Unfortunately, the old ethos of build it and they will come doesn’t work these days. It’s so easy to build software so there are more startups than ever. Every day many new products launch. It’s hard to get anyone to pay attention. Founders can’t build in a vacuum anymore. Marketing has been a dirty word in tech but the bar to attract customers, talent, downstream capital etc is a lot higher now. Brand videos, launch videos, paid media campaigns, Twitter and LinkedIn takeovers, PR, content, podcasts, founder-led social media and content storytelling are all now important levers to build awareness. Building something people want is still important but making sure people know it exists is just as important.

working with AI is fundamentally asking someone else to produce the work you want we spend a lot of time communicating context, goals, giving feedback, setting rewards, shaping workflows and SOPs. it’s a managerial experience i’ve always felt a bit sad about that, because it took away the experience and joy of being a pure craftsman that produces great work directly chopin can’t be chopin by hiring a team and telling his employees to compose for him. these masterpieces had to be created by a craftsman directly, and i think many of us humans deep down seek that mastery and joy when the world gets filled with more and more agents and robots, every human’s job becomes an agent manager are we sure that’s what we want?

I'm firmly in the camp that believes that AI will solve the world's problems long before things can get really bad along any timeline. Many of the world's most serious problems are due to an uneven distribution of education and, consequently, intelligence, across large parts of the world. But intelligence will soon be accessible everywhere and somewhat uniformly distributed. It only takes one generation of curious kids to be educated and motivated to today's best levels by AI, and a whole country changes shape. To put my position simply, I think people around the world will become so dependent on external intelligence that they will become defanged, deradicalized, and de-weirded. They'll be biased, influenced, and ultimately changed for the better by the models themselves. We'll see AI basically running people's lives around the world in 5-10 years. And it will make people behave, simply by not helping them if they don't. I also think the logical extension of LLMs being able to write model weights directly is that in a decade they'll be able to rewrite neurons in your brain. If they can make Qwen 6x better at math, then probably they can make you 6x better at math too. Maybe the procedure will be via neuralink, or crispr, or maybe in time it won't even break skin. But LLMs are going to be able to rewrite people. Bob will go into the machine to get a math upgrade and he'll come out not being an asshole anymore, and people will be like, huh, what happened? And so I'm an eternal optimist about the future, no matter how crazy it gets in the short term, say 3 to 5 years. Things are going to change a lot. Imagine what happens when people can rewrite their own genes in 10 years. Society will struggle with it. But in the 15-20 year horizon, I think we're going to stop fighting each other because of AI. And the world will be an astonishingly better place.

Russians are particularly fearful of the future, making it difficult for the country to undertake long-term reforms, according to Alexander Auzan, dean of the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University. "We're world champions in one indicator, it's called uncertainty avoidance, we're afraid of the future. We're in first place, alongside Japan and France." Auzan links this to historical upheavals, noting that Japan experienced atomic bombing, while France and Russia have each endured five revolutions. "Five revolutions are equivalent to one atomic bombing. They create fear of the future and a very short planning horizon." "In Russia, people think two years ahead, [but] in East Asian countries, which have achieved these remarkable breakthroughs over several decades, the planning horizon is 20 years." "Serious problems can't be solved in two years. They may require ten or twelve. And because that's beyond our planning horizon, we simply don't address them at all."

My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).

My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).

My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).

Looking back, it's absurd that Merkel imagined Germany could build an economic partnership with Russia (through Nord Stream and not only Nord Stream) while simultaneously competing with Moscow for geopolitical influence in Eastern Europe. She seemed to believe that economics and geopolitics could exist in separate worlds, which was pretty naive, to put it mildly.

Cats are cold blooded psychos. This lunatic just stared down 4 wild racoons like it was nothing.

post ai takes that make no sense "become an influencer!" selling what? no more money in it; no ads to sell, because the companies are now gone "become a plumber!" the only reason plumbers make money is that everyone is busy with an office job; when we are all jobless, demand collapses "put all your money in google!" google makes money selling ads, without companies, no more ads "put all your money in ai companies!" the demand for ai by jobless people is very little "put your money in real estate!" real estate has little value when you have no buyers i know people will make the argument for these completely autonomous ai companies, and i do believe we will absolutly automate a lot; don't get me wrong but if you build a system that can do taxes for 10 cents, or book a vacation, there is no more market, the problem is solved if we reach a point of completely replacing saas you essentially destroy the entire tech market, which in itself eats the ai companies

Literally had no idea so many people are profound experts on hitman and assassinations and firearms commonly used by murderers-for-hire and their motivations. Learn something new everyday.