Adam Peterson

Father & Husband. Builder. Ultra runner. @VipeCloud - the franchise CRM for the AI era.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Crushing it @vladtenev !

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

We're building @TrumpAccounts to become the default vehicle for philanthropic giving in the US.

Right now, if you are interested in giving, you have to navigate complex rules and regulations, not to mention evaluate individual charities and validate whether the money is actually going where advertised, and how efficiently.

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You know where the money goes. The child owns the assets. There are no fees. And the portfolio compounds at market rates for years.

That's a powerful model for giving and has the potential to positively transform philanthropy in America.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

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[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

If you didn’t think data center misinformation was an overseas psyop before…

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: 𝕏 reveals it uncovered a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, including hundreds used to influence U.S. debate over AI data centers & energy policy.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@rossiadam Have the kids! Every time I hear this from someone I feel like they are the victim of some psyop. It’s so sad.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Increase supply by 1) allowing more housing to be built and 2) figuring out how to get the 50k empty units in NYC back on the market (e.g. streamlining permits, reviewing requirements in the first place).

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse.

Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Within 2 hours Claude's Output -> Concise got verbose again. I had to challenge a multi page output. Got back: "Fair hit".

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Unfortunate but it seems most likely the case

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Reminder: the datacenter discourse is a documented psyop and they’re winning

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Call me impressed

[@jason @Jason]

Whatever you do in life, do it to the best of your ability and get a little bit better every day.

This is a work of art. 🖼️ 🌯

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@StevenShortino 💯

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@DylanRatigan I’m more scared and skeptical of the corruption we don’t see, and think it’s orders of magnitude bigger than a multi billion dollar crypto deal

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

And a few hours later, 529 overload again. Today is the day I look to return to @cursor_ai and @grok

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Claude is 529 overloaded again. Two days in a row.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@claudeai 529 Overloaded. Time for a run :)

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@StevenShortino Works for me across devices, but on for chat, not cowork or code. Claude desktop app and mobile app.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@claudeai 529 Overloaded. Time for a run :)

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Is personal property a foundational principle of this country or not @RoKhanna ?

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

@mcuban Allow illiquid founders to pledge shares with a loan from the government to pay tax. The loan period is long but not infinite (e.g. 10 years). The loan is non-resource: at the end of the period, the loan is either paid back in cash, or the government assumes the shares.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Some thoughts on Dario’s post:

1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker’s account of what he said – something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate.

2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly simplified view and notes that “Many people outside this bubble think of regulation as something that constrains corporate power and benefits ordinary people.” This argument is a straw man. Of course treating all regulation as capture would be overly simplified – but almost no one holds that view. I have repeatedly argued for strong antitrust enforcement to keep industries competitive, especially Big Tech. If Anthropic continues toward monopoly or duopoly status, I would be among the first to demand those rules apply.

3. Regulatory capture is not vague or in the eye of the beholder. Nobel laureate George Stigler defined it as regulation acquired by an industry and designed and operated primarily for its benefit. Stigler challenged the traditional view that government regulation arises from a benevolent state protecting the public from market failures. Rather, industry groups have concentrated stakes and pour resources into influencing regulators, whereas the public’s stake is diffuse and unorganized. The revolving door between companies and the agencies that regulate them compounds the problem. Anthropic understands these dynamics: it has hired multiple senior Biden AI-policy officials and built a substantial government-affairs operation plus a network of aligned organizations to push its preferred frameworks at state and federal levels.

4. Dario has consistently pushed for a new federal agency to review and approve frontier models prior to release – a proposal framed variously as an “FDA for AI,” an “FAA for AI,” and most recently a “FINRA for AI.” I call it a “DMV for AI” because a review process modeled on the FAA or FDA (which takes years) or FINRA (which issues rules for a staid industry widely seen as protecting incumbents) will create long queues as AI models wait for testing and approval. This process will only become more labyrinthine as rules accumulate to prevent theoretical harms. This would handicap the U.S. relative to China, which will not adopt the same constraints. It would also undermine Anthropic’s own business model, whose pricing power depends on remaining ahead of open models. Whatever Dario states today, it is difficult to believe the company would simply accept outcomes that erase that advantage.

5. Anthropic is on track to become one of the most valuable companies in history, with the resources to navigate any approval process and shape the rules while competitors wait. Dario wants open models under heavier scrutiny – he has called them dangerous in Senate testimony, criticized them for not being centrally monitored or withdrawn, and linked them to IP theft. He says he has never sought a ban, but he could achieve a similar result by insisting that identical rules apply to both open and closed models. The U.S. risks becoming an island of costly closed models while the rest of the world races ahead with broader choice.

6. Dario acknowledges that AI is structurally centralizing but attributes this mainly to chips and scaling laws. Access to compute matters, but the deeper risk is who decides which capabilities are available to whom. His preferred pre-deployment testing and FAA/FINRA-style oversight would place that gatekeeping power in a federal bureaucracy working hand-in-glove with a small number of frontier labs – reinforcing centralization rather than countering it.

7. The second part of Dario’s post assumes we have amnesia about Anthropic’s well-orchestrated campaigns hyping AI fears. His May 2025 claim that AI would wipe out 50 percent of entry-level knowledge jobs within five years still lacks supporting evidence fifteen months later. Similarly Anthropic breathlessly promoted its heavily contrived “blackmail” study on 60 Minutes. Yet Dario blames public negativity on a long-standing loss of trust in institutions rather than his own messaging.

8. These narratives have done more than anything to shape public fear. People are left asking the same question Mark Zuckerberg posed: why race to build a future you describe in such negative terms? Thomas Sowell’s "The Vision of the Anointed" captures the mindset – elite intellectuals convinced that only they are enlightened enough to control the outcome. As Zuckerberg notes, concentrating power in the hands of an enlightened few has rarely produced the promised results; the practitioners turn out to be less enlightened in practice than in self-conception.

9. Gavin Baker summarized the disagreement cleanly on our pod: Dario believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize. Dario appears to believe, sincerely, that safety and progress are best served by centralizing authority in a marriage of corporate and state power. The weight of human history gives us reason to fear that outcome.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Ease of moving across state lines is the single biggest deterrent to terrible proposals like this. To protect the nation let’s remove US taxation on citizenship (not residency) <- that will deter a national attempt at private property theft by govt

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The California Democratic Party and the California labor movement just stood with @BernieSanders and me in supporting 5% wealth tax on 250 California billionaires.

California voters want a Democratic Party that will stand up for the working class over the billionaire class.

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@rossiadam Yes! The falls are so much more comfortable than anything attached to a board

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

@FriosPopsGuy V cool! Tahoe 200 is next level. For states my first step is to qualify :)

[Adam Peterson @Dad_Build_Run]

Fair. It’s a platform dependent career and fame is a questionably valuable goal. But it’s entrepreneurial and I think that’s a good thing. Influencing as a degree is arguably more valuable than communications, and prob more of a “trade” with real world learning than a marketing or business undergrad degree. And it will also prob illustrate how hard it is to be good. Success there, like with most things, is a cissoid curve not a normal one.