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This site really brings out the worst in people. Not me though. It brings out the best in me.
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@bubblebabyboi 1) People don't spend enough time learning.2) Companies can't scale high-quality interviews.3) Companies don't train well.
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@skooookum it's heading the way of the computer mouse: super transformative, hyper-commoditized, but ultimately a revenue dead-end.
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quants as a class are actually way smarter than ai researchers.the recruiting pipelines from universities into quant have been better for the past 20 years.and it's a lot more measurable.marked to market every second.quant firms get their pick of the crop, and tech gets the quant.
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@Andr3jH google is a workplace, not a debate club. still think that he should have been fired for wasting company time working on employee activism instead of producing results for his team. google has taken a fairly consistent approach to employee activists - fired regardless of slant.
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@qorprate mr beast seems morally misaligned compared to other content creators. doesn't seem to value inherent human dignity.visibly not bothered by ppl's suffering.no sense of imago dei. doesn't seem to really care about what his content does to ppl's brains.no sense of noblesse oblige.
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i think this is partly true, but the moral status of homeless people is more complicated and more interesting than that. on a first pass, one can imagine (at least) four separate modes for morally evaluating the homeless as a class.
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@hollowearthterf you need:.- 6 months of savings.- a path to be cash flow positive in <3 months.
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@micsolana bernini was the best. captured the moment when aphrodite starts turning into a goddamn TREE
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My cousin recently started a services business on this premise:. You tell us what your ideal algorithm looks like (e.g., by giving examples of videos for your YouTube home page or posts for your Instagram explore page). Our service logs into your platforms daily and scrolls.
Technically competent people live in an algorithmic enclave of high signal content. My youtube home page is videos of midwestern americans and rural canadians machining random small tools. For most people, it's clickbait misinformation with soy face stickers + misleading titles.
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@powerbottomdad1 according to Grok, yes! looks like the birth rate went up in 2021. big company HR depts would also have better, more targeted data on this
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@signulll @nealkhosla neal's right on this."as with almost every high importance industry, the ccp is undermining it with propaganda and subsidies (EVs, drones, electronics manufacturing, etc.)".
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@Aella_Girl are the women who responded to your survey representative of the general demographic? did you do any normalizations?.
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We need better IVF technology + better surrogacy policy. It should be possible for a woman to just get eggs (or an entire ovary) surgically removed + bring the eggs to maturity in the lab environment, no hormone therapy required. It should be possible for a woman to choose to opt.
Why is fertility declining in rich countries?. Last week, I said it was actually very simple: nobody's getting married. Today, @jburnmurdoch has followed where that thread leads and shows that around the world, coupling is crashing, and where coupling falls, so do births.
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@pmarca value creation will converge to status and service skills. STATUS.i like buying art from cool people even though I could get it printed from midjourney. SERVICE.i still enjoy human DJs at my parties and bartenders pouring their drinks. both tasks are automatable or offshorable.
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despite the "Rick Sanchez" stereotype of really smart astrophysicists being dysfunctional, depressed nihilists, it seems every brilliant astrophysicist finds intense meaning in our place in the cosmos. how lucky we are to be alive. how precious.
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@thecaptain_nemo female inclusion (female sports, co-ed colleges, co-ed workplaces) has shifted the right tail further right on every dimension of the genetically gifted: .- athleticism.- IQ.- health.- personality.
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The bettors believe they've earned their power through merit, entitling them to shape the game as they see fit. They view themselves as the rightful kings of the track. Poisoning the dark horse isn’t just about protecting profits; it’s about preserving the myth that justifies.
three rich men are at the race track, betting on horses. one bets only on horses with a winning track record, one bets on the one with the best jockey, and one bets at random.
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under feudalism, land was the primary measure of power. with the industrial revolution, land's productivity soars, leading to less emphasis on sheer acreage. under capitalism, labor has been the key resource. with the AI revolution, labor's efficiency is being amplified,.
if the frontier models are commoditized, compute concentration matters even more. if you can train better models for fewer flops, compute concentration matters even more. compute is the primary means of production of the future and owning more will always be good.
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@bwbbx @skooookum despite its critical importance, the computer mouse isn't something people are willing to pay a premium for. this can happen with any tech that becomes essential but also highly replicable and thus, less profitable. it's like the classic example of a technology that.
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may thy guitar pick chip and shatter.
Timothée Chalamet's Oscar campaign really is so impressive. here he is singing Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time" on SNL
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@PabloPeniche Couldn’t be further from the truth. Most actual innovation has been funded by bureaucrats (US govt for internet, Google for AI). VC is a new asset class (1980s). Before VC, the smartest people worked on pure research. Today they work on commercializing it.
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@Aella_Girl imo porn preferences are mostly a function of the porn sites' UIs and algorithms. for instance, TikTok used to promote dance content, now it's vlog content. people might say their viewing preferences have shifted, but it was more a platform decision than a collective one.
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Forget AGI, Forget agents, Forget everything. Nothing can prepare you for what my friend heard someone talking about.
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@NewsWire_US wonder how this'll play out. could see.- push for automation.- american citizens take these jobs [unlikely].- legal migrants take these jobs [also unlikely].- nothing happens and food prices go up.
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@plasmarob @Andr3jH who asked him?. he was a participant in the internal group g/pc-harmful-discuss (which was just as useless and unproductive as any pro-pc group). he attended a diversity workshop, wrote the memo, then disseminated it on forums. no one asked him to become an armchair activist.
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@nosilverv The people who make it to the very, very top are the ones that don’t play within the constraints of morality. Simple optimization theory: fewer constraints -> higher chance of reaching the top.
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DeepSeethe.
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@percy_gryce very few of those women end up COMFORTABLY supported for the rest of their life. it's financially challenging to raise 6 kids on one salary in today's America.
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the Hermes/Richemont philosophy is to just qualityMaxx. > if machines can produce the highest quality, use machines. > if humans can produce the highest quality, use humans. if the Hermes "saddle stitch" (a very strong stitch) could be replicated by a machine at the same or.
The imperfection of humans will then command a premium. The most desirable, valuable, and expensive clothes, shoes, cars, watches, jewelry, food, drink, music, art, exercise, teaching, training, etc etc are all provided by people, not machines.
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if you know your task ahead of time (run, fly . ) then yes biomimicry is dumb - you should optimize solely for that specific task. but there's likely a strong market for human-compatible machines that can handle multiple tasks, even if they perform each one less efficiently.
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Some initial reactions to OpenAI Operator. - Their initial use case looks to be "an easier interface on top of tech marketplace apps" (like Doordash/Thumbtack). This is a GREAT initial use case bc it's easy to roll out and start getting feedback. But marketplace apps are pretty.
Introduction to Operator & Agents.
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the optimal form factor for a robot that can vacuum your floor is a vacuum cleaner. not a roomba. it's easier to make a vacuum cleaner with the autonomy of a roomba than it is to make a roomba with the performance of a vacuum cleaner.
Robots doing backflips is cool, but wake me up when Roombas actually start replacing manual vacuum cleaners at scale. They've been out for 20+ years and haven't dominated yet. Once they do, that's a "canary in the coal mine" moment for a lot of other things. 🧵.
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China launching cheap open-source AI models is very bad for VC firms. It's very good for OpenAI, Meta, and hyperscalers. They mogged us with artificial low prices on manufacturing exports, US companies became less profitable, and we lost homegrown talent. They've done it with.
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this is arguably a much bigger deal than the OpenAI operator launch.mobile usage >>> desktop .and this opens the door to an apple acquisition.
We are excited to launch the Perplexity Assistant to all Android users. This marks the transition for Perplexity from an answer engine to a natively integrated assistant that can call other apps and perform basic tasks for you. Update or install Perplexity app on Play Store.
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I have not met a single contacts user that does not do something unhinged in the process of wearing their contacts.
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Two other things about quant culture:. 1) Scale is bad not good. The bigger the firm, the harder it is to come up with good strategies. Good returns on $2M is much easier than good returns on $2B. Most good firms are prop shops and basically don't take outside capital. So you get
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@GeoffLewisOrg the spread of fires is more observable than the spread of COVID. the predictions of firefighters are more accurate than the predictions of COVID epidemiologists.
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@mechanical_monk Any flight that lands in JFK (no matter what direction it comes from) has an extra 45 min built in for “ground control traffic”.
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@trickylabyrinth most big companies are sending their payments to AWS via a bank to bank wire transfer, not online via Stripe on a credit card lol.
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@shaunmmaguire @londonnative12 Top way to improve public perception of Israel:. Give people of Gaza control over their water supply. Israeli control of Gazan water supply was a low national security benefit, and an extremely high PR damage.
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value creation will converge to status and service skills. STATUS.i like buying art from cool people even though I could get it printed from Midjourney. SERVICE.i still enjoy human DJs at my parties and bartenders pouring their drinks. both tasks are automatable or offshorable.
Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment. Marc Andreessen.Reposted Jan 24, 2025. "In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern. Fears about new technology replacing human labor and causing overall unemployment have
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Elon fired from Paypal because he kept insisting on MS NT over Unix . Vivek fired from DOGE because he kept insisting on Slack over MS Teams?. imagine losing the plot over which platform sends “🤔” faster
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@unusual_whales i want a Community Notes feature that tells me if things are fact-checked as correct.
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@em1lystone i enjoyed anora, conclave, dune.and honestly liked wicked. last year i only liked poor things and oppenheimer.
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classical robotics has already had insane impact on industrial agriculture. end-to-end humanoids will be well-suited for home gardening. more people will have fresh produce grown on their own soil, from seeds that were genetically optimized for taste/nutrition rather than
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Maybe it moves upstream from "writer's block" to "thinker's block." AI fully solves the production aspect, but it's hard to break the cycle of repetitive thought patterns, and originality is the bottleneck.
Prediction: From now on we'll rarely hear the phrase "writer's block." 99% of the people experiencing it will give in after a few days and have AI write them a first draft. And the 1% who are too proud to use AI are probably also too proud to use a phrase like "writer's block.".
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it's been two days but Opal the productivity app literally changed my life.
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@simonkalouche 1) Some people will prefer buying 1 humanoid over buying 200 robots for new use cases that emerge. I will definitely upgrade my leaf blower and lawn mower, bc fundamentally humans cannot do either of those tasks with their baseline anatomy so we need specialized purpose-built.
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@waitbutwhy twitter should be able to show a special badge if they can verify you took the photo in-app with camera.
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@EthanEvansVP regular 1:1s even at the mid level feel like a waste of time, should just be phone calls on demand.
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@GeoffLewisOrg China launching cheap open-source AI models is very good for OpenAI. If models become commodities with a price floor set by CCP policy, then it's harder for a US company to justify CapEx (which is perhaps why Meta announced yesterday). In that scenario, OpenAI wins on.
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THE CASE FOR HUMANOIDS. 1) Some people will prefer buying 1 humanoid over buying 200 robots for new use cases that emerge. I will definitely upgrade my leaf blower and lawn mower, bc fundamentally humans with their base anatomy cannot do either of those tasks well, so we need.
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EDIT: free market here means free market of PARENTS who are looking to find a surrogate to bear their child and willing to pay well for the amazing gift they are being provided [above the rate provided by the oligarchical law firms].
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agency is wanting something so badly that you become a big baby when it doesn't go your way.
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@mignano startups can always consume as much capital as they're given. investors can be kingmakers but won't get great returns without moats.switching costs as a moat is gonna disappear, feels like network effects are the only moats left for tech cos.probably bullish for lightspeed.
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