Chris Hess

Teacher, Trader, Traveler.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Wake up.
Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.

[Johnny Agar @agar_john]

Thank you so much for all your love. I feel so blessed to do what I love again with the people I love. Thank you to Mom for working so hard behind the scenes, my two awesome sisters Gracy and @AnnieAgar for their endless love and support to allow us to continue this.

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@VolatilityQ Thanks for sharing

[Thoughts ✿⁠ @Vigoroussvs]

"Sometimes you have to stand alone, not to prove you're right, but to prove you're not afraid of being wrong."

—Marcus Aurelius.

[Puffin @BluffenPuffin]

2,000 followers!! Thank you all for appreciating puffins with me 🐧🤍

[Joe @joedaroo]

I told myself I’d never join X. But I can no longer ignore my own responsibility to raise awareness of just how narrow this window is, and how critical alignment & monitorability is right now. What is coming IS sobering and I stress that everyone needs to level up their game to meet it. Working on Agent Security @OpenAI has been extremely intense the past few months, but I am humbled by how seriously my colleagues across the lab take it. The “AI community” needs to spend less time arguing about who cares more about safety / alignment and more time working together to do this right.

Read Jakub’s post. Then read it again. And then do your part to do something about it.

https://t.co/ZBtzcu0eH3

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@VolatilityQ 🙏

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

I like calm people. Who aren't loud just to be noticed. Who read deep books. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche. Who can sit through a 2-hour documentary about aliens and actually enjoy it. Smart as fuck. Zero show-off energy. No performance. No drama. Just a calm vibe. They notice things. Think deeply. Talk less, understand more. The ones who stay low-key and private in a world obsessed with being seen. Those are my people.

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

I love people who read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Worth every penny ❤️

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[nikita huno @NikHuno]

london taught me speed. brussels taught me diligence. moscow taught me resilience. scandinavia taught me design. puglia is teaching me something none of them could: that I don't need to be productive to be valuable. that sitting on stone steps eating bread and oil at 3pm is a legitimate use of a human life. I rejected this kind of slowness for twenty years. called it laziness. turned out to be the thing I was looking for.

[Matt Bedsole @Matt_Bedsole]

Midtown Atlanta, served by three heavy rail stations, is one of America's most successful examples of TOD.

25k people have moved into the district since 2000 w/ pop. density approaching New York City.

Turns out Sun Belt cities can change fast with trains under tall buildings.

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@dougboneparth 🤣🤣

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@NWischoff Love this.

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@investingluc Smart

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@TheShortBear Stay disciplined. Always.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

My neighbor is 84 and lost his wife last year. He has no kids and I noticed he stopped cooking and barely turned his lights on. He was just fading away. So now, every single night when I cook dinner for my family, I make an extra plate and walk it over. We sit on his porch for 20 minutes and just talk. He told me yesterday that our little chats are the only reason he gets out of bed. It costs me nothing but a little food and time, but it means the world to him.

[Tóbi Bítàn🌻 @Tobi_Bitan]

Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.

[Chris Hess @chess3rd]

@NatlParkService 🤣🤣🤣