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australia should be the richest country in the world. youtuber, co-founder https://nitter.cf/t.co/JzwDGSQV11, @build_aus
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Hurting Australian innovation by adding legislation *on Australians* doesn’t fix a foreign company accessing *easily available* Australian information.
That’s not how the internet works. This is the total wrong take. It will damage our tech ability, continue the brain/capital drain and stop innovation yet again.
It's an outrage that foreign tech company's agent can hack one of our key health care agencies - and that we only learn about it months later when the US tech company bothers to email our government.
The PM already knew of this incident last week when he refused in Question Time to consider improving the powers of the AI Safety Institute.
We need to move quickly to increase the AI Safety Institute's ability to keep us safe, and to legislate national protections and limits around AI, our privacy and our data.
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Capital Brief named our Joint Select AI submission the most ambitious of all.
Our pitch: an independent, Australian sovereign frontier AI lab with seed capital from the Australian Future Fund and every Australian getting an equal stake in their super fund. Not renting another foreign model forever.
Builders not renters!
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this is an underrated management tenet and one we were obsessive about at eucalyptus
can’t understand why so many startups shield their employees from reality
most companies treat their employees like children
half the value of middle management is knowing things the people below you don’t
that’s not how I run @beehiiv — I openly share our revenue, costs, problems, and everything else with the entire company
I even share our raw board deck every quarter. it’s as transparent as it gets: “here are 10 things that are pissing me off and keeping me up at night” along with the teams and processes that aren’t holding their weight
I think it’s better that people hear and see for themselves that I have concerns rather than thinking that everything is great
> they can't help solve issues if they don't know what they are
> it limits the back and forth. there’s no reading between the lines or misinterpreting
> you can’t force urgency if people don’t understand the underlying reasons why
not giving feedback is selfish. so is withholding information from your employees
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“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous.
This is in fact one of the most valuable things you can do with your time and with your life.”
I can’t find the original @tylercowen reference, but he said once that the one of best thing you can do for your neighbors is to raise their level of aspiration, i.e., to merely suggest that they can do something more than they thought they can do. It is *a very good thing*. Giving someone license to act (and sometimes the means), followed by action, results in success in an abnormal fraction of cases. I vaguely recall @paulg may have said that too.
A sibling of this concept is that, at an individual level, it helps to be a bit more ambitious than what your closest neighbors suggest you should be. This set includes your teachers, your manager, your friends, sometimes your parents. The suggestion by anyone that “you can’t do that” should be a call to arms.
Many Europeans succumb to low self-expectations, and the ones you find in the States often self-selected against this attitude.
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Changing the trajectory of our country starts with telling stories of what is possible.
Introducing the Build Australia Creator Fellowship: a program to empower a new generation of Aussies to do just that.
Learn more and apply at docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Come on Australia. Let’s build 🚀
Great work @gearside 🙌
#buildaustralia #buildcanada
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This is my unpopular opinion.
Politicians should be paid a lot more and given huge pensions.
Their salaries and expenses are not material compared to the cost of the decisions they make.
You can say they don’t deserve it but that’s a chicken and egg problem.
Paul Keating once called Peter Costello a “low-altitude flyer”. He wasn’t. But it was a great line.
Look at British and Australian politics today. Almost all are low-altitude flyers. This isn’t left v right. We’re governed by midwits.
The most important policy, that no party will ever put in its manifesto: pay more. Attract better people.
this is why ai video will never be a big thing in film.
there are just no stakes in an artificially generated shot.
a great shot has to cost you something creatively or reputationally.
proper in-camera work is a time capsule of something that actually happened. with ai, there's no meta story around the effort to get the shot, nor the borrowed history of the actors / subjects.
the same gap will emerge in art, architecture, fashion, graphic design etc
linkedin is extremely beige compared to x because people are worried their boss is watching.
as a result the edginess gap between linkedin and x is equivalent to 4chan and reddit/digg circa 2010.
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"Productivity growth has been too weak for two decades. That’s why we’re delivering the broadest productivity agenda since the 1990s – cutting red tape, lowering taxes for businesses and start-ups, incentivising innovation and encouraging more efficient capital allocation in the economy." - Jim Chalmers
i am smiling in these but it's serious
australia doesn't have a skills or talent problem, but a risk appetite problem
thanks @markbouris for having me on the pod.
Australia should be the richest country in the world!
We are so far from that mindset now, it’s not funny.
That’s the conversation I had this week with Charlie Gearside. @gearside , co-founder of Eucalyptus, the telehealth company behind Pilot, Juniper and Kin, which was acquired by US company Hims & Hers for $1.6 billion Australian.
Charlie’s in his mid 30's. He’s not a crotchety old man watching things fall apart from the sidelines. He’s a new parent, and he’s watching this country slowly lose something that makes this country great.
But he’s also doing something about it through his new project, @build_aus , a movement designed to shake this country out of stagnation and reignite Australian industry, creativity and ambition.
Search Straight Talk wherever you get your pods.
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Sachin and Adam are making my favorite short documentaries about technology companies.
This one, about Fortell (I’m an investor), is especially interesting.
This is the sort of company that I hope AI enables in as many industries as possible.
Fortell has combined AI technology (a custom chip and software) with good old-fashioned extraordinary customer service to make living with hearing loss much easier. Many people I’ve seen try the demo have cried at the impact and quality. So cool.
Check out Sachin and Adam’s other videos too. All excellent.
Exclusive: Inside Fortell (@fortellresearch)
The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid.
Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had cracked in 70 years. Now they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it.
Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by @JoshuaKushner @AntonioGracias @traestephens @wolfejosh @GavinSBaker @patrick_oshag @RobertIger @jaltma @aplusk @hbarra + more.
We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :)
0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid
2:09 70 years unsolved - until now
3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this"
4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist
7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI"
9:00 Why they built a custom chip
10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional
14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents
15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?
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the impossible triangle for every founder:
> work + fitness = no social life
> social life + work = no fitness
> fitness + social life = no business growth
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Compute in Australia:
Over the next month, I'll be running a series of episodes on my podcast focusing on the question of whether / how Australia should scale up a large domestic compute industry. Think many GWs of AI compute.
I'll release episodes across the month, as I record them, rather than all at once, because things are moving so quickly.
First up is Andrew Charlton, who is arguably the key member of the Australian government shaping our AI strategy. Will publish that in the next 24 hours.
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss the episodes as they drop.
Full note announcing the series here:
josephnoelwalker.com/compute…
See you for the first episode!
🤖 Made with AI
