So excited to have helped bring MTS to life these past several weeks and we’re officially out of stealth today The future is bright

Send us some pitches! We've always covered fundraises on MTS, but now opening the door for more targeted coverage of exciting fundraises in our afternoon programming. DMs are open!

we are expanding the core programming of @MTSlive from 1-3pm every day, we are introducing a new segment "industry news" with @sophiadew we'd love to highlight 3-4 top fundraise / product releases of the day. open to general pitches pls email us at pitch@mts.now

This is the news that half your mates from school and college will consume about the French riots.

New from me in the @FT: The US needs to find a way to build data centers that works for our workers and communities. BAAJA is the beginning of a model (pass it!) but there's so much more we can do to use this growth engine to help Americans. The piece makes a few points: 1 - Data centers pose challenges (emissions, energy use, noise, etc) some of which are highly concentrated, but also economic and strategic benefits that are more diffuse. Finding a way to build them in America allows policymakers to mitigate the challenges and maximize/share the benefits. Anti-building approaches that push construction overseas (the most likely outcome if we don't build) give up our ability to do so. We should want jurisdiction over them. 2 - If you want to take clean energy tech down the cost curve, you need a reason to deploy it--i.e., new demand. Use policy to push data centers to go clean (they can afford it). It would be like the IRA on easy mode. 3 - If you want to reindustrialize and create American manufacturing jobs, use the fact that data centers are massive industrial customers and already driving an American manufacturing boom to kick it into overdrive. The FT piece cites new research I published with @SIEPR showing data centers already support 300K permanent manufacturing jobs. We should want more! The data center jobs debate that says the jobs are temporary misses upstream supply chain employment; the challenge is these jobs aren't in the communities where data centers are built. Use policy (tax credits, tariffs, permitting rules) to incentivize more domestic manufacturing and share these benefits. 4 - If you want to bring China to the table on AI safety, we need leverage. An overwhelming compute advantage helps with that, but we need to deploy compute. I'd rather race on compute than model capabilities. As I say in the piece, trying to stop data center construction as a safety measure would be like trying to solve traffic fatalities by shutting down car factories--vehicle and highway safety rules are obviously superior, do that instead! ft.com/content/a1b2bdd8-212c…

Joining the Administration hurt my relationships with many friends and family members. I do not regret a single moment of my service, nor should anyone who sacrifices their opportunities to benefit our fellow Americans. When our best and brightest serve the country, we all benefit. Efforts to “deter” patriots from joining the administration reflects a deep, cynical calculus that I find wholly alien. Hoping American policymakers fail in order to create electoral advantages disadvantages our entire republic. Disagreements over policy should not mutate into neighbors hating neighbors. I am not afraid of Slotkin. I am not even angry. I pity her. I live my life in service of greater purposes than partisan politics. Millions of Americans feel the same way. Our generation will rebuild America, and, in the process, we will drag these mutants with us into the Pax Americana.

Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.

MTS is LIVE - here's what we're talking about this morning: - Gemini 4 Argon beats Minecraft - China instilling new export controls on AI and other tech - Taiwan planning $4 billion chip facility in Texas Followed by some great interviews: - @scottaar Professor at UT Austin talking about his recent writing and the rapid rate of AI capabilities growth in mathematics - @logangraham Frontier Red Team lead at Anthropic talking about self-replicating AI and autonomous worms - @RyanFedasiuk and @Satvik_Pen of AEI talking about their recent writing on AI chip restrictions and the race for chips - @SamoBurja Founder of Bismarck Analysis talking about live v. dead players in AI - @founderengineer co-founder of abliteration ai talking about building unrestricted ai - Ahmad Osman founder @OsmanticAI talking about open models & the hardware needed to run it - Suddu Head of Data and AI @Plaid talking about the company's latest breakthroughs in AI - @BernAceituno co-founder of StackAI (acq. by Asana) discussing what it's like building capable enterprise agents - @efarrellgregory Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation talking about Sinomodernity - Aden Barton head of evals @mercor talking about the company's latest report on the US economy - Masumi Reynders co-founder and COO of Majestic Labs talking about the "memory wall" and what Majestic is working on

TESLA ROADSTER | MECH INTERP | AI POLICY SPECTRUM nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZnLN…

RT @RJ16848519: in the autumn sun

if palantir-straussian-zog-tech-fascism evil, why cool edits then?

I've been enjoying a fruitful and fulfilling October. Happy fall

I’m really impressed that some think tank / deep state apparatus convinced everyone on TikTok a few years ago that it’s cheaper to order out every meal than it is to just cook at home. Very underreported collective psychosis

man, he is just doing the meme about not wanting solutions and just wanting to be angry nothing will suffice for this guy, his worldview is dogmatic and unshakeable and no matter what comes of mech interp developments, he will still believe we are all going to die it's sad

INTERPRETABILITY SOLVED? | RSI IN 9 MONTHS | MUSE SPARK OPEN nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1RKjpbZLe…

Probably the coolest thing MTS' engineering team has released, and incredibly thoughtful / great amount of intention went towards it. This is worth a click

We are live and discussing some big stories: - Meta open-weights Muse Spark, an 816B model with 42B active parameters - Anthropic embeds METR inside the company with employee-like access - Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2 on 16k GB200s Then following this up with some very great interviews throughout the afternoon: - @jordanchirsch of Palantir talking about the Meritocracy Fellowship - @davidshor of Blue Rose Research talking about his latest polling and data work - @zbraniecki of Perplexity talking about open-sourcing the sandbox behind Perplexity Computer - @OliviaHelenS of IFP and BlueDot talking about how to pandemic-proof the world - @LRudL_ talking about his Substack essays

Words to live by

I'm hiring for someone's dream role @theacademysf: student recruitment. Here's what the person I'm looking for will do and looks like: This person will oversee our student recruitment funnels. You'll travel the world to give talks in schools and meet applicants, spend your days on the phone building trust with families, and work with our industry partners to reach their communities. Here's the archetype I see for this person: junior, extraordinarily talented, high energy, golden retriever vibes. Embodies the ethos of the school. Tech savvy enough to keep up with the extremely technical projects our applicants work on. Young people need to like you, and you need to genuinely like them. Take them seriously, treat them like peers, and be curious about what they're building. You should get excited talking to these people, not because you're trying to recruit them, but because you find them fascinating. You need to LOVE talking to people, that's 90% of the job. You also need to be comfortable traveling a lot. This is a role for a junior person (open to mid-level or senior if you're willing to be in the trenches with us!) who is extremely ambitious and capable of owning an extraordinary amount of responsibility. You'll be one of the main intermediaries between the world and our school, and for many people, their first impression of The Academy. I'm actively interviewing candidates for this. If you're interested, apply through our career page and ping me once you've submitted. If someone I know can vouch for you, you'll get on my radar even faster. If you know anyone who fits the bill, I would be extremely thankful to hear from you as well!