Aegon

I’m nobody!

[LOKI💚 @paalkoovaah]

: Tamil people are educated and progressive.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API.

Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

About a year ago, a Princeton student named Kyler Zhou was sitting in traffic in New Jersey. At some point he was so bored that he put on a podcast with… me 🙃

It was my usual talk about the talent crisis. About the smartest kids of a generation going to work for McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, while the biggest problems in the world go unsolved, blablabla, you may have heard it by now ;)

What’s interesting is what happened next. As soon as Kyler got home, he emailed me and The School for Moral Ambition (the organization we started to get talented people working on the world's biggest problems).

Kyler wanted to bring this to Princeton.

Well, we told him no 😅. We had just launched our first university fellowship at Harvard, and there was no capacity for a second campus...

Kyler decided to ignore us. Three days into the semester, he launched the first* Moral Ambition Chapter at a university in the United States. In just a few days, more than 120 Princeton students signed up. In November of last year I visited, and the energy was simply AMAZING.

Since then, everything has been escalating. Students have started Moral Ambition Chapters at Brown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown and 5 other campuses – often before we've heard of them.

Which brings me to today. After the launch of our Harvard Fellowship (8% of ALL Harvard juniors applied to the first cohort!), we're now also launching Moral Ambition Fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt and Stanford. The program is simple: twelve super talented students per campus, a $15,000 stipend, and a summer working full-time on the most important causes of our time, like lead poisoning or child poverty or ending factory farming or AI safety etc. – instead of polishing a boring corporate pitch deck.

It's just incredible to see how quickly this movement is growing. Every year, thousands of brilliant graduates are funneled into corporate careers that add little to the world. More and more of them are starting to walk the other way.

(For students: applications for Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Vanderbilt are open now. Stanford opens October 6. https://t.co/3dM17vtNbC)

* Brown University claims that they were actually the first – I've decided to stay neutral in this quarrel 😅

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Anthropic’s latest economic report warns that coders may need to learn to plumb toilets.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm

Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.

LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.

The evidence begs to differ.

216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.

Where are the regulators?

Writer: Daniel

[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.

[Aegon @pegasuscentaur]

Investors 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.

The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.

The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s VP of AI on Tesla’s autonomy approach during the Cybercab Launch Event:

“Along the way, every "expert" in the field told us you cannot build a safe self-driving vehicle with just cameras. They said you you needed radars, you needed HD maps, and everything else to drive the car safely. We at Tesla have never believed in this. We always thought the core issue for self-driving is one of intelligence.

You need to understand what is going on, you need to predict what is going to happen in the future, and no sensor in the world is going to tell you what's going to happen in the future. It is something an intelligent agent is going to have to figure out what is going to happen in the future and act accordingly to achieve safety.

That is why we have bet on an Al first end-to-end driving stack that takes in camera images from all around the car, constantly paying attention and is solving for one thing, which is driving you safely.

How do we know this is possible? Because humans drive around all day long using cameras. It is not something that we invented, it's already there, we just needed to find a way to put it in a digital computer. And that's what we believe we have built.”

[Aegon @pegasuscentaur]

@arun0906 #SIRFraudPaariSaalan

[Haraapps @haraaappps]

டேய் இந்த கருமத்த 30 வருஷமா எப்புடி ரசிச்சு விஷில் அடிச்சிங்கனு மட்டும் சொல்லுங்கடா compromise ah போய்டலாம் 🤮🤮🤮

[Pops @tis_Pops]

Dear north indian friends... We might have more educated people on paper… but lets be real, we are way more easily influenced by cinema glamour & politically less mature than you guys.

Forgive us. 🙏

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The AI bubble is about to burst. Brace yourself.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

"your brain isn't a computer. it's a quantum engine."

nobel laureate roger penrose argues that consciousness may depend on quantum mechanics in ways that conventional neuroscience can't explain.

in this video, he breaks down why understanding human thought may require us to look deeper into quantum mechanics and rethink what we know about how reality works at the most fundamental level.

read more about the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics in the article below.

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

Eric Weinstein just nuked our current understanding of physics: "Spacetime is for Pussies" 😱

The new physics are Boom, Vroom & Zoom"

“There is no realistic way out of the escape room that is our solar system.”

Too many of us on one sphere. The problem is not land. It is the atmosphere. Pathogens, radiation, and pollution do not respect borders, and we still have no working property rights in the sky. There is no good nearby terrestrial surface. Two hostile options at best. The nearest star is four light years away.

If you think in spacetime terms, you are not going there. There are no generation ships. You are not uploading to silica. You are not re evolving from tardigrades. “All that stuff is just dumb.” Wormholes and 0.99c are a dead conversation. “Nobody’s excited anymore.”

“Elon was never going to Mars. That didn’t make any sense in his lifetime.”

People cannot think outside the wormhole and 0.99c box because Einstein sits in the head as the boss. “Just think of him as the jailer and you’ve got to make a jailbreak.” Spacetime is probably not what you want to engineer. You want the successor to spacetime.

After Los Alamos, physics may not be safe to do in the open. Quantum gravity, string theory, and M theory are what he calls Nerf physics: Not Even Remotely Physics. Safe enough to share with rivals. The culmination of human theory about base reality “stagnated abruptly and mysteriously in 1973” at the Einstein Hilbert Lagrangian.

Otherwise, he says, “we’re going to die here in short order.” The toys are too good. Thermonuclear weapons have not been used in anger since 1952. That streak will not last forever.

The puzzle is not a faster rocket. It is reconceptualizing what we have wrong.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Marxist economist Richard Wolff explains what's happening in the turbulent bond market and what it has to do with the U.S.'s ballooning debt.

[Gabriel Martinelli @gabimartinelli]

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner ❤️

[爱国青年刘战神 @AGQNLZS]

加拿大华裔学者：印度人将依靠深厚宗教文化底蕴崛起，而华人在这方面欠缺！

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The planet is getting hotter, and there’s an unexpected reason why. Earth’s albedo—which is a measure of how much sunlight it reflects back into space—is falling. This means Earth is absorbing more heat than it is emitting, and that could make warming in the coming years 10-30% higher than current estimates suggest. Find out why scientists are alarmed: https://t.co/R7KJiIxpaC

[𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙄𝙀 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 🍿 @moviiettime]

எவ்ளோ தடவ பார்த்தாலும் கொஞ்சம் கூட சலிக்காம போகும்
சின்ன வயசுல அடிக்கடி பார்த்த ரசிச்ச படம்.

குறிப்பா தமிழ் டப்பிங் மிரட்டி விட்ருப்பாங்க 🤣😁

Dr. Dolittle (1998)

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

dot-com bubble vs. a possible AI bubble.

From the famous "Dean of Valuation", Professor Aswath Damodaran, of NYU Stern School of Business,

“And that’s the real big difference between the dot-com boom and bust and the AI boom. We don’t know whether there’ll be a bust. History suggests there will be a bust.

The dot-com boom and bust had no huge capital expenditure in that cycle. In fact, there was very little traditional CapEx, or even R&D, driving it. People started apps. They basically started going on it.

This has been the biggest infrastructure run-up I think I’ve ever seen in business. You can go back and compare it to the automobile business 100 years ago. The amount of money that’s being put into AI CapEx is immense, which means that when the correction comes, the pain will be more intense.

And herein lies the second problem. The dot-com boom and bust was almost entirely equity-funded. You think, so what? Well, when the bust came, those shareholders lost 60%, 70%, 80%, or 90% of their money. You felt sorry for them, but the loss was restricted to the shareholders.

The problem with the AI CapEx boom is that not only is it immense, but a big chunk of it is funded with debt, and the debt is coming from private capital rather than banks. There’s a very real chance that if there’s a correction and companies start having problems, that problem is going to show up as distress and default, and that really doesn’t stay restricted. It spills over into the rest of society.

I’m not saying it’s going to be 2008, but 2008 is an example of what happens when lenders overreach, when they lend money at too low a rate, and the correction comes. The pain spills over.

So that is my concern with this big market illusion: the potential societal cost of having to deal with debt coming due that you’re unable to pay. It’s much more painful than your share price dropping 90% and you feeling the pain."

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From "Excess Returns" YouTube channel, (link in comment)