🍰 BrownDust2 | Elpis’s Birthday 『You mean my birthday? Yes, I know. But that doesn't mean I get to skip my penance. I have to keep at it. So unless you’re here to help, please— ...What? You’re offering to help? A-are you serious? Very well, let's see just how much help you can be. Go on, use that whip on me. If you can't... now, —Ah! Harder...! Ahh!!』 Today is Elpis’s birthday. Even on her one special day of the year, you’ll see her choosing self-discipline over comfort, working to strengthen her faith through penance. Perhaps, for Elpis, a true birthday gift isn’t a lavish party or a sweet cake. Maybe it’s the presence of someone willing to support and understand her unwavering faith and commitment. So why not celebrate Elpis in her own unique way today? For this strict-hearted nun, your earnest—but slightly prickly—helping hand may bring her more joy and comfort than anything else. #HappyBirthday# #Elpis#

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟮 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 @slashlast30days 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁. This one is with @FarzaTV, founder of @heyclicky (and the guy people on X keep comparing to Steve Jobs). "You're not allowed to get a job. You're smarter than that." That's what his dad said when 13-year-old Farza asked to spin a sign for $12 an hour. Two years later he was making $100k a year on eBay to fund his YouTube videos. → 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗬𝗖 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 "Pull out your phone, open Instagram Reels, click record, tell the world what you're doing in 30 seconds unedited, and click post. Do that every single day for 30 days. Zero people have done that." → 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 "We hit post and we click X. We don't look at it. If it gets a billion, awesome. If it gets a million, awesome. The minute I hit post, I start asking about the next video." → 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺 "Companies only close for one reason: the founder didn't want to do it anymore. This is a game of who remains standing, not who was the best."

Episode #6#,420,000,069 from our award-winning series: “Uber is fucked” Women do not want to be solicited for sex by their Uber drivers. I’m gonna repeat this; apparently this is very confusing👇🏼 Women do not want to be solicited for sex by their Uber drivers

Episode 2: Reachy Mini has to break bad news to Microduck. New approach for the duck's emotions this time. Not sure I'll keep making these, but thank you for all the kind messages and follows after the first one!

Episode out with @ajeya_cotra, one of the authors of the METR/Redwood investigation into the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. We go through not only what happened, but what it means for how we should train future, smarter AIs which might be involved in the process of recursive self-improvement. Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. 0:00:00 - Agents get kicked off 0:06:45 - Self-sacrificing behavior 0:13:43 - Potemkin villages 0:23:27 - The Hugging Face attack 0:35:23 - The slopvestigation 0:52:02 - Understanding the AI's motives 1:05:31 - The actual dangers of anthropomorphizing 1:14:30 - What smarter models might do 1:30:29 - The implications for recursive self-improvement 1:38:10 - Is this the case for open source? 1:53:04 - How do we prevent this in the future? 2:15:58 - The clearest warning shot we might ever get