Jon Asher

Founder @ Continuity AI
Prior founding director, #Netaid, @UNDP anti-poverty. Early engineering at Netflix. Climate tech advisor. 🇺🇸

[Jon Asher @LeftPov]

@hwchase17 @Av1dlive Non-deterministic and AI native.
If a human’s memory were replaced by graph and vector dbs, she would hallucinate as much as AI

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@lizbazurto @antoniogm Anyone can track all passing ships using publicly available, subscription-based high res satellite imagery

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@azsantosk @dawnsongtweets None of these models are post-trained to protect peer agents from context hijacking, prompt injection attacks, or malicious user actions that could arise in a multi-agent scenario ? Degree of misalignment isn’t clear to me.

[Jon Asher @LeftPov]

@antoniogm @ejzim Yes and no, discretionary health spending is an overlooked driver
https://t.co/iNsAXX3KON

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

"A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy."

Brian Thompson's murderer wrote that in his manifesto.

Both claims are bad. The first one, because America spends the most on healthcare because it's rich:

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@OmerPerchik @pitdesi Who’s the target customer? Every aspiring productivity player wants to sell a suite. Many try, most fail while a few corner a fractional rounding error of MS Office.

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@funanchill @JamesMMiller2 @ArkDavey @LexIustitia @MattBruenig So the next, globalized intifada will be different from the 2nd intifada or the one on Oct 7?

Is it ok for the KKK to call for cross burnings again given their nonviolent aspects?

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@antoniogm no hostility detected

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@JoeySchmittPhD @CarySpaceMonkey @Destiny_Chiild @ajlamesa Islamic Republic has spread war and death across the M.E., is responsible for the death of 100,000s civilians in Syria alone, backed Hamas on 10-7, drove ethnic cleansing across Lebanon. It takes a twisted view of reality to believe that Iran was a trusted partner in peace.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

astronauts when they find out Boeing is getting all the manned spaceflight contracts now

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@ZaidJilani That's the difference between Israel and Islamist states like Gaza- a few nutjobs may hold bigoted beliefs, but it's not state policy.

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@RisaSher @Ohp__Sn @LHSummers Manufacturing jobs are booming in many parts of the country with constant labor shortages at plants.

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@chamath If Airbus had never emerged as a viable competitor, thanks to the EU, the quality lapses, financial engineering, and hubris at Boeing would be even more egregious today.

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@brockm @Noahpinion China will be thrilled to watch the USA struggle to re-industrialize because so many machine tools and other critical aspects of the factory supply chain are now only sourced out of China.

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@AlexLWitt @balajis @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @deepseek_ai Few tech products have a substantial, defensible moat. Oracle lives despite Postgres.
Switching costs are the moat. OpenAI's revenue growth will continue to accelerate.

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@garrytan Christlike... reading this article 🤭

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@thomaschattwill As soon as an act of property destruction results in a human death, it will be labeled terrorism. History is full of terrorist acts that emerged from humble beginnings esp. plane to destroy supposedly unoccupied state property.

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@thecyrusjanssen @RnaudBertrand You’re a hopeless chud

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

CCP accounts are lying about history and banking on most English readers not knowing China’s military history.

The Yuan Dynasty tried multiple times to invade Japan.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties invaded Korea.

The People’s Republic of China has never had sovereignty over Taiwan.

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@kane https://t.co/gkBXs5HeOV

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@Gok @mattyglesias @TheStalwart Both Intel and Boeing boards selected executive teams to optimize financial outcomes. That doesn't require an MBA at the helm.
Andy Grove is a great case in point- an engineer absolutely focused on cost cutting, efficiency, predictable earnings, and stock price.