Colton

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[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

lot of fun today!

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@OpenAIDevs So excited to head to this event tmrw!

[Pascio @IAmPascio]

https://t.co/5b2m7xiDPx

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@tunahorse21 Sol/Luna combo has done wonders for me ngl

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

don’t get me wrong, rather be safe than sorry for the betterment of society and civilization. just curious on this timing…👀

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

[kache @yacineMTB]

AGI can be here and ill still insert the ribbon upside down short circuiting and destroying two cameras

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@thsottiaux going from Claude to Codex & 5.6 has been game changer for me. Gotten so much done and support for any fixes has been instantaneous (s/o X)

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

ok so I was WAY early on the Mac mini
loved it, now need to hook up clawdbot to keep up w/ the meta

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

didn’t spend two bands, the cluster is slowly forming….

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@exndeos cyberpyschosis at the terminal

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

Merry Christmas!
(left my laptop at home 😭)

[Kirk Marple @KirkMarple]

https://t.co/weN8SvK12t

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@alxfazio real for this

[Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao]

https://t.co/fxHYR6S29D

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

Golden Boy (1995)

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

@code noice

[Genki✨ @Genki_JPN]

Street Fighter 3 character art at the Capcom Exhibition!

[Colton @coltonsteinbeck]

everyone doing a end of year review