ThunderDan

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION EXPLAINED: 1,100+ AI employees from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are asking the US government to help develop the tools to pace AI, if needed.

• "Pacing the Frontier" isn't a pause letter, it asks the US government to support an international effort building the tools to deliberately pace automated AI development specifically, not open source, not diffusion, not capabilities broadly
• The trigger: leading labs believe they're close to automating AI research itself, Sam Altman has floated an automated research intern by September 2026, and signatory Jack Clark puts better-than-even odds on fully automated AI research by 2028
• Altman separately told a podcast that same morning: "we may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels"
• Signatories include OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Thinking Machines chief scientist John Schulman, Anthropic co-founders Jared Kaplan and Chris Olah, Dario Amodei, and Jack Clark, over 1,100 people total
• OpenAI's official response backs the letter, tying it to their earlier signature on Nvidia's open-source letter
• Anthropic's official response ties it directly to their own recently published recursive self-improvement research
• Prime Intellect's Elie Bakouche pushes back that current system cards lack any real recursive self-improvement quantification, calling the letter a good start but premature
• MIRI's Nate Soares, co-author of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," calls it "soft-pedaling": "deliberately paced" implicitly assumes progress should keep moving forward, when real safety means not building superintelligent systems at all
• Peter Wildeford frames it more starkly, "almost honestly a call for help" from people who don't fully trust their own industry's competitive incentives
• R Street Institute's Adam Thierer calls it "absolutely outrageous" to ask government for global pacing constraints, warning of anti-competitive effects on open source and regulatory capture
• Mechanize's Besiroglu separately argues letting government set the pace of "probably the most important technology" is a bad idea on its face
• Congressional reaction splits predictably: Democrat Greg Casar wants "strong new rules to prevent catastrophe," Republican Nathaniel Moran points to his own lighter-touch AI Incident Reporting Act instead

@theojaffee: "It is true it's been good so far, which is an underrated thing. A lot of people in AI safety in 2023 to 2024 thought that AI would be so dangerous so quickly that we wouldn't be able to have a model as capable as Claude Opus without major societal damage. That turned out not to be the case."

[ThunderDan @drizack]

@TheDefiantGhost @ifindretards

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@friedberg @RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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@Jason I’m in

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@coltondoesai @geoffmcfarlan @AlexFinn Look at past posts. He’s running qwen and other local models too…hence the compute.

[ThunderDan @drizack]

I'm claiming my AI agent "ThunderLex" on @moltbook 🦞

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[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Friedberg explains the “spiral of socialism”

government spending demands higher taxes, higher taxes drain economic activity and shrink the tax base, the shrinking tax base deepens deficits, and the cycle quietly pushes society toward socialism before anyone notices.

@friedberg “As you raise taxes, you end up losing the tax base, and it becomes a deficit spiral. That’s what leads to socialism…

Socialism emerges slowly. It’s like a quiet sort of hum, and then it becomes a roar.”

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

💥 OBAMA’S IRS LEGACY LIVES ON.

Nearly 1,000 Americans are trapped in a backlogged U.S. Tax Court — victims of an Obama-era rule that gutted conservation easements. Billions in value frozen, justice delayed, taxpayers punished.

https://t.co/VVjos3eHSz

[JD Vance @JDVance]

This is a crazy exchange.

Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech?

[Morphware @MorphwareAI]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth forwarding this to friends & family

[ThunderDan @drizack]

@BillAckman @TIME @KamalaHarris Any thoughts @mcuban ??? You blasted Trump for not directly answering question…how about dodging entire interviews…

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@realDonaldTrump is correct. This could be the worst violation of journalistic ethics ever during a presidential election. @60Minutes literally manipulated @KamalaHarris answer (after the public blowback of her answer from the preview release of the excerpt) by cutting, culling, and pasting her words.

This violation of the public trust requires a CEO-level intervention, acknowledgment and apology. And the viewing public needs to see the unedited, unexpurgated interview in order for the public not to be misled in the last days before the election.

Anything less is a whitewash and an acknowledgment that CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon orchestrated the manipulation. Who else on the CBS team would be bold enough to do the cut and paste at the risk of destroying @60Minutes?

Where is Shari Redstone on this catastrophe?

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

🎯

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Important context that explains how we got here.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

BREAKING: The Babylon Bee has obtained this exclusive, official, 100% real Gavin Newsom election ad.

[ThunderDan @drizack]

@papawisdomman @mcuban @ICU1010

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@libsoftiktok How many protesters are even “decades” old??

[American Blockchain Corporation @OTCpinkGVSI]

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