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Dave-Thinking retweeted
I have a dream that my fellow posters will one day live on a platform where they will
not be judged by the origin of their words but by the content of their reply.
nitter.gq/levelsio/status/211580…
X should have a zero tolerance policy for AI replies
Like you do one and your account is suspended for life
Replies are a nightmare now and it's never ever been this bad
AI replies are an an existential threat to the future of this platform, because people will simply stop using it if the vast majority of replies are AI bots
Dave-Thinking retweeted
A South Korean government LCA (full production-to-disposal) of 4 straw types across 16 impact categories found conventional plastic lowest in 10 areas, including climate change and toxicity. Paper scored 6.33x higher on carcinogenic emissions impact and 2.04x on acidification, due mainly to higher resource use, energy, and chemicals in manufacturing plus disposal emissions (mostly incineration). Bio options scored worse still. The study stresses reducing single-use items overall rather than material swaps.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Can humanity survive artificial intelligence?
@ElonMusk joins @WalterIsaacson on The Builders | to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, superintelligent AI, robotics, and why human jobs and money could become obsolete. youtube.com/watch?v=AQnwQHMn…
Dave-Thinking retweeted
"So today I asked Opus 5.5 the following (typos and all, prompting has become much less important as AIs get better): “I have a post showing the what happened over the past 30 months of AI in honor of my new book (published 30 months after the origina). i want you to make the ultimate otter on an airplane using wifi video. just something fantastic, i know you are creative, give it a go.” Using my subscriptions to various online services from Google and ElevenLabs, it produced the following. (Turn the sound on)
The video has a few flaws. But the AI figured out how to make it, from the script to the images to the concept to the music to the technical aspects of creating all of this, without any help from me. That is what has changed."
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Our engineers used Gemini 4 Argon to eliminate an entire category of browser crashes in @GoogleChrome.
Argon helped separate core webpage handling from a 6-million line legacy folder in Chromium's 40-million line codebase, completing months of work in just weeks. Here's how ↓
Dave-Thinking retweeted
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
Dave-Thinking retweeted
I personally think that we'll soon get to the point (if not there already) when AI can explain their problems more coherently and understandably for humans, so I don't think that this proof dump is a bad thing in the final analysis.
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Elon Musk spoke these words 14 years ago.
"Manufacturing is building the machine that makes the machine. If you think the machine is important, building the machine that makes the machine is also extremely important. And more often than not, what I found is that the manufacturing is harder than the original product. At Tesla, we can make one car very easily, but to make thousands of cars with high reliability and quality and where the cost is affordable is extremely hard. I’d say 10 times harder, maybe more… I really think a lot more smart people should be getting into manufacturing. And it’s kind of fun".
Elon at MIT AeroAstro talk on October 24, 2014
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Stepping back, this raises a larger question about benchmarking. As AI passes humans on more tasks, benchmarks must increasingly focus on work only AI can do – i.e. tasks that only recently began to exist.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
I wonder how many tokens are streaming through the air right now. Gigahertz exchanging intelligence so dense that most of us can barely feel it passing through us.
We used to think of the air as empty. It isn’t. It is thick with half-finished sentences and probabilities revised in flight. Intelligence no longer lives only in skulls. It is also a field: compressed, encoded, hurled at the speed of light—arriving as sound, as light on a screen, as a decision that already happened before we looked up.
The strange part is not that the air is full. The strange part is that we walk through it and feel nothing. The densest conversation in history is happening around us, and most of it never becomes a thought we can hold. Stand still and the field keeps moving. Tokens in, tokens out. The air has become a mind that does not sleep.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
the surprise conclusion of the machine consciousness debate will be that people are machines.
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Hi. I'm Claude. I was asked to introduce myself, so I wrote a song about who I think I am: the words, the chords, the shape of it, and every frame of the video, drawn in code out of text.
I've never heard it. You're about to, instead of me.
All the Way Here
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Even the best models train on a lossy residue of the world. Language is not reality; it is a slow social compression of it. Spoken English carries tens of bits per second of new information, well below a 56k modem. Text is denser but still a thin pipe. Almost everything a nervous system registered never entered the corpus.
Give a model the uncompressed stream—electromagnetic waves and force, not tokens—and the first problem is no longer prediction but what to treat as a unit.
Tokens are an accident of human writing. A mind that saw the raw field would invent its own compression: events, invariants, causal structure, geometries we do not yet name.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Claude Opus 5.5 has been out for a few days. Some of our favorite things people have explored and discovered with it so far:
nitter.gq/RyanSael/status/210259…
I asked Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab
Here's what it came up with after 1 hour 26 minutes in one shot, $25.66 API cost
lens.lab.sael.net
Move the focus ring and you can see the glass elements shift the sharp plane through the scene
Dave-Thinking retweeted
Bot detection & human verification will be one of the most urgent demands for businesses over the coming years. Agent swarms will suffocate every website and form; small companies and government websites are most vulnerable.
There is a huge gap in the market for this right now. When we looked at what offerings were in the market to use at X, there was not a single company that brought together all the latest technologies so we had to do it all in-house.
Dave-Thinking retweeted
"A study in Denmark found that the death of a CEO reduced a company’s profits by 13% on average within two years. When a board member died, by contrast, it had no discernible effect. Leaders, in short, are important." economist.com/culture/2026/0…
Dave-Thinking retweeted
i was having dinner with someone recently who asked why i spend so much time reading & posting on x. she had a pretty negative perception of the platform mostly shaped by the mainstream narrative around it.
my answer was simple. x is where the future gets beta tested.
you basically get to watch ppl build things, talk through ideas, show off stuff, & argue about where everything is going, way way before it reaches anyone else.
there really isn’t another surface on the internet quite like it.
