John Shaffer

Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force - Barbie, Toy Story 3

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

MARC ANDREESSEN JUST WENT ON ROGAN AND DROPPED THE MOST IMPORTANT AI ALPHA OF THE YEAR.

3 hours and 20 minutes of podcast.

Here are the 17 things worth your attention.

1. AGI is already here. Marc thinks the line was crossed 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3. Nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. For almost any topic the top AI models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call on the phone. And he can call basically anyone.

3. Every doctor is secretly using ChatGPT in the exam room. They turn around the second you stop talking and type your symptoms in. Some do it while you are still sitting there. His quote: "At that point you are asking what do I need you for."

4. When AI refuses to answer something he wants to know he tells it he is writing a novel. "Walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." It explains almost anything if it thinks it is helping you write fiction.

5. When something is too complex he says "explain it like I am 10." Then "like I am 5." Then "like I am 2." He keeps going until it actually clicks.

6. When he wants to understand a tough topic he does not ask what the right answer is. He asks the AI to steelman one side then steelman the other. Then he decides for himself.

7. For big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "Be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." Then he reads the debate.

8. Pay attention to the exact moment you think "I do not know how to figure this out." Most people give up there. That is the moment you should open the AI.

9. The only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask. The models can do almost anything you can describe in plain English. The bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. You can send AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. Skin rashes. Blood test results. The new models read images not just text. A free 24/7 second opinion on anything.

11. The one type of therapy clinically proven to work is cognitive behavioral therapy. It is also something an AI can fully do on its own. Every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free anytime they want.

12. AI is solving math problems open for 100 years that no human mathematician could crack. Same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. Expect cancer cures and weird new physics breakthroughs in the next few years.

13. The best AI coders in Silicon Valley now make $50 million a year. One person. That number tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. One friend paid $200 to decode his entire DNA. Then gave the AI his DNA, blood test results, and Apple Watch data. The AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. Another friend put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI watches him spar and gives him technique notes after every round. A world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. The best programmers in Silicon Valley now run 20 AI coding bots simultaneously. Each bot writes code while they review the others. They call themselves AI vampires because going to bed means 20 workers stop and you lose money every hour you sleep.

17. The obvious next step: the bots will run their own bots. One human running 20 bots each running 20 more. One person. One laptop. 1,000 AI workers. This is months away not years.

Bookmark this before you watch the full podcast.

Follow @cyrilXBT for every AI insight worth your attention the moment it surfaces.

[Mayank Agarwal 💡 @TheAIWorld22]

BREAKING: Claude can now map out your retirement better than most people charging $3,000 ever will.

Here are 6 prompts to figure out exactly when and how you can retire.

(Save this before it disappears).

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Anthropic pays $750,000+ a year for engineers who know how to build LLMs from scratch.

Stanford just released the exact lecture that teaches it - 1 hour 44 minutes, free, straight from CS229.

Bookmark and watch it this weekend.

It'll teach you more about how ChatGPT & Claude actually work than most people at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

It appears there is a pattern…

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

REPORT: New close-up footage shows that Thomas Crooks' shot was perfectly centered in the middle of Trump's head.

In video footage filmed by @C3PMeme, Trump could be seen doing a similar 'head tilt' as he did where he quite literally dodged a bullet.

A combination of Trump tilting his head sideways to look at the graphic on the screen along with him leaning into the microphone, saved him his life.

The footage below was filmed just seconds before the shot was taken.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Updated Trump Assassination Attempt fields of view and locations.

Based on multiple videos that have come out over the weekend I have updated the locations of Police Officers and the fields of view of the two counter sniper teams, and several videos and locations of the shooter, 5 police officers, Trump and the 3 victims.

Based on all the videos so far it is almost certain that only Counter Sniper Team South had eyes on the shooter and their view was not completely obstructed by a tree. Had the shooter been 3ft further east, they would have also been obstructed by the tree and would not have had an ability to return fire leaving Thomas Matthew Crooks the ability to continue fire unimpeded at President Trump, his Secret Service detail, and the audience very likely resulting in more casualties.

Thomas Matthew Crooks had a clear line of sight on Trump and the position he selected gave him the best possible maximum concealment due to the line of trees to his front and laying on the far side of the roof with the rifle resting on the roof ridge beam. His line of fire is depicted as the 4 red arrows his position is the red dot.

Counter Sniper Team South had a line of sight on the shooter and almost certainly took the shot. Counter sniper team South line of fire is depicted as the white arrow and yellow dashed triangle is their field of view.

Counter Sniper team North had no line of sight on the shooter due to the tree. Counter Sniper Team North line of sight is depicted as the yellow dashed triangle.

3 different videos plus the account from the BBC male eyewitness had the clearest view of the shooter being near parallel to the shooter and also had line of sight of both Counter Sniper Teams and 4 police officers walking on the West, South sides of the building and several police cars and at least 1 officer on the Southeast corner of the building. Based on media reporting at least 1 officer climbed the ladder on the east side of the building.
These fields of view are depicted as the green dashed triangle.

Position of Trump depicted in Orange.

Positions depicted in Blue are the locations of;
Corey Comperatore
David Dutch
James Copenhaver

#TrumpAssassinationAttempt
#Trump
#SecurityFailure
#SecretService
#ButlerPennsylvania
#ButlerPA
#TrumpRally

[Rapidsloth @Rapidsloth_]

@dbongino How close America came to civil war

[reason @reason]

Stop blaming the attempted assassination on heated anti-Trump rhetoric. When a deranged person takes up a gun and attacks someone, we should blame that individual—not other people's words. https://t.co/WJo6IkNVXj

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

.@DylanByers: "In 2022, CNN averaged just over half a million viewers in total day, and just over 120,000 in the advertiser-relevant 25-to-54 year-old demo—its lowest-rated year in history."

[The Next Revolution @NextRevFNC]

.@SteveHiltonx: Honest observers would have seen that this Speaker drama was actually a productive fight for substantive reforms to make Congress less corrupt, more responsive, more transparent, more accountable, more effective

#NextRevFNC

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

Rep. Jeffries: "What evidence do you have to support" that Dems hate Clarence Thomas because he's a black conservative?

“The Chairman of this committee called him an Uncle Tom.”

Rep. Jeffries: “He has freedom of speech.”

"Can I give you another example."

Rep. Jeffries: "No."

[Center for Internet Security (CIS) @CISecurity]

What is CIS RAM and how can it help your organization? Find out with this short module! https://t.co/Rj70NCXDsA #risk #riskassessment #CISControls

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

Fewer people watched prime time cable news in 2022.

But @FoxNews lost just 1% in prime-time viewership, compared to 32% at @CNN & 21% at @MSNBC, according to Nielsen ratings. https://t.co/D7SOwyUWyp

[The Center Square @thecentersquare]

West Virginia is among the top 10 states who saw numeric population decline between 2021 and 2022, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.  https://t.co/Qc9ELLQHPe

[Ari Ingel @OGAride]

A tally of tweets in 2022 from squad members AOC, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar of being critical of a foreign country. 

The Double Standard and fixation on Israel is clear:

[Ali Hadi | B!n@ry @binaryz0ne]

Uploaded all my Offensive Security & Reverse Engineering (OSRE) course labs (docx) to my repo found below. Most of them have very detailed instructions and should be great to get you started in Software Exploitation. 1/n
#Offsec #SoftwareExploitation #RE

https://t.co/D5oBtDNOnS

[reason @reason]

In the mid-'70s, people disengaged from political conflict and took up jogging. Maybe it's time to do the same.

Read the story: https://t.co/UuBRgiYwvD

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

I remember when Biden called Trump xenophobic on the day he announced such restrictions and then every fact check ruled the claim false because it was unclear if Biden had even known about the restrictions when he said it even though he responded to a literal tweet about it.