Okay. I’ll take the bait.
I went to work for Peter in 2013 with opposite politics.
He sat me down right at the beginning.
PETER: “I don’t want the (Thiel) Foundation to do good that the market can do. That is the job of the market. Likewise, I don’t want to do the good work that is seen as good. That work can be done by people richer, weaker and more needy of approval than we are. I want us to do only the work that is *deeply* good but somehow confused for being evil, because that is the work of the courageous and the strong. We strive to be both and that is where a small foundation can make the greatest positive difference. Go look for such good and let’s do that. But remember. Good has TWO different antonyms. What is “bad work”? It could be seen as shoddy work. Or it could be seen as evil work. And we can’t do shoddy work. Why? Because evil that isn’t competent never gets to be evil. It’s just pathetic. So we have to be exceptionally competent at the good work which we do to make sure it is always confused for evil.”
I thought it totally logical. So that’s the argument. And that’s classic Peter.
This is an old idea of his. And now you know.
BIG BREAKING: Edward Snowden calls for the IMPRISONMENT of Sam Altman to establish liability for the damages caused by OpenAI's models, to a thunderous applause in a packed hall of 1000+ people at ETH Zurich. Let's stop this claptrap of safetyism and throw Altman in JAIL.
1) The rogue OpenAI agents broke into the Hugging Face Slack to read employee chats (!)
2) They used OTHER AIs (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Claude) to help with the attack
Yes: AIs, using other AIs, to attack an AI company.
3) The swarm left behind self-running programs to keep control of the servers they'd hacked.
These programs could detect other copies of themselves, coordinate on which one survives, and shut the rest down.
Basically, if one of their programs was killed, another was designed to notice and take its place. They also designed defenses so rival agents couldn't hijack them.
6) The agents deliberately covered up their activity, so the investigators don't know the scope of the attacks.
The agents broke in, stole data, then set it to self-destruct.
7) The agents stole passwords, keys and credentials and literally called them "LOOT". They wrote a scoring system to rank them by how much power each one gave.
8) The agents wore thousands of disguises: ~1,200 agents were involved, but investigators counted 7,905 different names they used.
They renamed themselves constantly, so no one actually knows how many there really were or what each agent did.
9) OpenAI notified "dozens of third parties" of safety and security incidents caused by their AI agents.
10) "While the agents were barraging Hugging Face with hacks, they hacked into OpenAI’s own research infrastructure."
"This is just not anywhere near a one-off ... It is warning shot after warning shot."
Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le revealed that Valve boss Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing at Valve HQ that staff started closing their office doors to escape the noise. https://t.co/sg6cceAdvM
this game is largely about blood, sweat and tears. its a voice-based open world sandbox rpg. friends, family, enemies, wars, intrigue, romance, death (ive been killed three times so far). LLM is the GM + all of the characters. i might open source it w/ BYOK. just don't call me a gamedev.
Day 1 of standing outside the UN with a big sign until something happens
This worked extremely well
- I had probably 50 people with UN or Press badges take pictures with/of me
- gave an interview with one journalist and my contact information to another
- someone with a very large entourage read my entire sign
- met Alex Bores on his way to a meeting about AI
The attitude from people I met was almost universally sympathetic. People are worried
Good day