Timothy Telleen-Lawton @TimTL

overheard in san francisco “the dating market can stay retarded longer than I can stay fertile”

@JeffLadish Anyone interested in a large donation swap here? Eg you donate (or recommend to your DAF to donate) to Palisade in the next week, and I donate to your favorite charity later this year, with interest. (Liquidity issue)

Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To smooth his exit [from YC], Altman proposed he move from president to chairman. He pre-emptively published a blog post on the firm's website announcing the change. But the firm's partnership had never agreed, and the announcement was later scrubbed from the post." "...Despite the retraction, Altman continued falsely listing himself as chairman in SEC filings for years, despite never actually holding the position." (WTAF.) 2. OpenAI's profit cap was quietly changed to increase 20% annually — at that rate it would exceed $100 trillion in 40 years. The change was not disclosed and OpenAI continued to take credit for its capped-profit structure without acknowledging the modification. 3. Despite claiming to Congress he has "no equity in OpenAI," Altman held indirect stakes through Sequoia and Y Combinator funds. 4. Altman owns 7.5% of Reddit — when Reddit announced its OpenAI partnership, Altman's net worth jumped $50 million. Altman invested in Rain AI, then OpenAI signed a letter of intent to buy $51 million of chips from them. 5. Rumours suggest Altman may receive a 7% stake worth ~$20 billion in the restructured company. 5. OpenAI had a major security breach in 2023 where a hacker stole AI technology details but didn't report it for over a year. OpenAI fired Leopold Aschenbrenner explicitly because he shared security concerns with the board. 6. Altman denied knowing about equity clawback provisions that threatened departing employees' millions in vested equity if the ever criticised OpenAI. But Vox found he personally signed the documents authorizing them in April 2023. These restrictive NDAs even prohibited employees from acknowledging their existence. 7. Senior employees at Altman's first startup Loopt twice tried to get the board to fire him for "deceptive and chaotic behavior". 9. OpenAI's leading researcher Ilya Sutskever told the board: "I don't think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI". Sutskever provided the board a self-destructing PDF with Slack screenshots documenting "dozens of examples of lying or other toxic behavior. 10. Mira Murati (CTO) said: "I don't feel comfortable about Sam leading us to AGI" 11. The Amodei siblings described Altman's management tactics as "gaslighting" and "psychological abuse". 12. At least 5 other OpenAI executives gave the board similar negative feedback about Altman. 13. Altman owned the OpenAI Startup Fund personally but didn't disclose this to the board for years. Altman demanded to be informed whenever board members spoke to employees, limiting oversight. 14. Altman told board members that other board members wanted someone removed when it was "absolutely false". An independent review after Altman's firing found "many instances" of him "saying different things to different people" 15. OpenAI required employees to waive their federal right to whistleblower compensation. Former employees filed SEC complaints alleging OpenAI illegally prevented them from reporting to regulators. 16. While publicly supporting AI regulation, OpenAI simultaneously lobbied to weaken the EU AI Act. By 2025, Altman completely reversed his stance, calling the government approval he once advocated "disastrous" and OpenAI now supports federal preemption of all state AI safety laws even before any federal regulation exists. Obviously this is only a fraction of what's in the apparently 10,000 words on the site. Link below if you'd like to look over. (I've skipped over the issues with OpenAI's restructure which I've written about before already, but in a way that's really the bigger issue.)

@robodhisattva Being encouraged to verify seems important (eg “the law is written in our hearts”). There’s something good about also encouraging towards healthy belief, right?

Some notes on my metta practice after going on retreat and practicing metta intensely for 9 days. I had a lot of weird gaps about who I could send metta to, like YouTubers, podcasters, authors, pornstars, musicians, etc. They all deserve my blessings like everyone else. I worked a lot on healing topological defects in my heart-field. Anyone that I found especially hard to bless would indicate a rift. I sent a lot of blessings to Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kim Jung Un, etc. Part of my resistance to sending blessings to Vladimir Putin stemmed from the limited nature of early metta phrases, like "May he feel happy and healthy". I felt conflicted because I want the Ukraine war to end and having this wish come true doesn't necessarily seem towards that end. Actually I wish for much for Putin. I wish he finds love in his heart. I wish that he feels repentance for his mistakes. I wish that he receives forgiveness for his crimes. I wish that he rejoices in the beauty of creation. I wish he will make wise decisions. I wish he will see the truth of the dharma, etc. By changing my metta phrase to "May he receive every blessing" and eventually to just "Bless him" I felt aligned in my good wishes towards all beings. I believe that wishing for a being to move towards their most beautifully wise and loving form will lead to more good. I like saying, "Bless Donald Trump and all his connections" where "connections" means any possible way my mind can think of linking people to Donald Trump, like if they've heard of him, if they've voted for him, if they've seen him, if they've lived with him, if they've loved him, etc. I imagine the being I bless at their birth, and then trace the curve of their life through space time and imagine all the interactions they have connecting them to other beings and all of those beings receiving my blessing too. Like a spotlight of blessing sweeping through space. And I do this for many dozens of people and their lines intersect in beautiful mycelial ways and I get hit by all of these lines. Thinking of 'connections' helps easily draw up more people to bless, since one person always leads to another. Thinking of connections also helps me create a feeling of same sidedness, since if I bless Zelensky I also automatically bless all the Russian soldiers and everyone on the 'other' side of that conflict. I found this very healing for any rifts I felt. It helped when starting out practice to think of an easy to love person, the practice gets momentum and sort of catches fire in a palpable way.

Plummeting birthrates. Nihilism. Hyperindividualism. Etc. Many of the problems contributing to our apparent “dark age” are problems of culture. The defeatism around this on twitter is astonishing. It’s as if ppl haven’t noticed that culture is one of the most malleable historical forces Contrast this with the biggest contributor to former (real) dark ages: physical affliction. We were living paw-to-mouth for 99% of evolutionary history. Most people died from stuff that’s now trivial: a tooth abscess, a cut, a fever. And we fucking solved this for the majority of people on earth! You may live in a decade-long span where many ppl are confused about how to live a good life. But to despair over our current age of “godlessness,” as if it’s a permanent fixture? Ma’am. Bro. Chin up. Unlike polio, god isn’t going away Have you heard of the Axial Age? The Renaissance? The Anti-Slavery Movement? Culture can change dramatically in a relatively short span of time So you live in a historical blip where the culture is kinda dark (despite folks having access to immense power, knowledge, physical resources). What are you going to do about it – post about how bad things are? That’s just hypersitioning the “dark age” into being I propose an alternative: 1. Realize in your heart a great love 2. Become a student of history – studying how individual ppl & great groups changed culture A GREAT MANY TIMES 3. Do it yourself, as one who has unprecedented access to networks and material abundance

@RichardMCNgo Make it easier to start business, especially “industrial” ones, add a carbon tax to everything especially shipping, and then give every American a UBI.

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4 years ago

getting stoned and commenting over-friendly things on people you barely know's posts

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@TaliaGraceSable And if you go to BONDST try the sea bass. Especially if you’ve never enjoyed fish before.

Can I order uhhhhh One large cuddle

@TaliaGraceSable I’ve been falling in love with NYC since November. From what I can tell, best to start with a neighborhood where you already have some friends. Might you be in the Upper West Side or Williamsburg, perchance? If so hmu.

Is this what hope feels like? European leaders gather in London, embrace Zelensky after Trump blowup - The Washington Post apple.news/AdIGrYm3IQ9CUR…

@docscarabus @MilanGriffes @algekalipso Yes, it's not bad... And it's kinda missing the point.

It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve the East Bay in Congress for the last 26 years.

@Malcolm_Ocean I see what you did there. I feel horrified to even imagine I was subconsciously manipulating my loved ones by suffering!

“KT: Threat to Democracy ME: Lots of money, May or may not be good to his wives. FV: Elon would be a bad lay. Vance would be less bad. Between trump and Elon I would least like to lay Trump. “Is this a good idea to post under your own name? It’s very discoverable.” 😛ItsAQuote?

Reaction from Cousin #1: “Do you mean FMK?” Me: “Same same.” Cousin: “Yeah, we just did this the other day. The answer is obviously F Vance, M Elonia, K Trump” Me: “shoot… that’s hard to beat. My best candidate, which I don’t expect you to agree with is: KV, MT, FE.” “Obvi:”

Millenials-only: KFM?

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2 years ago

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@charliekirk11 @AuburnSouthern Oh, no you posted this in October so you meant it was too late to drop Kamala, not Biden. I haven’t read the other comments yet but without further context I would guess he meant time after the election before next election season.

@charliekirk11 @AuburnSouthern So were you the first to provide secret evidence that Biden was going to drop, but even you thought it was too late to be possible?