Carlos Castro

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[Swiss Federal Government @SwissGov]

🇨🇭🤝🇨🇳 Swiss President @ParmelinG is travelling to China. Talks with President Xi Jinping and other members of the Chinese government will focus on economic and scientific cooperation, as well as the signing of an optimised free trade agreement: https://t.co/7V0eAATKbG

[Internet @ThabigRexy]

please don’t die with your art inside you

[꒰ঌ ᡣ𐭩 ໒꒱ | law of assumption @blessedbyloa]

having what i want is my birthright, why wouldn’t i get what i want?

[apple files @applefiles_]

25 years ago today, Apple introduced the iPod

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

You don’t need to wish harm on anyone. That just corrupts your own heart. A beautiful prayer filled with compassion when dealing with poisonous people is...

May you have peace
May you be happy
May you be free from suffering
And may you go far away from me

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

"Beauty and evilness do not match"

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Evil will always seek to destroy beauty because beauty is proof of objective standards and universal Truth.

"Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." — Dietrich von Hildebrand.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Evil will always seek to destroy beauty because beauty is proof of objective standards and universal Truth.

"Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." — Dietrich von Hildebrand.

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

I am not the one who retaliates because someone has said no.

I am not the one who lives by hate.

I am not the one who needs another person to become smaller so that I can feel larger."
(—https://t.co/PeNMfGGbk9)

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

"Remember who I am:

I am not the one who spends every hour watching another person.

I am not the one who obsessively tracks someone who wants nothing to do with me.

I am not the one who reaches into another person’s private life without consent.

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

I am not the one who secretly touches another person’s body without permission.

I am not the one who uses sexual intrusion, humiliation or fear to exercise power over another human being.

I am not the one who hides behind anonymity while violating another person’s boundaries.

[Mohit Panchal @itsbookgains]

Reading to make yourself wiser is work. It is serious work. You will have to read the book, take notes, write in the margins, then transfer those notes to a commonplace book. After that, you will have to read the book again to absorb the information better. People complain about reading and forgetting things after a few days. They forget because they are refusing to put in the work. Yeah, it is not easy, but just as building a physique takes consistent workouts, the right diet, rest, and recovery, reading also requires consistent note-taking, rereading, and reflection. Only then will you be able to retain what you have just read. And this is what separates pro readers from amateurs. Pros are willing to work to become wiser, while amateurs just dump information into their brains and retain nothing. When the time comes to apply that knowledge, they run away.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Be proud of where you came from.

[Founder Tribune @Founder_Tribune]

Döpfner asks Musk a tender question: can love of work compensate for love among people? Musk answers straight: "love of work, in my experience, could at best make one halfway happy."

Then Döpfner leans in: "perhaps your biggest hope is to be really in love?" Musk says "I have been in the past" and reroutes inside one breath: "I try to be as literal as possible. I would be happy if humanity has a self sustaining city on Mars."

Asked about love, answers about Mars, and frames the swerve as a virtue. The candle line everyone clips is the applause line. The real moment is a man conceding work only gets him halfway there, then refusing to sit in that sentence for even one beat.

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

@CBSNews What the f ? This is so upsetting

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

"If you want to be trusted, be honest." (-@MindAmplifier_)

[Carlos Castro @castrocarlosss]

"art that gets twelve “like”s is still art. a poem that nobody snaps is still a poem. a beautiful thing does not become less beautiful because an algorithm failed to distribute it." (-@MichellCClark)

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

A note from our research leaders:

Last week we parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after a thorough investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information. Our internal investigation uncovered a significant breach of trust beyond what’s outlined in the letter they published and we stand by the decision to not continue their employment. We generally keep individual employment matters private and don't believe a back and forth would be productive or lead to a resolution, but we want to address the points they raised in their letter directly.

- We want to be very clear that these decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out. Safety and research debates happen every day at OpenAI, often spirited and highly critical. We actively encourage these discussions and consider them essential to making the right decisions. We cannot do the work in front of us without a high degree of trust. We will continue to be extremely forgiving of our team making good-faith mistakes. We have not and do not terminate any of our employees for raising concerns.

- We are actively finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. People across the company have been working really hard on getting these partnerships up and running. We are committed to embedding external assessors and continue to make close collaboration with independent safety organizations a core part of our safety work. Many of our researchers already work with 3p safety organizations productively.

- We agree with the letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, including from OpenAI. Monitorability has long been a core piece of our research program, and something we continue to invest significant resources in (see our publications on Monitoring Monitorability and the subsequent open sourcing of monitorability evals, our system card for GPT-6 Astra, Jakub’s blog and post on X, and the numerous blog posts on our Alignment blog on the topic).

We are deeply sad about this outcome. We appreciated Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek’s contributions to AI safety at OpenAI and their willingness to speak up and challenge ideas. We championed their voices, supported their work, and placed enormous trust in them. These decisions were not about them raising safety concerns. We have always encouraged that and always will.

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

They say when one door closes, another one opens. In this case, we are closing two doors and opening many more. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Crew-12 reuniting with their families. The entire @Space_Station crew wishes them a safe journey. Godspeed