malthaus

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by malthaus 2y ago
outsourcing state to openai & co is great for them as vendor lock-in. the real money in AI will be business- and user-interfacing tools built on top of the vendors and it would be a terrible business decision to not abstract away from t
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by malthaus 2y ago
same here. it even runs most of my demanding ableton projects just fine. i need more compute? using a saas solution i need more storage? tiny external ssd or cloud storage the 8gigs of ram also aren't holding me back, i think most peop
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by malthaus 2y ago
but while there is a plateau in the transformer architecture, what you can do with those base models by further finetuning / modifying / enhancing them is still largely unexplored so i still predict mind-blowing enhancements yearl
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by malthaus 2y ago
warren buffet got rich by outperforming early (threw his dice well) and then using that reputation to attract more capital and use his reputation to actually influence markets with his decisions / gain access to privileged information
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by malthaus 2y ago
you would still be better off in the long run even just putting everything into an MSCI world unless you value being able to scream at a human if markets go down that highly
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by malthaus 2y ago
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
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by malthaus 2y ago
no, but like with paul graham's essays, people have an unhealthy obsession with both their writing (which is irrelevant outside of the ycombinator/sv bubble) to the point where it seems to signal to be part of an insider club more
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by malthaus 2y ago
you get money to sustain a bunch of academics and startups past their good-by date the eu gets some publicity and the public gets nothing but another bite out of their taxes
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by malthaus 2y ago
and the true believers of those are maybe 0.001%, the rest are just hoping for a quick buck by riding the wave cryptocurrencies are a failure and net negative, and the longer we hold on to believing they aren't, the more damage we are
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by malthaus 2y ago
so musk re-invented mckinsey?
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by malthaus 2y ago
as soon as there is a common hashtag on instagram, tiktok & co (or let's call it a 'label') any subculture is dead
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by malthaus 2y ago
because tech people don't want to start a lifestyle or low-growth business. they are reading about giga rounds, unicorns and hockey-sticks as well as the VC/PG propaganda on hackernews etc all day and think that this is the only w
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by malthaus 2y ago
i'm so confused by these discussions around hitting the wall. sure, a full-on AGI, non-hallucinating AI would be great. but the current state is already a giant leap. there's so much untapped potential in the corporate world where
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by malthaus 2y ago
but why does that language have to be one as braindead as javascript. path-dependency is the root of all evil.
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by malthaus 2y ago
this brings back traumatic memories of fiddling for hours with various config files to make games work on DOS back in the day
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by malthaus 2y ago
if my billion net worth were coupled to that being the case i'd tweet that as well
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by malthaus 2y ago
it's the equivalent of the "we overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate the effect in the long run" quote. everyone is looking at llm scores & strawberry gotchas while ignoring the trillio
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by malthaus 2y ago
https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE karpathy agrees with you, here he is hating on tokenizers while re-building them for 2h
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by malthaus 2y ago
in a negotiation where you have experts with good intuition for costs and practicalities on one side of the table and a non-technical failing-upwards-megalomaniac-kid on the other side, i doubt that's a sensible strategy
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by malthaus 2y ago
lovely product, great prices, great philosophy but as someone who hates subscriptions, this would actually be a really nice subscription - currently i just buy the "all samples from [year - 1]" on black friday instead but i wouldn
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by malthaus 2y ago
nice stance to have if everyone around you has the same in a full plane. as soon as one person starts reclininig, you can die on that hill all alone and i'm reclining faster than you can sigh in disappointment
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by malthaus 2y ago
... or you could have communicated your boundaries & expectations first thing and explicitly instead of doing this weird song and dance and complain on hacker news about it afterwards?
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by malthaus 2y ago
a better strategy would be a follow-up question on how it changed their life i'm with the parent commenter here as i find your response very much telling on how you evaluate things and frankly, more idiotic than someone's life bei
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by malthaus 2y ago
you can't argue the valuation like that the only way the valuation is put "in perspective" is if you estimate that we gonna have a race of heavy investments now to get to a point where the models are "good enough" a
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by malthaus 2y ago
given the previously disclosed communication style, do you think he cares?
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by malthaus 2y ago
are you saying smart people are immune to the temptations of attention-dopamine? because i'd consider myself above average in terms of intelligence and ambition but i still fall into the procrastination trap often. now you might say th
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by malthaus 2y ago
indeed, that's about the most sane take on sam's plans i've seen so far from players in this craze if this house of cards collapses, it will be magnitutes bigger than any bubble (be it hype or fraud) we've seen so far. w
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by malthaus 2y ago
some of the comments here are exceptionally biased towards the party that does the "open source washing". just look at the childish way automattic acted. that's not a way to lead an organization or deal with your competition.
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by malthaus 2y ago
which is actually my "Dark AI World" prediction for the next 5-10 years: a boom of AI to such an extent that everything we do in our lives gets more verbose and it's just AI bots chatting to each other, in each step blowing u
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by malthaus 2y ago
all linkedin content already now feels ai-generated. the transformer being b & c players regurgitating other people's motivational stories and "humbled" announcement posts and of course with a selfie attached to it for no

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