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The way I look at AI -- it increases my IQ by one standard deviation.

There is some humor in the fact that china (of all countries) is pioneering possibly the world's most important tech via open source, while we (US) are doing the exact opposite.

Is it just me, or does it feel like there have been a lot more security breaches + bugs since AI?

Did anyone see what happened to Figma's stock? Its crazy that just an announcement from Anthropic can move the market.

This has been post before, but planetscale also has a great sql for developers course:

https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers

There for sure a "second brain" product hiding in plain site for one of the frontier AI companies. Google/Gemini should be all over this right now.

For fun I ran this query in AI:

> How many impovershised american children could you feed for the cost of one f35 fighter jet?

Here is the answer:

> Using a rough estimate of $110.3 million for one F-35A and about $3,500 per child per year to cover food assistance, that would feed roughly 31,500 children for one year

MPACGA -- Make Poor American Children Great Again.

There is some unintentional good marketing here -- the model is so good its dangerous.

Reminds me of the book 48 Laws of Power -- so good its banned from prisons.

I mean, I'm not a designer but it was interesting enough to call out.

Off topic, but that site has really nice design

> I doubt most sociopaths, when they’re honest, would agree they feel much guilt or remorse at all.

Yes that is the core trait I highlighted in the 1st bullet.

> I suspect there's some other category, which isn't really a sociopath and isn't really a not-sociopath, which we don't have a good definition for.

There is -- I call it "corpo sociopath." The corpo sociopath really comes out in the workplace, less so in personal life.

For those curious about how sama got to where he got and stayed on top for so long, I recommend you read the book: The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.

I am fairly confident when I say this -- sama is a sociopath. I don't know how anyone with solid intuition could even come to any other conclusion than the guy is deeply weird and off-putting.

Some concepts from the book:

> Core trait: The defining characteristic is the absence of conscience, meaning they feel no guilt, shame, or remorse.

> Identification: Sociopaths can be charming and appear normal, but they often lie, cheat, and manipulate to get what they want.

> The Rule of Threes: One lie is a mistake, two is a concern, but three lies or broken promises is a pattern of a liar.

> Trust your instincts over a person's social role (e.g., doctor, leader, parent)

Check and check.

OpenAI is too important to trust sama with. He needs to go. In fact, AI should be considered a public good, not a commodity pay-as-you-go intelligence service.

I just realized how little I know about how async event loops.

You are assuming most readers are dumb. I do not have that assumption.

I have lost faith in sama and openai management.

Is it a problem? Bc I know there is survivorship bias and also still want to hear about the successes, so what is the problem then?

Technically, all journalism pieces on successful businesses are survivorship bias. No one writes and reads about the business that failed to find PMF.

I may be paranoid but only run my ai cli tools in a vps only. I have them installed locally but never use them. In a vps I go full yolo mode bc I do not care about it. It is a slightly more cumbersome workload, bit if you have a dev + staging envs, then you never have to develop and run stuff locally, which brings the local hardware requirements and costs down too (bc you can develop with a base macbook neo).

Say more.

I don't know about you guys, but RTTO was the biggest signal to me that corp america is lost and beyond recovery.

The benefits are so obvious, yet here we are.

His “brand” is “torching investor money.”

Still don’t get it.

This is too cynical for even a turbo cynic like me.

Basically, you’re saying he mislead investors and got a bunch of money, so those investors see themselves being ripped off as a valuable skill, so they invest in him again. Wut?

I say again — why would investors trust him if his only track record is losing investor money?

I guess I would make a terrible VC, bc my money and reputation would matter to me.

But they might end being the bag holder themselves. And is the reputational risk worth it? I would say - no.

But you also have to build a business with the money you raise, or else you kill your reputation along the way.

> ...if you disabuse yourself of the notion that Neumann was playing a game of entrepreneurship and good-faith empire building, and instead conclude that the game he was playing was shameless capital extraction, every step and action he took suddenly makes sense.

Sort of. I get the capital extraction part, but you also need to be a good steward of capital and make a profitable business out of it. He failed badly at the later part, and his reputation is an obstacle for the former.

Not saying you are wrong, but if I am a "capital allocator" at a16z, he would be no-go.

I struggle to understand the psychology of how founders who are clearly incompetent charlatans get second+ chances -- they couldn't do fraud successfully but investors have a faith they could do business successfully. But they still get funding (like adam neumann of wework fame) and full on "narrative tongue baths" by the business media community (like this wsj article on trevor milton).

Why? I struggle to understand the incentives + motivations here.

This makes my inner anarchist warm and fuzzy. Bring the chaos.

better than leetcode.