Draftkings gave VIP status to a journalist working as an undercover gambling addict: "This is how they make their money. The vast majority of their profits come from real addicts like this." @esaagar@krystalball
OpenAI pulls model, halts training as danger looms @GarrisonLovely says: "There are strong theoretical reasons to believe that recursive self-improvement would actually result in something pretty remarkable and quite dangerous."
Roman Yampolskiy says you can't just unplug rogue AI agents: "A problem with something smarter than you, it knows that you will try to do that, and it will take you out first" @griffinpdavis@romanyam
The future of Hollywood is up in the air with the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. @nithyavraman speaks on how California leadership is handling the deal. @griffinpdavis@krystalball
Professor Pape's DIRE WARNING about the upcoming election: "We're headed into a domestic escalation trap. The danger is not voter intimidation ahead of time...the problem is what happens to the losers"
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says “Now, if they say [that their models aren’t safe] then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.”
@krystalball and @ryangrim break it down.
Gavin Newsom and AG Bonta sell out Hollywood for Ellison/Paramount merger: "this isn't just a deal between one streamer and another streamer" @ryangrim
Ukraine launches a massive attack on Moscow targeting oil infrastructure as war escalates. Yanis Varoufakis reacts: "Almost four years since the beginning of this all out war, we ended up in an aerial stalemate in the same way that in WW1 there was a stalemate of trench warfare."
A clearly confused Mitch McConnell votes "AYE" after staff intervenes: "He took ONE vote and could not remember which way to vote" @krystalball@esaagar
Scott Bessent says economy polling can't be trusted. @ryangrim jokes "You can't trust these lying American people to be honest about how awesome things are."