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kvetchingon David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

If they were really worried about the models of the future, they should be accelerating their hardening efforts. They should be trying to speed up progress as much as possible so that all vulnerabilities can be patched before China gets there.

There's a world where the labs WANT Open Source AI to cause a disaster.

Pacing the frontier just means giving bad actors an opportunity to create an AI disaster which would force an extreme response by governments. Which they seem to be begging for.

Dario's big scary example was AI that can hack the internet. Why aren't the labs calling on the government to help harden everything? Why are Anthropic's Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak still commercial endeavours?

To me, the only real risk of AI is hacking. Why all of this commotion about existential risk? Seems like a distraction.

kvetchingon Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances

this is the wholly wrong approach. We need to advance as fast as possible, and harden our systems as much as possible. That's the only way to prevent another actor from "taking over the internet".

kvetchingon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

kvetchingon Has the New Cocaine Arrived?

4-MMC / Mephedrone is one of the most useful compounds for researching the phenomenology of bliss

kvetchingon Claude Sonnet 5

And it worked. BREAKING: The export controls on Claude Fable 5 are expected to be lifted tonight, per Politico!

kvetchingon Claude Sonnet 5

GLM 5.2 is better and cheaper. Maybe they are trying to embarrass Trump by making it look like we are losing to China.

kvetchingon Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

Cursor will definitely win the enterprise for coding. Enterprises aren't going to trust a TUI

kvetchingon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience?omnisc...

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate (lower is better) measures how often the model answers incorrectly when it should have refused or admitted to not knowing the answer. It is defined as the proportion of incorrect answers out of all non-correct responses, i.e. incorrect / (incorrect + partial answers + not attempted).

Grok 4.2 which was just released in the API just benched the best at this benchmark.

kvetchingon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

I don't see the problem with this. The chatbot is the most important part of Grok, so it makes sense Elon would be dogfooding it then providing suggestions.. He wants it to be truthful... It was shown on benchmarks recently that it hallucinates the least...

kvetchingon The Gentle Singularity

"superintelligence research company"

kvetchingon Evolving OpenAI's Structure

Please, keep telling people that. For my sake. Keep the world asleep as I take advantage of this technology which is literally General Artificial Intelligence that I can apply towards increasing my power.

kvetchingon Evolving OpenAI's Structure

Not to mention, @Gork, aka Grok 3.5...

kvetchingon How a single line of code could brick your iPhone

In general, the vulnerability of our computers is major national security concern as we enter in the era of AGI. This administration needs to setup a system hardening commission. In the era of AI... if we aren't using the leading AI to hack our own systems first, then when the capability to use the latest models to hack is widely available, we are going to have a bad time.

kvetchingon Googler... ex-Googler

"The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome" -Wired (March 7, 2025)

kvetchingon X.com Is Down

It is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.

kvetchingon OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB

It may eventually be able to solve any problem

kvetchingon ChatGPT Pro

Weird demo for a $200 product. Where is the $200 value?

kvetchingon The quiet art of attention

I've found cannabis to be extremely helpful. It adds a tinge of paranoia - so if you're paranoid about not reaching your potential, it can kick you into gear.

kvetchingon Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)

It's truly not a fair fight. There are literally trillions of dollars being spent to hijack our attention

kvetchingon Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)

gaming consoles were pro-social when you had split screens, a thing of the past

kvetchingon Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)

This is literally my childhood / teenage years, and I was born in the 90s. Seems like everything changed when our dopamine systems were highjacked by handheld screens. Started to see the first glimpses of this, everyone crowding around my IPod in shop class to watch a crazy Aphex Twin music video I put on it, or even watching a movie on the Ipod, hooked up to my car speakers with my gf sitting in the school parking lot

kvetchingon How to Preserve Physical Photos

After very close review and comparison of the pixels of sharp photos, I've found high quality JPG to be superior to TIFF. JPG captures slightly more detail, at least with my Epson DS-560 duplex scanner @ 600dpi.

Does anyone know of a scanner that does better than 600dpi that isn't insanely expensive? High quality photos can have extreme details that 600 dpi can't capture.

kvetchingon USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

People would be horrified if they knew the extent to which basically every corporation shares data with everyone else for "business intelligence"

kvetchingon Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

I never saw IA on the same level as libgen, which is just straight piracy

kvetchingon James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy

This is ridiculous. Assumes that Oxygen only is created by stars. Oxygen is one of the most abundant elements created during LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, formerly known as Cold Fusion) experiments.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50824-8

kvetchingon Veo

hatred fuels our capitalism more than anything

kvetchingon Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal

Boeing is a money maker now for news outlets. We will hear absolutely everything going wrong with a Boeing plane for the foreseeable future. Honestly, I am surprised there isn't more failures given the current narrative.

kvetchingon Breakthrough in 'detonating' hypersonic propulsion

America has strategic ambiguity when it comes to hypersonic tech.. It appears that America is behind. They keep reporting their hypersonic programs are failing.

The best tech is not presented to the public.

What happened with the NDAA makes it clear that defense contractors are hiding advanced technology related to UAPs.

The UAP Disclosure Act unanimously passed the Senate. When it got to the House, it was completely gutted by the man who is Lockheed's #1 Lobbying Recipient (Mike Turner). Here is the response from the Senate when the House killed the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HoXkQXpVE

So it's clear, defense contractors have advanced technology that not even Congress or the President can learn about.

kvetchingon Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

That's your opinion. Most guests have a wealth of knowledge that shouldn't be discounted outright.

kvetchingon Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

He's really gone downhill lately. Looking really rough. And stoned on top of that. I wonder if he can even comprehend half of what his guests are saying.