Justin Anderson @reversehell

I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence, and I wrote a long piece about Meta's philosophy and values for building a positive future for everyone. meta.com/thefutureisfor…

Releasing Muse Code in beta today. It's a terminal coding agent that takes on complete software engineering tasks across large repos: planning changes, writing code, validating the results. Powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model update.

Incidentally, I’m very bullish on cybersecurity as one of the best benchmarks for superintelligence. The “IQ test” of software engineering. The best engineers I’ve worked with in my career have usually had a deep background or interest in security. It’s actually easy for a model to “one-shot an XYZ clone” and impress people on X. But that’s not a good test. Finding, patching, reversing, and exploiting require a cognitive skill that transcends programming languages, runtimes, frameworks… It demands true reasoning power from the model and “corner thinking”. Very, very few humans excel at this, let alone in ordinary day-to-day software writing. Seeing Kimi K3 do so well here bodes well for open models.

Having lost family who served in WWII, it always made me sad to think about all the stories that went untold - this is truly an incredible thing to do. Thank you for your service, Rishi.

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol

a month ago

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive... ...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY He started as a teenager, ditching

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To the Americans: I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States. And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness: You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence. This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns. Success is equated with exploitation. Ambition is looked upon with contempt. This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom. But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated. This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet. And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America: Thank God for the United States. Thank God for the wisdom of its founders. Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man. Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners. Long may your admirable country dominate the world. Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states. May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning. Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill. Thank God for the USA. Happy 250th. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

The bitter lesson in 26 words: Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically. Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

@ziv_ravid Continuous, high-dimensional, noisy data. LLMs totally suck at those.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen. Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore. Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?" AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.

I am shocked to learn that rent controls in Spain are having exactly the same outcomes as every other attempt at rent controls everywhere else.

Cato Institute @CatoInstitute

4 months ago

Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon.

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GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems. The obesity crisis seemed liked it would just get worse and worse forever. Scolding from public health officials didn't work. Proposals to completely overhaul our food systems were dead on arrival. Instead, we invented a weekly shot (based on Gila monster venom!) that fixes obesity directly. And now, thanks to the economic incentives in our biomedical industry, we have follow-on drugs that will be cheaper, even more effective, and easier to administer (by taking a pill instead of a shot). Policymakers should be focused on figuring out how we can get more breakthrough drugs like GLP-1s (and faster). They also should think hard about which slopulist ideas might inadvertently kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!

vittorio @IterIntellectus

5 months ago

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to

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Huge for people who prompt faster than they think (me)

Thariq @trq212

5 months ago

We just added /btw to Claude Code! Use it to have side chain conversations while Claude is working.

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🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 In what might be some of the most powerful footage to come out of today, Israelis and Iranians are dancing and celebrating side by side in the streets of London.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

5 months ago

🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 BREAKING: Iranian missiles reportedly launched toward Haifa, Israel. Footage captures the barrage in real time.

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Good new data on US income distribution over time

Prediction: When Iranians overthrow their brain-rotted religious dictator, become a liberal democracy, and rejoin the global economy, they’ll become one of the biggest economic powers in the world. Iranians are some of the smartest, hardest-working, and most entrepreneurial people I’ve ever met.

I fully supported our strike on Iranian nuclear facilities last year. Build on this momentum if further kinetic actions are necessary. These brave protesters deserve our full support to break this brutal regime.

The United States supports the brave people of Iran

We need more rugged individualism, not less. Build on the frontier. Be independent. Decentralize power. Accelerate civilizational progress. Celebrate economic freedom.

This comment is actually instructive in explaining how California manages to waste enormous sums of public money. It isn’t “theft” in the narrow legal sense. Nobody is stuffing cash in duffel bags. But when taxpayers are compelled to fund projects that continuously produce almost no public value, the moral distinction between waste and theft starts to blur. Spending more than $17 billion to deliver a single mile of track is a concrete example. To a reasonable citizen, this understandably feels like theft, even if it passes every formal rule. The deeper problem is not corruption in the cartoon sense, but incentive failure caused by political capture. When one-party dominance persists long enough, success inside the system stops being measured by outcomes and starts being measured by activity. How many favored constituencies are paid, how many processes are satisfied, how many insiders benefit. Creating 16,000 union jobs becomes the metric of success, regardless of whether the project itself works. In that environment, the purpose of the spending quietly flips. The act of allocating money replaces the intended result of the work. Officials come to believe they have succeeded because they followed the political logic of the system, and they are genuinely confused when citizens object to the absence of results. Imagine if the private economy operated this way. Imagine the most unprofitable companies received more capital precisely because they failed, while productive firms were starved because they “didn’t need it.” Society functions only when capital flows increasingly toward effectiveness, not toward the largest failures. California’s public allocation system increasingly does the opposite…and then calls it success, because the people inside the system like @igardon actually *believe* it’s success.

Izzy Gardon @iGardon

7 months ago

Interesting to see a Dem repeat the MAGA-made-up $72B number. That “fraud” supposedly includes the $17B spent on high-speed rail — which has created 16,000 union jobs and built 50+ COMPLETED projects. Calling union work “fraud” is certainly a choice.

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