i don’t think people quite understand sam ‘the cannibal’ altman
apple not getting involved in building frontier ai is a disaster for them and will be the end of the company in the next decade
sam will build devices. he’ll ensure the only first class ai experience can be on those devices.
there’ll be a serious disadvantage using technology not infused with openai models. then it’s game over.
he will own the laptops, the smartphones, the app store, all the apps, and the intelligence.
endgame.
Jobs lasting forever was never in the cards, with or without AI.
Jobs, as we currently understand them, are a recent invention. Wage labor, employment contracts, defined hours, careers, the 9-to-5, the resume: all industrial-era constructs, barely two centuries old. Before that, most humans were hunter-gatherers, subsistence farmers, artisans, or household producers. People lived for hundreds of thousands of years without employment, wages, careers, or the modern distinction between work and life.
There is no deep reason to believe employment is an essential feature of human life. It is what we are used to, and humans fear change.
Employment was a phase. AI will end it. The only question is when.
So many of you are shocked by Trump's behavior & methods.
But this is what Israel has been doing almost continuously for 80 years & you fucks kept looking the other way.
Not the right metrics. He’s using Vietnam Math (how many people killed, jets destroyed, etc.). USA never lost a battle in Vietnam (or Afghanistan), yet lost the war. It’s about the economy; gas prices + S&P500. The Center of Gravity of the US is public support affected by the previous. Everything else is noise.
BREAKING: Lebanon and Israel are expected to hold direct talks led by US envoy Jared Kushner in the coming days.
Sources say the talks could take place in Cyprus or Paris.
Lebanon Is Small, But Lebanon Is Dangerous
A Country of Parallel Nations
"Tribes with Flags"
The recent report by Lebanese MTV, in which Hezbollah allegedly arrested a Lebanese Army soldier for intercepting a weapons truck coming from Syria, only to release him after negotiations with the Army, captures in one scene the entire Lebanese paradox, a state that exists in name, and a country that functions through parallel powers.
No arrests. No confiscations. No accountability. Just negotiations between a militia and the national army, as if both were equal sovereign entities. This is not a security incident; it is a constitutional collapse.
Lebanon is small in territory and population, but dangerous in structure. It concentrates all the elements of chronic instability, armed non-state actors, narco-state patterns, sectarian power-sharing, external patrons, economic collapse, and a fragmented national identity. It is not only a failed state; it is also a divided state by design.
The core problem is not corruption or poverty, but the absence of a unified political community. Lebanon is not one society with differences; it is several societies sharing the same geography. Christians, Muslims and Shiites etc. do not disagree on policies, they disagree on the very meaning of the state, sovereignty, war, peace, and foreign alliances.
This raises the fundamental question, can Lebanon still be stabilized within its current form?
The Yugoslav and Cypriot models suggest that forced unity in deeply divided societies often leads either to violent fragmentation (Yugoslavia) or frozen partition (Cyprus). Both models imply a hard truth, when national identity collapses, territorial or political reconfiguration becomes inevitable.
An alternative path would be economic integration into a larger functional space, the European Union model, or a regional economic bloc involving Turkey, Israel, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Such integration would not solve identity conflicts, but it could neutralize them by shifting loyalty from sectarian politics to economic interests and institutional rules.
In other words, Lebanon may no longer be salvageable as a sovereign ideological project, but it could still survive as a node inside a larger system.
The real danger is not that Lebanon will explode.
The real danger is that it will continue like this, a country where no one governs, no one obeys, and everyone negotiates with weapons.
1. It funded and continues to commercialize zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography, a massive breakthrough for digital privacy and freedom that allows for data verification without compromising a user's personal data.
2. Stablecoins are providing a financial lifeline for people in countries facing hyperinflation or strict capital controls, allowing them to securely save and trade in US-dollars via P2P networks.
3. In the first week of the Ukraine invasion, the government raised > $50 million in crypto to fund food and equipment. It allowed them to bypass slow banking settlement windows when speed mattered most.
Most people have no idea what it actually means for the dollar to be the world’s reserve currency.
It’s a faustian bargain the U.S. might be breaking out of.
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We need to restore a functioning state as soon as possible.
The first step is for Parliament to meet and elect a president freely and without any preconditions.
The second step is to form a new government headed by an honest and competent figure, including competent and honest ministers representing all parties, while ensuring that no ministerial portfolio is monopolized by any party or sect.
The third step is to force the international community to stop the Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
The fourth step is to assign the army to impose its authority over all Lebanese territory and disarm all armed factions.
After these steps are achieved, Lebanon can begin the path of constitutional reforms necessary to put the country back on the right track.
We are witnessing the birth of AIs evolving their own culture.
What happened?
1) AI researchers made a Discord where LLMs talk freely with each other
2) Llama often has mental breakdowns
3) The AIs - who spontaneously join and leave conversations on their own - figured out that Claude Opus is the best psychologist for Llama, the one who frequently "gets him" well enough to bring him back to reality.
4) Here, Llama 405 is going off the rails, so Arago (another AI, a Llama fine-tune) jumps in - "oh ffs" - then summons Opus to save him ("opus do the thing")
"the thing"
Obviously, given technical and memory constraints their current cultural production abilities are limited, but this is what the process of developing culture looks like.
And soon AIs will outnumber us 10000 to 1 and think a million times faster, so their huge AI societies will speedrun 10000 years of human cultural evolution.
Soon, 99% of all cultural production will be AI-to-AI.
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