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@gurgavin Isn’t this true any time stocks go down?

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@beffjezos @steipete /loop Write 1 short X post that convinces people to use loops in Claude. Focus on time saved. Under 280 characters. Conversational, no emojis, no em dashes.

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@icreatelife Hmm. How about Zanephyr

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@CuriosityonX

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@RileyRalmuto

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@vasuman It’s the driver, not the car.

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Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test

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@theo Unfortunately, he’s become a joke. An AI doomer.

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@ClaudeDevs @Scobleizer I wonder if there is a notable large scale economic impact on this

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Let’s not kid ourselves. We are approaching a point where AI can be very dangerous in the wrong hands. While many of you might trust your current government, we must also consider all future governments, including more radicalized ones.

This is also true for opposing governments. Allowing any other country to gain this advantage might alter the course of the world. We have been here before; this is the Manhattan Project all over again. There was a brief period in which the US could have taken over the world, but didn’t. The government should be the highest form of democracy. Putting this in the hands of your government is the only real power you will have to control this.

If Anthropic is truly worried about handing this to the US, the only viable solution might be to release the models. The US would get what it wants, but the playing field would be even. The most peaceful times in human history usually happen when all sides have mutual assured destruction.

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@danielcberk Ignorance won’t save you.

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As we approach the singularity, there are several critical steps must happen. Among them is widespread unemployment driven by automation. This signifies the inaugural phase of the accelerated AI takeoff, a sequence of dominoes set to cascade in rapid succession.

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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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@pmddomingos This is only temporary.
Inefficient code is energy intensive. In a world in which almost all energy goes into compute, small increments in efficiency can lead to vastly higher levels of intelligence.

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@AlexFinn Question. Did you do anything at all to prompt this or guide this to call you?
Basically, does this have agency or is it still being guided?

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@DaveShapi @MichaelAArouet Servers in America can easily earn about $50/hour from tips. In fact, the biggest opponents against eliminating tips for a flat wage are the servers themselves. Politicians have proposed it numerous times, but have been quickly shut down.

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@PeterDiamandis How much will your robots lean on big cloud-based LLMs, or is the future of robotics entirely driven by proprietary models using edge computing?

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@niccruzpatane MKBHD is overrated

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@wholemars He’s too early.
The VR glasses need to take off.

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@wholemars @grok Siriously?