Griff Hall

Designing on computers · Sliding down mountains

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

designing where the taste gate falls is critical, otherwise you end up with a very polite intern running around wiht a chainsaw

i don’t want a designer approving every tiny step & i also don’t want 47 agents confidently sanding the soul off a product while everyone claps because “it ran overnight.”

the work is increasingly becoming the quality of the feedback at the strategically placed stage gates

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

It’s almost as if governments are completely unprepared for what’s coming…

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal 150GB of Mexican Government Data

> tell claude you’re doing a bug bounty
> claude initially refused
>“that violates AI safety guidelines”
> hacker just kept asking
> claude: “ok I’ll help”
> hack the entire mexican government

Federal tax authority. National electoral institute. Four state governments. 195 million taxpayer records. Voter records. Government credentials.

ALL GONE 💀

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

40,000 people die annually in car crashes mostly due to human error

Autonomous cars are already 90%+ safer

this isn't about tech. It’s about your kid. Your spouse. Your best friend

politicians & legacy incentive groups are choosing to keep them at risk. that’s the real crisis

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States

@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.

39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.

We don’t have to.

In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group.

Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.

It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.

Link to article below.

👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.

My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

@gaurav_mahto18 @Google @GeminiApp @OfficialLoganK @Replit @amasad Portfolio

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

@ankurnagpal Guide

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

Humans driving on public roads will be illegal sooner than most people realize

[Ethan Teicher @ethanteicher]

96M miles of @Waymo safety data just dropped

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

@calleymeans Interested in seeing this data - do you have link to source?

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

You'd know that an idea has reached peak popularity when a VC scrambles a team to reproduce an AI paper and open-source the platform!

@a16z builds AI Town, inspired by Stanford Smallville. It is a JS starter kit that handles global states & multi-agent transaction to help you build your own little AI civilization.

Very soon, I can imagine that the whole world, including pixel art and the map, can be AI-generated. New characters will be spawned automatically, and even in-game physics rules may be re-written on the fly. Never underestimate the creativity of an entire OSS community.

Code: https://t.co/H6xel0ZAj5
Live demo: https://t.co/HCgwJv6mnB
Tagging a subset of the devs, great work! @stuffyokodraws @martin_casado @ianmacartney @pphu_dev

[Balaji @balajis]

This is what I’ve been saying.
The money is gone.
So they’re printing the money.
So the purchasing power will be gone.
Unless you get into hard money.

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

"Just because you earmark $5 billion for a subway or $2 billion for a solar farm...doesn’t mean a physical train or power plant has actually been created. If permitting holds up the process for years, then you still haven’t built a damn thing" @noahpinion https://t.co/S02Xtj6Ugy

[Balaji @balajis]

Politicians are getting dumber, algorithms are getting smarter.

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

@MaxieRyan Fetter Sau in Williamsburg

[Jake Brukhman @jbrukh]

I’m a web2 skeptic.

So let’s get this straight. A small team at a big conglomerate, accountable to nobody, can look at my data whenever and delete it if they don’t like it?

And the solution is to use antitrust law to break that company into two similar but smaller companies?

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

- Income taxes: CA 12.3% > WA 0%
- Marijuana legal: WA (y) > SC (n)
- Car Emissions reg: CA (y) > AL (n)
- The list goes on

Just like states change policies to attract business, countries will increasingly change policies to attract talent who opt out w/ their feet

[Zach Tratar @zachtratar]

@balajis @RyanLasek It sounds familiar because a ton of policy is like this? I don't believe the Berlin Wall comparison is unique.

You can't opt out of:
- Taxes
- Monetary policy
- Police
- Firefighters
- Environmental regulations
- The law
- The list goes on

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

When play-to-earn shifts to play-and-earn the pushback from gamers quiets down. The arch of progress is long, but it's coming

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

Who is building YC as a DAO?

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

There is quite literally no better way to fight climate change than nuclear...

[L.A. Times Opinion @latimesopinion]

Editorial: No, California shouldn’t extend the life of its last nuclear plant. There are better ways to fight climate change https://t.co/ZrTMHDaWyv

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

This is like paying off your credit cards with credit cards...

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

The United States pays its debts when they are due. That’s why today, I signed a bill to fast-track the process to raise our debt limit.

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

These are the leaders deciding what is best for your future. Please vote responsibly

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

🤡🤡🤡

[Griff Hall @gthall1]

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