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Patrick Blumenthal

3 months

Just dropped two new shirts, the F-22 RAPTOR and a BLACKBIRD V2. Link in bio. RT + reply with which one you want and your size and I'll be selecting a random winner tonight.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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9 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 AMC is doing a split screen premiere of Barbie and Oppenheimer for neurodivergent moviegoers

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

it’s 2023, you need to be gooning you need to be henchman-maxxing, you need to be saying ‘you got it boss’ regardless of the context

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

Northrop Grumman made both of these vehicles.

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10 months

"Mr. Oppenheimer, what if, instead of bombing Japan, we, instead, tried to love them?"

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Patrick Blumenthal

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8 months

memes like this are the future of education

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4 months

American Dynamism is a single company making both of these

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

The first AI war will be between Balenciaga and Gucci

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4 months

isnt it crazy we built all this shit before inventing the bicycle lmao

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

"It's Sam. I need 20,000 A100s. No serial numbers. Meet me at the usual spot."

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

9 months

Just built this working LK-99 net fusion power generator. Raising 10M to bring it to production, 2.5M left in the round.

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

7 months

Today marks Ross Ulbricht's 10th year in prison. In the past decade, Bitcoin has printed millionaires, cannabis stocks feature on CNBC, and psilocybin is accepted as medicine. Yet Ulbricht sits in a cage, in a world that otherwise celebrates the disruptive forces he championed…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

A Glass of Whiskey and Frank Sinatra before Bed. Alpha Centauri, 2078 AD

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Patrick Blumenthal

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7 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Harvard's Student Debate Team has just landed in the Middle East, on their way to negotiate Israel's unconditional surrender

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Patrick Blumenthal

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9 months

A day before GPT-4's release, Eliezer entered Sam Altman's office with Elon Musk, wringing his hands and saying: "I have blood on my hands." Sam later told Elon "Never bring that fucking LARPer in here again. He didn't release GPT-4. I did. That kind of doomerism makes me sick."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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9 months

"We're in a race against the Nazis—GANG GANG YES YES YES—But it's Barbie AND Ken—ICE CREAM SO GOOD." You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are not online. You are Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

A year ago, my body was at war with itself, and my condition was deteriorating faster than my specialists could understand it. And then GPT became my co-pilot. Here’s my guide on how I used it to uncover connections my doctors missed and navigate my rare diseases. If you’re…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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2 months

wtaf is going on today

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Patrick Blumenthal

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8 months

from left to right: - tensor tony: got his name from smuggling A100s into NY and NJ ports. if you need compute, TT's your man, (just don't ask where they came from) - Kev: singlehandedly responsible for using trading algos to pump Gamestop in 2021. charged with 5 counts but…

Martin Shkreli (e/acc)

@wagieeacc

8 months

DL Software company dinner. Three of us MIA.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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7 months

>be me in 2028 >army ad pops up in my Meta Verse™ HUD offering $10,000 in AWS credits and free Twitter Premium for life >immediately enlist and take their entrance exam >questions include "write the plot of Dune using only emojis" and "who won the Hotz vs Yud debate?" >ArmyGPT…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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7 months

end of an era

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Patrick Blumenthal

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11 months

POV: you just started as an engineer at Google in 2006

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

9 months

Of course that's your contention. You learned what a superconductor was 3 days ago. You just got finished reading a post about a Chinese lab that couldn't replicate it, you're gonna be convinced of that until you read about the 🇷🇺 anime cat girl and then be convinced it's real.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The CEA has announced that OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters contained a multi-level underground base filled with unregistered GPU clusters, in an attempt to create AGI. Is this why Sam was fired? The CEA has invoked the Emergency War Powers Act and will be…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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"All of this falling apart is on you, Ilya. We had a good thing going—we had MICROSOFT, we had every top researcher in AI, we had the fastest growing product in the world. We had everything we needed to create AGI it all ran like clockwork. You could've just shut your mouth and…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

THOUSANDS wait outside of the OpenAI Conclave in Neo San Francisco for smoke to appear from the Conclave's Nuclear Cooling Tower—a sign that Sam Altman has been restored as CEO.

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@sama

5 months

first and last time i ever wear one of these

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11 months

"I was thinking about what you said to me the other day about my AI project, Eliezer. That it would turn us all into paperclips. I stayed up half the night thinking about it and then something occurred to me, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 month

Taylor Swift recently revealed her concern about our ability to deter an invasion of Taiwan on Late Night: "How can we provide a credible deterrence when Japan's constitution explicitly prohibits it from collective self-defense, and their standoff missiles barely cover the East…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

2028—NVIDIA soldiers mingle at a Free Compute Zone (FCZ) checkpoint in New Taipei, Wyoming

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

5 months

AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LIVING IN A CRUMBLING APARTMENT BLOCK

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

it's so over

Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

4 months

Just made EpsteinGPT to talk to these docs.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

EASILY my favorite Elon Musk and Kanye interview of all time—SHOCKED that it's never been posted here.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

180K to be a discord mod, we are so back

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Patrick Blumenthal

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3 months

"I am currently off-world and will return on February 20th. For anything urgent, please contact my AI clone."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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8 months

i just spilled my coffee and it landed like this, wat do

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

it's so over

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Patrick Blumenthal

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10 days

In a decade, China turned a small island into a shipyard that has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry. We need to do better.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

2034—The USS Joseph Biden, the first interstellar Aircraft carrier, takes its maiden voyage. It will undergo final testing at Fort Pluto before being sent to Alpha Centauri.

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

4 months

I'm typically extremely private about my health, but I've been using GPT for the past year to better understand my own multiple rare diseases. If you think GPT can only help with common issues, you are wrong. One of my diagnosed diseases is 0.36 in a million, another is 10 in a…

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A reason we need beneficial AGI: After five years of pain across many systems in her body (a broken foot from stepping off a curb, debilitating migraines, fatigue, joint pain and instability, etc), my wife was recently diagnosed with a genetic disorder called Hypermobile…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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2 months

@ilaffey2 @sachalevy3 extremely aesthetic drone

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

7 months

>be me in 2026, agent for the compute enforcement administration >got recruited for being a LessWrong poaster >arrive at office, cork board on wall full of pictures of 'high-risk' tech we seized >calculators, Nokias, a Furby with a post-it note that reads "potential Skynet?"…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

1/🧠 Sam Altman says ALL jobs are about to be automated by AI. If you don't want to be POOR, you'll need to train for one of THESE jobs of the future—a thread 🧵

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Been in Utah for 30 minutes and I’m already convinced it’s the best state. There’s an official greeting area on the way to baggage claim, with a huge group gathered to welcome back a missionary. Uber pickup here is the easiest, most sensical setup of any airport in the US.…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

"That's a lot of compute for a guy who said he's just a gamer... I'm going to need to see your compute license."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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2 years

mindblowing interview between @pmarca and @jordanbpeterson on shape rotators 🤯 (sound on)

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Patrick Blumenthal

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10 months

"Does....Barbie....love.....Ken?"

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

The Year is 2029. Police Departments around the US organize "Compute Buybacks", offering $500 for every unregistered device with computing power, as a way of reducing AGI risk. They post pictures like this to social media to advertise the success of their program.

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

7 months

professors blindly swearing by an overpriced, broken tool to detect ChatGPT might be the best metaphor for higher education i've ever seen

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i fucking hate being a student in the modern age

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Patrick Blumenthal

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FT 1908: Ford Model T runs out of fuel after several hours of driving, horse breeders not worried.

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SpaceX loses Starship rocket as it returns to Earth

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Patrick Blumenthal

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11 months

If I don't receive access to the GPT-4-32K within 48 hours, I will release this database of unregistered GPU clusters. I am not legally responsible for any arrests or air strikes that follow.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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28 days

Anduril Japan Recruiting Ad, 2025.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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11 months

POV: you're at a tech week event full of contrarian investors who back founders at the earliest stage in frontier industries

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

4 months

Just made EpsteinGPT to talk to these docs.

Joseph Cox

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4 months

Download the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents here: For sake of public access, we've downloaded the docs and put them onto 404 Media as a .zip for you to download for free, no need to pay the US court system

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2029 — The Compute Enforcement Administration (CEA) announces a record seizure of 1750 teraflops of unregistered compute. "Compute like this isn't for streaming cat videos—it's a weapon," said Agent Yudkowsky. "We're fighting a war against digital fentanyl, and today, we won."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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11 months

"sir, another startup just raised $250M to build foundation AI models"

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Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

7 months

[PARODY] 2026 — The Compute Enforcement Agency (CEA) announces a key blow against the e/acc terrorists, killing leader Martin Shkreli and others in a precision airstrike. "The CEA will stop at nothing to ensure the survival of human civilization" said CEA Director Yudkowsky.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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> be me, living in the year 2030 > feels like a sci-fi movie but with more ads > get a call on my Neuralink > voice says, "ah, wrong brainwave frequency, my bad bro" > go back to watching Fast and Furious XXIV on VR Netflix > 2 seconds later, get a notification > "Voice ID…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

Eternal Leader Joseph Biden gave a speech to the Space Force crew before the carrier's maiden voyage: "Folks, standing here today, with the crew, you know, it takes me back. Back to '83, there was this sailor I met, sharp as a tack, in Wilmington. His name was Timmy, or Tony,…

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@PatrickJBlum

4 months

2034—The USS Joseph Biden, the first interstellar Aircraft carrier, takes its maiden voyage. It will undergo final testing at Fort Pluto before being sent to Alpha Centauri.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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3 months

dropping this shirt later this month, who wants one? 👀 each one comes blessed by a shinto priest

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

Deliberate review process... what does that mean? 'he wasn't consistently candid'—who's saying that? He prevented you from exercising your responsibilities—which responsibilities?

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

hey we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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10 months

Taking one last look at Lex's Twitter feed before he blocks me for this

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Anduril is now making giant fucking autonomous submarines. We're so back. Full Article: First Ghost Shark Debuts in Australia - On Schedule & On Budget Anduril, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and Defence Science and…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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2028—Tesla soldiers escort SpaceX rockets to their launchpad. Two rockets have been lost in the past year to Effective Altruist RPG attacks (It was later revealed that Blue Origin had funded the group behind the attacks).

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1 year

probably nothing

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Patrick Blumenthal

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6 months

@tszzl "Their new hires can make eye contact? I want you to dump all of my OpenAI stock. Now."

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5 months

Blackhawk Down 2 is going to be about a Waymo that gets stuck in the Tenderloin at midnight

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

EpsteinGPT has been officially banned. Why?

Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

Just made EpsteinGPT to talk to these docs.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

So many of these YC companies are default dead because of recent announcements. Makes me wonder why they were accepted into YC in the first place? Did OpenAI just not realize how successful ChatGPT was going to be, and are now reactively expanding their ambitions?

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

I gave DALLE a plot of land and kept asking it to design a city with fewer and fewer regulations

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

"Why would I pay a 15x multiple on an asteroid mining belt when I can get a Mars mining colony for 2x? Call me back when you have a serious offer."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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2 months

Happy White Pill Wednesday. We’re all going to make it.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

Can you convince Eliezer Yudkowsky to sell you a GPU cluster? Test your AI Safety Knowledge:

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Patrick Blumenthal

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10 months

@WonkaMovie

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Patrick Blumenthal

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6 months

Took this photo yesterday from my hotel in San Francisco. This entire spaceport was constructed in the last 72 hours, ahead of Xi Jinping's visit. All we needed this whole time was just political will.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

@TalkingTerabyte wait what does gooning mean

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Patrick Blumenthal

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3 months

"The stagnation has ceased, and the men are reading your works again, Philodemus. But you are not here to see it."

Nat Friedman

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3 months

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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3 months

@rmcentush In at 580 likes.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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6 months

In 1988, The U.S. Navy destroyed half of Iran's Navy in under 8 hours. A Soviet vessel was nearby. When asked its intentions, the Soviet captain replied, "I want to take pictures for history."

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

"HQ, we got him—Beff is dead. I repeat, Beff is dead. Let's go home." "WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT"

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Patrick Blumenthal

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"Tucker, I will explain to you the roots of Harry Potter." "You mean J.K. Rowling's story?" "No, I must begin with Plato's Allegory of the Cave which is the foundational myth behind Harry Potter's start within the Dursleys' cupboard under the stairs. We will then touch on the…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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4 months

@shahkartik24 I think it could perform pretty well without the hot air balloon and pyramids, no?

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Patrick Blumenthal

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7 months

A thought worth considering—You can simultaneously believe he's not completely innocent, but doesn't deserve to die in prison (and would very useful to society if he was given a second chance). Also, posting this excerpt again since many people are not reading the full post.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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5 months

to my new followers—this is a JOKE and a vision of the future

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Patrick Blumenthal

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9 months

A new venture fund called Uplift Ventures just announced the launch of their 1 Trillion Dollar Fund II. Their Fund I investments include LK-99, OpenAI, Helion Fusion, and most recently, small molecule cancer drugs. They invest in the Type 0 to 1 civilization stage.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

this is the future of software development and no one can tell me otherwise

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4 months

"Let's be quick. Every hour of acceleration in San Francisco is 7 years in any other city."

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"Why don't you reveal yourself Beff, and tell us your real name? My boy insists you are Sam Altman." "My name is Guillaume Verdon, commander of the e/acc Legion, former Google quantum engineer, and founder of Extropic. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

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"Come on Bryce, there are more important problems than Climate Change to worry about." "Like what?" "We have to strike Article 9 from the Japanese Constitution to allow for collective self-defense, and equip the JSDF with long-range standoff missiles to deter an invasion of…

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we need to be recording every WW2 vet’s story

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@BrianEntin most impressive thing about this is that he's only 5 feet tall

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4 months

Follow me for more fun facts about the military-industrial complex

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2029—Space Force Marines charge at a SpaceX base on Mars after Technoking Elon Musk declares independence from Earth.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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Space Force Ad seen on the Andromeda Space Station, 2053 AD

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

"There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the economic and cultural effects that AI will have on American society in the coming decades. My contention is that AI will enable the most important century—"

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Patrick Blumenthal

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MAY 2028—Martin Shkreli is arrested by the FBI for the unlawful purchase and distribution of 75 Nvidia A100 GPUs, after being tipped off by a confidential informant within the Milady community. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 743 years.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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Most people don't know that Jeff Bezos would end each work day by making an Amazon delivery. By the time he stepped down as CEO, he had made 7,300 deliveries throughout Seattle. He used the commission from those deliveries to fund the first Blue Origin launch.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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Of course you think Sam getting fired is a good thing for humanity. You watched Terminator as a kid and you just finished reading Yud's AGI Ruin manifesto. You're gonna be convinced of that until you read an Oxford paper that says the bigger threat is AI taking our jobs.

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Patrick Blumenthal

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The EU has completed their AI innovation plan that will ensure their leading role in the creation of AI. The plan comprises of the following goals: - Minecraft Standard: To mitigate the risk of AGI, every graphics card capable of running Minecraft will immediately be seized and…

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Patrick Blumenthal

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1 year

OpenAI's new Code Interpreter model is incredible for data visualization. I fed it an unpolished dataset of UFO sightings and it generated a fully-functioning HTML heat map for me. Here's a static version (it easily lets me create as many versions as I want)

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