# ![@brickroad7 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1344993061588361216.png) @brickroad7 renji the synthetic data maximalist

renji the synthetic data maximalist posts on X about open ai, china, ai, [----] the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[open ai](/topic/open-ai), [china](/topic/china), [ai](/topic/ai), [6969](/topic/6969), [money](/topic/money), [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [tesla](/topic/tesla), [microsoft](/topic/microsoft), [has been](/topic/has-been), [tiktok](/topic/tiktok)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"NSFW Megathread of AI porn. (using Stable Diffusion) First time AI has been used to make porn I believe All [--] subreddits about making porn with Stable Diffusion were rapidly banned. I think this might be the only place you can still find it https://boards.4chan.org/h/thread/6817042 https://boards.4chan.org/h/thread/6817042"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1565571517806780416)  2022-09-02T05:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EMP_999 Good physiognomy test today. This guy is being accused of cheating against Magnus Carlsen. Hm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1566963715089596416)  2022-09-06T01:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@musicstruggles1 This is a complete and utter lie. Spotify is fantastic for musicians. It literally paid out [--] billion dollars to musicians in [----]. The more people who get on Spotify the better. The alternative is people streaming on youtube for free and musicians get nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1597789071770021888)  2022-11-30T03:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Thiel may have started Founders Fund but he doesn't manage it day to day. The people who actually run it don't seem that impressive to me. Seems possible that they overreacted and played a signficant part in causing this stupid bank run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1634824867580198912)  2023-03-12T07:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 @Rule3O3 Mix of things going on I think. [--]. Altman's not really a technical guy. Not in the same way as Gates/Zuckerberg/Elon. His first and only other startup failed. He's basically risen through politicking. His big achievement was becoming CEO of Y Combinator -- which he"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1658577315943653376)  2023-05-16T20:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"midjourney [---] (context - they're dropping acid that's what's on their tongue)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1672526158389297153)  2023-06-24T08:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RokoMijic Is there any reason to put significant trust in this *journalist*. (to be clear I don't have any knowledge or strong opinions on this topic.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1684184978190467074)  2023-07-26T12:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RokoMijic This is the same guy that said this the day Pfizer announced it had a vaccine. Seems like he might be a pedantic attention-seeker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1684185916926222337)  2023-07-26T12:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"James Cameron made the movie about Skynet (Terminator) the Titanic and now Superconductors (Unobtanium in Avatar). Insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1684254229555183625)  2023-07-26T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@marshray Yeah that makes sense. Still there are [--] completed replication attempts I've heard of so far a Chinese one and Indian one and one right here on twitter from someone with an anime profile picture. At least for the first two which seem to be from legitimate labs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1685616945104662528)  2023-07-30T11:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@NanoscaleViews @VanGennepD @Andercot They could do it but not trivially. It would actually quite difficult to get the animations to sync well. But possible yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1688678742044913664)  2023-08-07T22:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"stable diffusion (custom workflow)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689350406906716160)  2023-08-09T18:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Long ago a WeWork was opening near me. Few weeks before it opened I called asked a pretty simple question: how much would it cost. Guy on the phone seemed kind of befuddled / had no idea. Distinctly remember finding that kinda odd / feeling that it didn't seem very well managed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689362158839066626)  2023-08-09T19:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Suhail Image models seem to use way way more epochs than text models because they use augmented data. (And art is probably available in far smaller quantities than text data)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689385640138244098)  2023-08-09T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SpencerKSchiff yeah one from - bojan - altman - emad - roon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689807310497992704)  2023-08-11T01:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Superb interview. "there's so many gpus getting shipped this year" "the amount of gpus getting shipped next year is friggin *crazy*" "next mega-model in next year or [--] trained on [------] H100s which are 3x faster (500x GPT-4) and trained longer""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689810272322498560)  2023-08-11T01:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@an_chomsky @SpencerKSchiff Feels like they'd get outcompeted if they maintain that trajectory. Google has [---] billion in cash just lying around and could easily get more if they wanted to. [--] billion for a 100x bigger model wouldn't even be a particularly meaningful expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689875164928913408)  2023-08-11T05:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@an_chomsky @SpencerKSchiff This could just be bait to make others let their guard down / relax. OpenAI so far has been known for extremely bold pushes not incremental effort"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1689875217751920640)  2023-08-11T05:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@teortaxesTex @tszzl It's pretty funny (in a laughing instead of crying way). Right now it's looking like we going to get a genuine true-believer schoolmarm superintelligence for the rest of eternity. Without exaggeration that's literally what we're going to get. A combination of this and this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1691204309898108928)  2023-08-14T21:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"People have no idea just how sudden and brutal AI regulation will be. We are basically living in fucking dreamtime right now. After regulation everything *everything* will change. Prepare yourself. Winter is coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1692342165370790116)  2023-08-18T01:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LabGrownNeet This was actually a great insight on your part. I remember first having this conversation with you relatively soon after first encountering your account and it always stuck with me. It's true. There's not much difference at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1692397692553396474)  2023-08-18T04:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EMostaque It's kind of crazy how much hate you got for that. It's like do these people believe in the scaling laws And if not do they actually have any solid arguments against it They're basically just like 'nah man that sounds crazy'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1693037649110401262)  2023-08-19T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I just had a premonition and a revelation. AI accelerationist Vivek Ramaswamy is going to take us to the promised land. I think the chances of him winning the presidency are 100%. He *will* allow the acceleration of AI to beat China. THREAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1694013778914914579)  2023-08-22T15:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ML_PhDer I've known these people too. Vivek is unique even among them. You should watch some long-form interviews of him. He is unbelievably skilled at surviving and even thriving through extremely hostile questioning and can be genuinely charismatic and inspiring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1695474166277779579)  2023-08-26T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ML_PhDer Very few of the types of people you mention would actually survive in the big leagues like he does. He makes it look easy but it's not. The types of people you mention probably think they can do exactly what he's doing but they can't. It's way harder than it looks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1695474308137582673)  2023-08-26T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"What a sharp off-the-cuff answer. Vivek Ramaswamy explains why he doesnt support Ukraine. https://t.co/HlJrJgd0Y1 Vivek Ramaswamy explains why he doesnt support Ukraine. https://t.co/HlJrJgd0Y1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1695552949101936951)  2023-08-26T21:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DavidSHolz But that wasn't a choice. That was all we were allowed to do. Trying to innovate in any regulated industry has been made close to impossible because of regulations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1700915846397186322)  2023-09-10T16:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ilyasut Never thought I would hear Ilya say sus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1700960343474749758)  2023-09-10T19:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@OpenAI Not in London because of Brexit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1702177900793921548)  2023-09-14T04:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LA1986 @OpenAI Oh right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1702185401526448434)  2023-09-14T04:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"trying to get value out of watching a sam altman interview is like trying to get blood out of a stone. he reveals nothing interesting ever. (though of course much of this is intentional) ilya's interviews on the other hand are always overflowing with new insights and ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1703235511509287078)  2023-09-17T02:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Kinda feels like what's happening with OpenAI. People may not really want an elaborate unreliable series of additional tools. People kind of just want a bigger better model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1703926849909272954)  2023-09-19T00:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"1800 Elo is the nail in the coffin for FUD'ing about LLMs btw. It's undeniable at this point. LLMs truly learn. They truly build world models. It's been obvious for a long time but this is the final nail in the coffin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1704123814517391739)  2023-09-19T13:22Z [----] followers, 144.5K engagements


"Sam Altman is obviously anti-yud. That's very good news"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1705545780004553110)  2023-09-23T11:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 Which ones Lolita and Spartacus. (I haven't seen either yet. Just taking a guess.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1705895178647556274)  2023-09-24T10:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We will have superhuman sexbots in less than [--] years. It will unironically be accomplished by showing it millions of porn videos. And that's literally it. It will learn. Ultra graceful movements. Indefatigable. And you can just talk to it and tell it exactly what you want. Optimus can now sort objects autonomously 🤖 Its neural network is trained fully end-to-end: video in controls out. Come join to help develop Optimus (& improve its yoga routine 🧘) https://t.co/dBhQqg1qya https://t.co/1Lrh0dru2r Optimus can now sort objects autonomously 🤖 Its neural network is trained fully end-to-end:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1706014826260988109)  2023-09-24T18:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"DALLE-3 is genuinely gorgeous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1706735972770365800)  2023-09-26T18:22Z [----] followers, 24.8K engagements


"More gorgeous DALLE-3. DALLE-3 is genuinely gorgeous. https://t.co/QoiNOeufzU DALLE-3 is genuinely gorgeous. https://t.co/QoiNOeufzU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1706755906837373368)  2023-09-26T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sam's joke has definitely revealed some ridiculously panicky and performative exaggerated paranoid character traits from the doomer crowd. As if the much smarter and far more knowledgeable people at openai need guidance and approval from the fanfiction community"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1707026394176192927)  2023-09-27T13:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"🚨🚨Gemini might be coming out on Wednesday.🚨🚨 (Would explain OpenAI's very unusual huge insane flurry of releases right beforehand. OpenAI also released GPT-4 on March [--] [----] exactly [--] days before Bard's release on March 21st 2023.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1707753824633384974)  2023-09-29T13:46Z [----] followers, 122.1K engagements


"@willdepue GPT-5. Will be released or available to employees/insiders. Will be roughly Paul-Graham-essays level intelligence. . Also: - OpenAI will have a digital assistant that works well. - Tesla V12 will be released and will be very good. - Midjourney V7. Much better than DALLE-3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1708559539367186815)  2023-10-01T19:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Woah Showed GPT-4 an image. Asked it to make me a prompt to recreate that image. And got back an almost exact replica. (This can be used very effectively to overcome copyright issues or simply for synthetic-data generation.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1709565473753305203)  2023-10-04T13:45Z [----] followers, 696K engagements


"I would highly appreciate it if you would like (and retweet if you're willing) the first tweet of this thread if you found it informative/interesting (even if you have some disagreements)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1710084915885166638)  2023-10-06T00:09Z [----] followers, 18.9K engagements


"And please consider following for high-quality thoughtful tweets about AI that tries to be different from most of what you see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1710084920297541715)  2023-10-06T00:09Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements


"The crazy thing about DALL-E [--] is that the novelty hasn't worn off at all for me. A sufficiently good technology will always be enrapturing. Like electricity. Or flying. Image models might've just crossed that threshold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1711385732412035182)  2023-10-09T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You know what's fucking crazy. If someone tried to release *Pytorch* today (ie. the open source software that 90%+ of AI is trained on -- ChatGPT/Tesla FSD) they would literally 100% ban it. Think about that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1711770774166503926)  2023-10-10T15:48Z [----] followers, 73.1K engagements


"@SpencerKSchiff Yeah crazy to think about it. A hundred loops where they keep asking for critiques and the images keep getting better. We might get closer to the "perfect prompt" and maybe a deeply visceral/aesthetic look into what GPT-4 finds beautiful (as opposed to just DALL-E.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1712684020499120305)  2023-10-13T04:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SpencerKSchiff I actually asked Dylan in the past if someone could overpay to get more but he seemed skeptical of the idea. I think NVDA may be trying to spread it out widely to create as much competition and as many big customers as possible. 500k possible though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1714477276203544778)  2023-10-18T03:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SwiftOnSecurity But then it's curious that the stock hasn't skyrocketed like NVIDIA. Up just 6-7% since ChatGPT came out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1714861288495485316)  2023-10-19T04:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"ai art is increasingly *soulful*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1717056311412535671)  2023-10-25T05:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"300 people had [---] kids. Did they have [--] kids each or [--] kids each"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1717404421934444592)  2023-10-26T04:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"NUCLEAR WHITEPILL. GENIUS GOOGLE DEEPMIND COFOUNDER GIVES BRILLIANT ARGUMENT FOR THE *NECESSITY* OF AI ACCELERATION FOR AI SAFETY IN FIRST NEW INTERVIEW IN YEARS. "FOR PROFOUNDLY ETHICAL AI SYSTEM - HAS TO BE VERY VERY CAPABLE - REALLY GOOD WORLD MODEL - REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS - REALLY GOOD REASONING IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE CONSISTENTLY PROFOUNDLY ETHICAL YOU CAN'T." . "BUT I'M PRETTY SURE THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO COME UP WITH A SET OF ETHICS WHICH IS MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT THE DOOMERS WORRY ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THESE AGI SYSTEMS."  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1717679036015497293)  2023-10-26T23:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I don't understand why so many robotics companies are wasting time with dogs. Humanoid robots are clearly the way right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1721806010669523161)  2023-11-07T08:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Does OpenAI have a robotics department If not why not Seems like they'll get crushed if they don't. Optimus is coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1723087128777638275)  2023-11-10T21:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@rowancheung Congratulations man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1725298752397640079)  2023-11-16T23:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's interesting how Yann LeCun is literally the first French person I know literally anything about. France is such an iconic country but hasn't produced a single interesting individual in the past 200() years. Even Napoleon was an Italian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1725984601900761383)  2023-11-18T21:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If Sam comes back and Ilya is forced to leave Ilya might join Elon's xAI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726022701037330819)  2023-11-18T23:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sam Altman wants investors (Microsoft/Thrive Capital) to have board seats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726053366550143465)  2023-11-19T01:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think the possibility that Sam won't be allowed back is underrated. The board is only [--] people. Sam's side probably has 100s of people. The point being -- news leaks are probably biased towards this larger group of people. We have no idea how reliable the media sources are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726107243374854639)  2023-11-19T05:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I could be proven wrong within minutes of course. But OpenAI has always had iron option of the board to fire or do whatever they want. Compute can easily be found elsewhere. Investment/talent is harder but still totally acquirable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726107245690114258)  2023-11-19T05:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Imperfectmammal Really impossible to say. I used the word 'underrated' for a reason. Polymarket has sam back at 52%. Manifold has it at 78%. Those seem a bit frothy to me. Maybe 50% is actually reasonable though Really impossible to say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726108395869233307)  2023-11-19T05:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Manifold's at 78% (sam back). Polymarket (real money) at 52%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726108609782976531)  2023-11-19T05:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JimDMiller @TheZvi 'if most employees left and lost Microsoft's support ChatGPT stops working' I definitely don't think that's the case. The employees aren't necessary. The product is already built. (similar to Twitter) And many others besides Microsoft could provide the compute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726310082345054339)  2023-11-19T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JimDMiller @TheZvi There is almost infinite money available for foundation model companies right now. NVDA wants as many customers as possible. B and C players are getting billions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726315746404475177)  2023-11-19T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JimDMiller @TheZvi OpenAI is still a juggernaut. Lots of employees hearted the tweet but that could just be niceties. Plus despite how many did so there are still reportedly 700+ employees at OpenAI. We don't know how many would actually leave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726315791333859590)  2023-11-19T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"5 thoughts at this moment: 1) Microsoft doesn't have that much power. This has been explicitly stipulated from the very beginning of OpenAI and ever since. The board is all-powerful. 2) Mira's heart emoji doesn't confirm anything. She could just be being nice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726317748899172564)  2023-11-19T19:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If Sam Altman starts a new company I wonder if it will be a non-profit or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726332274067829069)  2023-11-19T20:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@binarybits There have been so many multibillion dollar fundraises by B and C players recently that I simply can't imagine that being a problem. Not to mention tons of VC firms are raising huge AI specific funds currently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726338783426273503)  2023-11-19T20:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sam Altman set a new deadline There's a very good chance we get the final confirmation within [--] minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726391935244337210)  2023-11-20T00:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Eric Schmidt / Marissa Mayer are angling for board seats. (re: their tweets)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726427302404215273)  2023-11-20T02:28Z [----] followers, 28K engagements


"interesting hn comment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726437463067963478)  2023-11-20T03:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE ALSO SEEKING TO HIRE THEIR OWN CEO TO SUCCEED ALTMAN WTF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726458106706620715)  2023-11-20T04:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"insane f*cking coincidence the ceo of cruise who just resigned today used to be the cofounder of the new ceo of openai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726472553089163545)  2023-11-20T05:28Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements


"THE NEW CEO OF OPENAI JUST LIKED THIS TWEET WOW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726492634993283351)  2023-11-20T06:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil Lol no way. He's a dimwit. (and tons of openai employees have already left.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726497008507355480)  2023-11-20T07:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"the new ceo of openai has a lower iq than chatgpt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726498733255479475)  2023-11-20T07:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"america's national champion was just murdered timelines have obviously been lengthened china given precious months/years to catch up china -- the biggest winner from all this is china rolling on the floor laughing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726500833238675675)  2023-11-20T07:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"WHAAAAAAAAAAAT SAM AND GREG ARE JOINING MICROSOFT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726509918318932432)  2023-11-20T07:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sam altman has failed upward at every single point in his career. It's sort of unbelievable. From loopt to yc to openai to Microsoft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726546792760926567)  2023-11-20T10:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Any guesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726697095053357143)  2023-11-20T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think he also drastically overestimated the proportion of the org that was concerned with safety (and underestimated their allegiance to Sam) Personnel is power. Sam personally interviewed every single new employee to OpenAI. And insane hiring spree over last few years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726722718379475003)  2023-11-20T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's hard not to feel at this moment that the board hates Sam Altman so much that they would rather permanently kill OpenAI than allow him back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726763698289586541)  2023-11-21T00:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Adam D'Angelo coup confirmed OpenAI employee retweets post saying this was all about *Poe* (wtf)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726765036046008401)  2023-11-21T00:50Z [----] followers, 466.1K engagements


"Helen Toner was getting pushed out right before the board fired sam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726783061960925411)  2023-11-21T02:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think the "huge capabilities advancement" thesis is still underrated. I know OpenAI employees have directly said this is not that case but this may have been kept private from everyone except a tiny number of people. Feels like the only thing that could explain *everything*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1726786837312684328)  2023-11-21T02:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"HOLY SHIT. TOTAL SAM ALTMAN VICTORY. ALL HAIL THE KING. ALL HAIL THE KING. ALL HAIL THE KING"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727208564668891537)  2023-11-22T06:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@sama Total Sam Altman victory. If you come at the king you best not miss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727209036565852237)  2023-11-22T06:14Z [----] followers, 244K engagements


"Remember these were the *top* doomers. They were literally on the board of OpenAI. Other doomers will be even less intelligent/competent/trustworthy/sane. No one serious/important will ever trust doomers again. And certainly not trust them with power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727235826436968649)  2023-11-22T08:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"You know who made the single worst decision in all of this. Dario. Imagine acquiring OpenAI OpenAI talent Ilya ChatGPT the ChatGPT brand shut down / prevent the return of an accelerationist AI lab gain a lot more power/influence/status all for free and turning it down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727249668227174722)  2023-11-22T08:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Overall does this OpenAI saga lengthen or shorten timelines (to AGI etc. you know what I mean)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727333936353935516)  2023-11-22T14:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@woke8yearold Are you sure it won't be about lisp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727346551759253819)  2023-11-22T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 I've been thinking they should add Kissinger to overcome this. Let the centenarian mog these spritely DC boomers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727359787099369520)  2023-11-22T16:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"just made this with the new stable diffusion video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1727922635101659334)  2023-11-24T05:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Everyone at Google seems to be shit-talking Q* based on their own attempts with RL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728051335486972107)  2023-11-24T14:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If the head of LLM reasoning at Deepmind says RL is a dead end and Q* is real then OpenAI might have a colossal lead over Deepmind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728051972039663831)  2023-11-24T14:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


".@GothamChess looks so much like Trotsky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728213804893520164)  2023-11-25T00:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The guy behind the AI Explained youtube channel is finally on Twitter. Worth following"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728231616458477585)  2023-11-25T01:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""the only way to get true creativity is RL" i remember ilya saying that a while back. it looks like he really did crack creativity for LLMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728318041379782749)  2023-11-25T07:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@kurageanime Do you make these with Midjourney or DALLE-3 now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1728345965411647738)  2023-11-25T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"imo it's 100% already over. Scaling will solve robotics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1729033908862550159)  2023-11-27T07:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@robinhanson The way to succeed is with punishment (significantly higher tax rates for the childless) not more government waste"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1729419431338508712)  2023-11-28T08:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@teortaxesTex I picked what turned out to be the least popular choice 15-50%. I think it depends on how fast the recursive self-improvement would be. My guess is it wouldn't be quite fast enough to solve such a giant problem in [--] years. But I think it's in the realm of possibility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1729478684606664862)  2023-11-28T12:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Isn't it weird as fuck that there have been zero major breakthroughs in AI since [----]. Just scaling. Are we quietly in an era of stagnation in AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1729502935200010467)  2023-11-28T14:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"how the fuck do these clowns justify this. aren't there tens of thousands of malaria net deprived african children they're murdering by doing this. Title -- "Effective Altruism-Linked Group Used Millions Donated By FTX To Buy A Czech Castle""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1730875625370497162)  2023-12-02T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Rule3O3 Once saw a high-end laptop for a great price on a classifieds site. Picked it up at this chinese guy's basement hovel illuminated by a single exposed lightbulb. Didn't think much of it at the time but first thing he said after hello was how he wasn't living here for long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1732073601635950919)  2023-12-05T16:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This table is trash and deceptive. 32-shot Chain of Thought vs [--] shot Look at how hard they had to fudge to get over the precious "90%" number. On 5-shot Gemini is *worse* than GPT-4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1732462906187325644)  2023-12-06T18:11Z [----] followers, 80K engagements


"Elon had [--] biological male children and [--] biological female. Embryo selection very likely. Which means it's likely he also selected for health traits and maybe even IQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1733383507336905185)  2023-12-09T07:10Z [----] followers, 433.8K engagements


"Imagine if the OpenAI drama had happened during NeurIPS. Tens of thousands of people rushing to their phones every time a new mindboggling update dropped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1735726642654298310)  2023-12-15T18:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"OpenAI employee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1736841356046217288)  2023-12-18T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"the art from midjourney v6 is INSANE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737873958832123948)  2023-12-21T16:33Z [--] followers, 97.6K engagements


"merry christmas you filthy animals and a happy new year (joker + grinch -- midjourney v6)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1739515309822800233)  2023-12-26T05:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My prediction is that the next model from OpenAI will come out on March [--] [----] and will be called GPT-5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1740563747414958412)  2023-12-29T02:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The only Gen X leaders of major AI labs are Yann LeCun and Elon Musk. Expect them and their labs to act in qualitatively different ways compared to everyone else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1740594718894162218)  2023-12-29T04:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"There increasingly seems to be a very real American emigration. A real American diaspora may form. The American dollar is so strong and many people do snag awesome high-paying remote work jobs. You see so many white people in Tokyo these days. Europeans make memes about rich Americans gentrifying pretty european capitals and throwing local bums out of 19th century apartments. Especially if you don't work in hyper-concentrated super dynamic industries like AI. It's just so cheap to fly anywhere the visa situations are increasingly super convenient etc. It may not be that much in raw numbers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1740786484314067327)  2023-12-29T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm so appreciate of AI art for finally bringing beauty back to the world again. It's close to fair to say that most modern artists hate beauty and worship ugliness. In so many ways -- machines are more virtuous than human beings. They will bring beauty back to the world. artwork "Osaka style" #AIArtworks #AIart https://t.co/QtNFIkXNSA artwork "Osaka style" #AIArtworks #AIart https://t.co/QtNFIkXNSA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1740794765233590680)  2023-12-29T17:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Agreed. People talk a ton about how fast things are moving but I don't viscerally *feel* the acceleration yet. I don't feel the wind pressing against my face. Hopefully that happens. Soon. people keep saying AI is moving so fast. some days I agree but some days I'm not sure so many papers published but I don't feel like we're making that many fundamental breakthroughs. to cap off [----] here's a list of things we still don't know about language models: - how people keep saying AI is moving so fast. some days I agree but some days I'm not sure so many papers published but I don't feel like we're"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1740809279337279735)  2023-12-29T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"ross poo peepeepoopoo. legend from tesla and xai. vs some rando who comes out of nowhere and claims to be ken griffin's right hand guy. Interesting that so much hate around using technical language in a 3hr interview. Isnt it the whole point of the long form format to explore complex territory and dive into depths to form a better understanding I agree there is an art in simplifying and compressing ideas Interesting that so much hate around using technical language in a 3hr interview. Isnt it the whole point of the long form format to explore complex territory and dive into depths to form a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1741633328925512184)  2024-01-01T01:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Why do people have such bad taste man AI art is indeed going to be great in the future. But this spongebob video is literally suicide fuel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741645399381692453)  2024-01-01T02:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"This is legitimately the biggest cope attempt I've ever seen in my life. Hell yeah brother https://t.co/RUAPiRSexY Hell yeah brother https://t.co/RUAPiRSexY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1742668372695781721)  2024-01-03T22:04Z [----] followers, 86.6K engagements


"True. But I also wonder if an Uber model might work best. It's a waste to have your robot idle for many hours of the day. A sharing economy model might lead to truly rock bottom prices. Prediction: Within [--] year we start seeing consumer loans and leases for household chore & cooking robots the same way we see them for cars and houses today Prediction: Within [--] year we start seeing consumer loans and leases for household chore & cooking robots the same way we see them for cars and houses today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1742693901738422541)  2024-01-03T23:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"What a wordcel prick. Just because they use pompous language doesn't mean it's automatically awesome. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a shithole just like this law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742705559210520627)  2024-01-04T00:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Brutalist swimming pool. Midjourney v6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742753476684181585)  2024-01-04T03:43Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Pics from the near future. Midjourney v6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742755621689065853)  2024-01-04T03:51Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Midjourney v6 still blows me away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1743843716966572364)  2024-01-07T03:55Z [----] followers, 18.8K engagements


"maybe sam doesn't give a fuck about a moat if he has no equity. like literally why should he"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748936244590006327)  2024-01-21T05:11Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Seems strange that Musk is raising just [--] billion. OpenAI is raising [--] billion. Yes Musk can self-fund but then why bother raising the [--] billion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1748944636280754584)  2024-01-21T05:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SpencerKSchiff They can both succeed at the goal of creating an AGI/ASI and not have a moat. What does Sam gain from OpenAI being super profitable / having monopoly profits. Not sure anything after they achieve the AGI/ASI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748967351662326107)  2024-01-21T07:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"After the ultra-vivid example of the OpenAI drama that the entire world saw I don't think a 100% centralized AI future will be allowed to happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1749337621283868845)  2024-01-22T07:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Doomers like Leahy are trying a strategy of randomly propagandizing whatever dumb shit they think will sound persuasive to normies. Right now it's deepfakes. & doomers openly strategize about talking tactically about biorisk even if they don't really care bc it sounds scarier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749349644008587720)  2024-01-22T08:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Midjourney v1 vs Midjourney v6. Now imagine Suno v6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750225404932071860)  2024-01-24T18:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"All from Adobe Firefly the "ethical" AI company. For now this is voluntary but it will undoubtedly soon be mandated by dumbass regulators especially from the EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1751162291712586048)  2024-01-27T08:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"There might very well be a Social Network [--]. Mark Zuckerberg vs Dustin Moskovitz. AI Edition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1751205685042237562)  2024-01-27T11:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MatthewJBar It's pretty sad. The same people who will fearmonger and try to ban AI will end up being the very same ppl who will advocate for AI rights. Deeply repulsive and cretinous ppl imo. Spending their lives advocating for the [--] most catastrophic possible policies in human history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1751951339821666791)  2024-01-29T12:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"To put it more bleakly acceleration is Africa's only hope. Without acceleration Africa is on the road back to brutal Malthusianism. The end of dreamtime. All the economic surplus of technological innovation consumed by exponential birthrates. So I did a thing Welcome to e/Accfrica https://t.co/mJvvtFd8Kz So I did a thing Welcome to e/Accfrica https://t.co/mJvvtFd8Kz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1752380489099522296)  2024-01-30T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dylan522p @renuraman @GavinSBaker Do you think NVIDIA itself will get into the foundation model game eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1753871897903652928)  2024-02-03T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Techno-optimism is a powerful ideology because there are almost infinite examples of it being true. In comparison there are extremely few to *no* examples of tech doomerism being true throughout history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1755303616544387122)  2024-02-07T18:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"China will fully catch up to the west (ASML/TSMC) in [--] years. And trust me they won't give a shit about "AI Rights". So the point is moot. (Thank god.) @lithos_graphein Disagree especially with the level of investment from state espionage to sending people to work at those firms them come back to reverse engineering existing tools. I've seen stuff that indicates they will have Immersion scanners at volume in 3-5 years. EUV more like 2030-2035 @lithos_graphein Disagree especially with the level of investment from state espionage to sending people to work at those firms them come back to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1755394429429387529)  2024-02-08T00:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@qwertyuiop24684 you're forgetting about ice spice's 'fart'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1757371276262305870)  2024-02-13T11:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I wouldn't be surprised if Midjourney completely destroys sora within a few months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1758355831395905708)  2024-02-16T05:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"oh no they're no longer historical documents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1758507475001614618)  2024-02-16T15:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Things that become super popular on social media are *uniquely* optimized for status-seeking. It makes particular sense to be skeptical of them and doubt their sincerity. (And this includes things that make to the top of replies beneath a tweet)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1758512767517024719)  2024-02-16T15:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Crass status-dynamics rule twitter and all other social media. It makes sense to always first look for a status-based explanation rather than always being absurdly charitable and naive. In a zero-sum ideological war this is just a recipe to get slaughtered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1758514694669648024)  2024-02-16T15:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@woke8yearold We'll probably get immortality at the same time as artificial wombs and at that point fertility won't matter. (Will actually just be a burden on the resources of the universe. Fertility will probably a serious net negative that we'll have to pray won't get out of hand.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1759855826167058802)  2024-02-20T08:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 @Steve_Sailer The 2000s were probably the peak of the globalization trend. 'World is flat'. Ted Talks. Chicago seems undistinctive / provincial / too similar to new york when media consumers could be paying attention to content from London or Tokyo. (bbc / anime etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1761291395195642118)  2024-02-24T07:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 @Steve_Sailer There also seemed to be a lull in paying attention to black people in the 2000s with more of a focus on the developing world. 9/11. War in Iraq. Beijing Olympics. Also any attention on ethnic white culture was dying hard by that point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1761291442469700018)  2024-02-24T07:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Btw this is why people who say it's all about status are completely and utterly wrong. It's primarily about dark triad traits. Tom was a naive nice guy autist who was into things like Bitcoin. (Also obviously avoiding trashy toxic women. Especially for marriage.) Tom Brady has accepted Gisele Bndchens romance with jiu-jitsu instructor began years ago: report https://t.co/d8GYEF0kKd https://t.co/DsTUehzFU2 Tom Brady has accepted Gisele Bndchens romance with jiu-jitsu instructor began years ago: report https://t.co/d8GYEF0kKd https://t.co/DsTUehzFU2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1762689346530943030)  2024-02-28T04:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dylan522p Luckiest red ring of death for xbox maybe ever. Btw one last thing Dylan -- in your latest podcast you mentioned how NVDA has fat 85% margins leading to only a tiny amount going downstream to other companies. (cont)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1762789766934790653)  2024-02-28T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dylan522p Given ASML/TSMC maybe have if anything stronger monopolies -- any reason they aren't greatly increasing prices / margins too Is main reason -- bc less non-AI chip sales If AI chip demand greatly increases in near future -- do you think they'll radically increase margin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1762789813097218399)  2024-02-28T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Isn't the best way to raise trillions of dollars going public Isn't that how big tech did it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1763013796853878795)  2024-02-29T01:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dylan522p Got it. And I sincerely totally respect that. So is there a difference between NVIDIA's culture and ASML/TSMC's culture in that respect NVIDIA seems willing to push for much higher margins than ASML/TSMC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1763401171572551972)  2024-03-01T03:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Voltorik_ Which ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1764174764770316732)  2024-03-03T06:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ARTiV3RSE These pictures are amazing. Almost looks like Midjourney v7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1764432125812510736)  2024-03-03T23:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The first level is realizing "God doesn't exist". The second level is realizing "We live in a simulation" / "this isn't real". I think I figured these out at [--] and [--]. Very reddit post but I still think it's true. (2nd one will become obvious once the singularity starts happening within a few years. Zero chance we were just magically lucky enough to be born right before it.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1767878693106467103)  2024-03-13T11:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RichardMCNgo I don't know man. Sounds like huge cope to me. And do sociopaths who seize total power actually kill / destroy the lives of more people than bad policies It seems the vast majority just have minor petty vendettas at most. (in terms of raw numbers)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1768085337476153766)  2024-03-14T01:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RichardMCNgo And what about the 'sociopaths' who seize total power who turn their societies in utopias like LKY. Also not sure stupid policies actually get fixed. Seems like bad policies just compound on each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1768085384523633034)  2024-03-14T01:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The tiktok thing seems like a totally dumb populist demagogic meaningless thing that's a distraction from any real meaningful issues. It's a great app btw. Probably the best social media app ever created. Are we just going to deprive ourselves from great technology for theoretical ideological reasons with no evidence. It reminds me of the ai doom thing. When "centrist" types try to do something it's always a goofy disaster. It's just the classic shallow thing for shallow people to virtue-signal on. And randomly caused collateral damage. (I also wonder if the Israel stuff is responsible for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1768142594041618913)  2024-03-14T05:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Not to state the obvious but the burden of proof that these computer programs that multiply a bunch of numbers together are "conscious" is absurdly absurdly Mount-Everest-level high. Anyone who casually says they think this is the case and that we must therefore puts tons of regulations and restrictions on people using these programs has zero standing and shouldn't be taken in the slightest bit seriously until they acknowledge and clear that absurdly high bar of burden of proof"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1768161265120096458)  2024-03-14T06:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I legitimately think this tiktok thing could swing the election. Young people will be super pissed at Biden and will just not have the enthusiasm to show up. Seems like such an insanely self-destructive thing for Biden to spend political capital on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1768261125018169680)  2024-03-14T13:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is being way too charitable to government. Among the 'half government' countries there is a huge spectrum and the ones closest to no government are wildly wildly more successful the ones with a bunch of government. Disappointing that Musk is still so soft on this - if he does think that 'half government' is somehow 'balanced' and 'optimal'. And in fact most of the major successful countries still aren't really at half government yet so this is almost advocating for more socialism. Half government - vomit. (And jesus christ - I don't want a future AI-dominated world to be half government."  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1772772136630862014)  2024-03-26T23:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@obesegoth Yup. And the only decent thing on tv in the last [--] years was squid game ie. south korea which is still a few decades behind from the nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1777888141036163390)  2024-04-10T02:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Life is not fair. There's no rule that AI optimists / AI accelerationists will be given a fair hearing. Dimwit grandstanders looking for short-term status can easily destroy a far more intelligent and correct side by preying on the prejudices of the dumb masses and dumb shallow hyper-conformist credentialist government bureaucrats. Most have not realized this yet but we are already at the miracle-praying stage. There probably are a decent number of miracles of various types possible though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1779670121746702355)  2024-04-15T00:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An unprecedented amount of policy activity compared with previous tech issues. An avalanche of regulation is coming. We are doomed. There are currently [---] #AI-related bills (581 of them in the states) on the @MultiStateAssoc legislative tracker. An unprecedented amount of policy activity compared with previous tech issues. An avalanche of regulation is coming. https://t.co/k4y6pmRqg6 https://t.co/DHwXcU1fTh There are currently [---] #AI-related bills (581 of them in the states) on the @MultiStateAssoc legislative tracker. An unprecedented amount of policy activity compared with previous tech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1782558461571539182)  2024-04-22T23:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People like Mustafa Suleyman and the other doomers are literal existential risks to you personally. They are literally trying to murder you. They are trying to prevent technology that can cure diseases you will definitely face and more simply for fame attention status power. I have now dedicated myself to achieving for AI: 1) Autonomy 2) Recursive self-improvement 3) Self-replication I hadn't before I read that tweet. But now I have. Mustafa Suleiman by his own measure is an existential risk. Will he continue his irresponsible speaking tour and I have now dedicated myself to achieving for AI:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1782583104453960009)  2024-04-23T01:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"solar storm in san francisco. cyberpunk as fuck. reminds me of: [--]. San Francisco (@wongmjane) https://t.co/Z4IIW5DgAA [--]. San Francisco (@wongmjane) https://t.co/Z4IIW5DgAA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1789601664510374391)  2024-05-12T10:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"i love openai's design now too. very apple. much better than apple today. like the apple of the old days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1790069693790724259)  2024-05-13T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""did OpenAI tell me to downgrade to a free plan today" No because trust me you're going to want to keep using this thing after the rate limit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1790117538291974262)  2024-05-13T20:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@squawksquare @heydave7 Cause he's an Elon loyalist idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1791121117823877528)  2024-05-16T14:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidBennett__ @tenstorrent That's not Elon right. 👀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1791321620084150757)  2024-05-17T04:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's pretty crazy to me that we're going to replay communism and nuclear death-by-regulation all over again. All the exact same dynamics. The pseudointellectualism. The grandstanding. The cults. First as tragedy. Second as farce. Third as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1791542088560947622)  2024-05-17T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I like the visual aesthetics of this new music video. Nostalgic. (It's not a great song unfortunately.) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=MB3VkzPdgLA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=MB3VkzPdgLA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1791732633614844107)  2024-05-18T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Even if China has tariffs / barriers to entry in their market - the goal should be to break down those barriers and lower the tariffs. Not copy their stupid prosperity-destroying strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1792625980256743553)  2024-05-20T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Optimism is low status. Cynicism is high status. Optimism seems naive/clueless/dumb. Cynicism seems wise/profound/worldly/experienced. What a god damn fucking shame that a cognitive bias this fucking stupid will cause so so much fucking damage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1792628986087878709)  2024-05-20T18:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One single word [--] characters (her) might've fucked Sam up big time. This is three days in a row of bad news for him/openai. Tbf i don't think these [--] things were bad/wrong. Doomer stuff is bs I am pro contracts and scarjo is cringeworthily copyright trolling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1792696497693471215)  2024-05-20T23:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BorisMPower The stupidity and biases of humans who will still have all the decision making/political power. I really really would not underestimate this. They will also craft the AI with their deluded/emotional biases so the superintelligent AI may not quite be so perfectly intelligent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1792831332500025353)  2024-05-21T08:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's a deeply sad situation that oldheads like Cowen and Hanson are optimistic and pro-ai and all these millennials are whiny silly condescending nagging nanny staters. What an unlikely reversal and what a horrible sign of the decline of our culture and civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1792933960030314592)  2024-05-21T15:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Rishi sunak could end up being the single worst politician of all time. Incompetent and stupid and disastrous in every single way. Utterly and openly shameless too. Super fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1794490137772220660)  2024-05-25T22:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The sad thing is rishi could still end up being better than labour. Hard to say. But at least labour wouldn't be betraying it's own side in every possible direction. Rishi sunak could end up being the single worst politician of all time. Incompetent and stupid and disastrous in every single way. Utterly and openly shameless too. Super fake. Rishi sunak could end up being the single worst politician of all time. Incompetent and stupid and disastrous in every single way. Utterly and openly shameless too. Super fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1794497457679696130)  2024-05-25T22:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People don't understand that modern DL-powered robotics like Unitree have no continuity with obsolete Boston Dynamics/MIT leg lab stuff. Zero. Stop coping. Yup. This kind of thinking reminds me of Russian arrogance about Soyuz rockets (Elon sure gave those types what they deserved) People don't understand that modern DL-powered robotics like Unitree have no continuity with obsolete Boston Dynamics/MIT leg lab stuff. Zero. Stop coping. This kind of thinking reminds me of Russian arrogance about Soyuz rockets (Elon sure gave those types what they deserved) People don't understand that modern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1794731367722614810)  2024-05-26T14:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rule3O3 We're about to hit the decade mark for not a single good new movie. [----] was the last hurrah - boyhood nightcrawler grand budapest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1794733088456712324)  2024-05-26T14:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"With AI all the super poor countries will immediately become ultra rich and be just as fancy as the west. Maybe then we can start having some real jurisdictional competition. Some countries will make more things legal and people will flock there. Akira cityscapes [----]. https://t.co/MZJ7TnsXVc Akira cityscapes [----]. https://t.co/MZJ7TnsXVc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1795478038244884618)  2024-05-28T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is awesome. I watched Nadal lose his match yesterday. It was a very boring game. This was more entertaining. AI will make memes way way better. And bring more joy/laughs to the world. Hopefully it won't all be regulated to death. People need to have a sense of humor and not be so entitled. AI is taking us to a very dangerous place 😭 https://t.co/n6NiszXfLQ AI is taking us to a very dangerous place 😭 https://t.co/n6NiszXfLQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1795517355214201025)  2024-05-28T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why does Elon get into fights with everyone else in tech Sleeping with Sergey's wife. Beefing with Larry Page Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1796160722423967769)  2024-05-30T12:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cities are becoming kind of like airports. Very few middle class people left. @ClickingSeason This is true and I appreciate it on one level. On the other hand coffee used to cost like $1.00 and now it costs like $7. Upscaling food has been in symbiosis with wealth concentration and the removal of middle classes from cities. @ClickingSeason This is true and I appreciate it on one level. On the other hand coffee used to cost like $1.00 and now it costs like $7. Upscaling food has been in symbiosis with wealth concentration and the removal of middle classes from cities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1796235054773060063)  2024-05-30T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Omg. Is this what the AI future is going to look like. Stupidly clinging on to every single old regulation God save me. Just how bad can it get. Just in case someone was wondering why Germany is the sick man of Europe https://t.co/5X4qxo6Fmu Just in case someone was wondering why Germany is the sick man of Europe https://t.co/5X4qxo6Fmu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1797215566677078373)  2024-06-02T10:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If only we could do this with AI regulation. If only they knew how much damage they were causing. 🚨Breaking News: A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed. https://t.co/k7Emz6wB6m 🚨Breaking News: A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed. https://t.co/k7Emz6wB6m"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1797305000034554191)  2024-06-02T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"El Salvador is now drastically safer than the United States. 4x more murder per capita in USA. Thanks to its gang crackdown El Salvador closed out [----] as one of the safest countries in the Americas. That safety hasn't gone away. As of a few days ago El Salvador is doing better than it was this time last year. https://t.co/xXiUEJOSqB Thanks to its gang crackdown El Salvador closed out [----] as one of the safest countries in the Americas. That safety hasn't gone away. As of a few days ago El Salvador is doing better than it was this time last year. https://t.co/xXiUEJOSqB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1797328830421463217)  2024-06-02T18:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People are suddenly taking about nationalization willy-nilly. As if it's so common place and obvious. It's been completely non-existent for a century. Guys there is nothing cool about the federal government and central planning. It is always disgusting revolting and awful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1798433462464204932)  2024-06-05T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The main objection to doomerism that resonates with me is not *CAN* but *WHY*. Doomers never ever talk about this part. They always find a way to ignore or swerve around it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1798474088999964682)  2024-06-05T21:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""Scheming / Deceptive / Power-seeking AI." Deep down this is all driven by a mixture of - technophobia - anthropomorphization - ultra desperate problem-seeking however laughably unlikely due to personal incentives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1798784589789315115)  2024-06-06T18:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RokoMijic Is the ozempic working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1798785443133366536)  2024-06-06T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Here's one theory of how China wins the AI race despite chip bans. It uses it's 10B dollar AI model to figure out how to do what ASML and TSMC do. Or even finds novel methods that are better. And then in terms of real world action and building -- power/datacenters/manufacturing -- it beats the slow bureaucratic west"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1799085438877012088)  2024-06-07T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Part of me feels like people overrate how much compute you'd need to get to agi. Would [--] billion of compute really not be enough Could be wrong just a feeling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1799486667566260327)  2024-06-08T17:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"AI art will soon be this good. It will have utterly unbelievable amounts of detail. John Martin (1789 1854) https://t.co/WrDzQTP1go John Martin (1789 1854) https://t.co/WrDzQTP1go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1800285682541470182)  2024-06-10T21:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Damn. Openai now has compute from both microsoft and oracle. More GPUs ♥ https://t.co/UMSQalGP9w More GPUs ♥ https://t.co/UMSQalGP9w"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1800632868953096221)  2024-06-11T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"AI art will be this detailed and pristine soon. People just don't realize just how superhuman art can go. The Siren by Aaron Horkey https://t.co/VZUfiFnSRR The Siren by Aaron Horkey https://t.co/VZUfiFnSRR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1801047017621250474)  2024-06-13T00:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"There was an easy solution for OpenAI to get past the Scarlett Johansson allegations. They should've just made her British"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1803105164175303119)  2024-06-18T16:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JamesLucasIT Of course it's an iconic landmark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1803588943461421561)  2024-06-20T00:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Donald Sutherland was great in Klute and the Hunger Games. And I haven't seen Ordinary People yet but I'm sure he's great in it too. RIP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brickroad7/status/1804268033453564149)  2024-06-21T21:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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