Charles

ad finem fidelis

[𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄 @ConsulofRome_]

This is what the Roman senate looked like and, unlike in film and paintings, it was not semicircular.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

He who saves his country violates no law.

[Charles @charles_rcb]

@TSupporter100 @CEOLandshark where is this from ?

[🇺🇸 Based Americana 🇺🇸 @basedamericana]

@realDonaldTrump @homeboy_prophet Manifest Destiny

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Why AI Will Save The World
By Marc Andreessen

The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out.

Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
🧵

[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.

[Citrini @citrini]

Doing less training would be pretty incredible for the margins of the labs, no?

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

In France, when we were children, we watched this on TV after school. That was 25 years ago.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@nypost 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@PhilippeTabarot @Tesla ❤️🇫🇷

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

You have undertaken to cheat me.

I will not sue you, for law takes too long.

I will ruin you

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

[The Wandering Investor @wander_investor]

Capital controls are coming to the EU.

It’s not a matter of IF. It’s a matter of WHEN.

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

More people died in France this year from not having air conditioning (7,300) than American deaths from mass shootings in all of recorded U.S. history (1,741).😬

[ADONIS @adonispara]

Crazy when you look at the sun and realize Alexander the great, Caesar, Napoleon all stared at the same one.

[Charles @charles_rcb]

Good

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

France's highest court just killed the under-15 social media ban.

The problem was never the kids. It was that to prove a user isn't 15, every adult in France has to prove they aren't. The Constitutional Council called that a disproportionate hit to free expression with no safeguards for private life.

It was blocked three weeks before it took effect. Macron has already ordered a rewrite.

https://t.co/U6ZgvQDpfT

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

If you believe in supersonic flight, one way to make money is by buying up property that will become more valuable once flights are faster.

Right now it's like buying land in Hawaii a few years before the jet age made it accessible.

[Tim @TimurNegru]

If I sell my company for $500M, I'm buying this 18th-century Italian estate for €1.6M ($1.8M).

- 1 hr from Rome
- 24 acres
- olive grove

I can imagine my grandkids running between these centuries-old olive trees, while the rest of the family is having meaningful conversations around a big table al fresco.

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

First it was fracking. Then it was 5G. Now it’s data centers.

What they all have in common:
1. Subject to enormous disinformation campaigns.
2. Critical upstream technologies that enable the rest of the US economy to function better.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Communism is the greatest threat to our country.