Adam Wesley Saunders

heads up imma real thug

[Adam Wesley Saunders @super_swimming]

"Bro I hope someone beats you with a cheese stick so you know what kind of damage that does to someone's mental health!"

[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.

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Not my meme (from Reddit) but love this one

[Jarom Jordan @jaromjordan]

Zach Wilson tonight.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

That’s a horrible holding call.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools' plagiarism concerns: 'We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class.'

[Kyle Yates @thekyleyates]

Christian McCaffrey when he sees Baker Mayfield waltz through the door in San Francisco tomorrow:

[Danny Heifetz @Danny_Heifetz]

Same energy

[Billy 🏈 @Billyhottakes]

Whoever wins the USA v England game doesn’t even matter because only one of us can drone strike the soccer pitch within 20 minutes of losing the match.

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

bob iger just sent a company wide email telling all disney employees they have till 5pm tomorrow to decide if theyre ready to go ‘mad for the mouse’ or take severance

[Quinn XCII @QuinnXCII]

My fifth studio album, The People’s Champ, is finally yours January 27th. New single coming 12/2.

I’m so excited to officially enter this new era - there is a lot coming and I appreciate you all being patient with me.

https://t.co/BxSxlGeNY8

[no context college football @nocontextcfb]

imagine being a cfb fan and missing all this cause you went to bed

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Utah really won the Pac 12 and then two of the historical powers said “Nah, that’s it, we’re out”

[Adam Wesley Saunders @super_swimming]

@sllinkkyy @CalebEphraim_

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

The state of Utah has more teams in the final AP rankings of the season than Texas and Florida combined 😳🔥

[SheRatesDogs @SheRatesDogs]

Iconic. Merry Christmas

[Big Game Boomer @BigGameBoomer]

College Football Tiers - Entering Bowl Season

[jacky @JackWilliamRtF]

if tiktok teens drive up the price of maruchan i'm going to commit a felony