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Navegando la Existencia

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Sam Altman has been describing a version of ChatGPT that remembers your whole life, every email, conversation, and document you choose to feed it, so it can act as a proactive assistant. A viral clip framed this as AI surveilling your entire life within six months, which overstates both the timeline and what he said. Strip out the hype, though, and there's a business angle here, one Altman has said out loud.

My Take
The obvious worry is privacy, and it's a big one. You'd be handing a single company a record of your entire life, your emails, your health, your money, your private conversations, and trusting it to guard all of that and never misuse it. These are the same firms that keep getting hacked and subpoenaed, and once that data exists in one place, you don't control where it ends up.

They want it anyway because it locks you in. Altman has said the deep memory creates massive switching costs, which is his term for a moat. Once ChatGPT holds years of your context, walking away for a competitor means starting from zero, so most people won't. You carry the privacy risk so they can hold a customer who won't walk. Google and Apple ran a version of this with email and photos, and this hook goes far deeper, your whole life instead of a photo library.
I'd think hard before pouring all of it into any single one of these tools, because the company that holds your entire context doesn't have to stay the best. It only has to be impossible to quit.

Hedgie🤗

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

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[Matías Longoni @matiaslongoni]

No es lo mismo el coloso de Rodas a que ruede el coloso.
Con practicidad y disciplina gremial, los prácticos derribaron el mito de que nadie puede enfrentar y vencer al ministro desregulador.
Ahora a discutir seriamente los temas y tratar de resolver por consenso, que es para eso que le pagamos el sueldo a un funcionario que nos está costando demasiado caro.

[Vassiliki Souladaki @Vsouladaki]

As a Greek, I was introduced to Homer almost as soon as I learned to read. His epics are among the first great works we encounter at school, and they remain a living part of our cultural consciousness.
Given that, I really don't care whether Christopher Nolan has remained completely faithful to Homer or has taken creative liberties.

What truly matters is that he has brought Homer back into the world's imagination. If his film encourages people to return to the Odyssey, discover the Iliad, or venture further into the treasures of classical literature, then it has already accomplished something extraordinary. Any work of art that sends people back to the source has, in my view, made a genuine contribution to culture.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We have reset usage limits for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users.

Last night around 2am to 4am we suffered an almost global outage. All well and recovered, but you know what comes next.

We learn. We reset. Enjoy.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

How to kidnap an English person.

[JP @Jprz1321]

This video is on point! 🤯

[Maximiliano Firtman @maxifirtman]

Ford vuelve a contratar ingenieros humanos luego que la IA no lograr superar los controles de calidad.

Aunque la noticia está siendo simplificada. El dato es que contrataron 300 ingenieros "de barba gris", seniors y jubilados para que vuelvan a entrenar a los jóvenes ingenieros y a la IA porque no estaba funcionando.

El vice presidente de ingenería de Ford dijo: "La IA es una herramienta fantásitca, pero es solo tan buena como la información que usás para entrenarla (...) Durante los últimos años, no prestamos tanta atención como debíamos a la experiencia de nuestros ingenieros más expertos que han estado con nosotros durante tantos ciclos de producto. Hemos confiado demasiado en sistemas automatizados. Bajo error pensamos que solo usando IA y metiendo los requerimientos de diseño que teníamos íbamos a producto un producto de alta calidad".

[Mona G. @mona2000ad]

@MetroGasPR La empresa que quiere cobrarme una deuda ajena de un depto que vendí hace VEINTIDOS AÑOS. Piratas, los denunciaré.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A visualization showing how gravity curves spacetime

[🎞️ Daniel Ibarra]

[Mona G. @mona2000ad]

@Emova_arg Nunca una estimación de cuánto durará la demora. Cero servicio.

[Karin Arcuschin @KarinArcus_ok]

⭕ Jorge Luis Borges acerca de Jorge Bergoglio, quien después sería el Papa Francisco

"Con el jesuita, que es ingeniero químico y muy buen lector, nos entendemos mejor -diferenció Borges-; él enseña literatura y ha incluido mis textos en sus clases, lo cual me parece un poco exagerado.
Yo trato de disuadirlo y le repito que lo mío no tiene ningún valor, que son una sarta de borradores, pero no me hace caso.
Dejando de lado este detalle, el padre Bergoglio es una persona inteligente y sensata; con él se puede hablar de cualquier tema: de filosofía, de teología, de política.
Pero hay algo que me alarma un poco; he observado que tiene tantas dudas como yo. Lo cual no sé si está bien en un religioso.
Mi madre se hubiera horrorizado de una cosa así. Pero quizá no es tan raro si tenemos en cuenta que se trata de un jesuita -y concluyó Borges, apoyándose en su bastón, con una sonrisa contagiosa-.
Claro, esa gente es históricamente transgresora y hasta tiene sentido del humor, además de manejar conceptos que en algunos casos difieren de las otras congregaciones de la Iglesia."