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Btw astra is a crazy crazy name for a model, it means a weapon conjured using mantras in old indian scriptures

Eric Weinstein's Theory on Aliens: Nukes May Have Alerted Something Else to Our Existence @friedberg: “What do you think, today, UAPs are?” @ericweinstein: “The scenario to worry about is North Sentinel Island. Everybody who lives in North Sentinel Island is considered a citizen of India, and they don't know the word Indian. They're an uncontacted people who don't know that they're part of something larger that watches them, that does not allow people to land. But if they started sending out radio signals, and then they started letting off nukes on that tiny little island, India would not have this paternalistic attitude towards its primitive tribe. So my concern is that when we let off a nuke in 1945, or when Italy became very good at quantum theory, somehow UAPs are very tied to nukes. And I believe that a nuke is the sign that you become advanced enough that the next thing you figure out how to do is to leave and traverse through propulsion. We alerted whatever India is in this analogy, and I believe that there are other life forms in the universe and that they can come and they can visit, and I don't think that that's preposterous. I think that we are an uncontacted people.” ------------------------------ Thanks to our partners for making this possible! As wealth grows, complexity compounds. Between investments, tax strategy and estate planning, coordinating it all can feel like a full-time job. Creative Planning can help with the heavy lifting. @CPIWealth ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/track… With over nine million acres protected across all fifty states, The Conservation Fund secures the irreplaceable lands we love. Learn more at conservationfund.org @ConservationFnd

Whoa, just created a Grok Bot, named it VulcanBench Engineer, and told it to handle running benchmarks for me. It found my running benchmark in Cursor, running on a Cloud Computer, immediately. No crazy auth process or pasting api keys. I now have an agentic engineer working for me, and all it took hitting was a + button and writing one sentence. I don’t think people realize how big of a foundational change Grok Bot has just enabled.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick things up, get back up when it falls, and even roller-skate. Welcome to the era of open-source affordable robots to democratize physical AI and world models! 🤗🤗🤗

I said this a year ago but I’ll repeat myself now that Dwarkesh touched on it on his latest pod. We are approaching the point where model IQ is surpassing that of the median knowledge worker. Because labs are aware the enterprise has inertia and human adoption is the bottleneck they have an incentive to systematically gut each major profit pool one by one leveraging their willingness to use AI as a labor substitute and armed with ungodly amounts of token budgets. The caveat is while you can think of Dario effectively having a quickly growing army of knowledge workers in a datacenter the game theory optimal thing is not to try to replace the entire economy themselves. There are three major constraints: capital at scale, regulatory pushback if they become too disruptive/dominant, intangible barriers including network effects and non-verifiable domain knowledge. So the optimal strategy is to introduce enterprise level fear. How do you do that? You systemically go one by one through each vertical and find the biggest incumbent willing to work with you. And then you king-make them. Give them exclusive access and let them run roughshod over their competitors. Work on a revenue share model as token budgets get too costly. Forward deployed engineers. Whatever it takes to cut down the adoption cycle time. Frame it under safety and anti-distillation. “Sorry making this model broadly available via API is too dangerous” And watch as every F500 board freaks the fuck out.

All SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers now have access to Grok Bot. We're also resetting weekly usage limits for all users. Enjoy!

Interesting that our sun gives off much more photons in the infrared range for its size because of the photosphere of hydride (H-) ions that completely surrounds it. This allows radiation to emerge from deeper, hotter photospheric layers. The resulting enhancement of the emergent photon flux—approximately 20–25% above the corresponding Planck continuum— produces the broad plateau centred near 0.75 eV. Consequently, the dominant photon energies reaching Earth's surface occupy the same sub-electron-volt regime as the activation barriers inferred for metabolism!

Sam Altman: Within the next 6 months, a descendant of ChatGPT could: could “continuously watch your screen,” meetings and calls while maintaining the full context of your life and work. “I think we’re only one model generation away from this actually being incredibly useful.” The interviewer asked for his best estimate on timing: “Sometime in the next six months.” He never calls it GPT-6, or part of the Astra family of models. Perhaps the one after given the 6 month timeline. but this is the one of the clearest indicators heading toward AGI, - a persistent multimodal agent that understands all of your work context, what you’re doing, catches mistakes and proactively offers to work for you.