Dread Blockrat Roberts

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

Anybody who spends a few minutes with a random selection of homeschooled kids of any age immediately sees this is true. The social skills of homeschooled kids are dramatically better than those of schooled kids, public or private. #homeschooling

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

New study. This is the exact opposite of what we have been told.

The researchers conclude that in their study, “… homeschoolers exhibited higher achievements on social competency indices than their counterparts attending traditional schools”

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@bridgemindai China won't catch up that quickly without distillation

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@sama If you all had any balls you would publish the weights right now

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@rlacey23 @foundmyfitness I don't automatically disbelieve your claim but can you post the evidence that supports it?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

How to keep AI spend flat while token usage grows exponentially: Not with friction and spend alerts. With better defaults, routing, and caching.

Better Defaults (not Usage Caps) – Engineers can choose any model they want, but defaults matter. We’re experimenting with defaulting to open weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 through our LLM gateway, while still encouraging engineers to choose the right model for the task. 91% of our employees were never hitting their usage caps, so instead of lowering caps and driving up alerts, we're moving to cheaper defaults. Note that code reviews use a diversity of models, so they can check each other's work.

Better Routing – In our custom harnesses, we preprocess prompts and route to the best model for the job, considering cache hits and model pricing. For instance, you may want a frontier model for planning, but not for execution where they can be overkill. Ultimately, humans shouldn't be choosing models - AI can automate this task.

Better Caching – Cache misses are the easiest way to drive your cost up. All of our requests are cache aware, so we’re reusing a warm cache wherever possible. For example, our cache hit rate went from 5% �� 60% in LibreChat once properly implemented.

Keep Context Lean – Start fresh sessions when switching tasks. Scope file context narrowly. Disconnect unused tools. Don't just compact. The goal isn't fewer tokens used, it's fewer tokens wasted.

Better Visibility – Our engineers can use as many tokens as they want, from whatever model they want, but we’ve made usage visible – and the more you spend on AI, the more impact we expect.

The goal isn't to suppress usage. It's to build the infrastructure that makes exponential growth sustainable.

Putting this into practice has cut our AI spend nearly in half, while our token usage continues to grow.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@Alan_Couzens I like A

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Potential name for the AI industry regulatory authority:

AI Associated Institute of America, Inc or AIAIAI, pronounced “ay yai yai”

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Usha Vance mocks New York Times for drawing 'political significance' from her pregnancy fashion | Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News

Second Lady Usha Vance had some fun at the expense of The New York Times for what she claims put "political significance" in her pregnancy wear.

Vance, who is pregnant with her fourth child as her husband JD Vance serves as vice president, was the subject of a Times piece titled "The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image," alongside White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, podcast host and wife of top White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, both of whom gave birth in recent weeks.

New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman began her piece by putting a spotlight on an Instagram Reel post the second lady posted commemorating Father's Day, noting that she was "wearing a stretchy coral dress that hugs her stomach."

"That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence. But for an administration that has such an intuitive and strategic understanding of the power of aesthetics that an unspoken dress code in which men outfit themselves in the image of the president has developed, it has also become a telling one," Friedman wrote Wednesday. "Together, the women have created a notably consistent, and somewhat paradigm-shifting, picture of the White House’s family and fertility platform."

After pointing out how the trio "showcased their growing stomachs" once they announced their pregnancies, Friedman said of Vance, "as second lady, her job is also to represent and humanize the vice president. By spotlighting her pregnancy, she is doing exactly that."

Vance offered a tongue-in-cheek response to the Times piece.

"Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!" Vance exclaimed on X.

The second lady went on to share a screenshot of her Old Navy receipt, showing her maternity dress was marked down from $49.99 to $12.49 and had an additional $3.74 deducted in promo discounts.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

How to stay alive forever without actually living

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Travel internationally one time per quarter, max. That's what I'd suggest after extensively measuring my biomarkers while traveling to China, India, and Australia. It's a real biological insult. One trip requires weeks to fully recover.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@rorynotsorry That's a common marketing lie and you know it. There are domestic vendors with 25-50% markups and batch testing instead of your 300-500% markups, community vetted. Same goes for Chinese vendors and group buys.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@TradingWarz 👍

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@heynavtoor Sir, not a criticism, but your thread here was clearly AI-assisted or influenced also. The fingerprints are all over it. I guess it proves your point.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@AbudBakri Are you a fan of Dr. Doris Loh?

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇯🇵 FUNNIEST THING: Japanese fans ran onto the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo for 40 seconds to celebrate the 2:2 tie against the Netherlands.

They ran onto the crossing only for 40 seconds while it was green! The Japanese DID NOT BREAK TRAFFIC RULES!

After the light turned red, everyone went back and stopped the celebration.

They did not even break the traffic rules for this moment. lol

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@BasedBiohacker Good writeup until the oral capsule affiliate link. Inject or go home.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@bryan_johnson I see, yes, it's more of the same.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@bryan_johnson Most longevity medicines are very inexpensive generics that online vendors sell for ridiculous markups rather than the costplusdrugs price. Will this just be more of the same?

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@BlackPantherCap GenX shrugs and says, yeah, so what? That's just life

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@Tellit007 The keto cult triggered in the replies here 😂