the general public doesn't have enough healthy skepticism on benchmaxx marketing

> create a human mimicking machine > doesn't talk to it like a human to maximize efficiency

what if the great filter is actually the gdp growth rate? that if you don't advance your civilization fast enough, you get smited by nature and the universe for being an ineffective species

on america 250, much has been written about her decline, but not her former dominance the only empire in human history to allow true immigration. the closest to a world government. pax americana and the fastest pace of technological development in history

if you're a hardware company and you're not in asia, are you actually a hardware company?

one thing has consistently predicted technical greatness across all domains and it's love for the game, yet almost no interviews directly measure it

"intelligent" investors betting that a technology will disrupt tech companies

treaty of versailles signed

there's a very simple solution to the AI spending problem and it is to use open source chinese models

yearning for the old era of RL when real scientists have the ball to reinvent superintelligence from scratch instead of trying to replicate human

crypto bulls and bears alike are missing the real market for crypto: facilitating gambling and illegal activities. this market is big and growing rapidly in the LLM era. not real world commerce. underground world commerce. build things criminals love.

in america the best outcome for a political party is to lose elections so you can squabble about what you would do rather than actually be in charge to do it

what happened to the tech industry of the 2010s? it was full of futurists, big dreamers and true scientists, where did all of them go