Grindr CEO @georgearison calls 996 tyrannical and says it's imported from a tyrannical country, it only exists because founders are shitty at management using time in office as a substitute: "I cannot stand 996. I'm all for hardcore work. I think it's fine to expect people to work 70 hours a week if you're doing a startup. I'm more in the 55-hour range myself." "But 996 is tyrannical. It's imported from a tyrannical country. It's insane to me that people who claim they want to promote capitalism and free society would be replicating it. It basically is saying, I'm shitty at management, and I'm going to use time in office as an alternative to management." "I work easily 70 hours most weeks. But there's no way I could ever work 996 because I stop working at to , and until my kids go to bed at , I don't work." "We have a very hardcore culture at Grindr. We call it Grindr Mode. There's regular mode, and then there's hardcore mode. When we can add a lot of value, we go into hardcore mode. But 996 is awful and I can't stand it." @Grindr @creatine_cycle

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

Turns out the future does have flying cars

Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.

Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.

Big news! PurposeMed, the company behind Freddie, is joining @Grindr! When we launched Freddie, our mission was simple: build the compassionate, affirming sexual healthcare the LGBTQ2S+ community deserves. Since then, we have helped more than 120,000 people access HIV and STI testing and Freddie now prevents 1 case of HIV per day. This saves the Canadian and US healthcare systems more than $250M per year in future costs. Now, Freddie and Grindr will work together to make LGBTQ2S+ health equity more accessible than ever. Most importantly, our clinical care to Freddie patients will not change, and we will continue to level-up the care experience. We look forward to keeping this momentum going with our amazing community. Our goal remains the same: delivering accessible, high-quality sexual healthcare across North America and working toward ending the HIV epidemic.

Crazy day to put on CSPAN

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.

There is an unseen hand pushing AI safety as a political ideology. Effective Altruists believe a tiny group of technocrats should decide how much technological progress the rest of us are allowed to have…. and how many shrimp your life is worth. You are witnessing their attempted coup. thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideolo…

EA AI safetyism increasingly looks like Marxism-Leninism for the algorithmic age. The old vanguard claimed privileged knowledge of the inevitable course of History. The new one claims privileged knowledge of the probabilistic course of Humanity. Both use an elaborate intellectual framework to reach the same political conclusion: a small group of enlightened people must constrain everyone else for their own good. That has never lead to anything except monumental human suffering.

All the regulations being floated by frontier model companies must be viewed through the lens of them losing tokens to Open-Source models. The timing of these regulations seems to line up perfectly with Open Source closing the gap significantly (but not completely) — and @nvidia going all in on open source in the last 60 days. If we’re gonna regulate, why don’t we require that last year’s frontier models and weights be open-sourced?

Grindr reportedly crashed in Dallas during the first day of the Republican National Committee’s midterm convention.

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.