ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slack messages off Google Docs and slides to review - my actual email inbox lol

current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qwen 3.8 27B for fast tok/s LLM use - sometimes 150+ tok/s - 2x DGX Spark: running Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 - better but slower model - pi 5 for monitoring - Mac mini as a dev box - use Herdr and ohmypi/codex/claude depending on the use case - housed in a 10" DeskPi mini rack (mostly) Hermes is defaulted to local AI but with a homegrown routing plugin hitting a small low TTFT model (Arch-Router) to decide whether to go local or upgrade to cloud/frontier. Trying to get to 100% local over time, but right now probably more like 60-70% The Sparks are for batch processing background runs (all the cron jobs, longer dev builds, etc) do you need all of this? Absolutely not lol. I started with the mac mini and couldn't help myself but to add over time! Also I regret getting the eGPU so I wouldn't recommend that to anyone

What Is To Be Done? I propose a simple plan: Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due to incorrect claims of AI risk. This will maximize the technological and societal payoff from the amazing capabilities of these companies, which are jewels of modern capitalism. Startup AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can. They should neither confront government-granted protection of big companies, nor should they receive government assistance. They should simply be allowed to compete. If and as startups don’t succeed, their presence in the market will also continuously motivate big companies to be their best – our economies and societies win either way. Open source AI should be allowed to freely proliferate and compete with both big AI companies and startups. There should be no regulatory barriers to open source whatsoever. Even when open source does not beat companies, its widespread availability is a boon to students all over the world who want to learn how to build and use AI to become part of the technological future, and will ensure that AI is available to everyone who can benefit from it no matter who they are or how much money they have. To offset the risk of bad people doing bad things with AI, governments working in partnership with the private sector should vigorously engage in each area of potential risk to use AI to maximize society’s defensive capabilities. This shouldn’t be limited to AI-enabled risks but also more general problems such as malnutrition, disease, and climate. AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for solving problems, and we should embrace it as such. To prevent the risk of China achieving global AI dominance, we should use the full power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose. And that is how we use AI to save the world. It’s time to build.

hey all- for folks who are in town (SF) Oct 5-11, we're hosting a ton of events, including at our new offices in Jackson Square. details below. -- the SF/LA Tech Week calendar is LIVE 2,300+ events across the two weeks. more than a 50% increase from last year. some other cool stats: - 1,580 events in SF, 762 in LA - 14 tracks - fundraising, deep tech, AI agents, infra, devtools, hackathons, media, fintech and more - 883 events on fundraising & investing. more than all of LA Tech Week in 2024. - 80+ a16z and portcos hosting: deel, stripe, elevenlabs, pinecone, databricks, carta, fal, exa - spacex, erebor, anthropic, google, aws, ibm, fenwick, hsbc, fireworks, vercel, pwc, fin, adobe, atlassian, cloudflare, hyperagent all showing up congrats @roseajohnson @TracyMassaro_ @KatiaAmeri @filgran_ @johnsonjanellea and the whole Tech Week team for the awesome launch

I don't know, I think there are a lot of arguments against (the dubious political movement called) "AI Safetyism": - Bostrom - Gans - Belrose - Narayan/Kapoor - Drexler - Andreessen - Hanson - LeCun - Moravec - Deutsch - (even) Aschenbrenner It's thoughtful, interesting, and — because it's not as useful politically — less well-resourced and neglected. Most of the pro-AI people are just trying to make useful and safe AI that others want to pay for.

you want to spend zero time on the left. This is where AI wins - automating drudgery/workflows/costs we want to spend our time on the right. More of it is about connection/entertainment/humanity - less verifiable, more novelty-seeking

BREAKING NEWS: SF and LA Tech Week calendars are LIVE! You can now register for events: 2,300+ event submissions across San Francisco and Los Angeles 📍SF: October 5-11 📍LA: October 12-18 People always ask about the data, so a few stats: -SF once again takes the crown for “biggest tech week ever” with 1,500+ events -1 in 7 SF events is about agentic AI: 213 events in SF and 53 in LA are explicitly about agents (in the title or description). In 2024 there were only about a dozen! -There are 124 hackathons across the two weeks, and the variety is huge: everything from hardware to defense, media/creative, fintech, civic/social good, etc. Everyone is a builder now. - LA, the OG Tech Week (now in its fifth year!), has seriously doubled down on deep tech with 100+ events and lots of El Segundo activity. Last year, Tech Week saw attendees from over 100 countries. It’s going to be a party. See you there! 🥳

STUDENTS + NEW GRADS: We want to invest up to $250K in you! Applications are officially OPEN for speedrun Alpha Cohort 2. After our inaugural cohort this summer, we're excited to bring the fellowship back with two tracks: Founder: Get up to $250K to start your company, plus $1M+ in credits from AI, cloud, and devtool partners and more Talent: Get fast-tracked toward engineering opportunities at breakout startups Both: In-person fellowship in SF with a kickoff retreat, weekly office hours with the speedrun team, coworking at the speedrun office, intimate fireside chats, and one-on-one support We’re looking to take bets on technical students, recent grads, and dropouts who are serious about building. You can be pre-idea, pre-team, or already underway. At this stage, what matters most is that you’ve shown you can ship and are deeply committed to this path. More than 11,000 people applied to our first cohort, and we ultimately selected 11 teams. We’re excited to meet the next group! Apply now: Nominate or tag anyone you think we should consider👇

I co-lead @speedrun alpha w/ @KatiaAmeri - we're opening apps for A002 today. > We invest up to $250k > We focus on dropouts / recent grads > Our thesis: "invest in amazing people" Application link is in the comments. Tag the folks we should be talking to.

you want to spend zero time on the left. This is where AI wins - automating drudgery/workflows/costs we want to spend our time on the right. More of it is about connection/entertainment/humanity - less verifiable, more novelty-seeking

at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then supervised by a COO agent What's the equiv for your personal? - family - personal finance - health - leisure/travel ... what else?