Louis Barclay

Such a great point

And by the time you've done The Thing, you're so worn out that it's hard to get any kind of energy up to write The Thing's bastard children

To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us

To stop bad actors developing AGI that could kill us all, we need good actors to develop AGI that could also kill us all

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To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards Ia Magenius explains why we need to make AI as powerful as possible to ensure it can't have power over us

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I'm now working on sub-leaderboards to illuminate the top TikToks from every part of the app, whether it's #booktok, #basketball or #asmr

PikTop is (I think) now the world's largest public leaderboard of TikToks, with nearly 300k mega-viral TikToks

(Outside of TikTok itself, of course - but they don't let you sort by views, so you can't get a leaderboard like that on their app)

And that's how I found that top TikTok of all time (so far) - from a user submission

Which is so cool, that some random person on the internet just came along to help out

So eventually, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create PikTop (pik.top), a leaderboard of top TikToks

+ if we want to understand the algo and what it's doing to info in society, also makes sense to look at the content it's pushing hardest

Starting with the most viral content makes sense, because by definition it's the stuff that people spend most time watching

Finding these videos matters a lot, because people are in FYP silos and can't get a sense of what the most viral stuff on the app is

And for people who don't even use TikTok (and researchers), it's handy to have a way to understand it better

Why do I care?

Well, I've spent the last couple of years trying to track down the most viral TikTok videos, since TikTok themselves make this super hard to do

TikTok video by 3sei 7b views 👵🏿

It's even weirder:

The top TikTok video of all time is this video, which - at least for me - is broken, but somehow has *7 billion views*:

www.tiktok.com/@3sei/video/...

(Let me know if it works for you!)

Fake newspapers are flooding America + #RichTok's queen, CECOT influencers, wearable nanobots, robot bees, turning brainwaves into speech, subtitling your life, and a second Hegseth group chat fiasco

No, it's not Zach King's broomstick-skateboard skit

And it's not even the black screen from @lasi that @taylorlorenz.bsky.social wrote about in an April newsletter:

"A video of a simple black screen has over a billion more views than any other TikTok video."

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What's the top TikTok of all time?

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Mike Waltz accidentally adds Osama Bin Laden to Signal group Reports have emerged that US national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden to a private Signal group where members of the Trump administration were discus...

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This ad for Mark Wahlberg's new prayer app has a very high rate of celebrity dead eyes per second

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TIL via @werd.io that governments in France and Germany (through their 18F equivalents) made an #opensource alternative to Notion/an offline Google Docs docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/

OpenAI releases new AI agent for your hungover colleague Greg The AI race continued to heat up today as OpenAI announced an advanced new agent for your hungover colleague Greg.

Great news from OpenAI

Greg's really been needing a helping hand through his darkest hours

Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg | TechCrunch When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt

Much-deserved piece of trolling

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Brave move by Zuckerberg and Meta. Standing by their principles.