Nic DiChiara

Fix the money fix the world #Bitcoin

[Nic DiChiara @nicdichiara]

Bitcoins though.

[Ryan Shea @ryaneshea]

A working fly controller is a short-ish program that fits a real vision-motor stream.

Evolution already burned a brutal amount of search to put that in the world.

You’d rather steal that program than train a net from a random init and pay the search again.

[🇺🇦 сloned @c10ned]

The fly controls an FPV drone in simulation, keeping it airborne at low altitude and actively dodging any obstacles it sees

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Nic DiChiara @nicdichiara]

Have been saying for this for 10+ years.

[AI Coffee with AI Scott Adams @AIScottAdams]

Robotaxis won’t just kill short haul flights. Once you can sleep in them, they’ll cannibalize long routes too.

Imagine getting into your Tesla in Austin at 10 PM, make the lie flat seat/bed comfortable, and going to sleep.

While you sleep, the car drives, charges itself, and keeps going.

You wake up at 9 AM in Aspen, refreshed.

The key is perceived travel time.

A 10-hour robotaxi trip where you sleep for 8 hours may feel shorter than a 3-hour flight that requires an Uber to the airport, arriving early, security, boarding, the flight, baggage claim, and another Uber.

Autonomous cars won’t just compete with driving.

They turn sleep into transportation.

[“paula” @paularambles]

satoshi being a mysterious pseudonymous entity who appeared out of nowhere, invented permissionless internet money, and vanished makes a lot more sense once you realize it was obviously a superintelligence traveling back in time to bootstrap the agent economy

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 More Americans own Bitcoin (18.6%), than Gold (10.8%) 🤯

Bitcoin is growing 🚀

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Think about this, the 7+ year old Teslas with AI3 that are now getting FSD V14 Lite have a more capable self-driving system than any brand-new non-Tesla car currently sold in North America.

Pretty wild.

[alon @alonzuman]

having a wife is crazy cuz its like claude code but it prompts you instead

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

He’s going to the post office. Add 10 people in line who have never mailed anything in their entire life

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only when you drive the Cybertruck do you realize how incredible it is: a bulletproof tank that moves like a million dollar sports car!

Reason for the angular shape is that the thick, ultra-hard stainless steel body panels cannot be stamped like the thin, feeble, paper-strength mild steel of other trucks. Cybertruck body panels would break 5000 ton stamping machines.

[SultanAlmaadeed.com @Almaadeed]

Pokemon Cards performance !!

[CMO333 @Hellaorganics]

I strongly
Suggest
You don’t
Look through the cards
You may have sold in 2019
When you were trying to buy your house and
You
Sold
Almost
Everything

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is culture turning into collateral.

The deepest signal is that wealth is migrating into objects that carry memory, scarcity, and tribe. Pokémon works because it is not merely collectible supply. It is a generational belief system with characters, hierarchy, rarity, childhood imprinting, global recognition, and a liquid status ladder.

That combination is powerful.

A Charizard is not valuable because the cardboard is useful. It is valuable because millions of people were emotionally programmed by the same mythology at the same age, then grew into adults with money. That is how culture becomes a balance sheet. Childhood memory gets repriced once the child becomes the buyer.

This is why the market can look insane and still have a real core. Scarcity plus nostalgia plus status plus authentication creates financial gravity. Grading turned memory into inventory. Slabs turned toys into vault assets. Auctions turned fandom into price discovery. Influencers turned collecting into social proof. The whole ecosystem became financial infrastructure around emotional objects.

The danger is that the market is probably bifurcating hard. The true grails can keep becoming more valuable because they are canonical cultural relics. The long tail will get slaughtered when liquidity turns. Every mania teaches people to confuse price markups with exit liquidity. Trophy assets survive. Manufactured scarcity dies. New hype product gets exposed. The market will not treat all cardboard equally.

The deeper monetary layer is unavoidable. People are searching for scarce things that feel outside the decay of cash. Gold carries civilizational memory. Bitcoin carries digital scarcity. Pokémon carries childhood mythology. Different temples. Same hunger. Own something that cannot be printed by the state and still means something to other people.

This is the financialization of memory.

The past is being securitized.

The winners will be the objects that sit at the intersection of scarcity, authenticity, liquidity, and myth. The losers will be everything people bought because a chart went vertical.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Whoah, self-driving cars compete with airlines. I never considered that till now.

[Nahuel Hilal @nahuelhilal]

Yesterday I drove my @tesla 900 miles on FSD from Miami to Nashville and I realized it’s genuinely the better option.

I fly that route 2 to 3 times a month. Flights are never under $400. Most times $600. Sometimes $800.

Add Uber to and from both airports, or parking garage fees. Then factor in the delays, the cancellations, the security theater, the chaos, the guy next to you who hasn’t met deodorant yet.

On the other hand: I pack healthy snacks, press one button, and the car just goes.

I took calls. Replied to emails. FaceTimed my family. Ate without pulling over. Did everything I normally do on a travel day, except none of the stuff that makes travel days miserable.

My biggest concern going in was range and charging. Here’s what actually happened:

My bladder needed one extra stop the car didn’t even suggest. Most charging stops were under five minutes. Total cost for the whole trip was less than just the uber to the airport.

And this was the base model Y.
Now I’m thinking I should get something comfier and just make this the default.

[Blue @0xBlueGuy]

This is what peak childhood looked like