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Matt Laroo retweeted
Genuinely don’t understand how people can see the quite literally retarded ideas that these socialists try to pass and hear every expert in their field explicitly state that their ideas are catastrophically retarded and then people continue to vote them into power anyways.
Matt Laroo retweeted
Grok Bot is growing at an absolutely insane pace
Daily active users have increased for 16 consecutive days, marking its longest growth streak since launch
Here's how fast it's growing:
• Under 100K daily active users in early September
• Over 600K daily active users by October 26
• More than 6X growth in less than two months
And this is only the beginning
Matt Laroo retweeted
democrats: if we take power we will seize elon musk's companies and put him in prison and no, we do not care if he technically committed any crime or not
also democrats, somehow: why is elon musk funding republicans?
Matt Laroo retweeted
not only am i not worried about the crypto community's ability to handle the upcoming ai/quantum threat, i will venture to say that in the next 2 yrs the world will realize crypto is far better prepared for it than the rest of the internet and finance. we've had a trillion dollar *irreversible* honey pot for a decade, producing a far more battletested system and adversarial security culture than pretty much anywhere else on earth.
Matt Laroo retweeted
You don't value the Freedom of Speech enough. You think you do, but you don't. France is about to censor the Internet as everything goes down. Get Starlink, get a VPN, pray Elon holds the line with X. Don't let yourself be censored. Don't let your voice be silenced.
Just in: France's Prime Minister asked telecom companies to prepare to block social media platforms. "I wish to have the ability to temporarily suspend access to these services in case of a repeat of urban violence," he wrote. @blast news broke the story.
Matt Laroo retweeted
Stuart Varney: What is this Grok @Bot? You use it.
Phil Rosen: I am using it.
@Varneyco: Who puts it out? What does it do?
Rosen: This is @elonmusk’s frontier lab. I will share personally, I was on Claude for the last year or so, and I would use Claude, ChatGPT, and a little bit of Muse in the last few weeks. Since I started to use Grok Bot this month, I have essentially cut all my other AI tools.
Varney: What's so good about it?
@philrosenn: It's essentially your own staff of AI agents. You can have a chief of staff agent managing your other AI agents, which, again, I get it, sounds a little ridiculous, and I tell my friends and my parents this and they don't understand, and I have to walk them through it on a Zoom call. I use Grok Bot for a lot of content creation now. I use it for some fact-checking stuff, some editing, research. I use it for helping me with my calendar.
Matt Laroo retweeted
There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.
Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.
The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.
Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.
Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Matt Laroo retweeted
I think we can all finally agree on one thing:
Grok Bot is the best cloud agent ever.
Genius tech.
Matt Laroo retweeted
Couldn’t your doctor do the same?
Matt Laroo retweeted
Let me redo the headline for you @nytimes:
“Criminals loot Paris, beat police and light monuments on fire.
Subhead:
“Citizens are deeply concerned and scared for their personal safety. Election odds predictably swing to law-and-order candidates on prediction markets.”
Matt Laroo retweeted
The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.
Matt Laroo retweeted
I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
Matt Laroo retweeted
Next biddable levels, imo:
BTC 79K
ZEC 800
VVV 20
I expect all 3 to 4-5x from those levels within next 18 months. But gotta let this current flush play out first
Matt Laroo retweeted
shout out to the guys still running universal basic income experiments to figure out what people will do with free money from the government as if we don’t have like 100 years of welfare data, and as if that answer isn’t basically just: rot, demand more free shit, crime
Matt Laroo retweeted
The thing that AI hating creatives (artists, game devs, etc.) don't understand is that their AI hatred is based largely around signaling to their peers their AI hatred. They have built an identity in-group based around violent repulsion of AI.
What will happen (and is happening) is that people will begin using AI tools and lying about using it (they already are) and the ones who remain steadfast viscerally hating will be completely left behind while the entire world moves on. All they will be left with is their hatred, and their "in-group" will have fallen apart because eventually everyone will fail the purity test as the reality of life kicks in and people just create with the tools they have available to them.
TLDR: Don't waste the energy hating if you're a creative. Create. There's no value signaling hatred to your peers. They don't even care about you at the end of the day. Use this time to use the tools and create instead. You will regret it if you don't and be left behind anyways.
Matt Laroo retweeted
Crying in baseball is allowed today. This was a perfect exit for future first ballot Hall of Famer Justin Verlander. So awesome.
Matt Laroo retweeted
A lot of people are in for a rude awakening over the next few years.
Many people mistakenly still believe that AI is still just a novelty chat toy or a new type of Google search. Those of us on the frontlines are seeing what is possible and where things are going. You need to adapt. I beg you: please do not allow your ego to get in the way. Do not make your vocation your central identity. Things are going to change radically and quickly.
God gave you talents. You have a responsibility to cultivate them. AI doesn't replace your calling, your discernment, or your willingness to work. When used well AI can help you apply your gifts at a scale that was previously out of reach, but only if you don't let your ego get in the way and remain stuck in the past.
A small business can accomplish more without a massive budget. A parent can spend less time on busywork and more time with the children. Someone with an idea can build what they once could only imagine.
You don’t need to worship the technology, but you also don’t need to fear it either. You need to understand it and put it to work in service of things that matter.
Be humble enough to learn.
Be disciplined enough to practice.
The promise and vision that we have for AI is to get more of your life back and do something worthy with it.
Lean into that.
Matt Laroo retweeted
I've figured out what annoys me about this. This whole attitude is telling us that everything is hopeless.
I'm a problem solver. Most engineers are. When there is a new risk in the world, we don't throw up our hands and cry, we take a deep breath, assess the new risk, work to understand and mitigate it. Most problems can be solved or at least managed.
The attitude here is not "here's a new risk for you to mitigate". It is "you can't possibly mitigate the upcoming risk". They are trying to communicate that you are forever helpless.
That's why they get annoyed when people come up with reasonable solutions to their thought experiment problems. Their point is not to accurately describe new risks. Their point is to tell you that things are hopeless and you can't possibly solve this problem.
I'm sorry, but that is loser talk. If they truly believe they are in the business of creating a technology that will endlessly invent new and novel risks for normal people and businesses, that is no different than spraying toxic waste all over the town square and then telling the people who try to clean it up that their task is hopeless b/c they're just going to spray more toxic waste in the town square tomorrow. It's deeply anti-social and I'm sick of it.
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change
"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."
"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."
"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."
"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."
"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…