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  • Thank god they've grown up and stop acting like dicks.
  • Tacit collusion.

    We meet again my friend!

  • book pitch:

    On being sane in insane places: A tale from inside the marketing department of a frontier AI Lab.

  • Reminds me of when the colleges went sat free. Pacing human intelligence at the high school level.
  • “Our competitors are our friends. Our customers are the enemy."

    This great quote was brought to us by executives in the 90s at Archer Daniel Midland, an agricultural company.

    That’s what comes to mind as I hear about the AI companies talk about pacing themselves.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to reduce the risk of powerful AI doing bad things.

  • Are there any US-China talks going on here? Not much good if Deepseek decides to overtake them. China would surely be willing to negotiate considering that they’re not immune to AI damage.
  • Sam: OK, Dario, you win. We're pacing the frontier. This is what you wanted.

    Dario: All right, frontier is paced! From now on, AI moves forward at a rate WE decide!

    [Kwindla Kramer bursts into the apartment]

    Kramer: You guys might want to sit down for this. You know that Chinese place down on 4th? They got a model that's smoking you guys at SWE benchmarks!

    [laughter, applause, slap bass intensifies]

  • 100% getting ready to try and get congress to build them a regulatory moat. They were hoping those headline-incidents they staged would prompt a congressional hearing but our government is too inept right now to know its head from its ass much less do anything about AI

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