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Even this post is written by AI and it's so obvious...

I have a lot of doctor friends who tell me they all use OpenEvidence [1] in their practice. They've done a good job of capturing the doctor market while offering a useful product.

[1] https://www.openevidence.com/

You're starting to sound like an agent yourself.

BTW It's a 2019 Dell Inspiron with ~2.8 GHz processor speed and 24 GB memory. It's pretty slow by today's standards. Does your recommendation still hold?

Fantastic work. Flying the Kenyan flag high!

This is pretty unique and amazing. How are you marketing this all the way to $500/mo.?

Wow, this is awesome. How did you market this? 100,000 users is a lot.

Given how high risk this whole donor thing is, I’m surprised there is very little regulation around this process.

For one, It’s truly bizzare that they don’t regulate the number of kids from a single donor. I also assumed they would have some rigorous screening of genetic disorders such as this one before freely distributing sperm for insemination.

One benefit of blogs that isn't mentioned enough is the opportunity to express unorthodox ideas, and the chance to defend them to form a good thesis.

Diversity of thought is pretty valuable. So is training yourself to think independently, come up with your own premises and learning to build sound arguments, which you also get from writing and discussing ideas.

Yes we can actually.

I think it has something to do with Silicon Valley's obsession with money. To SV-people, billionaires are like gods. They are worshipped and invited to all the events worth going to (meetups, hackathons, etc.). Everyone wants to be like them.

And it seems to me to be a geographical problem too. In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains. Nobody particularly likes them (outside of select finance bros), and people openly express disdain for them and their greed.

I'm going to go against the grain and say that posting on LinkedIn is actually a good idea. It builds your brand and that is valuable. As cringe as it may be, it puts your name in the working memory of people who might be useful in your career (recruiters, hiring managers, potential collaborators, etc.)

I also think this goes for all the analogous versions of LinkedIn (like Tiktok if you're a creator, or Instagram if you're an artist). Not having a place to show off your work will slow down your growth and progress.

I'm a fairly private person but I've been considering the opportunity cost of it, and I think it's pretty high. Overall +EV: the risks of putting yourself out there are low (i.e. strangers think you're cringe), but the benefits are very high (new jobs/opportunities). I might just start embracing the cringe.

> Then I try to identify those people and works that are widely considered fundamental to the field and focus on those.

How do you go about this? Reddit is fairly good for this, but also suffers from the noise problem (too many suggestions).

This is true. I was a little worried before I landed but while I was there, I did not feel like I was in any kind of danger. I think how long you stay there is directly proportional to how safe you feel (at least in my case).

Thank you! I was worried the pictures were a little too big (and thus hard to admire) but I don't post blogs with pictures very often.

Your blog looks very interesting as well. What should I read first?

> I already have my first city in mind

Which one?

I came across this video a while back of someone programming Blender by sharing his screen on Google’s AI Studio, and essentially hacking together a bunch of automated scripts, prompts and macros to feed Python scripts into Blender’s console and using that to manipulate 3D objects. The end result makes it look like he is using just his voice to build on Blender. I found it extremely impressive, and there is probably massive alpha in just simply tightening this loop and making it a seamless experience where all you have to do is open the app, talk to it, and watch your 3D object get sculpted.

> "This also spills over into just basic big corp office politics. Technical work is very well suited to be increasingly eaten up by AI because of it’s D&D (definable and deterministic) property. So as more technical work is outsourced to the AIs, the value of someone who can manage the AIs to work faster, be more productive and present polished results to shareholders increases. In large organizations, the production process is often invisible to shareholders and upper management. They don’t see how the work was done, just what was delivered. So as AI makes execution cheaper and more commoditized, the perceived value of presentation, packaging, and strategic delivery rises. People who can align AI output with business goals, communicate clearly, and drive visible outcomes will increasingly hold power and not necessarily those doing the raw technical implementation. I understand that this may already be the case, but the scales will tip more in the manager’s favour."

I'm confused as to why they are using a tree model to describe the archive objects (the current model and newly minted child).

It seems to me that this is a linear process (parent -> mint new improved model -> evaluate model, if it passes -> mint new child -> make newly minted child the parent)

I feel like this makes a linked list model rather than a tree model. Am I wrong? What are the other nodes (outside of parent and child) supposed to be?

Yeah, I'm not really sure what the long play is here. $200 is what I spend on groceries for an entire month.

Dwarkesh podcast is seriously good stuff. Insane that he got Scott to do one.