It’s always nice and cool to see things from the sidelines, but only founders will understand how much action there is behind the scenes. Every day is a new adventure.
And despite others telling me: “Ozzy, you need to slow down a bit” - I never did. Never slowed down, because I thought slowing down would somehow make the markets vanish. And that’s a wrong mindset to have, but in my mind it is and was like that.
2 months in, and I’m really starting to feel the weights pushing on me. From a health perspective I don’t think I’ve ever been this low.
I love my j*b and I love doing what I do. But I need to prepare for the bullrun here and that means I need to be in shape.
So if there are any health experts here with some good advice, please feel free to lmk what you think.
Sleep: 5-7hrs for the most part
exercise: Absence for 2 months
Sup stack: L-Theanine, Magnesium Biglycinate, KSM-66, grape seed extract, probiotics (This is my anti stress stack)
Usually I am all in on creatine, L-Carnitine, Magnesium complex, L-Theanine, Berberine+Chromium, Turmeric and Maca roots (Gym stack)
Right now pretty much dealing with overeating, light hair loss, stress, had PACs/PVCs (probs physical causes bc of sleeping on side etc) and panic attacks
Any advice? Really wanna make sure I’m doing good on and offchain.
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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