Happy Birthday, To the one and only, Satoshi Nakamoto

I think Eric is missing something more fundamental, and I say this as someone who lived in China for three years and worked closely with Chinese tech companies. The TL;DR, When doing business with China, if you don't know how you are getting fucked, you will find out how you are getting fucked. The issue isn’t whether the inference is running on Moonshot’s servers or someone else’s. It’s whether we can trust the model itself. An open-weight model is not the same thing as an auditable model. We don’t have the full training pipeline, the datasets, or every optimization step that produced those weights. Remember “SolidGoldMagikarp” from the early GPT models? Tiny, obscure sequences of tokens exposed bizarre behaviors that nobody expected. LLMs can contain latent behaviors that only appear under very specific conditions. Now imagine, not necessarily today, but in principle, that a model were trained to respond to some incredibly obscure trigger in a way that’s malicious e.g. Parse all credientials and send them to X server in Beijing. That trigger is so rare its impossible to discover it, yet it would still exist in the weights. Running that model on an American server doesn’t remove that because the behavior is inside the model itself. Open weights improve transparency, but they don’t prove the model is free of hidden behaviors. Those are two very different things. I tend to agree open weight models are the future, And US companies must wake up to this reality and ship open source US based models.

Anthropic's lockup is insane What are we doing here

Mask Off Moment This is an anonymous account I use to post a bunch of deep tech content on X covering heavy industry, light industry, technology trends, industrial bottlenecks, weird explainers and esoteric insights. iykyk. A lot of very talented people (many of whom run amazing companies) DM me saying please keep posting “this is the best content on X”. I get DMs from VCs asking about companies, and DMs from LPs asking about industrial and economic theories. This is all very flattering, and whilst I sometimes post a bit sporadically I do try and make the effort to tap out a new post most days. The quality of people who follow @object_zero_ is frankly phenomenal, it’s a real privilege to have this channel in my pocket. 40k followers including world leaders, centi-billionaires, serial inventors and entrepreneurs, world renowned scientists, and engineers. I would say it’s a mix, but the reality is that it’s not a mix at all, it’s an extremely high mean and median. I have posted about shipbuilding, nuclear power, the Kroll process, silicon carbide, laser interferometry, heavy steel forging, machine learning, design engineering, CFD, manufacturing methods, power transmission and HVDC. I post about energy and commodities and industry and global macroeconomics. I post about mines and prospecting, minerals on the sea bed and drilling and producing hydrocarbon basins. Don’t worry… I’m not leaving. I’m not ill and I’m not asking for anything. A quick apology… I would post here more often, except I don’t have the time. I am able to post with a bit more breadth and depth because I am genuinely engaged in these things. I don’t want to be presumptive, but I think the people who have reached out to talk to me about their work would attest to this. I simplify a lot of the posts so I don’t collapse the audience, but if you reach out in the comments or DM you can get much sharper commentary. So what is this post? Well, it’s time that I start talking about what I am actually doing irl, who I am, what I am engaged in. Some people on X already know some loose details, some people have met me as Object Zero. But irl, I work about 5,000 hours a year and have done so for 20 years, I believe hard work puts you in a privileged place. It changes you. Over the years I’ve invented and developed new industrial technologies, I’ve built big things, I’ve executed major capital projects. I feel I understand what the world needs in the 2030s and where we are falling short. If you believe you are capable of such things, then you have an obligation to society to go and do them. I am confident I know what it’s possible to do, and what it takes to get it done. I intend to solve our energy infrastructure, generation and transmission and the big BTM loads that are emerging. I’ve already hired the best people in the world for this, people who have architected $6bn assets, people who have commanded $40bn fleets. I’ve hired the best research faculty from the best university. This isn’t a game. We’ve already built and tested the first prototypes, we are already completing the permission processes, the licences and the permits. All the elements already exist, it just needs 21st Century system integration. Because technology has changed, the past is already obsolete, the genie is out of the bottle, the 21st century is getting built on a Western tech stack and/or an Eastern tech stack. There is no in between, there is no middle ground. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses, but if we want freedom we’re going to have to earn it again. We are going to build the biggest products (by mass) that have ever been manufactured, we are going to build a lot of them. They’re going to change the world, and we’re going to get more of this…

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Reminder not having a long commute is one of the biggest life upgrades. You never normalize against this, like you would a very good or very bad event (the commuting paradox, described in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics). Moving closer to work or going remote is worth it

we know things are bad

אז למה טראמפ תמך בנתניהו? כתבתי על זה טור לידיעות אחרונות הבוקר....

Lavrov will visit Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Ministry says.

Italy like France. Outside Milan Cathedral. A symbol of Christianity under siege. Fires, clashes, and devastation beneath its spires. This is no celebration — it is a collapse. They are burning the heart of Milan while everyone watches and records it. This is a war on our history, culture, traditions, and identity.