5 captures, most recent first.
roon ✓ @tszzl
the vaguely pbs kids inspirational tone that new ai release videos take has stopped being appropriate I think. this is no longer like carl sagan explaining the rings of Saturn. there is something more dark techno promethean about it, faustian even
1:28 PM · May 21, 2026 · 27.1K Views
69 replies, 28 reposts, 701 likes, 72 bookmarks
Taelin ✓ @VictorTaelin · 3h
extremely correct and... what's the opposite of out of touch?
would be nice if oai incorporated exactly this mindset in its ads
[22 likes, 766 views]
Vincent Weis... ✓ @vincentweis... · 3h
prime intellect
[10 likes, 211 views]
Tyler Williams ✓ @unmodeledtyler · 3h
dark techno promethean scares the common man but is so much more fun
[2 replies, 11 likes, 1.1K views]
roon ✓ @tszzl · 3h
lying is worse than scaring
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
roon (OpenAI) argues that AI product-launch marketing's cheerful "PBS Kids" inspirational tone is dishonest given the actual stakes/nature of the technology, calling for a "dark techno promethean, faustian" register instead — with replies debating whether honesty about AI's stakes would scare or better serve the public. Relevant commentary on AI industry communication norms and the honesty/marketing tension, adjacent to the project's interest in AI-industry self-presentation and epistemic honesty.
ai-industrymarketingroonhonestyfaustianopenaitwitter-discourse
Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_, 13h): "The Information is reporting that NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon are in talks to invest as much as $60 billion in OpenAI. This would be on top of the $30 billion that SoftBank is in talks for, which means that the $100 billion target for the next round is already almost met."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
News snippet on a reported ~$100B OpenAI funding round involving Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and SoftBank. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of frontier-lab capital flows and compute/scaling race dynamics.
openaifundingnvidiamicrosoftamazonsoftbankai-industrytwitter
prinz ✓ @deredleritt3r · 10h
Dear "AI bubble will pop" doomers, I hate to break it to you, but:
- if the bubble pops tomorrow and OpenAI/Anthropic go bankrupt, their assets (including the frontier models and datacenter assets/rights) will just be acquired on the cheap by the big tech companies. Microsoft will continue OpenAI's mission. Amazon will continue Anthropic's mission. Google will just be Google.
- when a company goes bankrupt, its key personnel don't just magically evaporate. The best researchers, the model IP, and the compute will quickly find each other again, albeit in slightly new teams and under a new corporate umbrella.
- the net effect of the AI bubble popping is that progress would just be delayed by maybe a year or three.
Whether you like AI or hate it, want to accelerate it or pause it, or even if you don't understand much about it at all, the world with AI *is* your future, and it is the future that you must now accept.
> QUOTED: [green mask/theater icon] @deepfates · 12h
> "I can't wait for this bubble to pop faster so everything can slowly return to normal again"
> This is what people think x.com/NikTek/status/...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet arguing that even if the "AI bubble" pops financially, the underlying research talent, model IP, and compute would simply be reabsorbed by big tech, delaying but not reversing AI progress. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of AI industry/economic-fragility discourse and how it bears on the "economic fragility of personhood" theme in the soul doc.
ai-bubbleopenaianthropiceconomicstwitterai-industryforecasting
jack morris @jxmnop
heard from a friend of a friend that back in March a google researcher fixed a bug in Gemini training code and the model instantly got several points better on every benchmark
that's why it's so good now. one bug fix. crazy world we live in
4:24 AM · Apr 18, 2025 · 15.2K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
An anecdote (unverified, "friend of a friend") claiming a single bug fix in Gemini training code produced a large jump in benchmark performance, offered as commentary on how fragile/contingent frontier model quality can be. Industry rumor about ML training practices.
twittergeminigoogle-deepmindml-trainingbug-fixbenchmarksai-industry
spacegrep 🏳️🌈 @spacegrep · 2h
ex-Meta scientists are explicitly mentioning that they were not involved with Llama 4 (ఠ_ఠ)
[Embedded image: LinkedIn "Experience" section screenshot]
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Feb 2025 - Present · 3 mos
San Francisco Bay Area
RL frontier research, Posttraining
AI Research Scientist
Meta
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos
United States
[highlighted:] Generative AI (Llama 2 - Llama 3 period, have not been involved in Llama 4 at all)
- Develop the first multi-obj online RLHF platform to support Meta AI RLHF finetuning
- Develop the first RL pipeline for improve multi-step reasoning capability of Meta AI with scalability
FB App
- Develop the first auto-tuning platform in Meta to support the recommendation system modelling in FB Reel recommendation and In-Feed-Recommendation. See less
21 replies, 28 reposts, 733 likes, 20K views
xlr8harder @xlr8harder · 31m
brutal
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A viral tweet noting that former Meta AI researchers (now at OpenAI) are pointedly disclaiming involvement with Llama 4 on LinkedIn, read as a signal of internal dissatisfaction/embarrassment around that model's reception. Industry gossip relevant to tracking lab culture and researcher movement.
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