How OpenAI bets, per Reid Hoffman interviews Sam Altman:
Invest in and capitalize on the next thing when it's right in front of you (and you can be confident in scaling laws), and with the rest of your efforts, execute novelty search to find the next seed of the big thing.
The best thing about this website is that nobody can dunk on these posts like on the bird app.
"Brevity is the soul of wit" but most people on Twitter don't have wit so you're just left with soul crushing waterfalls of the concise and contentless hyperoptimized by the unrelenting market forces of attention.
Attending to UC Berkeley seems to take most kids remotely interested in computers and somehow radicalizes them makes them all want to be founders and #build and "invest in their best friends" and this cannot possibly be a good thing.
There are most definitely kids who will make great founders, perhaps even fair to say there are some kids who are equipped to found a company at 22 years old at Berkeley. But to have this be the overwhelming and central cultural dogma, and have this vortex suck all creativity out of everyone and flatten all their personalities to that of a mediocre seed stage SaaS founder, feels almost criminal.
Everyone's talking about copying Twitter as a product but someone should just do Twitter DMs as a product. There's so much utility in having anyone (pseudonymously) be able to message you w/o exposing a fairly security sensitive unique identifier string.
Autodiff is under-appreciated modern sorcery.
As the saying goes, the first mental ability you lose when you start drinking is the ability to tell whether you're operating at full capacity or not. The same goes for being sick. Feeling a distinct sense that I am much dumber than I used to be, but impossible to check whether this is remotely close to true.
Some use cases for a large language model trained on my personal writing corpus
- Personal research assistant army
- If I had 1000 slightly dumb clones of me as "research assistants", how would I use them to get back extra hours in the day and learn faster/improve the quality of my work?
- Blog++
- Can I automate the process of going from a Stream post or Tweet-sized thesis to something that I would happily publish on my own blog?
- Email and DM manager/assistant
- What's the right UX here that balances personal touch and helpfulness?
- Conversation/brainstorming partner (using the same infrastructure/prompt as Trinity [note to reader: Trinity is an internal ChatGPT-like project])
Technology rarely (never?) removes scarcity, even when it appears to be doing so, because scarcity, like energy, is conserved. The scarcity simply goes somewhere else, up and down the value chain or elsewhere in the social fabric.