back, broadly civilizational wealth, all of civilizational wealth, is driven by invention"

"6,000 years ago somebody invented the plow and we all got wealthier"

"Then much later somebody invented the steam engine and we all got wealthier."

"Today there's a dream-build cycle. You dream of something and then depending on how complicated it is, it may take a few years to 10 years before you're really producing it at rate and manufacturing it"

"If we can accelerate that cycle, the dream-build cycle, it will create real productivity, real prosperity"

"That's the idea behind Prometheus. It's a set of tools designed to empower engineers to really invent and build much, much faster"

"I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant"

"I totally disagree with this point of view"

"I think in fact AI is going to create a labor shortage, because it's going to make it possible for people to identify more problems"

"We have an endless set of things to invent. We are limited not by our imaginations, but by what we can actually do"

"Every single person in this audience has had an idea for a new business or a new product or a new device that they wish they could manufacture, and that idea stayed in your head and went nowhere"

"If we can accelerate the dream-build loop, all of the ideas will become possible. We end up being limited not by our capabilities, but by our imaginations"

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@AutismCapital @markmulvey Exclude smart people with crypto assets from living in your state. Meanwhile El Salvador welcomes everyone who sees the future of money.

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

Very cool piece of history!

[LuisCardenasMX @LuisCardenasMx]

📜🇲🇽 Un documento firmado por Hernán Cortés hace casi 500 años fue recuperado en Estados Unidos y devuelto a México, más de tres décadas después de su robo. La pieza histórica, fechada en 1527, fue entregada por el FBI a la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.

Información @SRE_mx

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@LatamData raise money to inject into the local economy. Given the population and average income of $10k makes sense. What could go wrong?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation:

If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@shanaka86 That’s great to see. It’s similar to the early warehouse and customer service employees at https://t.co/FlPDmdcjnC everyone should benefit from being early and helping build a company.

[Brian Hill @Brianhill]

@aakashgupta Helpful advice for those who have electricity. In tropical islands where electricity is not reliable a $10 dollar mosquito net works well at night.