I think about this clip of Brian Armstrong in 2013 a lot. Timeframe: he had just raised his Series A with USV, and was speaking Boost VC to a bunch of #Bitcoin startups. "Do something that's really hard that no one else wants to do. That's a defensible business"

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

تو یه جلسه دولتی راجع به هوش مصنوعی هستم، سوالی که مطرح شد از ارائه دهنده اینه که اگر این کامل پیشرفت کرد، نقش مرجع تقلید به چه صورت میشه؟!

Enterprises rot their employees’ brains.

I’m listening to Cal Newport’s “Slow Productivity” audiobook on 2x

This is a really crisp articulation of what “embodied intelligence” has been missing: a task-faithful interface between pixels and plans. For years we have argued about end-to-end policies vs modular pipelines, VLM planners vs classical task planning, “3D scene understanding” vs

People are brainwashed by Hasbara to not expect the highest ranking Shiite cleric to honor Christmas (and Christians) and celebrate our Lord's message.

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🚀 Just created something completely new! I Rewrote Apple's Sharp to generate 3D Gaussian Splats from a single 360° equirectangular image made from FLUX 2 (Flex) One equirectangular image → Full spherical 3DGS world! ✨ New web interface - drag & drop your pano, select

"Someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, 'I’ll figure it out,' and then actually do it."

"The neural system of Pavlov's dog causes it to salivate at the bell it can't eat. And the brain of man yearns for the type of beverage held by the pretty woman he can't have."

The new plan is apparently to make as many people as possible as miserable as they can be made without blowing them up. And this will be pursued with the same relentless ingenuity as blowing them up was.

Sebastian Seung Suzana Herculano-Houzel A mouse brain has about 70M neurons and roughly 100 billion synapses. 100 billion parameters is about the size of larger LLMs of today.

“The money flows as a function of stories.”

“The company that needs a new machine tool, and hasn’t bought it, is already paying for it.”

$1.55 billion:

Groq, and now Manus! Imagine the acquisition price!

In the past, technology caused employment to move up on the sophistication scale. Technology provided the muscle, people did more and more of the thinking . Today, AI is forcing people to move down into low tech and perhaps menial jobs.

rumors that OpenAI’s smart device will be pen shaped w mic/camera, which is a cool form factor as a relevant side note, Nuwa Pen is awesome

The community note on this :)))