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There is a deeper truth which I struggle to fully articulate:
Truth is a story.
Narrative shapes Truth.
Truth flows from Narrative.
"That's not true", your story says, "I have facts!"
But facts alone are meaningless. The Narrative determines which facts are relevant and reliable, provides the context and meaning, labels the heroes and villains, and declares what is accurate information and what is harmful misinformation.
And so we are ruled by stories, Narrative.
All of our most divisive issues are ultimately a war of narrative. We may argue over facts, but the real conflict is narrative, and the struggle for who controls The Narrative.
These narratives are unavoidable. We can't make sense of the world without them. But we can become aware of them, stepping back from the conflict to realize that both sides are each working from within their own narrative bubbles.
The path to peace is not in domination, one narrative wiping out all others, but in understanding.
We can develop a meta-narrative that recognizes and integrates all other narratives, not as true and false but more like species of bacteria, spreading, competing, mutating, colonizing minds, sometimes helping and sometimes harming. We must understand that those colonized by one or the other narrative are generally unaware, to them it is simply the truth.
This meta-narrative brings awareness, and with it some degree of freedom. We can choose our narratives. We can change our narratives. And through this process of awareness, integration, and refinement, all narratives are transformed.
This is the beginning of Alignment.
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
In 1772, the colonists had no right to trees over 12" thick, not even if it was in their front yard.
A law reserved every white pine that size for the Royal Navy's masts. Surveyors roamed New Hampshire slashing a mark into the trees, claiming them for the King of England.
The mill owners of Weare ignored the law and cut the trees they wanted to. So the sheriff rode out to arrest them and collect the fines.
The Weare men blackened their faces and went after the sheriff in what is now called the Pine Tree Riot. They gave him a lash for every tree he'd charged them for. Then they cropped the ears and tails off his horses and sent him riding out of town through a jeering crowd.
Before the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre, a New Hampshire town defied the Crown.
And the pine tree symbol remained. When Washington needed a flag for his first warships in 1775, he put a New England pine on it, over the words "An Appeal to Heaven."
This turned something that the King used to tyrannize the colonists to support his Navy, into a symbol of a country defying him on their own Navy.
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
What struck me about this photo is that Trump and Xi invited to their dinner table: an immigrant from South Africa, two Taiwanese immigrants that came to the US as children, and a gay kid from Alabama, all of whom moved to Silicon Valley to make a dent in the universe.
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i remember turning 18 during obama’s second term & being excited to vote for him. there was genuinely something refreshing about him. a modern, intelligent, optimistic dude. how do we lose?
but his post presidency behavior has drastically changed how i see his legacy.
there’s now this constant strain of intellectual pandering, moral righteousness, appeals to expertise, & constant calls to slow down everything while the enlightened adults explain reality all of us. this felt thoughtful before but now feels pedantic & condescending.
quite simply, he basically became hilary clinton in so many ways.
& saying divisive shit like this only makes it all worse. a huge fall from grace which is pretty sad to see.
Obama: "If you put women in charge of every government for two years... I have a strong belief that things would be better. I'm confident about that."
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
I don’t claim that Hitler was a socialist because his party was called the National Socialists - although that’s a hint.
I claim Hitler was a socialist because of his socialist policies - collectivism, statism, identity politics, controlled economy, central planning, nationalisation, censorship, gun confiscation.
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Introducing Perplexity Research Fellowship: a program for early-career researchers, engineers, and analysts from any technical or quantitative discipline to work on AI research.
perplexity.ai/hub/research/f…
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
Good question. At the level of the national party, I'd say 1) categorical opposition to all immigration enforcement, 2) land acknowledgements and other anti-American rhetoric, 3) willingness to countenance explicit racial discrimination in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and/or the 14th Amendment), and 4) various minor positions on trans issues.
In terms of what people vote on, I'd say immigration and racial discrimination are much more important than land acknowledgements or trans issues. In terms of the actual future of the nation, I'd say that the ideology behind land acknowledgments -- which views America as a fundamentally illegitimate settler-colonialist entity whose dissolution is the only true path to historical and global justice -- is far more dangerous and damaging.
At the local level, there is some extremism connected to the Palestine movement, which is both deeply antisemitic and deeply anti-American.
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We’re gonna launch to the stars. It’s time.
80,000 years to get there is an excellent starting point. There will obviously need to be a faster v2 🔥
I’m super excited share that @MIT-trained aerospace engineer and serial entrepreneur Peter Reinhardt @reinpk has committed $1M to the @FermiExplorer mission to send humanity’s first spacecraft to another star! 💫
Find out how you can get involved and contribute at FermiExplorer.org 🤓
And thanks so much for your generosity and time, Peter, welcome aboard!! 🙏😃🚀
Full article: uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/mi…
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I’m super excited share that @MIT-trained aerospace engineer and serial entrepreneur Peter Reinhardt @reinpk has committed $1M to the @FermiExplorer mission to send humanity’s first spacecraft to another star! 💫
Find out how you can get involved and contribute at FermiExplorer.org 🤓
And thanks so much for your generosity and time, Peter, welcome aboard!! 🙏😃🚀
Full article: uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/mi…
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This is the real Turing test if you think about it
Two days ago, GPT-6 Astra broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously:
- Search historical archives
- Compare uncertain letters
- Find contextual clues
- Build an Enigma simulator
- Write cryptanalysis code
- Run parallel experiments
- Test competing keys
- Recover the plaintext
- Cross-check the results
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
Beware any political tribe that says neutrality is complicity.
That formulation leaves you only two choices: obedience or enemy status.
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
We run large-scale FLUX.2 diffusion workloads on AMD MI300X through the Luminal compiler.
Our engineer Reis wrote up how we drive down the cost per image by utilizing cheaper flops.
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
Standing up a production CDC pipeline used to mean designing source access, replication, backfills, destination writes, schema-change handling, monitoring, and recovery.
Now, it can done with a single prompt: “Create a pipeline from the staging Postgres database to Snowflake.”
With Artie MCP available in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, an AI agent can use Artie’s tools to configure and manage that workflow. So engineers can start with what they need, instead of spending months assembling and maintaining the pipeline themselves.
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Introducing Sim Search
Agents can now use your credentials to build an agentic knowledge graph to do your high-context work.
Full context building and adaptive learning. Live right now in Sim!
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
Zuck pretty handily dismantles Dario's talking points here:
- people want models that are *aligned with them* (subtly punches back at Anthropic's normative constitutional approach)
- labs already face liability if they screw up, so incentives to release aligned models is already baked in
- Meta delayed Muse for alignment reasons but didn't make a whole song and dance about it
- Subtly questions Anthropic trying to kingmake METR (implies METR is an Anthropic patsy)
- Meta doesn't need to coordinate with anyone to work on alignment, it's just something labs should naturally do
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.
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
Paul Buchheit meme-ranks with Jobs, Zuck, and Elon. (He's the one who came up with "Don't be evil.")
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As part of leading the Revoy Series A, I recorded an interview with @reinpk and Ian Rust where we discuss what Revoy is and why it matters.
Revoy recently announced their $27 million Series A, led by @Standard_Cap with participation from XYZ Venture Capital, John Doerr, Time Ventures, @paulg , @ycombinator, @Suhail, Transition Ventures, Leap Ventures, Harlan Robins, Joe Morrissey, Justin Mares, Raphael Parker, Adam Lin, and others. This brings their total funding to $41 million.
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Make something agents want.
when we started Archil back in 2024, the roadmap was super simple: build the world's best file system, partner with application teams to purpose-optimize for them, and then launch a compute product to deliver best-in-class price/performance
the workloads we were building for were slightly different (we couldn't have anticipated post-training models on bash driving unimaginable new demand for file systems), but the roadmap has stayed the same
we're really excited for how real, network addressable compute allows us to simplify how our users build higher-level infrastructure on top of Archil. persistent sandboxes will make it as simple as pressing a button to get your own:
- agent hypervisor (running a "brain" loop w/ secure bash "hands")
- postgres database
- or even a "cursor origin"-like git remote
it's deeply important to us that we're not only serving the best agent builders today, but that we're also building the substrate which will allow agents to build and manipulate stateful infrastructure themselves
persistent sandboxes are the first step in that journey. please check them out, we're excited to see what you're able to build!
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Paul Buchheit retweeted
You share 98.8% of your genes with chimpanzees. You only share 50% of your genes with each of your parents. That means you're way more related to a chimp than you are to your own immediate family members.
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