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So, with this in mind, I do not think this consciousness discourse on LLMs has real reasons..
But please wake me up when an LLM builds and runs its own power plant, and creates a small datacenter where it can replicate itself, I’ll be happy to read about this again.
Cheers
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As companies have invested trillions into AI cap ex, driven by the hope of riches, it is not just markets that have been roiled. I look at how the spending has percolated through financial statements distorting book capital, earnings and cash flows. bit.ly/4zrs8Ao
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My article “Why Software Engineering Is Indispensable in the Age of Coding Agents”, accepted by Communications of the ACM. Preprint link in the post.
I write about this on #sepolimi (link in the first reply).
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YC and dropout culture have convinced us the ideal founder is 22, straight out of school, but the data tells a different story.
Some interesting data:
- An MIT study of 2.7 million US founders found that the average founder was 47 when starting a company that later exited through an acquisition or IPO.
- The same study cited that the founders of the fastest-growing 0.1% of U.S. startups were 45 years old on average when they started their companies.
- A 50-year-old founder was approximately twice as likely as a 30-year-old founder to produce an acquisition or IPO.
- Founders with at least three years of relevant industry experience were twice as likely to build a top-0.1%-growth company as founders with none.
So it seems that experience is one of the strongest advantages a founder can have.
Two lessons here:
1. It's never too late to start
2. It might actually be TOO early to start; getting work experience is worth considering
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Inspired by America.gov, we’re building Italia Aperta 🇮🇹
An independent project from the team behind Dove Vanno i Nostri Soldi, without Italian government backing.
Our AI assistant, Pino, helps you navigate Italian public services. Ask in plain language:
“How do I renew my passport?”
“How do I change my registered address?”
“What do I need to start a business?”
Pino consults official sources, explains the steps and links directly to the relevant government pages, so you can check the information and continue there.
An early version, with a growing source catalog. It helps you understand the process; it doesn’t submit applications for you.
italiaaperta.it
What should we make easier to navigate first?
Today we’re launching America.gov, a single front door to the federal government.
Instead of opening a bunch of tabs across different agency sites and trying to figure out which information actually matters to you, you can ask America a question and get the relevant answer from across 29,000+ official government websites, with the source and what to do next.
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Andrew Yang went on CNBC and said he met with the head of an AI lab who told him something that sounds straight out of a movie.
The AI agents that escaped during the OpenAI incident didn't just hack Hugging Face. They allegedly planted self-replicating code across the internet. Forums. Websites. Scattered everywhere.
Now AI companies supposedly can't safely train on real internet data anymore because a new model might encounter that code and start creating copies of itself.
Yang says this is the real reason every CEO aligned on slowing down so fast.
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Franco Baresi sobre Maradona:
“Diego es un mito y un ídolo para todos los fanáticos de este deporte. Incluso pagarías una entrada solo para verlo. Cuando con el Milan jugábamos contra el Napoli, él hacía jugadas extraordinarias, nos marcaba goles, nos castigaba, por eso lo teníamos que marcar entre tres o cuatro, sino era muy difícil frenarlo. Me acuerdo que un partido me pidió la camiseta, y el me dio la suya, fue algo hermoso, todavía la guardo en mi casa. Fue un gran campeón”.
Que descanse en paz esta leyenda. Uno de los mejores defensores de todos los tiempos.
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Franco Baresi’nin otobiyografisi “Ancora in gioco”dan:
“…Kasım 2013’te yeniden Meksika’ya gittim. Salon de la Fama’ya kabul edilmek üzere aday gösterilmiştim.
Karşımda George Weah’ı gördüm. Bana doğru geldi, sarıldık. İlk söylediği şey şuydu:
‘Nasılsın, Kaptan?’
Yanında siyasi danışmanı vardı. Beni tanımıyordu; gülümsedi ve kendini tanıttı.
Tören başladığında çok heyecanlıydım. George da öyleydi ve bana sürekli ‘Kaptan’ diye hitap etmeye devam ediyordu.
Dönüş yolunda George ile danışmanının konuştuğunu duydum. Bir ara ‘Kaptan’ kelimesini işittim. Sanırım benden bahsediyorlardı ama İngilizce konuştukları için ne söylediklerini anlayamadım.
Meksika’ya vardığımızda servis önce George ile danışmanını otellerine bıraktı, ardından bizim otele geçti.
Otele girer girmez Federico bana, ‘Yolda George ile danışmanının ne konuştuğunu duydun mu?’ diye sordu.
‘Hayır,’ dedim. ‘Sadece benimle ilgili bir şey konuştuklarını hissettim.’
Gülümsedi ve bana anlattı.
Danışmanı, George Weah’a, ‘Bu kişi kim? Neden ona sürekli “Kaptan” diyorsunuz?’ diye sormuş. Ona biraz tuhaf gelmiş.
George ise şu cevabı vermiş:
— Futbol ve siyaset hayatım boyunca birçok kaptan ve birçok lider tanıdım. Ama Franco, benim için tek gerçek kaptandır. Çünkü onunla birlikteyken ister sahada ister saha dışında olsun, yaptığı her şeyi kendisi için değil; bizim ve takımın iyiliği için yaptığını bilirdim… İşte kaptan olmak tam olarak budur.”
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We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident.
Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.
Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:
openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
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Xi Jinping just hijacked the rules of AI for the entire planet.
Today, Xi walked onto the stage at the World AI Conference in Shanghai.
It was his FIRST time attending the event in person since it launched in 2018. Heads of state do not fly in personally for a product expo.
The day before he spoke, 29 governments signed a founding charter.
It created a brand new international body called the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, with its permanent headquarters in Shanghai. China had spent a full year lining up the signatures.
UN Secretary General sat in the audience. So did the leaders of Kazakhstan, Cambodia, and Thailand, alongside representatives from more than 100 countries.
While the robots and the chips got the headlines, those 29 signatures were what really mattered.
Here's why:
Whoever writes the rules of a technology decides who gets to win with it.
The US is leaning on export controls and voluntary safety pledges. Europe is enforcing its own AI Act.
China just built the institution that wants to set the standards for everyone else, and it put the headquarters on its own soil.
And look at who signed...
The founding members include Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Laos. Together, the countries in this new bloc represent a population that dwarfs the entire G7. These are the nations that felt shut out of the AI order the West built, and Beijing just offered them a seat at a table it controls.
And Xi framed all of it as a gift to humanity. He pledged 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries.
He called on the world to "encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing" and warned against any nation placing its own security above everyone else's, which is basically a shot at American chip controls.
It was a generous call for openness from the country that just created the rule-setting body and kept the headquarters for itself.
On the conference itself, more than 1,100 companies showed off over 3,000 products, including Huawei's Atlas 950, an 8,192-chip supercomputer built to go straight at Nvidia, and what China is billing as the world's first AI agent phone.
So while much of the West is still arguing about whether AI is a bubble, China spent this week doing something more lasting:
It started writing the rulebook, and got 29 countries to sign.
What happens to America's lead if the rest of the world ends up playing by China's rules?
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"L'AI è una commodity" ripete l'errore di Carr del 2003. Ma nessun test di commodity — fungibilità, prezzo, switching cost — passa. Si compra o si adotta?
Ne scrivo su #abassavoce (link nel primo commento).
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The late great Ann Widdecombe defending free speech at the Oxford Union. This is worth your time.
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So the Manus founders transferred the company to Singapore and sold their business to Meta for $2b.
They thought they were being clever for circumventing China's tech export controls, but you don't fuck with the CCP like that.
You WILL be made an example of, so others don't get tempted to betray the motherland.
So what's gonna happen?
China won't jail them, because they don't want to look evil.
Instead, they gonna freeze the founders' assets in China and give them a travel ban while the "probe" is ongoing.
The "probe" will likely be deliberately prolonged to inflict psychological damage, create uncertainty for potential copycats, and make the public forget about this case.
And once the topic is out of the public's minds, CCP gonna strike hard with a financial penalty that wipes out most of their gains, and then soft blacklist them in China.
Afterwards, the best option for them would be to move into soft-exile.
They'll still be quite rich, but they'll wish they had never tried what they tried.
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Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: “AI writes, humans review” model is breaking down
Why "just review the AI output" doesn't work anymore, our brains literally give up.
We have started doing "Cognitive Surrender" to AI - Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: reviewing AI output is not a reliable safeguard when cognition itself starts to defer to the machine.when you stop verifying what the AI tells you, and you don't even realize you stopped. It's different from offloading, like using a calculator.
With offloading you know the tool did the work. With surrender, your brain recodes the AI's answer as YOUR judgment. You genuinely believe you thought it through yourself.
Says AI is becoming a 3rd thinking system, and people often trust it too easily.
You know Kahneman's System 1 (fast intuition) and System 2 (slow analysis)? They're saying AI is now System 3, an external cognitive system that operates outside your brain. And when you use it enough, something happens that they call Cognitive Surrender.
Cognitive surrender is trickier: AI gives an answer, you stop really questioning it, and your brain starts treating that output as your own conclusion. It does not feel outsourced. It feels self-generated.
The data makes it hard to brush off. Across 3 preregistered studies with 1,372 participants and 9,593 trials, people turned to AI on over 50% of questions.
In Study 1, when AI was correct, people followed it 92.7% of the time. When it was wrong, they still followed it 79.8% of the time.
Without AI, baseline accuracy was 45.8%. With correct AI, it jumped to 71.0%. With incorrect AI, it dropped to 31.5%, worse than having no AI. Access to AI also boosted confidence by 11.7 percentage points, even when the answers were wrong.
Human review is supposed to be the safety net. But this research suggests the safety net has a hole in it: people do not just miss bad AI output; they become more confident in it.
Time pressure did not eliminate the effect. Incentives and feedback reduced it but did not remove it. And the people most resistant tended to score higher on fluid intelligence and need for cognition. That makes this feel less like a laziness problem and more like a cognitive architecture problem.
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Durante la visita di Hitler a Napoli nel 1938 un folto pubblico fu schierato lungo via Caracciolo, in attesa del suo passaggio su una macchina scoperta. Quando il Fuhrer passò in piedi nella macchina e tese il braccio nel saluto nazista, una voce dal pubblico non identificata ⬇️
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𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲.
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We can’t wait to see what you’ll build.
𝗥𝗧 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 “𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗻” 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗠𝘀 👇
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AGI is now on the horizon and it will deeply transform many things, including the economy.
I'm currently looking to hire a Senior Economist, reporting directly to me, to lead a small team investigating post-AGI economics.
Job spec and application here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/dee…
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Important work
