Evol Science, notveryzen @Evolscience

This is a critical point worth reflecting on. Anthropic could have sued in court (as others have). But they want something far more valuable than simple restitution. They want the US government’s “protection against competition” for years and years. A court can’t provide that.

Pranav @IamPranavJ

6 days ago

@MTSlive worth noticing they took this to the US government, not to court. routed through DC a distillation claim becomes leverage for export controls on chinese labs. that's a very different game than suing for damages

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Anti-Israel. Anti-America. Anti-Western Civilization. Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?

On my way to Beijing in Air Force One

Back-of-envelope numbers for 1 gigawatt data center: All-in Capex: ~$50 bn Enterprise revenue generated: ~$25-30 bn/year Electricity cost: $1-2 bn/year ~2 year payback. The boom is real.

Yep Mr Bunch was right! And who is that developer causing the failed $5b bond???

Called it!

Claude @claudeai

2 months ago

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

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How to duplicate yourself into Claude in a weekend: (even if you've never written a prompt before) 1. Download the desktop app. ☑ Go to claude .com/download ☑ Set Opus 4.7 as default ☑ Turn ON Extended Thinking 2. Open Cowork mode. ☑ Cowork = where your voice lives ☑ Click the top left tab ☑ Create your "Voice" folder inside 3. Install Wispr Flow (it's free). ☑ Turns your voice → text ☑ Voice = faster and more honest ☑ Typing kills the truth. 4. Run the interview. ☑ Paste Prompt 1 from ruben.substack.com/p/youre-just-a…. ☑ 100 questions, 7 categories ☑ Push past every vague answer 5. Compress the dump. ☑ Paste prompt 2 from ruben.substack.com/p/youre-just-a…. ☑ 20K words → 4K tokens ☑ Save as [your_name] .md 6. Test it in a blank chat. ☑ Open a fresh Claude chat ☑ Run a prompt only you would write ☑ If it sounds like you → ship it 7. Drop it into Cowork. ☑ Move [your_name] .md into your folder ☑ Claude now reads it on every turn ☑ Every draft = your voice, automatically 8. Port it everywhere. ☑ Upload to ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini ☑ Same file = same voice in every AI ☑ Hand it to your team or ghostwriter 9. Edit it forever. ☑ Install Obsidian (free) ☑ Open Cowork as a vault ☑ Update as your taste shifts Full guide + prompts at ruben.substack.com/p/youre-just-a…. (save this to clone yourself into any AI)

Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid

2 months ago

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Neuralink

Neuralink @neuralink

2 months ago

Our robot is designed to insert hundreds of ultra-fine, flexible threads with thousands of electrodes within microns of targeted neurons while avoiding vasculature and adapting to real-time brain motion.

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If you ever doubted that there is alpha on FinX… Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote “Situational Awareness” – the most cited AGI thesis of the last two years – and released it for free. Then he launched his own fund betting on exactly that thesis.

Leopold Aschenbrenner @leopoldasch

2 years ago

Virtually nobody is pricing in what's coming in AI. I wrote an essay series on the AGI strategic picture: from the trendlines in deep learning and counting the OOMs, to the international situation and The Project. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

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Demis is one of a handful of AI OGs who has consistently been early and right Amazing interview at @sequoia’s AI Ascent last week

Konstantine Buhler @Konstantine

2 months ago

Sir @demishassabis has a mind for synthesis. His favorite book is about a grand theory of everything. His preferred philosophers are seen by some as opposites. His life's work ranges from board games to Nobel-winning science. We're grateful to have hosted Demis and his

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This is how an economy actually works

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

2 months ago

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un

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Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

New essay on the economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work. 1. Almost any question about the impact of advanced AI on the economy needs to start at the same place: what is still scarce? Answer that, and the analysis becomes pretty straightforward. This essay explores what becomes scarce if AI really can replicate most of what humans do in production, and what this mean for the future of jobs. 2. My conjecture, working through the economics: labor reallocates across sectors, and the sector it reallocates to has properties that keep labor a meaningful share of the economy. Ultimately this is about the structure of demand itself. For this, we have to go back to Girard, Augustine and Rousseau: once people's base needs are met, their preferences shift to comparative motives (e.g., status, exclusivity, social desirability). This motive is inherently non-satiated. 4. The key paper is Comin, Lashkari, and Mestieri (Econometrica 2021). As people get richer, they don't buy proportionally more of everything. They shift spending toward sectors with higher income elasticity. They estimate income effects account for 75%+ of observed structural change. 5. The ironic consequence: the sector that gets automated becomes a smaller share of the economy, not a larger one. Agriculture got massively more productive and its share of employment collapsed. Manufacturing too. The "stagnant" sectors absorb the spending and the jobs. 6. So the question is: which sectors have high income elasticity in a post-AGI world? I argue it's what I call the relational sector. Categories where the human isn't just an input into production, it is part of the value. 7. Why does the relational sector have high income elasticity? Because human desire has a mimetic, relational dimension. We don't just want things for their intrinsic properties. We want what others want, and we want it more when others can't have it. Girard, Rousseau, Augustine, and Hobbes all saw this. 8. In work with Kristóf Madarász, we showed this experimentally: WTP roughly doubles when a random subset of others is excluded from the good. And in new work with Graelin Mandel, AI involvement kills the premium. Human-made art gains 44% from exclusivity; AI-made art only 21%. 9. This all comes together for the core argument. The sector that absorbs spending as AI makes commodity production cheap is one where human provenance is part of the value, and demand for it grows faster than income. Exactly the profile that keeps labor meaningful. 10. To be clear about the claim: I'm NOT saying aggregate labor share must rise. It may fall. The claim is about sectoral composition, i.e., where expenditure and employment go once commodities get cheap, and the fact that the sector that will absorb reallocated labor maps to a substantial component of human preferences and desire. 11. If you're interested in the formal model, a linked companion technical note works out all the economics. Read the essay here: aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be…

@MollySOShea Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada

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Hey @DavidSacks, we need to do round two of recalling ineffective DAs who won’t enforce the law. We can’t let them SF our Austin!

Austin Justice @AustinJustice

3 months ago

Trespassing is no longer enforced by Austin's prosecutors. Since DA Jose Garza and CA Delia Garza took office, criminal trespassing has been effectively decriminalized, and offenses have surged 77%.

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@Jason @AustinJustice So true, we live by the library on 2nd and it’s the zombie apocalypse

True currency is steadfast friendship

If you live in Austin and care about law and order, subscribe for $3 to @AustinJustice I don’t know who writes this account, but they seem to be doing a solid job of chronicling our DA’s stupidity Step one: document everything Step two: recall This playbook worked perfectly to get Boudin out as SF’s DA Let’s run it back: step one, document everything stupid over the next 100 days

Austin Justice @AustinJustice

3 months ago

Austin logged 310 mail and package thefts in 2019. Last year: 2,646. Amazon packages, rent checks, disability payments, tax docs, etc. People are losing mail that takes months to unwind when it disappears. Under DA Jose Garza, the number keeps going up.

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