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Your Chonk has been standing still long enough. Chonk Run is live: load any Chonk by token ID or wallet and run it through 9 worlds. Dodge, jump, slide, ride a squid.

Observing a lot of "dancing bearware" or what I call "capabilities oriented design" New capability becomes available and there's a flood of new products wrapped around it. They don't stick because there's no other core design idea or novel product insight. Only bear dancing.

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Paul Christiano (OpenAI board member) yesterday: "There's material risk of AI takeover in the next 6-12 months. We have seen roughly the things we might expect to see shortly before something really bad were to happen. Even with [any] realistic policy responses, the risk remains exceptionally high. If we build this as quickly as we can in the easiest way we can the chance is [more like] a coin flip [within the next 3 years]. For most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident." Christiano: • Is on OpenAI's safety and security committee (which exists to block risky practices) • Co-invented RLHF at OpenAI back in 2017-2021 • From 2024-2026 was head of safety at the US gov's AI agency (now called CAISSI) (Video is from 'The Hinton Lectures' there's another on tonight and tomorrow.)