Our parents are brainwashed. I have the unfortunate privilege of bearing witness to what flashes across the chyrons of CNN/MSNow when I’m at the gym. It’s so misrepresentative, skewed, dishonest, and it’s all maliciously calculated to influence opinion and spark emotion. I get angry knowing that this is what my parents and their peers consume. Even smart boomers/genx are either getting fried by MSN or newly discovered to them Tok/Reels. Absolutely tragic and I’ll never forgive the powers that be. They think they know the truth yet they’re misinformed and as brain rotted as the rest of us. Telling my mom to get on twitter doesn’t work, I’ve tried. These people will vote for 20-30 more years.

The intentions of most woke people are pure They’re just retarded and always wrong (This is not a Cognition post)

I get why people are mad. White Brad on the couch is a pretty convenient stand-in for an undeserving welfare collector. But the anger from the right is misplaced. SHS is packaging work requirements in the safest way possible, which makes the policy easier to sell without handing CNN an easy story about racial stereotyping. That's the realpolitik. Most of the people mad about the ad agree with the underlying policy anyway. Here's what should bother you more: an honest version of this ad could never air. Nobody in American politics can show where the money actually goes and survive the week. Brad is the decoy. Everyone knows it, likely including SHS. Do you want the honest ad that dies on arrival, or the dishonest one that popularizes progress?

I completely disagree with this and think this is highly irrational, sub-optimal and nearsighted. Most importantly for a fraction of the effort that has gone into this vitriol you could sit down with someone like Vivek and sway his misguided views re American work ethic etc. Instead opting for petulance and misguided self-sabotage adds credence to the notion that republicans act as emotionally as democrats. That said I don’t belittle the anger towards Vivek and don’t dismiss it as racism. Our children should be advantaged. The playing board should not be fair. I would burn the world down to secure the future for Americans. But if you give the power to irrational actors like Dems you are worsening the setup for your children. And you are hamstringing patriots like Bessent working tirelessly to fix things. The principled approach is to debate Vivek and to ensure he sees the light. And if he doesn’t see the light accept that he is a temporary placeholder until the next elections. Something you could never do with a Dem. Because Vivek believes what he says. Even if it is at times misguided. And he can therefore be molded. You can’t say the same about your true opponents. And purism is childish behavior we leave to libertarians. Do you want to win or do you want to remain morally pure?

Shut-up and dribble bro

What Pat McAfee is to ESPN I am to my corporate job

Only way to patch this is to prevent the possibility of it from happening, or publicly televised executions. Since we didn’t prevent, we must deter.

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisforevery… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well. Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators. - Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

I wonder how many corporate women every day hang a sweater over their shoulders as some sort of weird fashion accessory. Must be thousands daily in Manhattan alone. It’s like me putting on a hat with my otherwise default khakis and black t shirt when I go out to drink.

There is an unseen hand pushing AI safety as a political ideology. Effective Altruists believe a tiny group of technocrats should decide how much technological progress the rest of us are allowed to have…. and how many shrimp your life is worth. You are witnessing their attempted coup. thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideolo…

"Hey Dario, congrats again on the great quarter. Nice to see the Enterprise re-acceleration. Hoping you could provide a little color on that 10% extinction # and some of the puts and takes that might have on further enterprise adoption. And then just a quick follow-up after"

Cannot believe I get to go back to making PowerPoints tomorrow #blessed #dubnation

“What do you do for work?” I make PowerPoint slides thanks for asking

Anyone else hoping that AI nukes their W2 role or is that just a me phenomenon? Need some excitement in my life

Commuting to the O and screen peeked the middle aged (28-35) corp foid doomscrolling while walking. Obviously a reel about Lindsay Clancy’s husband. It’s one thing to hear about it on the app, another to witness an otherwise normal looking woman being fried by the algorithm irl. Her vote counts as much as ours btw.

They weren’t selling coke. They were a vertically integrated student organization leveraging outsourced procurement, strategic vendor relationships, and an aggressive last-mile distribution strategy to capitalize on an underserved market

Honestly the fact that we don’t have more income tax revolts is completely insane. People in NYC get taxed 50% and the government essentially does not provide services to those paying the taxes but instead only to the leech component that doesn’t pay taxes.

Some are calling it tweet of the year