stipech

homeschool kid, designer, co-founder @ MoneyKit, previously @apple, @square, head of product design and founding team @cashapp

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

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we're actively rolling out invites. join the waitlist

[stipech @stipech]

1000

[rsa @rsa]

still the gold standard UI for browsing your music library

[stipech @stipech]

taste maxxing > test maxxing

[stipech @stipech]

@owenbjennings @Square incredible

[Yoda @teslayoda]

Fate loves irony.

Si is silicon on the periodic table.

[stipech @stipech]

the most prolific builders understand this deeply

[signüll @signulll]

there’s something profound about how so much of the greatest art ever created was a source of pain for its creator & a source of joy for its audience.

[stipech @stipech]

@rexsalisbury 100%

[stipech @stipech]

truly

[@jason @Jason]

Joe Gebbia is a national treasure 👏

[stipech @stipech]

100

[signüll @signulll]

resilience is the art of not converting pain into suffering.

[stipech @stipech]

same here

[OBJ @owenbjennings]

i don’t want to live in a world where sam, dario, the usg, or some other “agency” controls/censors/distributes intelligence as they see fit

[tahsin aktas @tahsinaktas]

"anthropic is using the same playbook religious institutions have been using for centuries"

"you will all die. and because i can protect you, you must follow me, you must do what i say"

"this is the same psychological concept"

[beeple @beeple]

SAM AND DARIO SLOWING THINGS DOWN ✨

[stipech @stipech]

sacks is right, dario and sam can slow down voluntarily if their concern is sincere, they are the frontier

[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.

[stipech @stipech]

"no, no, no, the investors hate ai wrappers, call it a purpose-built harness"

[Dylan @DylanMcD8]

the Apple tiktok team is once again killing it (last one is insane tho 😭)

[stipech @stipech]

@alexisohanian all my dreams coming true

[Nate Lorenzen @NateLorenzen]

Apple is always on brand.

[stipech @stipech]

creativity is not linear

[stipech @stipech]

@AlesyaMacWaters just one pivot away from pmf

[stipech @stipech]

@bradwrage cellular reset