Ryan Lee

interested in investing, strategy, public policy, int'l dev, health, edu, innovation, cities, theology, supply chain, the future.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

https://t.co/Nb2un9oNJR

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

@rev_cap Occupy Wall Street is back

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

@trq212 In net seems like a heavy measure for use cases that may be demonstrably benign (text editing/drafting) where there are no observed/detected risk factors.

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

@trq212 Positive: Amazing input to evals (general usage tracing, also notably useful in threat/malicious behavior tracing, spam).

Negative: marks on edited content, all Claude-drafted written content... seems like a lot. Norms re: “AI helped write this” are not positive (yet?).

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

We should have known what they were up to when they renamed it from the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

[David Aldridge @davidaldridgedc]

The NBA, again, is waiting on LeBron. And each of the reported teams that are making major pitches to him have their strengths. Here, though, is a vote for the best and cleanest basketball fit: the Timberwolves. Free to read, in @TheAthletic:
https://t.co/8d7qmgFIq1

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

@dalibali2 Solid OpenAI takeout opp now tbh #vibes

[Minnesota Timberwolves @Timberwolves]

ICONIC.

[@jason @Jason]

It’s legit a banger

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" 🗽

As Charles Barkley observed, we are falling short of our own ideals.

[Ron Shillman @shillman1]

Convicted fraudsters Trump has pardoned this year:

Jason Galanis — ~$200M+
Joseph Schwartz — ~$38M
Lawrence Duran — ~$205M (Medicare fraud billed; ~$87M paid)
Carlos Watson — ~$60M investor fraud
Trevor Milton — ~$20M+ investor losses
Todd Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Julie Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Devon Archer — ~$60M tribal bond scheme
George Santos — ~$44K–$1M+ (multiple fraud schemes)
Michele Fiore — ~$70K charity fraud
Brian Kelsey — ~$90K campaign finance fraud
Scott Jenkins — ~$75K bribery/fraud scheme
Paul Walczak — ~$10M+ tax fraud
Adriana Camberos — ~$1M+ counterfeit/fraud

[Malika Andrews @malika_andrews]

Ant Edwards. President Barack Obama.

It began at Team USA Training camp and turned into a game of one-on-one we didn’t know we needed.

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

Wonderful article.

[Thomas L. Friedman @tomfriedman]

My column: How Minnesota Beat Trump https://t.co/ZzJPfZBKZQ

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

@goodalexander Great trade, thanks for posting entry & exit.

[Ryan Lee @rlee2]

Loving this possible policy pivot.

So simple and reasonable. People who are working hard, contributing to their communities, staying out of trouble, people who’ve been in the US for years or decades.

Keep families together. Let workers do meaningful jobs. Time to fix this.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

Hand delivered, written by a Minnesota student. Just an absolute gut punch. Where is our humanity?