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Daniel Jeffries
@Dan_Jeffries1
Author, futurist, and systems architect. Recursively self improving.
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Jan 29, 2025
    As we are learning DeepSeek is one of the most sophisticated psyops of all time. Here's how it went down: 1) Release the model open source. 2) Include highly detailed papers for all other people to replicate your work. 3) Create a novel SOTA RL algo that uses less memory
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Aug 7, 2025
    How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what we got? How many times do you have to see a model benchmaxxing to realize Humanity's Last Exam is a freaking idiotic name and that answering questions on it
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Jul 27, 2024
    This man gave you Reddit, RSS, Markdown, helped stop early attempts to censor the web (that are now winning) and freed academic journals for researchers. And they killed him for it. A crime that has never been answered for and never will be
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    May 18, 2024
    Lot of absurd takes like this on the superalignment team leaving OpenAI. The more likely reason they left is not because Ilya and Jan saw some super advanced AI emerging that they couldn't handle but that they didn't and as the cognitive dissonance hit, OpenAI and other
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Nov 12, 2024
    How not to accelerate. Don't replicate this kind of stupidity in America with an onslaught of absurd AI legislation based on non-existent problems.
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Mar 1, 2025
    DeepSeek is the best AI company in the world right now. Any team would be lucky to have these engineers. If this was an American company the media would be singing their praises. But because it's China idiots think "they copied everything or they smuggled chips." Their week
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    Deedy
    Menlo Ventures
    @deedydas
    Mar 1, 2025
    BREAKING DeepSeek just let the world know they make $200M/yr at 500%+ profit margin. Revenue (/day): $562k Cost (/day): $87k Revenue (/yr): ~$205M This is all while charging $2.19/M tokens on R1, ~25x less than OpenAI o1. If this was in the US, this would be a >$10B company.
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Jan 1, 2025
    Here's a rundown of my favorite books of 2024. Links at the end of the thread. I start with my favorite book of the year by far: A Brief History of Intelligence. It's an exquisite masterclass in writing and research. At one point I realized I'd highlighted nearly every page.
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Apr 14, 2024
    I wanted to see if AI could code me a complex app. Not a crappy little one-off script. A real program. Just one little problem: I mostly suck at coding. So can AI make magic for someone like me? Yeah. But...it's complicated. Here's what I learned along the way. 1/
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Oct 3, 2023
    If you work in AI and you are against open source you should be barred from using any open source tools. Good luck building your models then. No Pytorch for you. No Linux. No Kubernetes. No distributed training frameworks. Nothing. I never thought we'd be fighting the open
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    John Carmack
    @ID_AA_Carmack
    Oct 2, 2023
    This is written without any wild eyed fear mongering, and I like some of the historical perspectives, but he is clearly a statist. He previously worked in government, expresses concern for the government almost as often as concern for people, and wants to see powers expand in
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Feb 14, 2024
    If you want to understand why Sam Altman wants to raise 7 trillion then read this book. On it's face, it's an absurd number. But when you understand what's at stake, it's not. The global chip industry is the most advanced, interconnected and globally distributed supply chain
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Jan 29, 2025
    Replying to @doodlestein
    How dare these bastards do open science the way it used to be done instead of writing "due to the competitive nature of the markets we won't tell you fuckall about how the model was trained and how many parameters it has and we'll be sure to hide away the thinking for
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    May 12, 2024
    If open source is "bad for national security" why does Linux run all the nuclear subs in the US, every super computer in the US for national defense and everything else, all the Gov clouds in the major clouds that the government runs on, the military laptops of service personel
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    Vinod Khosla
    @vkhosla
    May 11, 2024
    Open source is good for VC's and innovation. Open Source SOTA models is really bad for national security
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Dec 28, 2023
    If you want to understand why the Times case has a near zero probability of winning, then read this thread. This fellow does a nice write up and he seems sincere in his belief that what he is saying about the suit is accurate and correct when in fact it's basically just a lot
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    Jason Kint
    @jason_kint
    Dec 27, 2023
    ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1
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    Daniel Jeffries
    @Dan_Jeffries1
    Jan 18, 2023
    This cartoon from 1923 nailed the date for the rise of generative AI.
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