How does any president have the ability to spend a trillion dollars on anything without congressional action?

12 yo dreamed he was playing Soviet Animal Crossing. The houses were all the same and the villagers wore gray clothes and talked like Trololo. The town hall however was huge and decorated with banners, and Tom Nook was standing outside haranguing a crowd from a podium.

I had a question about something in the talk I'm writing. The talk is tomorrow, but I knew if I asked Ron Conway he'd reply tonight. I was going to tweet predicting this, but he replied before I could.

This bill requires developers of large AI models to have 'the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown' and 'prevent an individual from being able to use the model to create a derivative model that was used to cause a critical harm'. Impossible requirements for open source.

I posted a domain-name site last week that Jonas Templestein, my cofounder from Monzo 🏦, built.

The site earned $4200 over the weekend.

The catch? It was all built by an AI agent.

Although I retweeted this because it's interesting, I wouldn't let it deter you from going to an Ivy League school if you can. At most these managers are looking to avoid a particular type of Ivy League student. If you're not that type, this won't affect you.

New study shows that, in Finland and Norway, the relationship between cognitive ability and income becomes *steeper* in the tail of the distribution. This is contrary to common assertions that ability stops mattering at some moderate threshold.

What a nice idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually possible too.

What a beautiful plane. A succes d'estime commercially perhaps, but no other airliner beats the Comet for looks.

.“The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you’re lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it’s at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my…

This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded (paulgraham.com/mod.html), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.

This might be the most serious tweet I have ever sent:

Last night at the @WHCA dinner, I spoke privately with 4 members of Congress: 2 Dems and 2 GOPers. All 4 are big foreign policy players and all 4 are strongly pro-Israel in every way.

However… All 4 spoke with significant…

I'm told there are over 3000 people on the waiting list for my talk on Tuesday, and the venue only holds 180. Since we don't want to disappoint anyone, I'm going to give another talk later this year at a bigger venue.

Untrue. This does touch on something related that actually happened, which people have apparently distorted and used to prop up the dumb conspiracy theory. I will explain… 1/N

'Israel is making a concerted effort to head off feared plans by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against PM Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials,' reportedly for having “deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza.” timesofisrael.com/israel-working…

One of Jessica's favorite pictures: my high school chess club. I'm standing on the left. One of these guys went on to become a professional chess player. (The one looking at the board instead of the camera.)

The manufacture of precision instruments long preceded the Industrial Revolution.