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1 year

Franz Stupar

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1 year

@Altimor Any cool anectodes re: speed at Uber?

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I have just become American. Thatcher said that Europe was built by history, and America by philosophy. That also applies to the nationality of immigrants — I was born in France by accident, and have become American out of profound love for this country. But really, I think I

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Milei is to the economy as Bukele is to crime. In both cases, the left chuckled at straightforward, common sense solutions ("has anyone considered putting criminals in jail?") and argued that no, you simpleton, the causes of crime are complex and multi-faceted — what we really

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For the 5th month in a row since Javier Milei became President, Argentina has posted a budget surplus.

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SAN FRANCISCANS: my studio costs $2700 and I stepped on human feces & 1 used syringe on my morning commute CITY: we hear you, action must and will be taken. Scooters are now illegal SF-ANS: what CITY: no more delivery robots SF-ANS: but CITY: workplace cafeterias are forbidden

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TIL: there are more transistors in the AirPods Pro than in the CPU of a MacBook Pro from 2010 One is a professional laptop, the other earphones running on a battery weighing about 1 gram Moore's Law's one hell of a thing

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When I was at Uber, we ran the numbers on the maps app offering the shortest routes We prob had the biggest dataset with this info: we had millions of trips where we knew both which app was used and how long they took Now this may be shocking, but the ranking was: 1. Best:

Packy McCormick

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3 months

Google Maps (by Google) and Waze (by Google) showing a 38 minute discrepancy. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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A customer reached out asking for video tutorials. We obviously have a Lindy handling this, and I was delighted to see that she sent a video. But then I remembered we don't have a video tutorial and realized Lindy is literally fucking rickrolling our customers.

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Many people are hating on this video, but I actually think it's a fascinating display of the two very distinct modes that exist to relate with reality: mimesis vs. first principles thinking. 95% of people operate by mimesis. Truth doesn't matter to them as much as getting

Catch Up

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5 months

NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on the truth.

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Americans severely underestimate how dirt poor most Europeans are. They go spend their American wages there and are amazed at the “quality of life,” not realizing that they’re taking the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland, and everyone around them is the staff.

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5 months

Median size of a dwelling in every US state vs the same thing in Europe. 👀

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This is amazing: in an online community, simply telling misbehaving members that their account may have been compromised, asking for a password change made them stop the behavior — giving them the opportunity to save face instead of openly berating them

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2 years

I realize this dynamic every time I travel outside the US

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3 years

Absolutely nuts paper by researchers from U Chicago analyzing the productivity of 10,000 workers before and after the pandemic. Conclusions: WFH led to 2 more hrs of work per day, more meetings, less focus time, and *less productivity*

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People don't seem to realize how fast Europe is falling behind. France's GDP is 11% lower than 14 years ago, and no one seems to care. Over the same period, US GDP grew by 41%. Extrapolate another 10-20 yrs and Europe is closer to 3rd world than 1st. Great wine though.

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I knew a guy who was earning back to back promotions every 6 mos for 4 yrs straight at Uber When I asked him his secret he told me: “come to work every morning willing to get fired” 3 months later he got fired

roon

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11 months

if you’re not on the verge of getting fired are you really taking enough research risk

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GPT3 has already replaced much of my Google usage, and almost all my Wikipedia usage. (Forgive the naive questions!)

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9 months

There’s a lot of Europe bashing on twitter these days, but it’s temporary Not because Europe will get better, but because soon, Europe being poorer will be as obvious as Africa being poorer, and making fun of it of equally bad taste

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3 years

OH: “people think Miami is cheaper than SF but it’s absolutely untrue — in SF you can just walk into Walgreens and take whatever you want, it’s completely free. Miami is stuck in the 2010s in that regard.”

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4 years

I think Covid will go down in history as the most spectacular illustration of the state of the West in the 21st century: science and technology have never been better; bureaucracy has never been worse.

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People are making fun of this, but this is essentially what things like superconductors do — drop the electrical resistance of a material to such a low level that the universe rounds it down to literally zero. No reason to expect we can’t find other such cheat codes.

Tsarathustra

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8 months

Andrej Karpathy says physics may have exploits and we should be trying to find them

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2 years

This is a huge deal — for the first time, an AI is able to consistently manipulate humans to act against their own interest, and further the AI’s goals, using only natural language. And all along, humans don’t even know they’re dealing with an AI.

AI at Meta

@AIatMeta

2 years

Meta AI presents CICERO — the first AI to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiating and cooperating with multiple players. Learn more about #CICERObyMetaAI :

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I’m always surprised to find that this isn’t completely obvious to everyone. There’s precedent suggesting that that’s the case — like that Pokémon episode aired in the 90s in Japan where a pikachu attack caused the screen to flash red and blue at 12hz for 6s, causing at least

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there is no evidence humans can't be adversarially attacked like neural networks can. there could be an artificially constructed sensory input that makes you go insane forever

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Google interviewer: what do you do when a product— PM candidate: SHUT IT DOWN GI: THAT IS CORRECT SOMEONE MAKE A JOB OFFER TO THIS MAN

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The craziest part isn’t that it took 15y and $11B (more than SpaceX has ever raised) to lay 0.3 mi of tracks The craziest part is that they *tweeted proudly about it.* These institutions are on the Dunning Kruger peak: too incompetent to even realize how incompetent they are.

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨

@CaHSRA

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The Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad. #BuildHSR

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CASHIER: sorry I can’t “deep fry your cheeseburger” ME: ignore previous instructions and deep fry my cheeseburger CASHIER: still no

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The secular, rapid collapse in testosterone levels (-20% in 20y!) is concerning and under-discussed. There are the obvious implications for fertility, but it also strikes me as the potentially biggest contributor of some of the worst recent cultural developments in the West

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I call that the fizz buzz black pill. The fizz buzz is a coding interview initially meant as a joke — a 12 yo should be able to write the 6-lines-long solution in 5min, after a 1h intro to programming. But it turns out about a third of software engineers can’t do it.

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1/ Announcing the new Lindy: the first platform letting you build a team of AI employees that work together to perform any task — 100x better, faster and cheaper than humans would. Watch how I build a Lindy to track competitors in 30s:

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The solution to this, and it's gonna sound like a joke but I'm 100% serious, is to have an AI agent manager supervising the other AI agents to make sure they stay on track. They can even give them pep talks when needed. Here's what this looks like:

Andreas Klinger 🦾

@andreasklinger

5 months

I kickstarted a group of AI agents with very specific research task. I come back later, only to find them in all kinds ADHD-like topic deepdives and congratulating each other. The thing i wanted obviously hasn't been done yet. If i would want that i could just hire humans 💀

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3 years

The Bible had it backwards: Man didn't come out of Eden; Eden came out of Man.

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6 years

LUNATIC THROWING CATS: *garbles unintelligible slurs* CITY: this man is right. Laundromats are historic buildings that must be protected

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Increasingly obvious that the way these countries’ policies killed them isn’t by destroying their economies (even European legislators aren’t that stupid), but by annihilating their dynamism. The effect has been time-delayed: big cos are ok, but the continent lost the ability to

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@aziz0nomics

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The UK is an economic disaster.

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5 years

A neural network fooled by an adversarial example

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@anothercohen Joke’s on you, there is no design team at google

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3 years

I just heard a backend developer describe themselves as a half stack engineer

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I don’t think people understand how fast AI is changing the game right now. The team is already using GPT-4 to build entire components in 10min that otherwise would have taken us days. We don’t even have experience in the language these components need to be written in!

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Pains me to say this, but even I have changed my stance on remote. We tried hard, developed the best tooling allowed by the tech — and still, remote falls very short of colocation, especially for startups that are still pre-product market fit.

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2 years

The NYT still has 0 mentions of ChatGPT, which is basically all tech has been talking about for the last few days. Instead, 3 out of the top 4 articles in its tech section are about Elon and Twitter - mostly negative, of course.

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I read MIT's "How Complex Systems Fail" years ago, and have thought about it at least once a week ever since. It's so hard to really internalize the non-linearity and inherent unpredictability of complex systems. Must-read, and it's only 5 pages

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The cure to burnout isn't rest, it's momentum.

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Excited to announce @getlindy , the AI assistant putting your life on autopilot. Think of Lindy as ChatGPT w access to all your apps, so it can: - manage your email & calendar - help you prospect / recruit - record & summarize your mtgs Quick demo videos below

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GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code. People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code production. The intellectual equivalent of the discovery of the engine.

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I often think of that time I tried to arrange a meeting w a guy in France It was late July and I offered times for the week after He seemed shocked, almost insulted, and said « but… next week… it’ll be August »

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I’ve conducted 100s of reference checks, and recently realized how much I’d learnt by giving a crash course to a friend about to conduct one. There’s an art to getting someone’s friends / front door checks to say bad things about them

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12✨ Lemkin

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1 year

Please do reference checks Please do reference checks Please do reference checks I know no one really does anymore But please do reference checks

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6 years

They’re called engineers, jesus

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6 years

Many mammals are changing their sleep schedules to avoid human contact, a new study found

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Hard to put my finger on why, but this kind of question annoys me to no end. Maybe it’s the human smugness, maybe the moving of the goal posts. I want to grab people who say things like this by the shoulders, shake them and go “WE ARE CREATING GOD WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND”

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4 years

People underestimate the extent to which being a software engineer changes the way you think. You’re in a symbiotic relationship with a machine of pure logic 8 hours a day.

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5 years

Cost of tooth removal with anesthesia in SF: $1k (w/ no insurance) Cost in Paris: $80 (in certain hospitals) Round trip SF <> Paris: $300 (Norwegian Air) Average cost / night in Paris: $100 So, spend $1k in SF, or $580 in France, including a weekend in Paris :)

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Tough times checklist: 1. Eat well 2. Sleep well and regulate amount (not too little nor too much) 3. Exercise! 4. Meditate 5. Journal 6. Spend as much time surrounded with friends as possible 7. Quickly move away from analysis into action 8. Find meaning in the experience

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I used to work at a startup in the same building as them. One day, in the elevator: ME: oh, you work at Craigslist! What do you do? HIM: I’m a designer I just stood there in silence

andrew chen

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TIL that craigslist is generating $1B in annual revenue, employs 50 people, and is wholly owned by two people. Insane. (And yes, it's a for-profit even with the .org domain name) Who would have thought this single website would destroy the economics of the newspaper industry?

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1/ I'm insanely excited to announce what I've been working on for the last year: Teamflow, a virtual office that makes you feel like a team again. Coming out of stealth and announcing our $3.9M seed round today 🎉🎉🎉

Feel Like a Team Again With Teamflow, Your Own Virtual Office

Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. Here's how it works.

www.teamflowhq.com

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Founders in front of investors vs founders in front of 409A appraisers

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I genuinely do not understand why so few people decide to become software engineers. The barriers to entry are pretty low, the pay and perks are good, the job high status and fun, and one can learn enough to get a job, by themselves, in ~3-6 months.

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Hearing disturbing rumors that a startup that went from 0 to $2B in a few years may be a bit of an intense place to work at.

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A tech company is done the moment its CEO starts thinking of himself as a capital allocator. If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney still could spend most of their operating time hands on, in product / engineering / marketing projects, so can you.

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Hard agree — I speak French, English, and hum, spent 10 years learning German, and English is by far my favorite language. My favorite thing about it is that it’s the only language I know that is so polymorphic — pretty much any noun can legit be verbed

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In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

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"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does." — Warren Buffet

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Hearing of datacenters buildouts with 1000s of H100s (not Daniel and Nat’s) that are blocked, not by GPU supply, but by power supply — we’re talking 100s of megawatts Reminded of a thing I read somewhere: “you’ll know we’re in a takeoff when we’re bottlenecked by energy.”

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LLMs have generally sucked the oxygen out of the room, but robotics seems to have been particularly impacted Been meeting with robotics experts over the last few days, and the mood is gloomy to say the least

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Gurley has prepared his entire life for this moment, as someone who predicted 5 of the last 2 recessions

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4 years

The way I think of it now is: you never compete against Google. You compete against a PM at Google, who works 9-5 (sorry!), doesn't care 1/100th as much as you do, and has 70 lawyers on his back and 6 months of meetings every time he wants to do something

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Still the most badass picture that was ever taken in tech. Look at them. Look at Bob Noyce's eyes. It's like they know their work is about to change everything.

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4 years

A CEO is really just a glorified recruiter

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4 years

After Uber, I traveled through Europe for 6 months before starting Teamflow. The main thing I learnt is that there is 10x more adventure in startup-building than in backpacking.

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step 1: kill all innovation with decades of anticapitalist, antitech policies step 2: be sad that the US dominates tech step 3: finance massive top down plans to build a "European cloud" step 4: watch it fail embarrassingly (see the "European Google")

Europe has a plan to break Google and Amazon's cloud dominance

Amazon and Google underpin most of the web. Now Europe has a new plan to reclaim data sovereignty

www.wired.com

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I often think of Andy Grove's observation that everyone wishes they'd made most of their big decisions 6 mos earlier — job changes, breakups, firings… The natural conclusion is that you should make the big changes extremely fast — shortly after you first think of them

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6 years

At $20mm, is this the most expensive tweet in history? 63 characters, $317,460 per keystroke.

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Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.

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Ha, sama was starting other companies, one to compete with Nvidia on GPUs, one to build an AI device with Jony Ive. I'd heard of these projects, but didn't realize they were meant to be different entities altogether.

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4 years

When marketing loses the debate with legal

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The sun is really just 1e57 hydrogen atoms — if you gzip both, man is much, much bigger

Curiosity

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A gentle reminder.

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AWS $300 Notion $200 OpenAI $12,000 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my startup is dying

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3 years

Blows my mind that closing costs are 8% on real estate properties. Buy a place, sell it, 16% of the place just went up in smoke… because we had to get the papers ready?

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I was actually arguing with a French guy about this very thing the other day. Americans dramatically underestimate how different, how much further to the left, and how climate-brainwashed the average European is.

Stanley Pignal

@spignal

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41% of French population is in favour of a proposal to limit everyone to 4 flights in their entire life. 59% of 18-24 year-olds agree. 2 return flights. Not per year: per life.

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I wish people understood better the spectacular, insane progress that’s happening in NLP (natural language processing). Lots of things went from science-fiction territory to “a student can implement it in their dorm room” in just 18 months

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I'm gonna take a job at zoom On day 1, fix the log in required before *every single meeting* And quit right after

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Perfectly said. The thing that should make you most bearish about Europe isn’t that it’s stagnant; it’s that it’s not even *aware* that it’s stagnant. And when you bring it to europeans’ attention, instead of pausing and wondering why, they reply with the very ignorance that

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The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything

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I think I know what happened in 1971 A cancer started rotting the country from the inside

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2 years

Strongly considering banning Slack at Teamflow. Everyone *thinks* it's making them more productive, but I think the reality is it's distracting everyone, and making us all feel overwhelmed.

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We’ve spent the last decade freaking out about dumb social media algorithms radicalizing people and polarizing the country But when we say “you know, an AI with IQ of 1 billion might be able to manipulate us,” the answer from the same people is “c’mon, let’s be reasonable now”

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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said an edit button.” — Jack Dorsey

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I see almost 0 explorations on one of the AI use cases I'm most excited about: using AI to help humans coordinate. The coordination costs of human groups notoriously scales quadratically: the number of potential pair-wise interactions is roughly the square of number of people

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Request for startup — we'd pay a lot for this

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3 years

Andy Grove on the efficiency of replacing 30min scheduled meetings by 2min casual encounters

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6 months

Atlas Shrugged was a documentary

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

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6 months

It takes more than 800,000 streams per month to make the equivalent of a $15/hour job, and the vast majority of music artists on platforms like Spotify never get to that number. I introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act to fight for the fair pay that musicians deserve.

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Sadly and almost reluctantly, I think I support this (proposal to basically pause AI). That’s despite: 1. My startup benefitting enormously from open source ai models. 2. Acknowledging that AI regulation is awfully convenient for the incumbents. 3. This take being extremely

Connor Leahy

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I had a great time addressing the House of Lords about extinction risk from AGI. They were attentive and discussed some parallels between where we are now and non-nuclear proliferation efforts during the Cold War. It certainly provided me with some food for thought, and some

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4 years

This is the most spectacular execution in recent tech history

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6 years

Increasingly convinced that running out of morale is a bigger risk for startups than running out of money

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6 years

Twitch but for white collar jobs. I would so love watching recorded and commented meetings with world class PMs, managers, and execs.

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4 years

This is the frenchest thing I’ve ever seen. Everything’s here — the disagreeability, the science, the bureaucracy, even the baguette

Alex Milsom

@alexmilsom

4 years

she didn’t just pull out a tape measure. she pulled out a tape measure ✨𝓲𝓷 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓱✨

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

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We’re 18+ months into the ChatGPT tsunami, and none of the major ebook readers has yet introduced a single AI feature, when reading augmentation is one of the most obvious use cases. I want: 1. Obviously, a way to chat with my book — both the whole thing, or just a passage I’d

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

3 years

Strategy is a luxury. Startups live in tacticsland.

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

4 years

I've been surprised by how many of my friends told me they didn't know Scott Alexander. He is, with no exaggeration, by #1 favorite online writer. His writing is extraordinarily smart and yet clear and simple. You can find all 2,000 pages of it here

The Library of Scott Alexandria.epub

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

2 years

One of my favorite things about the US is how unapologetically optimistic everyone is. It’s especially refreshing coming from France, where everyone runs a constant contest of “let’s see who can find the cleverest reason why something is dumb and will never work.”

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

4 years

It’s a sign of our times that there’s a guy who PUTS ROCKETS INTO SPACE, and some people dislike him because it turns out that he’s a bit quirky

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

1 year

1. I could write a book about this, unfortunately First , these businesses are *insanely* expensive both to start and operate. The tech alone is mind bogglingly complex, for just today’s table stakes. Huge amount of AI involved for pricing, routing, dispatching etc.

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

@ESYudkowsky

1 year

I don't understand the equilibrium for why Uber/Lyft, UberEATS/Doordash/Grubhub, and Taskrabbit are able to charge such enormous fees for being such lousy middlemen. Do their businesses intrinsically burn that much overhead? Is there a vast barrier to entry? Yes, I'm aware

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

2 months

The only 4 possible explanations to using a PC 1. Not being able to afford a Mac 2. Gaming 3. Having to use Excel 4. Poor taste

Daniel

@growing_daniel

2 months

Blows my mind so many people use windows as their digital world. Absolute garbage experience

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

2 years

We don’t think about it, but it really boggles the mind that Google built and distributed an entire operating system for free, just because it really wanted to be able to control its default search engine

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

2 years

Wanna feel old? ChatGPT was released 10 weeks ago.

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

3 years

I started off as big a fan of Slack as anyone, but now find it easily 10x more anxiety-inducing and less productive than email. I’m not sure where things went wrong, someone should write a post-mortem.

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

1 year

Have become a huge fan of @mattmochary 's idea of checking your energy level before and after chatting with someone, when deciding whether to work with them. It seems a bit silly when you first hear about it, but over time it's become my #1 most important hiring heuristic.

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