Elon-Sam Rivalry Next Chapter > Sam hints OpenAI has... self driving tech > that can be deployed to standard cars Looks like a pincer move to destabilize Tesla's soaring stock, and reduce ability to fundraise off the upcoming FSD launch Titanic..,.show more

NEWS: Tesla's fleet has now driven 12 billion miles... on Full Self-Driving The count passed 12 billion this week, just a month after hitting 11 billion on June 9. About 4.5 billion of those miles were on city streets. The pace is speeding up fast. The fleet now adds around 30 million miles a day, up from 14 million a day at the start of the year. Each new billion is arriving quicker than the last. Why this number matters. Elon Musk has said Tesla needs roughly 10 billion miles of real driving data to make self-driving safe enough to run unsupervised. The fleet is now well past that and the data trains the system to handle rare, tricky situations. Tesla's own safety report says cars on FSD have one major crash every 5.3 million miles, versus one every 660,000 for the average US driver. FSD is still a supervised system. The driver has to stay attentive and ready to take over. (Source: Tesla FSD Safety Report, July 17)show more

Sam Seder said he wanted to go up to... me and be like ‘you realize what Xenophobia means right?’ Yeah I just don’t care lol. Someone like Sam thinks it’s ’Xenophobic’ to even have a border. I’ll call myself the mean name first so that we can get to an actual conversationshow more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “AI will most likely lead... to the end of the world but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” This is the most honest thing a tech billionaire has ever said and sums up the fatal flaw with capitalism: 𝐈𝐭 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.show more

Sam Altman explains biology's intelligence bottleneck: understanding a discovery... is far easier than making one "We are not that smart and biology is enormously complex." "We can imagine kind of anything." "We can have someone explain enormously complex things to us and then we can get it." "But to discover these things requires a lot of brain power." That is the hidden health AI bet. The breakthrough is not another chatbot that can summarize known medicine. It is enough machine intelligence to search biology's enormous possibility space for discoveries humans have not made. Medicine has no shortage of explanations. It has a discovery bottleneck. If models can supply the missing brain power, the highest-value output will not be answers. It will be new biological knowledge. - Sam Altman (Sam Altman), CEO of OpenAI, on CNNshow more

#ONEPIECE1160 We all know “16” is connected to Imu.... I fear this next chapter is going to be even sadder than the last two. I want Xebec to still be alive, but I feel like Oda is about to give him a send off that might be even greater than Roger’s and Whitebeard’s 😢show more

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk indicates he's SUING Rep. Ro... Khanna (D) after Khanna said Elon needs to answer for '4.5 million kids dying' because of DOGE cuts ELON: "Time to sue this liar." "The reality is that money was being sent to corrupt politicians under the guise of aid! Liars and stock insider traders like Ro the Robber should be in prison!!" "The standard applied by DOGE was very simple and easy: Provide contact information for the recipients of aid, so that we can confirm it is not fraudulent." Wow! Elon Musk is going MAXIMUM FAFO MODE!show more

.28 seconds reaction time. With the click of a... button you’ll be able to automatically create a video that measures FSD’s reaction time using CamCutApp. Probably my favorite feature One area where I’d like to see FSD improve: recognizing high-occlusion environments. Densely parked cars next to hidden driveways create situations where a vehicle can suddenly appear with little warning for either driver. Tesla AIshow more

Tesla FSD hits differently when you stop looking at... it like a gadget and start looking at it like accessibility. For people living with disabilities, chronic pain, or mobility limitations, reducing the physical demand of driving can completely change what daily life feels like. More energy. More independence. More freedom to move around normally. That’s way bigger than “car tech.” It’s life-changing. Teslashow more

A Tesla on Full Self-Driving blows through a stop... sign at 35mph and nearly collides with two cars. The kicker is that this was during a livestream debate-demo-drive between FSD fan Ross Gerber and FSD skeptic Dan O'Dowd. This should go without saying, but for an automated system to be at the safety level of a human, this cannot happen. The fact that this occurred yesterday during THIS drive (along with other safety-critical disengagements) should serve as statistical evidence of how frequent this is occurring. IMO, this is the biggest nail in the Tesla FSD coffin.show more

Ronan Farrow just did to Sam Altman what he... did to Harvey Weinstein... The New Yorker dropped an 18-month investigation this morning based on 100+ interviews and a stack of internal documents that were never supposed to leave OpenAI. Ilya's secret memos, Dario Amodei's private journal. Board communications, the full picture of who Sam Altman is when the cameras are off. And the pattern starts way before OpenAI. At his first startup Loopt, senior employees went to the board and asked them to fire Sam as CEO. This happened twice, over concerns about leadership and transparency. He left, joined Y Combinator, and the same thing played out. Partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior. Graham's private take to colleagues: Sam had been lying to us all the time. Nobody removed him, he kept getting promoted. Eventually he landed the CEO seat at what is now the most consequential AI company in the world. Inside OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever spent months compiling evidence: 70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones because employees knew company devices were being monitored. He sent everything to the board as disappearing messages so Sam couldn't make it go away. The very first line of his memo lists Sam's core pattern, and the first word on that list is: Lying Dario Amodei saw the same thing and handled it differently. He kept a private journal for years, over 200 pages, titled "My Experience with OpenAI" with a subheading that said "Private: Do Not Share" After all those pages, his conclusion was one sentence: the problem with OpenAI is Sam himself. He eventually left and built Anthropic. 2 of the smartest people in AI independently reached the same verdict. Neither could stop what was happening. The superalignment team, the group responsible for making sure AI doesn't go off the rails, was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute. 4 people who worked on or with the team told The New Yorker the real number was 1-2%, running on the oldest cluster with the worst hardware. The team got dissolved before finishing its work. Safety was a talking point, not a priority. Sam told the board that a safety panel had approved controversial features in GPT-4. When board member Helen Toner asked for the documentation, it turned out the most sensitive features had never been approved at all. Separately, Microsoft released an early version of ChatGPT in India without completing a required safety review and Sam never mentioned it to the board. When the board finally fired him in November 2023, he texted Satya Nadella directly with his own replacement board lineup. Thrive Capital put its planned $86B investment on hold and signaled it would only close if Sam came back, giving every OpenAI employee a financial reason to support his return. The 2 board members selected to run the "independent investigation" into Sam's conduct were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself. He engineered his own reinstatement and nobody blinked. The New Yorker quotes a board member describing Sam as having two traits you almost never see in the same person: a desperate need to be liked in every interaction, and a near-complete indifference to the consequences of deceiving someone. Multiple sources used the word "sociopathic" without being prompted and without talking to each other. The article also drops a line that might be the best summary of the whole thing. They compare Sam to Steve Jobs and his famous "reality distortion field" then point out that even Jobs never told his customers that if they didn't buy his MP3 player, everyone they loved would die. Sam wrapped that exact pitch in the language of AI safety and rode it to a potential $1T IPO. That IPO is being prepared right now, while OpenAI signs government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons deployed in active war zones. Meanwhile, The Information reports that his own CFO told colleagues she doesn't believe the company is ready to go public in 2026. Farrow is answering questions on Hacker News right now. The full piece is open access. Read it before Sam figures out how to make this disappear tooshow more

Looks like I got caught on GT 7 Pro... while prepping my speech for tomorrow's AI Strategy Launch Event! But wow, check this out—its AI Zoom Ultra Clarity is no joke! How can a shot from that far away be so crystal clear? I might need to watch my back! #DarkHorseofAIshow more

That’s why using Tails OS, Whonix, or Kodachi (this... looks like it might be the one- can anyone recognize the interface?) with automated data self-destruction is always a smart move… In the footage, two police officers can be seen “working” on the suspect’s computer. One pulls out a flash drive and plugs it in, only for the data to start self-destructing and wipe everything… As reported, the suspected owner of the deep-web marketplace escaped punishment thanks to a police officer’s mistake and was recently released.show more

FSD literally saved my life and my wife’s tonight.... Watch carefully - a car suddenly races in and merges into our lane with almost zero gap at highway speed. On the footage it’s hard to tell just how close it was, but in that exact moment me and my wife both thought “there’s no way a human could react fast enough.” FSD did. In milliseconds it calculated the distance to our front bumper and instantly slowed down perfectly, leaving safe room. Slow-mo shows exactly how razor-close it was. This wasn’t a minor correction… this was a massive accident avoided because of Full Self-Driving. This is why we trust Full Self-Driving with our family. Thank you, Tesla . This tech is next level.show more