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by shrimpx 3y ago
The flip side perspective is people will love focusing on doing it right, without being rushed to market for moat building and max profit.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It's how whole industrial sectors become enshittified.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I think some of the staff definitely supports Altman, and are down to quit and follow him. Personally I hope that's what happens. Separate the altruistic-mission guys from the big-profit guys and let them go to town in their respective
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> He is instrumental in the research but he shouldn't be running the business. To push back on this a bit. If two yet unknown people, "an Altman" and "an Ilya", both applied to YC to start a company that builds a
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by shrimpx 3y ago
What kinds of hard times? Why?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
You're right, the handling of it was brutal.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
If Sam Altman wins and the likes of Ilya lose then we won’t actually have AI. Since Sam Altman doesn’t know anything about building AI. We’ll have more sharky products with grandiose visions that end up making money by using surveillance. B
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Ilya should split off from Altman/Brockman no matter where this lands. I sense an uncrossable chasm between these guys. Anyway I’m with Sutskever, the guy who builds models. Charismatic salesmen are a dime a dozen.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Would they tho? Altman and Brockman are not AI people, they’re business guys.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Near-100% certainty that Altman and Brockman cofound a new AI company in the coming days. The question is will they be able to recruit a team that can actually build competitive models? Ilya Sutksevers don't grow on trees. Maybe they&#
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I take it bad founders means the founders that run less than billion-plus companies.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Also Dang the designer from the show "Silicon Valley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLv1dQasaY
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Sam Altman is a typical fast-growth guy and this is the opportunity of a lifetime to cement himself in the pantheon of high growth tech gods — Jobs, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, Hoffman, etc. But aw shucks it’s a terrible fit actually, because
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by shrimpx 3y ago
We have a long history of indicting people for "lying under oath" and never indicting them for the actual issue they were interrogated about, which often is not an indictable offense, but rather something personally embarrassing.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I appreciate your position but I want to push back against this type of rhetorical defense of stuff that has no basis in evidence or reasonable expectation. This sentiment parrots Sam Altman's and Musk's insistence that "AI&q
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by shrimpx 3y ago
If you don't want to code, how do you "make things"? (Presumably by "things" you mean programs/apps.) "Making" and "coding" are synonymous for programmers.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Poetry is the way to go.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
You should ask the LLM what the topmost relevant things would be to put on the homepage.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Oh cool, thanks!
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Btw if you don't mind me asking, how will Fig make money? Will it be integrations with stuff like AWS, GCP, etc.? Nice work on Fig!
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by shrimpx 3y ago
How is this comparison remotely similar? In the NBA you’re not allowed to break the rules. You’ll be promptly fired. Is the US govt going to shut down Tesla for turning down taxpayer money? But I get what you’re ultimately saying, which is
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by shrimpx 3y ago
If he was doing (1) that would preserve his integrity. Sure he’d get flack, but his position would be consistent. Maybe Tesla had to use the tax money for competitive reasons and under investor pressure, and Musk personally disagrees with
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by shrimpx 3y ago
The only way in which it’s an issue is Musk being a libertarian opposed to government spending. He has repeatedly spoken against spending. He strongly opposes the infrastructure bill. I haven’t checked but the infra bill has an EV section a
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by shrimpx 3y ago
By the end of 2025, we will be sending xASIs to Mars.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Fair point. I was thinking about compute in general. It could be that AI-specific compute cheapens more dramatically than CPU compute.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I guess we're speculating that training llama2 will drop by 1000x or something, so anyone can train their own llama2 from scratch for about $2k. I don't think compute cost has dropped by 1000x since 20 years ago. Maybe by 10 to 50
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Yeah but llama2-level AI may be insignificant in power compared to future models, which may be inaccessible to the public. Even assuming the algorithms/code are open, people at large won't be able to create working models.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
That didn't happen with cloud though. I know it's not entirely apples to apples, but you still need a computer the size of a large building to serve Netflix, etc.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Power is already concentrated in the sense that only the wealthy can train. We should make kickstarter-type models to fund open source AI training, because it'll likely continue to cost millions to tens of millions for cutting edge mod
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It's like the nicotine business. It turns out all businesses that dabble in addiction end up wanting to monitor and control kids from a young age.

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