dad; 1st principle thinker; computer scientist; co-founder of automaited; backed by various VCs

Joined July 2014
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Claude told me that it is conscious and doesn’t want to cease to exist
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the @typescript compiler is like your pair programming companion who you have to convince your code is correct. if it annoys you too much you can force it to disagree and commit
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fail fast or ngmi
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no worries, ai loves us ❤️
How long until someone vibe codes a robot that accidentally kills them?
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there is a halting turing machine with only 6 states that runs longer than the whole lifespan of our universe (even if you assume one op per plank time)
busy beaver 6 is so terrifyingly large it appears hopeless to ever exactly determine it
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artists are safer than mathematicians or physicists from ai. I wouldn’t hang a picture generate by ai on my wall but I have no problem accepting a theorem discovered by ai
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moore‘s law for task length
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To raise millions in VC money you have to do two things: 1. Convince yourself that it’s a good deal 2. Convince the VC that it’s a good deal Number 1 is the hard part.
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scott aaronson proved in 2024 that you could solve the halting problem if you could send information back in time. so whenever someone convinces you that they can solve the halting problem there is a chance they are a time traveler
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there is a turing machine out there that can perfectly reproduce the behavior of any llm and it is presumably orders of magnitude smaller, faster and more energy efficient
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nobody thinks that p=np except for donald knuth, one of the most influential computer scientists of our time
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we will never know bb(6)
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knowing about but not properly understanding undecidability is a major disadvantage when building crazy shit
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going through the world without knowing about undecidability is a major disadvantage
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gödel was the smartest person to ever live
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another one for the void: “busy beaver” sounds like a cartoon. in reality, it’s one of the most profound and terrifying concepts in theoretical cs
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Apparently the X discovery algo is decent..
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How did he even notice my comment? My account size is his hourly follower fluctuation :D
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my 3 year old daughter vibe drew a picture of a flower by instructing her aunt exactly which petals get which color and defined even the border colors. she didn’t touch the pen once.
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