Shiva Nandan

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Girls locked in dog cages, girls raped by dogs, girls passed around as rape toys at Eid celebrations.

Everyone involved needs to hang.

Especially including the regime anti-racists who enabled all of it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@aaronburnett Our goal is launching Starship >10k/year, which would be more than once an hour. Probably over 200 tons of useful load to a useful orbit per flight by then.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Breathtakingly Beautiful

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

The camera team at SpaceX is on another level. 😳

Big fan — signed, Tesla Camera Team.

[Shiva Nandan @seekshiva]

Surprisingly, after using codex for last 2 months and I agree with the 2nd point. I haven’t opened the editor and made changes to the file in last 2 months.

Occasionally, if an agent isn’t working as expected, I might open the editor to read the code and give better instructions, but other than that, I’ve done a lot of work without opening the code editor

[kitze · supermac.io 🐦‍🔥 @thekitze]

ppl are like "how do u ship so fast" so let me give u 3 shipmaxxing tips

1. you gotta skillmaxx anon. my skills folder is GINORMOUS. probably adding 10-15 per day. i have skills that build meta skills, self improve, etc. etc.

2. i dont LOOK at code, even diffs. very very rarely. let alone edit a file. last time i edited a file was in 2024. i have other methods for keeping clankers sane when coding (like linting, formatting, skills, post hooks, and my own police script with a bunch of rules that can't be enforced via linting) but i dont need to look at code anymore

3. i don't type prompts. i ramble for a long time in https://t.co/8nztYWTKia instead. here u can see a 5 min dictation that gets transcribed and inserted in < 1 sec

my efficiency is 10x

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Same move. Same hand on the heart, same wave to the crowd. Musk did it and gets called a Nazi to this day. Mamdani does it and those same people have not said a word.

Well, not exactly. Once the side by side clips went viral, some of them did speak up. Not to apologize to Musk. To defend Mamdani.

Suddenly the gesture is not the gesture. Suddenly we need to talk about arm speed. Whether the fingers wiggled at the end. Whether he was smiling. Whether his grandparents were in the right party. A year ago none of that mattered. The hand went up, the verdict came down. Now we get a forensic seminar on millimeters and microseconds to prove Mamdani's arm moved slower.

Mamdani's own press office said "in no way was this a Nazi salute." Funny. Musk said the same thing. His did not count. Mamdani's did, instantly.

That tells you everything. The "Nazi salute" thing was never about the gesture. If it were, they would be screaming right now. They are not. It was about Musk. They hate him because he is the richest man in the world and he was attacking their ideological piggy bank with DOGE, so they smeared him.

Mamdani is on their team, so he gets a pass, plus a defense team running stopwatch analysis. Same hand, opposite verdict.

A wave is a wave. The rule does not change based on who is waving. When it does, you are not watching principle. You are watching a hit job.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc.

More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage:

1) raw text (hard/effortful to read)
2) markdown (bold, italic, headings, tables, a bit easier on the eyes) <-- current default
3) HTML (still procedural with underlying code, but a lot more flexibility on the graphics, layout, even interactivity) <-- early but forming new good default
...4,5,6,...
n) interactive neural videos/simulations

Imo the extrapolation (though the technology doesn't exist just yet) ends in some kind of interactive videos generated directly by a diffusion neural net. Many open questions as to how exact/procedural "Software 1.0" artifacts (e.g. interactive simulations) may be woven together with neural artifacts (diffusion grids), but generally something in the direction of the recently viral https://t.co/z21CP5iQfu

There are also improvements necessary and pending at the input. Audio nor text nor video alone are not enough, e.g. I feel a need to point/gesture to things on the screen, similar to all the things you would do with a person physically next to you and your computer screen.

TLDR The input/output mind meld between humans and AIs is ongoing and there is a lot of work to do and significant progress to be made, way before jumping all the way into neuralink-esque BCIs and all that. For what's worth exploring at the current stage, hot tip try ask for HTML.

[Sam Altman @sama]

kicking off a bunch of codex tasks, running around with my kid in the sunshine, and then coming back at naptime to find them all completed makes me very optimistic for the future

[SophieZX @Z_XSophie]

Elon posted this to expose broken logic:
“Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler”
He was showing how absurd and dangerous it is to take one extreme example and smear an entire group.
Minutes later, @remarks did exactly that.
They isolated the words, stripped all context, and ran with:
“Elon Musk says all socialists are Hitler.”
This is how they operate.
Take a post that criticizes bad logic…
Twist it into the very lie it was mocking…
Then spread it as fact.
They don’t debate.
They isolate words and lie.
Elon keeps showing the pattern in real time.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

You have a zero-sum mentality.

You think 'earning' $1 billion is "impossible" because you cannot conceptualize how the economy works.

The economy works by bringing the future forward. The future is infinite. Therefore, the economy is much closer to infinity than it is zero sum.

Try telling someone from 1,000 years ago that millionaires would exist, most people in America would own a magical square in their pocket that has access to all of humanity's information, and they can drive a metal box that will take them thousands of miles away, or ride in a tube that will fly through the sky while they watch a movie on their magical square device.

Your entire premise lacks imagination, which is not surprising from someone who makes a living leeching off of the taxpayer by misleading low-info voters.

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

With the help of Claude Mythos Preview, the Firefox team fixed more security bugs in April than in the past 15 months combined.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

It saddens me to see this level of economic illiteracy. Creating a billion dollar company isn’t evil, and you don’t have to steal from workers.

Are you telling me the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple got rich by underpaying their workers and forcing them to get food stamps? No, they paid workers generously, and gave them free food at company cafeterias. These founders didn’t take from the company’s operating budget that was meant for payroll. They benefited from the appreciation of equity, and gave their employees access to the same equity appreciation.

What a dangerous way of thinking to claim that anyone who created value must have stolen it.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Space launch was a clear case where there was a large difference in efficiency between what was possible and what was done in practice before SpaceX. A large part of that was due to everything being locked in to what (just barely) already worked, with huge risk aversion. WIth national prestige or a half billion dollar geosync satellite on the line, speculative engineering ideas that might result in a public debacle were not welcome.

When failure is not an option, success can stay very expensive. You need to experiment to improve, and that fundamentally means being comfortable with failure. If you know it is going to work, it isn’t an experiment.

I have long believed that nuclear power today is in precisely the same state as space launch two decades ago, but the even more pressing question now is if semiconductor fabrication might also be.

On the one hand, Moore’s Law has been a sequence of heroic miracles of technology at the wafer fabrication level, grinding out hundreds of compounding small improvements.

On the other hand, fabs are “too big to fail”, and there are elements of extreme conservatism at play. Intel’s “Copy exactly!” fab development exemplifies that mindset – instead of every new building being an opportunity to explore and optimize processes, it was deemed more valuable to just replicate.

While each individual machine may be straining against physical limits of technology, it is possible that the systems orchestrating them all together could be far from optimal.

The explore / exploit axis is fundamental to all decision making, but human risk avoidance probably biases away from optimal exploration.

[Derek Sivers @sivers]

https://t.co/awW5fxtdHK

[Michelle Kim @michelletomkim]

After six weeks of intense negotiation, Brockman and Sutskever sent Musk an email in September 2017, saying they did not want to give him unilateral control over the for-profit.

"The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship. You are concerned that Demis could create an AGI dictatorship. So do we. So it is a bad idea to create a structure where you could become a dictator if you choose to," they wrote to Musk.

[Sam Altman @sama]

it has been a real pleasure to work with Greg over the past decade. i feel very lucky.

this post held up pretty well, but not did not sufficiently highlight his technical brilliance and sheer determination.

https://t.co/wi03SGDLjU

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

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[Sriram Krishnan @sriramk]

@tszzl @somewheresy I’ve been doing it and it feels very old school in a way that makes me happy.