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John Manoochehri retweeted
Thanks @DanielLurie. Airbnb started with three airbeds on the floor of my San Francisco apartment. This city has given me so much, and I’m grateful to give something back.
Who's ready to say
- tech can and should and must be about making the world a better place again?
- tech and tech Twitter eg All In P became saturated in right wing militaristic messaging and tech Twitter
revelled in this? (Who even remembers Climate Chamath?)
- they were wrong to kiss the soft right ring, consort with nativists, and pretend climate change and rights were passé?
- they're bored of slavish tech blogs and pods by TDE (tiny dick energy) bros about 'optimism' who think massive expansion of military and space and surveillance tech is ... optimistic?
- they find it thigh slappingly laughable - literally laugh at the sight of it - to see 'contrarian' tech leadership proclaim itself under the banner of ... Christian fundamentalism (Thiel, Gundo goons), and tech-jock stock-jockey pseudo-media eg TBPN?
It's a shame the left so abysmal at tech that the vacuum left by the collapse of online wokeness was so rapidly and easily filled by the mind virus of thought-free cruelty-rich tech narratives.
But I don't think the liberal world order is over. I think it just overslept and was late to coding class. The rise of humanities-tech - full-stack humanism - is just getting started.
The dirtiest secret of tech isn't money or politics. It's that it's not that smart. You just had to be persistent or lucky or know someone who was (VC) to make it through the boring stuff.
So now the boring stuff is fun, it's time for new leadership in tech narratives. So looking forward to a decade of tech media about
design
infrastructure
nature
craft
wellbeing
economics
climate
psyche
science
justice
governance
ideas
love
art
and the opportunity of AI to release people from intellectual drudgery and expertise bottlenecks.
Can the tech bros get back in their test tubes and hurry off to Mars? Can they be optimistic together in their hydroponic seasteds overwatched by drones and genetic superdogs while we make new cities and new music? Can the tech-jocks pray hard enough to rapture themselves and their ill-fitting baseball caps and tobacco pouches away while we revise medicine and and reform zoning law and education with AI and reinvent the economy?
There's still time to Don't Be Evil. SaaS is but a morning star. There is more day to dawn.
Chamath: “I got it totally wrong. This election was a complete and total repudiation about the state of the economy. The economy is broken.”
“What I don't think I understood clearly enough, and I think that this election has made it extremely clear, is that since COVID, we have moved past political ideology.
And I want to say this again, I do not think Democrats or Republicans matter. That is my real takeaway after this election.
There is a central bloc of people that vote on the prescient issues of our time. What are these people voting for? I think what they are shouting now, they were trying to signal, and now they are shouting, is a broad-based belief that the economy has completely decoupled from reality and is broken.
The economic reality in America is broken.
There is a small percentage of people, the four of us on this pod and all of our friends, who are the asset owners of America, and we have benefited in every weather condition.
When rates were zero, we benefited because we were able to build our businesses with very cheap capital. When rates were high, we benefited because we had pricing power. And in every condition in between, we've all managed to continue to accumulate and grow assets, but we are few and far between.
And then there's everybody else who are wage earners, and the structural capacity of the American economy to support and grow wage earners is broken.
I don't think this has anything to do with socialism. I don't think the far left won particularly more than they were expected to. I don't think the far right won particularly more than was expected.
This was a complete and total repudiation about the state of the economy. The economy is broken.”
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There is no end to the attempt to propose / imagine that 'humans are just like machines', and therefore ... are machines.
In language terms, even if there was a 'statistical engine' in the human cognitive system, instead of say a 'generative system', you still would have to answer, which Hinton et al do not:
* how is the 'latent model 'trained - cf Plato's problem (paucity of data)
* how does the 'statistical engine' ... work in the mind. No easier to find or prove than the generative engine.
Chomsky was wrong.
Researchers found your brain doesn’t store language the way every textbook since 1957 claims.
For decades, the undisputed rule of linguistics, led by Noam Chomsky, was that human language is hierarchical.
We were told our brains process language using complex "grammar trees." That we secretly build deep, abstract, mathematical rules in our heads before we speak.
This new paper proves that is completely wrong.
Researchers at Cornell University analyzed how people actually process and produce language in real time.
They found sequences. Linear chunks.
When we speak, we aren't calculating deep syntactic rules. We are just predicting the next most logical sequence of words based on the context of the words right before it.
We string linear chunks together.
If this sounds familiar, it should.
This is exactly how Large Language Models like ChatGPT work.
For years, critics have dismissed AI as "just a next-token predictor." They said it isn't truly intelligent because it doesn't understand deep grammatical hierarchies like humans do.
But this paper suggests humans don't use those hierarchies either.
We are just predicting the next chunk.
Language isn't a rigid tree of mathematical rules. It's a linear stream of contextual predictions.
We thought we were building AI to mimic the complexity of the human brain.
It turns out, the human brain was just running a simpler algorithm all along.
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John Manoochehri retweeted
Maximally chuffed to be teaming up with this guy again on something brand new: deepfuture.now/ How might we help folks chart our very uncertain future, with time-tested foresight methodologies and AI?
John Manoochehri retweeted
This @unisontheunion statement about the Darlington Nurses tribunal ruling is just extraordinary.
UNISON has a membership that is around 75% female, yet its response to a legal ruling about women being unlawfully required to share changing rooms with a male colleague leads not with women’s rights - but with trans rights.
What exactly is being defended here? The right of trans people to fair treatment at work - which no one disputes? Or the right of males to access women’s changing rooms - even when women object and the tribunal has now ruled that forcing this is unlawful?
A trade union’s first duty is to protect its members’ legal rights at work. Female members might reasonably ask: who is UNISON actually standing up for?
John Manoochehri retweeted
Happy to see the call of @patrickc and @tylercowen pick up momentum in the built design conversation, in particular with @UrbanCourtyard.
hi I am DELIGHTED to partner with @createstreets to explore how @patrickc and @tylercowen's call for a New Aesthetics can inspire urban reinvention--through the linked essay, "Towards a New Aesthetics of Abundance: Courtyard Urbanism, Buildings Without Worth, and a New Ecology of Building"
Across domains, more creators and thinkers are acting on a shared desire for something truly "valuable and worthy," echoing @patrickc’s call for a new aesthetic. Some are calling for design competitions; others for bold experimentation on the ground. (xitter.cf/stephwakefield_/status…)
Courtyard Urbanist aims to be both a forum for the best of this work and a bridge between ideas and action in real cities and real lives.
Share your thoughts via the new website, sign up for beta access to the Courtyard Composer (developed with @treasury_space), and use the images and ideas you create to help make a new aesthetics real.
Latest Treasury session, this time with @brittanheller, Yale/Stanford scholar and lawyer specializing in digital spatial tech, and Max Sills, General Counsel at Midjourney - both also Treasury advisors.
The IP piece of premium spatial asset and spatial data licensing is huge: and currently unresolved. Treasury's opportunity is to contribute to best practice and tooling here, and to make sure that the next platform revolution spatial technology - actually protects creators and what is owned, and works for all, including social development, creativity, urban infrastructure, climate and more.
Everyone welcome!
Treasury Sessions are back, and we're diving straight into one of the most crucial conversations in spatial computing: the intersection of IP rights and creative innovation. This session marks the first of two deep dives into this critical subject.
As spatial technology reshapes our digital landscape, we face a critical juncture in how we handle intellectual property. Rather than repeat the mistakes of previous technological revolutions, we have an opportunity to establish thoughtful frameworks that protect creators while fostering innovation.
Join us for an essential discussion led by three distinguished experts:
Brittan Heller (Stanford Law School) - pioneer in XR/spatial computing rights
Max Sills (General Counsel, Midjourney) - at the forefront of AI-generated content
John Manoochehri (CEO, Treasury) - bridging computational design and spatial technology
This session explores how we can leverage AI to enhance spatial creativity while protecting professional creators, examine ownership in AI-generated content, and discuss platform responsibilities in the spatial age.
While this session won't be livestreamed, video will be available afterward on our YouTube channel.
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with leading minds shaping the future of spatial technology and IP law.
Register here: treasury.space/sessions/tami…
John Manoochehri retweeted
Urbanist Ventures portfolio company event tomorrow evening in SF! Treasury is building Getty Images for premium spatial assets. Founded by visionary urbanist @jmanooch.
“As spatial technology reshapes our digital landscape, we face a critical juncture in how we handle intellectual property. Rather than repeat the mistakes of previous technological revolutions, we have an opportunity to establish thoughtful frameworks that protect creators while fostering innovation.”
Treasury Sessions are back, and we're diving straight into one of the most crucial conversations in spatial computing: the intersection of IP rights and creative innovation. This session marks the first of two deep dives into this critical subject.
As spatial technology reshapes our digital landscape, we face a critical juncture in how we handle intellectual property. Rather than repeat the mistakes of previous technological revolutions, we have an opportunity to establish thoughtful frameworks that protect creators while fostering innovation.
Join us for an essential discussion led by three distinguished experts:
Brittan Heller (Stanford Law School) - pioneer in XR/spatial computing rights
Max Sills (General Counsel, Midjourney) - at the forefront of AI-generated content
John Manoochehri (CEO, Treasury) - bridging computational design and spatial technology
This session explores how we can leverage AI to enhance spatial creativity while protecting professional creators, examine ownership in AI-generated content, and discuss platform responsibilities in the spatial age.
While this session won't be livestreamed, video will be available afterward on our YouTube channel.
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with leading minds shaping the future of spatial technology and IP law.
Register here: treasury.space/sessions/tami…
John Manoochehri retweeted
Treasury Sessions are back, and we're diving straight into one of the most crucial conversations in spatial computing: the intersection of IP rights and creative innovation. This session marks the first of two deep dives into this critical subject.
As spatial technology reshapes our digital landscape, we face a critical juncture in how we handle intellectual property. Rather than repeat the mistakes of previous technological revolutions, we have an opportunity to establish thoughtful frameworks that protect creators while fostering innovation.
Join us for an essential discussion led by three distinguished experts:
Brittan Heller (Stanford Law School) - pioneer in XR/spatial computing rights
Max Sills (General Counsel, Midjourney) - at the forefront of AI-generated content
John Manoochehri (CEO, Treasury) - bridging computational design and spatial technology
This session explores how we can leverage AI to enhance spatial creativity while protecting professional creators, examine ownership in AI-generated content, and discuss platform responsibilities in the spatial age.
While this session won't be livestreamed, video will be available afterward on our YouTube channel.
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with leading minds shaping the future of spatial technology and IP law.
Register here: treasury.space/sessions/tami…