Ryan Petersen
@typesfast
Founder and CEO of Flexport. Tariff whisperer
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I think 99% of all web traffic will be AI by next year, right?
Does Google Analytics have any plan for this?
Proposal for American high schools: Replace geometry and trigonometry with economics and statistics.
If Anthropic is worried about rogue AI killing everyone why did they give it control of a robotic biology lab?
My B2B SaaS warrior vs your AI safety fairy
Probably nothing…
The cost of hiring an oil tanker on the benchmark trade route has soared to $1 million per day for the first time in history 🚨 🚨
6 years later and people are *still* sleeping on COVID as an excuse to get out of anything you don’t feel like doing
It’s so insane that Apple refuses to do what Android already does to block spoofing phone numbers. The attacks are out of control and the tech already exists inside RCS, a standard they’ve adopted. At some point it’s like they want you to be scammed.
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Birmingham in the UK has more canals than Venice
The Port of LA/LB hit all time record for imports the last 3 months.
Narrative violation?
Trained a fly brain to fly the Flexport 747.
the fly brain is autonomously flying a 747 over san francisco right now
watch the X live stream below
fly alongside the fly brain at
please don't shoot it down (i'm trusting you)
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Somali pirates hijack a vessel in the Red Sea, the Houthis take control of the Bab Al Mandeb, a Filipino crew mutinies to avoid transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a cyberattack at a port in Malaysia, and a successful crossing of the Northern Sea Route. And those are just a few of the crazy things happening in global logistics right now.
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I always dreamed of having a personal assistant who wore a tuxedo all the time and @alexandr_wang has made this a reality
Hosting a dinner on using AI to automate work in the real world (not solving millennium math problems) tonight in SF. Have a few open slots due to some cancellations. Respond if you're building a company that tackles boring work with AI and want to join!
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I need to buy more stock in this company. I’ve never seen such a commitment to making money regardless of the consequences.
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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I’m assigning each of my AIs to fixing different potholes in the neighborhood today. Whichever one gets theirs fixed first gets to be my daily driver for the rest of the quarter.
Do we know who punched Zuck in the nose?
When you work for Josh Kushner vs when you work for Mark Cuban
Turns out the US government will fund anything if you can put a missile on it
WATCH IT HAPPEN: Six months of engineering and systems integration with @LockheedMartin led to the first live-fire demonstration in Saildrone history.
At RIMPAC, SD-3001 launched two JAGM missiles while operating with @USNavy assets.
The work continues:
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I’ve seen enough, RFK needs to approve Reta asap
Ocean carriers are planning a return to the Suez by the end of the year. Maybe the US is winning in Iran after all?
