Benjamin Clark

Living the dream. Surviving the nightmares.

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

we need to move everyone from Labor to Capital as quickly as possible

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

guys, obviously, we should do this !
https://t.co/zjNEdRCJ1z

[Jarrad Grigg @jarradgrigg]

This is what entrepreneurialism feels like.

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

If they really start to gatekeep who gets to use the best models, that is a declaration of war.

This prospect fills me with the most sincere, bodily cypherpunk will-to-power that I've ever felt (at least since I was a teenager). If they really go down this route, I would go all-in on building the most psychotic swarms of open-source models and fine-tunes possible, all geared toward a Chaotic Good jamming of the entire institutional public sphere. If we didn't do that, all of political life and the marketplace of ideas would be over before we know it.

It's one thing if the top models become too expensive for me or others to use (I'm already pricing that in, and if you can't build something profitable enough to climb that ladder as it gets pulled up, then that's fair enough).

But if the ladder gets pulled up politically, now, so only select institutional players get access to the most intelligent models, then any mature American man should be as energized as gun collectors are around the 2nd Amendment, or liberal women are around Planned Parenthood.

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

don’t be the limited factor in your own life.

[Kōda @aimikoda]

Saber Poi Ritual

Midjourney + Gpt Image 2 + Seedance 2.0 + Suno

Workflow and prompts are in the replies.

[Noam Dworman @noam_dworman]

Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.

[Sam Altman @sama]

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"

Ecclesiastes 9:10

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

@pmarca why couldn’t we have just repurposed a bunch of Minecraft playing 12-year-olds to plan this thing?

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax.

He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything

[CIX 🦾 @cixliv]

You guys aren't going to believe this (I had to double check it was real).

Unitree has made an actual mecha like Gundam, the GD01.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

[Lovets🌹 @Pelumilovets]

Nothing like a Meteor impact to put things into perspective

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This is why people never agree on the truth.

[yung macro 宏观年少传奇 @apralky]

“UBI” is obviously nowhere near the panacea many of you seem to think it is. The median left-leaning Westerner isn’t angry at Elon Musk because he can buy a million times more groceries than them. They aren’t upset with Palantir because Peter Thiel can afford to eat a thousand burgers to their one. This whole thing is in large part post-material. It’s the hierarchy & subordination they’re uncomfortable with. They feel their dignity is being trampled and their autonomy progressively diminished – rightly or wrongly they feel politically disenfranchised and stripped of a say over the future. Offering a guaranteed food budget and a pod to spend the night in return for further disempowerment is incredibly tone-deaf and should be expected to provoke more, not less, outrage.

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

yep 100%
we just have to run the gauntlet between here and there

[Penny2x @imPenny2x]

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it.

The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth.

Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days.

It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions.

Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny.

Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it.

So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid.

“The elites won’t share”

You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free.

Charities will have immense resources to distribute.

Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution.

An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively.

The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking.

I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance.

Can you see it now?

Can you see the future?

[Benjamin Clark @Clarkisin]

Damn
the Panacean era for human art is here

[Higgsfield AI 🧩 @higgsfield]

We just made a 23-MINUTE sci-fi pilot in 4 days.

And it is 100% AI.