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I'm so unbelievably bullish on humanity. I will never be black pilled.
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wait... Steve Jobs has a son AND he's only 31 AND he works in tech?!? We are so back
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if you’re high openness you shouldn’t be in a 9-5 job
instead you should simultaneously be a founder, investor, idea guy, internet microceleb, philosopher, conspiracy theorist, poker pro, mystic, cia informant, powerlifter, surfer, cult leader, artist etc
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after watching Oppenheimer and then seeing the superconductor paper
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NVDA has joined the trillionaire club, so the new acronym is not FAANG anymore, it's MANGA.
Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, Amazon
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Apple will not use OpenAI models in their macs, Google will not use OpenAI models in their pixel phones, and Meta will not use OpenAI models in their VR headsets.
How does OpenAI get around this? The only way is to build their own device. They will become a hardware company.
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If you think about it, Thiel was actually a late bloomer. He only cofounded PayPal at 31, cofounded Palantir at 36, invested in Facebook at 37, and launched Founders Fund at 38.
People think it’s over when you get to your mid-20s, but it’s not true.
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Nvidia is taking equity in every single major AI startup. They have fingers in every pie. If the AI industry does a 10x from here, then Jensen Huang will probably surpass Elon as the richest person in the world.
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when you realize Elon could've dropped $20-$30B on funding an AI lab instead of Twitter
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if you want to grow, you must be willing to die over and over again. death of an identity leads to growth. reinvent who you think you are
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Peter Thiel is a closeted macro Hedge Fund manager. Everything he’s done in tech is a side quest. His main quest is to notice macro trends, connect dots, be a contrarian, develop a thesis that incorporates social psychology/philosophy/history, and then bet on it.
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AI - OpenAI, Anthropic, Inflection
Longevity - Altos, Retro, NewLimit
Space - SpaceX, Blue Origin, Relativity
Fusion - Helion, TAE, Commonwealth
BCIs - Neuralink, Synchron, Science Corp
Robotics - Figure, 1x, Agility
the manhattan projects never stopped, they’re just privatized
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getting a job without a qualification/degree is a very strong signal, because it means you had to somehow generate a signal that was even more impressive than a degree
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Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg are both 38 years old.
Like it or not, these two will be the Gates and Jobs of this decade.
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highly curious people only want one thing and that’s to develop a comprehensive first principles view of the entire world, all of history, and everything in existence
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It’s clear Zuck has thought at least 20 years into the future, maybe even more. He will be one of the greatest founders to ever exist. He might even surpass Jobs when all is said and done.
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You shouldn’t think of OpenAI as just a software or API company. You need to imagine the OpenAI of 2030. They are going to be a massive consumer product company. Software and hardware products. You should think of them as the next Apple.
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We are on the verge of a researcher renaissance. Researchers will be making >250k base. Engineers had their time in the sun the past 20 years, now it's the age of the researcher. There will be a massive war for talent and IQ. The desired combo will be world class researcher + AI.
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the thiel rogan episode was great because it shows you what world class thinking looks like. it looks slightly unhinged and illegible. most people would be better off if they were more unhinged and illegible
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Elon’s reluctance to use Starlink militarily suggests he will not build humanoid robots for the military. Google/Amazon will likely say no too. That gives an opportunity to a robotics startup to completely overhaul and re-arm the US military with millions of robot soldiers.
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nowadays my twitter feed is just breakthrough after breakthrough, companies launching left and right, solar satellites, AI chips, talking robots. it never ends. i hope it never does
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I'm convinced that everything Sam Altman does is in service of a single goal. Everything fits so perfectly: fusion, AGI, longevity, UBI, proof of humanity. It's like he predicted what the world would be like in 2040 and has been working backward from that.
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the guy at amazon who decided to invest $4B in anthropic is feeling so good about himself right now
this might be the most important decision amazon ever makes
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flow state is when God temporarily assumes control of your vessel so he can guarantee you make it to the next checkpoint
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You need to realize that the US has a Manhattan Project going on right now, and it's OpenAI.
❗Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities.
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Conor Leahy's AI lab ranking:
1. OpenAI
2. Anthropic
3. DeepMind/Google
4. Character AI
5. Meta/US tech giants
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Chinese tech giants irrelevant, probably won't catch up
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we were not born too late to own a home
we were not born too soon to explore the stars
we will do both. we will be the greatest generation in history
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Richard Sutton has joined Carmack at Keen.
such a huge 24 hrs. Anthropic+Amazon partnership, chatGPT voice/vision, and now this.
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@sweatystartup
if you're getting Cs because you're obsessed about something and you're busy working on it, then I can understand. But if you're getting Cs coz you're skipping class to smoke pot, then that's another thing
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That speaks to his level of conviction. In a world with AGI, money is irrelevant, equity is irrelevant. Why would you care about money when you're solving all of science? Money is so boring by comparison.
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the future of the world is determined by the hobbies of 25-35 year olds
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You should expect this AI tech cycle to be at least as big as the internet. You shouldn't be surprised if we get a dot-com bubble as well.
“I think LLMs and chatGPT are probably a breakthrough on par with the internet itself. It is very big.” — Peter Thiel
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Imagine if Meta was the one that invested in OpenAI rather than Microsoft. Then the AGI race would've been Meta/OpenAI vs Google/Anthropic.
The Zuck+Sama duo would've been like Jobs+Woz.
The two greatest millennial entrepreneurs teaming up to build AGI. What an insane timeline.
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At first I thought Meta was the real threat to Apple because Meta was trying to replace the iPhone with AR glasses.
Now I’ve realized that Apple is in a much worse position than I thought. OpenAI is also going to try to replace the iPhone with an AI companion computing device.
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Investing in OpenAI at $1B was absolutely the right call
Investing at $10B was definitely the right call
Investing at $30B was the right call
Investing at $100B is still the right call
We are seeing the birth of a new FAANG company. It’s going to $1T.
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Thiel has more in common with George Soros and Ray Dalio than he does with Paul Graham and Elad Gil.
Thiel’s been able to effortlessly traverse tech and finance because being a legendary investor and being an outlier founder are two sides of the same coin, it’s the same archetype
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I wonder which researchers at OpenAI/Anthropic/DeepMind will be remembered as the Turing/Hopper/von Neumann/Knuth of our era.
If you’re at one of these companies, you’re likely working with someone whose name will be remembered in history.
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“Over a 20-30 year time frame, I think things will be transformed beyond belief. You probably won’t recognize society in 30 years. You asked me about artificial general intelligence, I think we are perhaps only 3 years maybe 6 years away from it. This decade.” —
@elonmusk
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Thiel was a prolific mentor. He has produced some of the greatest proteges of all time. I wonder who Elon has mentored. Who is his protege?
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wow people are ripping thiel to shreds for stuttering. it’s obvsly not an affectation or sign of dishonesty. if you look closely you can see him mouthing the word but can’t get the word out because he’s blocking on it, so he says “umm...” to give him time to substitute the word
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still not thinking big enough. this is not an industrial revolution, or even electricity or fire. it’s more akin to the emergence of Homo Sapiens 300k yrs ago. we are witnessing the birth of a new intelligent species
AI is the 4th major technology wave. The first three were fire, language, and agriculture.
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the computer era created a few billionaires
the internet era created many more billionaires
I think the AI era will create the most billionaires yet
but it might be the last era of billionaires
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i wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI acquired or partnered with Humane to build an AI companion device. This is how OpenAI becomes the next Apple. PCs/phones are reaching their expiry date, and soon we will enter the era of Companion Computing.
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people high in openness should probably be doing more. much more
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Nolan was the best director from 2005-2014:
2005 - Batman Begins
2006 - The Prestige
2008 - The Dark Knight
2010 - Inception
2012 - The Dark Knight Rises
2014 - Interstellar
Denis Villeneuve was the best since 2015:
2015 - Sicario
2016 - Arrival
2017 - Blade Runner
2021 - Dune
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This is a slide from
@balajis
2013 YC lecture. I bet he never would’ve predicted Microsoft to play the uno reverso card on Google 25 years later. This role reversal will be one for the history books.
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If every student ends up using an AI tutor in place of school, then school will only be useful for socialization. But surely we can think of better ways to socialize kids. How would you rearchitect a school from the ground up if socialization was the goal?
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schizo theory:
once an idea enters the collective consciousness, it takes ~106 years for it to finally become reality
we can use this to predict when we should expect to achieve certain technological milestones
examples below...
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@bayeslord
rogan's audience is completely new to his talking points. but to be fair to thiel, his insights are still correct even a decade later, and perhaps even more pertinent today. hopefully he writes a new book so the next 10 years of podcasts will be different talking points lol
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once you realize that all advanced civlizations in the universe have already solved AGI, fusion, and interstellar travel, then you'll see why techno-optimism has to win.
we are nothing without our tools
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most people need 90% of the information, and their intuition can fill in the remaining 10%
but there are some rare people who only need 10% of the information, and their intuition can fill in the remaining 90%. that’s a superpower
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diagnosing yourself as high IQ is extremely detrimental to your mental health and overall effectiveness
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every single person on the planet will be deeply spiritual 50-100 years from now
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That moment when you realize we’re in the end game now and we really are in the best timeline.
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Thiel talks about how there are 3 forms of innovation:
1. Continuous improvement (most companies)
2. Breakthrough (e.g. bitcoin)
3. Complex coordination (e.g. SpaceX)
If getting your company up and running required very complex coordination, then complexity is actually your moat
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if AGI causes rapid deflation, then you should be saving every dollar you have right now
if prices fall 90%, that's a massive increase in your purchasing power
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The secret that the best Founders will never admit to is that they actually prefer to work on their business rather than spend time with family and friends. Don’t take it personally, it’s just that some people have a mission in life and everything else is secondary.
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Techno-Optimism Is All You Need.... a thread 🧵
Yuval Harari says that “All past and present ideologies and religions are obsolete. We need new thinking.”
In my opinion, techno-optimism (or simply t/opt) is the most appropriate ideology and hyperstition for the 21st century.
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Joe Rogan is an underrated futurist. During the Sama episode I agreed with pretty much all the predictions he made about the future.
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@bronzeagepapi
for some people, trying many side quests is the main quest. especially the case for people with high openness, adhd, or Vata dosha (ayurveda)
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The truth seems crazy to us now, but in hindsight it will be obvious.
-they’re a really advanced intelligent species
-they've been around for a long time
-they've watched humanity evolve over 1000s of years
-they probably know the true nature of our reality
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the average rate of return of the S&P 500 is going to be abnormally high going forward, especially from here to 2035. you should go long US stocks. the US is going to run away with it. this is financial advice
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there's no doubt that Elon/Sama/Thiel etc are a zero interest rate phenomena. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is they poured all their money into risky deep tech startups. If we need a web3 bubble and widening wealth gap in order for us to get longevity/AGI, then so be it
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the next Apple won’t sell you a macbook, iphone, and airpods
the next Apple will sell you a humanoid robot, Jarvis, and a BCI device
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Zuck sounds like George hotz, has the business acumen of Elon, and is a visionary like Sama. how can you bet against this guy?
Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro
He's still got fire in him, love to see it
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it's interesting to think about which industries are having their Homebrew Computer Club moment. AI, VR, and crypto had their moments. now I think robotics and neurotech are having their moment
Pretty happy with the shoulder joint now, it’s able to handle a 370g hammer with the arm hyper extended. Next step is to upgrade the rest of the arm 🦾
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“You don’t need a Manhattan project for AI. You don’t need a government project. You don’t need the universities to do it. It’s just happening and all you need is for it not to be stopped. If it doesn’t stop, the future will happen and I think that’s the moment we’re in.” — Thiel
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Gen-Z wants to work for SpaceX, Helion and OpenAI.
Gen-Alpha will want to work for Battelle.
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imo we are underestimating the degree to which TPOT is influencing Elon’s actions. Bombard him with enough techno-optimist subliminal messaging and propaganda and we can literally hijack his subconscious. Maybe it is our moral imperative to do so, this is how we keep him on track
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imagine if the government gave every 18 year old a macbook, desk, ergo chair, airpods, and a spotify subscription. We'd probably have AGI by now.
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walking is a superior form of gambling. since most people get their best ideas when walking, you should walk every day and pray that one of these life changing ideas pops into your head. there is no downside, but there is massive non-linear upside. this is a cheat code
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@AdamNeumannsCoS
tech is fkd by AGI but not banking, consultants, doctors, lawyers? idk bout that
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the rational mind is risk averse. this is why the future should not be in the hands of pure rationalists. to get the future we want, we will have to take risks
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Elon reaching down into the depths of TPOT to pick a schizo to be the chosen one
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thiel has been talking about this for a long time now. it seems he was right that risk-aversion is antithetical to growth and progress
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I’m confident that the majority of people will be self-employed in 15 yrs from now
We’re already seeing Gen-Z trend this way. They don't tolerate bs jobs. They want to focus on themselves + do what makes them happy. Gen-Z figured this out very early in life opposed to other gens
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if you can see the future you should be a founder or investor. that's the best way to get rewarded for your talent
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@mkobach
Independent journalism/media. I think mainstream media is in a death spiral. People will care less and less about what MSM has to say, and will instead seek out niche content from creators. Substack, Patreon, Youtube, Twitch is just the beginning.
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@tszzl
I think AGI is whatever causes mass unemployment. Because if it causes mass unemployment that means the market has decided that AI > human.
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imo this is one of my best takes. I still like this definition of AGI
@tszzl
I think AGI is whatever causes mass unemployment. Because if it causes mass unemployment that means the market has decided that AI > human.
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i think you reach this conclusion if you assume 3 things:
1) AI delivers on its promise
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2) TSLA is overvalued in the short-med term
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3) SpaceX and Neuralink are still 5-10+ years out
pretty reasonable assumptions imo
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AGI will resolve the intelligence bottleneck
fusion will resolve the energy bottleneck
BCIs will resolve the consciousness bottleneck
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the most taboo topic is not race, religion, gender or class. It’s genetics/IQ.
You see race, religion, gender, class discourse all over the news and social media. But there’s no mention whatsoever of genetics/IQ. That should give you a clue as to what is actually controversial.
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every person on Earth deserves an extra 50 years of lifespan so they can travel and experience everything this planet has to offer and appreciate everything this civilization has built
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There is huge alpha in being the young calm person. There is a difference between being calm/composed, and being unambitious/low energy. A calm person has a calm mind and they think clearly. Huge asset. It usually takes adults decades to master this.
Unpopular, but don't be this when you are young.
In that age, calm people are either low on energy/ambition or dont give a fuck about things they should.
They are happy to exist. And well, there's grace and beauty in that as well. But its not for me.
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@nosilverv
the gym attracts a lot of andrew tate personality types who think getting shredded is going to cure all their problems. hikers just mostly love being outdoors in nature. understandably there's a big difference between the two.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize I need to get absolutely cracked at physics. There is no way around it. The future we are headed towards is going to be scientifically and technologically complex.
Physics + CS is the only way. Everything else is too noisy.
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OpenAI won't just power the iPhone, they'll also power the Vision Pro. this could potentially be a multi-decade partnership across multiple tech platforms
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Zuck has the physiognomy of a post-singularity techno messiah. It looks like he's from the future.
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@Aella_Girl
what makes you think you are worthy of being at that meetup? You're literally describing gods among men
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Many high IQ people often fail to realize they are smart in all the things that don't matter
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think of what Elon Musk has been able to achieve in his 50 years of life. quite an extraordinary impact in such little time
now imagine if we lived for 5000 years. imagine the impact we could have. imagine the scale of our ambitions
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