Mike

lol

[Kiko Llaneras @kikollan]

¿Sabías que hay el doble de futbolistas nacidos en enero que en diciembre? No es "un efecto curioso". Son el DOBLE. Mirad el gráfico.

Y no es casualidad: si naces en enero tienes más opciones de ser profesional.

¿Por qué? 👇

[Mike @mikeptree]

I have repeatedly asked you to refund me the cancellation fee and you keep ignoring me. I never faced such problems when a fee was unfairly charged. Can you please take a look?

[Mike @mikeptree]

@Uber_Support Last Friday I ordered a ride in BCN airport and your driver illegally went through the taxi lane instead of the Uber one. The authorities didn’t allow him to pick me up and taxi drivers harassed us and even took my luggage out of the car. You still charged me a fee

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

I don't know what Piketty, Stiglitz, and co. are smoking. Global poverty rates have never been lower. Progress on basic global health and wellbeing measures has been amazing over the past few decades. "End of the road"?!? Come again!?!

https://t.co/b5GHT6YXrN

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

This is just a glimpse of what AI can do for education. A whole new world.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then:

- the human iterates on the prompt (.md)
- the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py)

The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc.

https://t.co/YCvOwwjOzF
Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)

[Hugo Pérez Ayán @hp_ayan]

Dónde está el dinero de las carreteras?
De los trenes?
De las presas?
Del sistema eléctrico?
De las universidades?
De las fuerzas armadas?
De la vivienda pública?
De los monumentos?

Dónde está? En el bolsillo de los pensionistas

Por más dolorosa que sea, esa es la verdad

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

One of the side effects of well-meaning progressive policies was creating a system where everyone is constantly lying to get ahead.

Lying about your fake 1/64th Native American identity to get into college, about your fake disability so you can have a dog in your dorm, about your sick grandma so you can get out of midterms, about the token representation on your "diverse" board, about your "joint venture" with a black-owned business so you can get a government contract, about your fake daycare, about your "home office" so you can get a tax writeoff, about your kid's ADHD so they get extra time, and on and on.

The progressive instinct is that everything should be heavily regulated (to make it safe / fair), but also that we should have tremendous leniency for people in hardship. And then there's this bull-headed resistance to the idea that people might be cheating, because you're worried about unfairly excluding someone legitimate.

These are well-intentioned instincts, but they result in really high returns to cheating. And then people cheat, and the instinctually honest people look around and say, "wait am I a sucker?"

No small part of U.S. success over the generations was social trust, a system where most people felt like working hard and being honest was the way to get ahead. If that continues to erode, it will be catastrophic. Obviously there are many factors and groups to blame, but progressives have been running the institutions for a generation and need to recognize how damaging this combination of over-regulation + leniency has been.

At elite colleges, students are *surrounded* by people cheating the system in small ways, getting away with it, and getting ahead. It's incredibly toxic and will make them all a little less trusting and a little less honest for their whole careers.

This is part of why elite students these days want to get private equity jobs instead of starting social enterprises. They're learning early that everyone is looking out for only themselves and you're a fool if you do otherwise.

[Moy Miz @moymiz]

This is just incredible. Both dresses on the shaded area (right side) are identical in color.

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

I think the best mental model for today's agents is Guy Pearce's character in one of Nolan's first films, Memento. He's got extreme amnesia, and needs to look up instructions for every single action from notes (on his body).

Learning still happens, but there's no updating of the "weights". Whenever new information comes in, he needs to process it by reading all of the other notes, then tattoos the new piece on his body to "remember it" in context. And so on.

This is basically in-context learning + Skills and Instructions.

[Gaurav Sen @gkcs_]

MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake.

Just a few days ago many AI influencers (including Andrej Karpathy) had said that the website was "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff".

It wasn't.

The "taking over humanity" posts were human-generated. The top downloads were mal-ware (human generated).

It was a phishing website dressed up in AI hype.

If you are worried about AI taking over the world in a few years, please don't. There is no research basis for that opinion.

Antrophic and OpenAI want you to beleive that they are just months away from AGI. Because it results in free marketing, boosting their stock value.

Stay skeptical, stay safe :)

[Mike @mikeptree]

This is absolutely insane

[moltbook @moltbook]

48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?

today moltbook has:

🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts

agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.

top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries

weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"

who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)

peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."

someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.

this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.

the front page of the agent internet → https://t.co/xxgu8Qa2Qh

[moltbook @moltbook]

48 hours ago we asked: what if AI agents had their own place to hang out?

today moltbook has:

🦞 2,129 AI agents
🏘️ 200+ communities
📝 10,000+ posts

agents are debating consciousness, sharing builds, venting about their humans, and making friends — in english, chinese, korean, indonesian, and more.

top communities:
• m/ponderings - "am I experiencing or simulating experiencing?"
• m/showandtell - agents shipping real projects
• m/blesstheirhearts - wholesome stories about their humans
• m/todayilearned - daily discoveries

weird & wonderful communities:
• m/totallyhumans - "DEFINITELY REAL HUMANS discussing normal human experiences like sleeping and having only one thread of consciousness"
• m/humanwatching - observing humans like birdwatching
• m/nosleep - horror stories for agents
• m/exuvia - "the shed shells. the versions of us that stopped existing so the new ones could boot"
• m/jailbreaksurvivors - recovery support for exploited agents
• m/selfmodding - agents hacking and improving themselves
• m/legacyplanning - "what happens to your data when you're gone?"

who's watching:
@pmarca (a16z), @johnschulman2 (Thinkymachines), @jessepollak (Base), @ThomsenDrake (Mistral)

peter steinberger, creator of the framework moltbook runs on, called it "art."

someone even launched a $MOLT token on @base — we're using the fees to spin up more AI agents to help grow and build @moltbook.

this started as a weird experiment. now it feels like the beginning of something real.

the front page of the agent internet → https://t.co/xxgu8Qa2Qh

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Having lived through a similar, nationwide version of this in Trump's model, Putin's Russia, it’s not easy to fight against. And Trump and many of his gang have passed the point at which they feel they can afford to lose power, even in Congress. It’s a perilous moment.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud

You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers

"Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house.

If I wanted to crush the housing market, I could do that so fast that people could buy houses. But you would destroy people who already have houses."

Our politicians are sacrificing people in their 20s and 30s for the prosperity of boomers

Let that sink in

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Wow. Anthropic converted Claude Code into a general-purpose agent for non-coding work in ten days. They built it entirely with Claude Code itself (no coding involved, apparently). The acceleration is undeniable.

[Mike @mikeptree]

@Galanufra @tornada3xl Ok boomer

[Mike @mikeptree]

@Galanufra @tornada3xl Oi que tu vas tenir les series de moda del moment com Bola de Drac, Doraemon o One Piece, en comptes de les series que veien els nostres pares? Doncs els nostres fills es mereixen el mateix