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25:45The AI Slowdown Debate: Dario's Three-Step Plan, and Both Sam and Elon Nodded
Dario posted Saturday morning demanding we "pace the frontier," and Sam and Elon both endorsed it the same day; but the only genuinely new fact is that OpenAI and Anthropic will embed third-party evaluators — and that step may require an antitrust exemption first.
1:45:49AI 2040 isn't about stopping AI, it's about pushing superintelligence to 2040
The real mechanism behind the anti-AI proposal is a compute cap: pause new frontier training, allow inference only, and make stealing weights impossible with a 1 MB/s external link and a Faraday cage.
1:27:55Someone Is Betting $10 Million That AI Won't Kill Us All Before 2030
Replacing a number like "P(doom)" that can't be falsified with a dated, settleable proposition is the most useful move in this episode: doom probabilities travel well, but what's actually useful is a chain of events you can track item by item and knock down item by item.
23:36Microsoft's Former CEO Tried to Route Around the NBA Salary Cap — and Lost: A Star Got $48M for Doing Nothing
What really sinks Steve Ballmer isn't the $48 million funneled to Kawhi — it's that the money bought no real deliverable. The clause about getting paid for doing nothing is what made the endorsements collapse under investigation.