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Actively looking for game devs who agree with this
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
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Wow. Blocks meeting transcribers for only the minor inconvenience of rendering you completely incomprehensible to everyone in the meeting. Genius idea
Here's a demo of a conversation between two people at Deveillance @be_inaudible
Watch the live transcription fall apart.
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Are you raising? Comment/DM and I’ll send you a personalised list of the 25 best investors for you to talk to based on what you’re doing.
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One advantage of being a tech person with an English literature degree: I've read much more obtuse and garbled literary criticism than anything Opus can throw at me.
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Dead on. Too many wealthy interests have too much money tied up in Anthropic and OpenAI to allow cheap frontier-close AI competition from open source to proliferate, and every bullshit argument possible will be deployed against it
The capital markets are too self-interested to do the “right” thing
Too much money is tied up in OpenAI and Anthropic, and if they were to fail by whatever means, that would be more painful (both directly financially and by sentiment) than influential stakeholders and this administration are ostensibly willing to accept (a lot of feasible contagion, esp in private markets). Regulating ourselves out of global competitiveness is ok as long as it serves the interests of a certain few.
The self-interest in profits at any costs is to a large extent a (but not only) self-inflicted root cause why we’re in the predicament of being usurped by the Chinese in the first place
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David Kaye retweeted
naval inventing "being a massive dick" from first principles
why Naval deleted his calendar, ghosts everyone, and refuses to be anywhere at a specific time
Naval: "I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don't keep a schedule. And I took that to heart. So I deleted my calendar and I don't keep a schedule. I try to remember it all in my head. If I can't remember it, I'm not going to add it."
"I have a nasty email autoresponder that says, I don't check email and don't text me either. If you need to find me, you'll find me."
"My wife knows not to ever book or schedule me for anything. I'm not expected to go to couples dinners. I'm not expected to go to birthdays. I'm not expected to go to weddings. If somebody tries to rope her into having me show up, she says he makes his own decisions. You got to ask him directly."
Chris: "Are you not killing serendipity in a way?"
Naval: "No. I'm freeing up all my time. So my entire life is serendipity. I get to interact with whoever I want, whenever I want, wherever."
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David Kaye retweeted
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David Kaye retweeted
2E is back! Our fall camp in San Francisco for irrationally passionate teens.
Know a geeky teen (can be in any area)? Encourage them to apply by August 2nd -- it could literally change their life!
See our post about 2E in the comments.
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Better still: prove your velocity in Champions. Do it well and we'll fund you and get your round done: f4.fund/champions
Please hear my advice:
- YC won't accept you (low chance)
- Your startup (probably) won't go viral
- VCs won't chase you
- TechCrunch won't write about you
- No one is going to save you (sorry)
Build your product as if NONE of those will happen.
That will be more helpful.
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David Kaye retweeted
will actually double down here: imo SF is explicitly the *wrong* city for 90% of seed-stage startups to relocate to (from my experience with globally distributed founders):
> "we're going to SF" because "available resources" is often an unknowing attempt to paper over the cracks vs solving actual business issues
> a modestly-funded seed-stage startup that isn't already well-connected in SF (or carries serious cachet) is highly, highly, highly unlikely to hire the best talent in SF (everyone and their grandmother is trying to hire the best SF talent, and they will likely have "better" options). more likely, you will overpay for mid-rank talent (at best)
> many fresh founders move to SF and become disillusioned by the noise, and often the herd talks them out of pursuing their original, idiosyncratically good idea (and they pivot to align with the noise)
> bye bye runway (slash your runway due to increased expenses with questionable upside. being nimble is a feature of an early startup, and slashing runway kills it).
btw for 90% of seed founders the optimal city is not SF
optimal city is where you either 1) have access to excellent talent (that you can actually hire) or 2) close to customers.
For 90% of seed-stage startups neither of those factors are likely true
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David Kaye retweeted
Every past recessions was some other sectors fault.
The next one will be when this tech boom eventually blows up.
It’s our turn to be the country wrecking idiots.
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David Kaye retweeted
Can someone please explain to me how OpenAI and Anthropic capture even a single dollar in revenue in a world where Chinese models are just as good (if not better) and cost a fraction of the price?
Outside of a few niche situations where orgs will pay to use American models for security reasons (e.g. a handful of US military contracts) why pay to use their models at all?
In this world, how much are OpenAI and Anthropic worth? Has to be < $100 bn each, right?
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