R. Daneel d’Anconia

concretize the abstract

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

My guess is 90% of people with ‘MBAs’ are worthless pieces of shit who should be mowing lawns.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Churches around the world are burning down wherever there are large immigrant Muslim populations.

This is a full-frontal attack on our countries' traditions and our civilization.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Videos concerning the Rape Gang Inquiry are being censored and removed on TikTok

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

still don’t understand what’s so special about Elon Musk’s money that his $1 trillion dollars would solve every problem on earth, but the $7 trillion dollars the US government spends annually hardly solves the problems in America

[Mike P @mikepat711]

Palantir is still so misunderstood by most. I am such a massive bear on software because I think LLMs are going to render almost all of it useless eventually, but Palantir is the rails for the LLM train to mow down everything. Every corporate AI meeting or talk I’ve attended has the same problem, and ontology is the solution. Most don’t even know yet.

[austin petersmith @awwstn]

The Certifiably Insane Way to Build an AI Agent:

1. choose a category where mistake tolerance is roughly the same as it is in self-driving cars. we chose "email-based scheduling assistant." many people want this product, but they immediately fire him if he screws up an interaction with a prospect, a candidate, or a potential investor

2. you learn that the edge cases are too complex and too frequent to be solvable. ours: managing timezones for people who travel (and change travel plans) constantly. knowing when NOT to respond, when to text the customer on the side to verify something, when to follow up, which sub-calendar to use, when to bend the rules on availability, when we can schedule that one type of call during your commute but not the other type of call. sharing your availabilities without compromising your privacy. and on and on.

3. the product doesn't feel viable, but you don't want to give up. you spend hours in a hot tub in Marin with a friend who makes self-driving cars. you make a plan to do it the way they did: hold the steering wheel. you go home and build a human-in-the-loop platform and hire contractors to serve as a backstop and catch mistakes before they happen (and to help design a map of what a world-class EA would do in every weird scenario). you decide trust is the currency in your category, so it must be the thing you won't compromise on. the product must succeed at any scheduling request, no matter how complicated.

4. you instantly feel an overwhelming market pull. so you keep going, growing that team to 75 people working 24/7 to support the nonstop scheduling needs of your customers. tons of engineering time goes to scaling the human platform instead of building the product.

5. you try to raise a Series A and investors say you are insane. your gross margins are extremely negative. they believe this is a problem worth solving, but they don't believe it is as hard to solve as you say. they want AI, not humans. your competitors put "NO HUMANS IN THE LOOP" on their landing pages to call you out. you keep going.

6. you work day and night building the harness that can meet the quality standard your customers have come to expect. you create a massive synthetic gold dataset. audit it, and clean it, label it. repeat. then, experiments. fine-tuning. RL. ACE. DSPy. sub-agents. sub agents for your sub-agents. rebuild the harness. throw more tokens at the problem.

7. some weeks you make big progress. some weeks your evals climb a single basis point, but that's better than nothing. more experiments. more tokens.

john coogan said the hot trend in 2026 will be dogged pursuits. that pushes you to continue the pursuit, doggedly.

8. then, one day, you realize you are scheduling thousands of meetings a day and approaching 50% autopilot with no increase in churn or complaints. you put 150 customers in a full self-driving experiment, and they use the product MORE than they were using it when they had the human backstop. you can really start to let go of the steering wheel.

9. you don't know yet if this was a hill worth climbing, but you are nonetheless stoked that you can see the top. you have created a proprietary map of what to do in a million different situations. nobody else has that map, and the models keep getting better at following maps. your plan was to bet on trust, and your product can be trusted.

today was the first day Howie crossed 50% autopilot:

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

- Midjourney makes a scanner
- Biohub + Berkeley make the invisible visible
- Valar goes critical
- Anduril wins USAF CCA Production Contract
- Notes on Reindustrialized

+ Science Breakthroughs, Marc on SpaceX, Dean

What a week for the optimists.

[∿ @somewheresy]

so much of the "rationalist" community is just "what if being evil was good?"

[R. Daneel d’Anconia @rdaneel_]

is this what perfect intelligence looks like?

1. complete knowledge of all the component parts found in reality

2. complete knowledge of every possible permutation of interactions between component parts

3. perfect ability to forecast how causing interactions between component parts creates what we’d term value

[The Cyberpunk Dingo @cyberpunkdingo]

This is actually true. Nobody cared for Muhammad's new religion until he started distributing spoils of war which included sex slaves.

[R. Daneel d’Anconia @rdaneel_]

“But look at reality: the accounts that accuse him of Nazism still tweet. Every day. Without hindrance. On his network. With his algorithm.

The totalitarian dystopia they're attributing to him is disproved by the absence of the gulag.”

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

Vandals tore up the liner in the reflective pool In DC even carved numbers into it.

Leftists destroy everything.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk on why Juneteenth is bad

Important to share this one because this is a position that leftists use to justify why they murdered him:

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Happy Rosenmas to all those who celebrate

[Gavin McInnes @Gavin_McInnes]

Everything you need to know about the private sector VS. Big Gov’t.

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

Women judges have been institutionally trained to resent White men and pity Black men.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

A new book claims Trump was asked whether the next president would undo his gold-themed Oval Office redecoration. His response: "Cubans love gold."

[Lazgar Lockman; artificer, blacksmith, goofball @Lazgar_lockman]

It's official: buying isnt owning
Which means piracy isn't theft

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If your country is even considering banning VPNs, then you aren't living in a free country anymore.