“For the first time in history we are seeing mass layoffs in an economic expansion.”

No flapping

Imagine if Optimus gets a hold of a knife on the wrong day 🤦‍♂️

BREAKING: Father Tony Boutros, Greek Catholic leader in Sweida, Syria, is calling on the world to save Christians and Druze from an Islamist genocide: “Look at the massacre they are committing against us. We need protection to continue living.”

We’re Tesla We make robots They come in many shapes and forms

Seen at LACMA - disgraceful StopAntisemitism ADL

Prediction: Tesla Robotaxi will offer a flat rate monthly subscription for unlimited rides 👀 🚀

I guess Oxford comma needs to be renamed to GPT comma If only it were so uncommon

This book articulates something I’ve fought for my whole career: goals and team metrics lead to mediocre outcomes. Actually novel work must be exploratory.

It will be Am Yisrael Chai for thousands of years to come. Hamas are just another anti-Jewish force that tried to persecute the Jews, tried to drive them into the sea, and failed.

i found an old blog post from alexandr wang on building billion dollar companies (scale ai ceo, $15b valuation): "what people say is overoptimism is just optimism what people say is overcommunicating is just communicating what people say is overdelivering is just delivering

The invention of the Transformer was the invention of AGI. The question is not ‘do we have it’, but it is ‘what do we do with it?’. And that question is the same as any other revolutionary discovery, whether industrial, electrical or technological. ‘Now what’ is the question

VC 996 culture: - 9 vacations this year - 9 podcast appearances this month - 6 founders ghosted this week

Devin Olsen AI, not tele-operated

and no it does not matter if it's "indistinguishable", we can already make movies that are indistinguishable from real life. this has happened before, we can still know if something is real through them staking their brand and it has not changed our appreciation for realness

The specificity of the request is inversely correlated with the skill of the recipient. If someone sucks, you gotta tell them exactly what to do. If they're good, you can just tell them what you want to have happen, and they'll make it happen.

Friendly reminder that Invision got to $100M ARR before Figma got to $5M ARR. The first to get big does not automatically correlate to the one who wins.

an individual llm may not get us asi, but networks of llms might, in the same way that networks of molecules give us cells, networks of cells give us organisms, and networks of neurons give us open ended intelligence. we can get there with the right network of primitives.

We should care about our founders. We should care about the problems they are solving. Because they are going to drive our country forward.