Jacques @JacquesThibs
Alternatively, I could see people thinking AIs are improving more than they are simply because they don't understand any of it, but continue to rely on number-go-up and not realizing the models are solving specific sorts of problems with specifically limited cognitive moves.
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Jacques @JacquesThibs · 48m
In practice I expect both of these to be true. It's clear that tons of people have a difficult time imagining hard problems.
It's also funny when people say, "I don't need GPT-6, I just need open-weight GPT-5.6 Sol and I'm forever good." Admitting you aren't hitting an [Show more]
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Nathan Helm-B... @nathan8468... · 11s
Not only that you've hit an intelligence ceiling but also an imagination ceiling. You are failing to imagine what a smarter entity could do for you that the current ones can't.
Rough.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Continuation of the Jacques Thibodeau (@JacquesThibs) thread about AI capability perception, in which Nathan Helm-Burger (@nathan8468..., the archive owner) replies noting that people who think current open-weight models are 'forever good enough' are hitting both an intelligence ceiling and an imagination ceiling, unable to picture what a smarter entity could do for them.
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@JacquesThibs (Jacques) — 2h
"the model could be [narrowly/non-universally] jailbroken so they need to make it unjailbreakable"
You've heard of how vibe coding leads to slop and deleted databases!
But have you heard of vibe governing?
> QUOTED: @DavidSacks (David Sacks) — 4h
> I've had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
> ...
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Quote-tweet, dark mode, no images or engagement counts visible; quoted tweet is truncated by platform ellipsis.
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Jacques ✅ @JacquesThibs · 1h
Ouff...
Next they'll have a way to backdoor into it with AIs and then control all of the robotics in a war.
> QUOTED: Randall Br... ✅ @randallmbr... · 4h
So apparently while doing a teardown of the Unitree Go2 robot dog iFixit found a GPS module inside that is not listed in the official spec sheet for the robot. The robot also has a camera and ... [Show more]
[Photo: interior teardown of a Unitree Go2 robot dog, circuit board exposed, with an undocumented module circled in red marker.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet about an undisclosed GPS module (and possibly camera/other hardware) found inside a Unitree Go2 robot dog during an iFixit teardown, with Jacques Thibodeau speculating about future AI-controlled backdoors in robotics used militarily. Touches on hardware supply-chain security and AI-enabled robotics risk, adjacent to AI safety concerns Nathan tracks.
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Jacques ✅ @JacquesThibs · 19h
The massive number of likes on some tweets these past few days only makes sense with bot swarms imo
> QUOTED: Project Li... ✅ @ProjectL... · Sep 13
[Meme image: two stick figures labeled "CHINESE BOTS" and "RUSSIAN BOTS" pulling puppet strings attached to a US-flag-colored map of the United States, with caption "Cmon, do a civil war..."]
@projectliber...
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Jacques Thibodeau (an AI safety-adjacent commentator) speculating that recent spikes in tweet engagement are driven by coordinated bot swarms, quote-tweeting a meme about foreign bot campaigns trying to provoke US civil conflict. General information-warfare/platform-manipulation commentary, tangential to AI safety via the bot/influence-operations angle.
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It's funny how having conviction on a massive vision is anti-correlated with interest from VCs.
Your valuation will go down when you start pitching a non-consensus extremely ambitious vision.
If your goal is to raise more at a higher valuation, seems like you need to pitch the less ambitious wedge product that is easy to understand (granola ai on meeting notes app that will eventually attempt to become a more ambitious tool for thought system).
This isn't bad! In fact, it can be actually good to force founders to find a wedge. You just have to make sure your conviction remains on the big ambition bet.
> QUOTED: martin_... @martin... · Aug 23
The idea that non consensus investing is where the alpha is, is actually quite dangerous in the early stage.
Follow on capital tends to be more an...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A startup/VC-strategy tweet about the tension between pitching an ambitious non-consensus vision versus a narrow legible "wedge" product to raise funding. General startup-culture commentary, not directly AI-safety related.
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[Top, cut off tweet]: "...to use my local environment."
7:16 PM · Jul 18, 2025 · 240 Views
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Jacques @JacquesThibs · 1h
Running Multiple Claude Code Accounts
Add these lines to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc file to create shortcuts for different accounts. The magic is the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable. It tells Claude where to store its config, keeping accounts completely separate:
alias cwork='CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.claude-batman claude'
alias cpers='CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.claude-bwayne claude'
Make the config directories with mkdir -p ~/.claude-batman ~/.claude-bwayne, then reload your shell with source ~/.zshrc. Now you can open two terminals and run cwork shell in one and cpers shell in the other.
Happy clauding :)
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Jacques @JacquesThibs · 1h
Now I need more monitors
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A practical tip tweet from Jacques Thibodeau (AI safety researcher) on running multiple Claude Code accounts via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR shell aliases. Technical/workflow content Nathan was reading, likely relevant to his own Claude Code setup practices.
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