At a restaurant. The waitress just proactively inserted a wedge to solve a rocking table. I might never leave.

AI: The “spreadsheet” for copywriting paulcook.me/2023/02/08/ai-…

Not ChatGPT tools - great list of AI-enabled tools coda.io/@fivethreeoh/n… via Coda

Easily summarise PDFs (with AI) paulcook.me/2023/02/08/eas…

This SVB thing is insane. One likely result, based on what I think currently: big tech wins AI race, as all the startups and startup finance channels got wiped out

1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked #GPT4 if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes.

Well this is really scary. Upped my catastrophe outcome % a lot. AI doesn’t need to be malicious actor, just needs to be asked to play the part of one. Plus, has no “real” memory to realise what’s happening. See movie Memento, super relevant, but imagine he can clone himself.

HUGE opportunity for the first to use LLM-powered counterparties in computer games. Imagine grand strategy games where you can do REAL diplomacy. Or RPGs with realistic party members or NPCs. And of course great for economics research

Seen in a CV: "Data-Driven and Pays attention to detail" Capitalisation in original. Sigh.

Everything that has happened, must have been inevitable. [Slight exception for quantum-scale phenomena. ] From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undoi…

What happened at SVB paulcook.me/2023/05/05/wha…

most people don’t realize a major part of being a corporate executive is slack jiu jitsu. it’s literally just maintaining state on a million ongoing threads and connecting person A to person B to resolve dependency conflicts at an incredibly rapid pace

Freeman Dyson's detailed analysis of how life can survive through thermodynamic optimization in an expanding universe: this paper literally defines the words "audacious" and "creative", and it's not just speculation - Dyson brings hard numbers to the table panspermia.org/revmodphys.51.…

Today, in what NOT to do with Whatsapp support, from supersonic : - no response for 18 hours - then useless bot that can't detect slow response (why only now? Why not fix bot?) - then actually Whatsapp support not working at all - then 26 mins trying to phone, no reply

In 2019, humans mined+quarried more by weight than in all history from the start until 1950. Crazy! [Material World by Ed Conway, lnk.to/MaterialWorld]