Victor

[aly ⭐️⭐️ @mkmhes]

that’s still the cutest thing of this wc

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@Parz1vald @thsottiaux hmm would’ve to give it a shot

[leo 🐾 @synthwavedd]

Anthropic have recently been cracking down on distillation attacks by testing various CoT visibility levels, including no CoT and single-sentence summaries, and I expect these changes to roll out more broadly soon. While you are free to make your own conclusions from the evidence provided, we believe all of it points to Deepseek operating in a deceptive manner to scrape output data from Claude models, and as such that it is best to publish our findings publicly.

Thanks to everyone in our Discord - https://t.co/6iCDyuXVWC! - for their help in this, particularly dzdsa33.

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@jukan05 one of us ✌️

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@Parz1vald @thsottiaux nice! would love to see your prompt

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Some observations on Kimi:

1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungry. It's not obvious to me that this model is actually that cheap to run.

2. I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks. To be clear, I *myself* might be fine with models presenting this level of marginal risk being open weight, but I am surprised that China is fine with it. I suspect the reason they are is 75% explained by strategic blindness/lack of AGI-pilledness (the CCP is very Yann Lecun-y in its views of AI). The other 25% or so is their lack of compute for customer inference (making China's open-weight strategy an unintended byproduct of US export controls) and the normal Chinese strategy of aggressive exports. For the companies, as opposed to the government, the decision to open source is partially ideological and partially because they are behind, and they know that very few people would pay for sub-frontier models from China.

3. Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. I suspect the reason they are is that they know open-weight models are effectively ungovernable, and they simply like the overall cloak of ungovernability open-weight models create over the whole of AI. It's not a bad strategy; it reminds me of James Scott's recounting of the hill people in "the art of not being governed." Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex.

4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end. You'd be surprised how many 'accelerationists' lobbied me, while I was in government, to support an eleven or twelve-figure federally funded data center so that startups could train models at a subsidy and then give them away for free. There was no other way for AI to progress, they said. Perhaps this is the logical end state of things. Nonetheless, I find myself surprised to see supposed accelerationists excited about such an outcome. I think many of them just don't know what they're doing. Many accelerationists do not view the creation and serving of frontier models as a legitimate business.

5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this.

6. It's probably true that open-weight models of this capability make the world a bit more dangerous, but not so much more that you'll really notice. At some point the models will be capable enough that you will notice. "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self-replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab," you say? Color me shocked.

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@Yulun_Du incredible. creating my acct atp. I’ve held off for too long

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@leerob just do a reset

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@thdxr does open code work with my gpt sub? how about with Claude? @thdxr

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I know things are heavy right now, and we have a lot of work to do.

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[Victor @vicownsthis]

@luke_drago_ I love when smart people just be smarting

[Variety @Variety]

Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison and his dad Larry Ellison have been sued by a Paramount shareholder who alleges they cut an “illegal” deal with Donald Trump to secure U.S. governmental approval for the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Per the lawsuit, the Ellisons’ side deal with Trump included “the opportunity to improperly funnel cash” to to the president by settling his legal claims against the CNN, as well as the alleged firing of CNN anchors whom Trump does not like.

https://t.co/EiVW2XjPam

[Victor @vicownsthis]

💔💔

[Pop Base @PopBase]

France has been eliminated from the World Cup.

They lost 2-0 to Spain.

[Victor @vicownsthis]

I blame tx heat for my boys loss

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

HE WON.
HE LOST.
BUT NEVER CHEATED.

🐐

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@ClaudeDevs but claude tag is not available for pro or max plans. or did you fix it yet?

[Victor @vicownsthis]

wow. what? He was just in Kyiv 🇺🇦

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).

[Victor @vicownsthis]

France 🇫🇷 - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
WC2026 Finals
(3)-(2)

[Victor @vicownsthis]

how can I get in @thinkymachines
their writing is a joy to read amidst all the slop 😭
thinky, you hiring? I'd clean lol and close jira/linear tickets

[Victor @vicownsthis]

@dylan522p ..what ?

[Victor @vicownsthis]

Microsoft should buy thinking machines. lock in satya