hey sorry i didn’t respond to your text i’ve been trying to process my decision to commit my life’s work to an industry that has only found product market fit as a casino that requires a phd level understanding of computer science to use

pope yes

fucking insane how we started with dirt and rocks and dead trees and somehow built all of this shit. empty planet of nothing and now look at us glass skyscrapers cutting through clouds digital networks spanning continents. we took useless ancient plants crushed under dirt for

my son asked me, dad why don't people build UI like this anymore. slowly i turned to him, and told him the uncomfortable truth. "we can't, we dont know how to do it."

My brain when I see men shorter than me (6’4”) “Ah what a shame for him, not reaching the proper height for a man.” My brain when I see a man taller than me: “Woah there freak boy. Fuck it must be hard being such a monster. I bet babies cry when they see you”

Is there any situation where ‘utilise’ is a better word than ‘use’? It just seems to exist for the situation “I want to say use, but I want to sound clever”

Has there ever been a high trust society with a positive birthrate? It feels like all the places where you can leave your keys in your car are also places where everyone is having 1 kid. Is that just what happens when everyone is an only child?

“this is the biggest bubble I’ve ever seen” my brother in christ they were selling .jpegs of literal rocks for $5 Million USD just four years ago…

paul graham's essays are a goldmine

I actually wonder how many founders join YC, move to SF, give up equity but never read all of Paul’s essays. My guess is >50%

For a long time I thought it was weird that you see this image so often but no one ever makes this joke about it. Then a couple of years ago I made this joke, and it got no traction at all. Now I’m thinking, maybe a lot of people have made this joke?

My kids (8,9,10) regularly talk to Siri on the HomePod in our kitchen. Today I put Chat GPT on voice chat on my phone for them. It is insane how much better it was. They couldn’t believe it. They were still talking to it an hour later. What is Apple doing?

Everyone keeps trying to buy the LLMs more tutors, when what they need are apprenticeships.

Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than all philanthropy combined.

My theory is, it probably doesn’t matter what you actually learn about. Education is about taking something apart, and then putting it back together to make it work differently. I think we could teach kids the Star Wars screenplay, or have them study Mr Beast’s most viral videos.

Please make sure you are only drinking as much water as you REALLY need. We need that for the datacenters. If you’re thirsty, grok is thirsty too.

Same energy

New conspiracy theory just dropped. This one’s quite interesting actually, because if any of the others are true, this one must be true. The illuminati wouldn’t be finding out about Chat GPT from following Sam Altman on here. So it’s either true, or false and disproves them all.

In another timeline Musk bought Boston Dynamics instead of Twitter, and things are better.

Do you think when Caesar brought Vercingetorix back to Rome random Legionaries kept wanting to have their portraits painted with him?