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AL Spaulding retweeted
Dario has written that we need to āpace the frontier,ā and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric ā market share, revenue growth, model capability ā the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. Youāve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I donāt 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 elseās 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 Anthropicās investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who arenāt 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 Sandersā āshut it all down.ā 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, youāll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you donāt, weāll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture ā or an election-season psyop.
AL Spaulding retweeted
This guy bought a $400 Mac mini and walked into a coffee shop with $2,100 for installing an AI agent that never touches the internet.
I had to rewatch this because the pitch is almost too simple. He shows up, plugs in the Mac mini, installs a local AI agent running entirely through Ollama, done in under an hour. Zero cloud dependency, no API bills, no monthly charges bleeding the client dry. The coffee shop owner gets a private AI system that keeps working even if the WiFi dies, and he walks out with $2,100 for an install that takes less time than a long lunch.
The hardware cost him $400. One deployment and the machine's already paid for five times over. Then he locks in a monthly retainer for support, somewhere around $100-150, which means every client after the first is close to pure margin stacking on top of recurring revenue.
Most people hear "AI business" and think they need to build a SaaS platform or learn to code or raise funding from someone. This skips all of that and goes straight to walking into coffee shops with a Mac mini under one arm.
Not a company that scales to a billion dollars, obviously, but a solo operator clearing a few thousand a month from local installs while everyone else is still arguing about which LLM is best on Twitter.
AL Spaulding retweeted
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Bucceeās. There are no words for Bucceeās.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. š¦
AL Spaulding retweeted
The Knicks are by far the best team in the NBA. On the road, Spurs getting every call, took San Antonioās best shot and won anyway.
AL Spaulding retweeted
Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.
No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We donāt have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.
Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & itās dangerous to pretend we donāt notice.
Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously.
God bless every persecuted Christian.
Letās remember to lift them up in prayer.
AL Spaulding retweeted
Donāt know what men you know, but this is 1000 percent untrue. In fact, women worry unnecessarily about their man chasing women when heās with his boys. Trust me, you have nothing to worry about in most cases. Those dudes are wrestling, arguing about sports, gambling with each other and doing some of the most childish shit imaginable. Theyāll be arguing for six hours about the ā88 slam dunk contest like that shit happened two days ago.
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Make America Fun Again šŗšø #TrumpDance
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š§µThis is me when I was trans and had my breasts cut off.
Iām posting this for the first time so people understand why I voted Trump.
This is happening to young women all over America. I know Iāll be ridiculed but I donāt careāretweet if you want this to stop:
AL Spaulding retweeted
Serving our Southwest Florida community in the halls of Congress has been the greatest honor of my life.
Thank you to the people of Collier County and Lee County for entrusting me with two more years as your representative.
Our nation needs real leadership, our federal government needs reform, and the American people deserve leaders that will put them first.
I proudly stand as your advocate in Washington.
AL Spaulding retweeted
In a season filled with embarrassing performances, that was the worst.
In a history filled with horrible seasons, this may be the worst.
The #Jets of 2024 are one of the truly colossal failures in recent sports memory.
And it only gets worse from here.
AL Spaulding retweeted
Yeah I donāt see brooks being very relevant this season with how well Chuba is playing.
Did not anticipate this outta Chuba preseason - hat tip to him
AL Spaulding retweeted
What SpaceX accomplished today was equivalent to throwing a dart on target from 5 miles away.
Huge congrats to the @SpaceX team for pulling off this modern marvel + getting humanity one step closer to expanding consciousness out of Earth.
LFG!!! ššš
AL Spaulding retweeted
I won the @FantasyPros 2023 NFL Draft AcĀcuĀracy comĀpeĀtiĀtion out of 235 analysts. I'm also top-5 in their 2024 in-season rankings: #1 for QB, #3 for RB & #11 for D/ST. How did I get here? BY TRUSTING THE DATA. Here are my top 32 usage/utilization takeaways ahead of WEEK 6 šš§µ