the “earnestly” rarely exists at the big tech company far too much self doubt and defeatism far too early
@alexandr_wang
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Tech Giants’ Political Culture Wastes Engineering Talent
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there are so many engineers (literally 10s of thousands) at big tech companies who are working on things that fundamentally don't matter and nobody cares about this is because at "the top", there's politics where it's better to be nice vs right, and deep inefficiency persists
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Media Coverage Gap: Views Versus Structural AI Shifts
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The fundamental problem with journalism & media in a nutshell is: what generates views != what really matters it’s hard to blame the media for producing what makes them money (politics & personality pieces), but now it’s rare to read about structural shifts that really matter
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Great Operators Thrive Through Anxiety and Paranoia
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most great operators I know are inherently anxious only the paranoid survive generally speaking, not well appreciated enough how valuable pathologized psychological traits can be
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Finding Purpose in AI Work and Mission-Driven Technology
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everyone should work a job that they love so much that they wish they could work harder at I feel that viscerally now at @scale_AI
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AI’s Role in US Army 2030 and 2040 Strategy
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I spent yesterday with Deputy Commanding General Ross Coffman (
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Scale AI Building Smart Port with Autonomy in Puerto Rico
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We @scale_AI are building a Smart Port in Ponce, Puerto Rico. We’re building a modern port outfitted with autonomy and AI. Ports, despite being critical infrastructure for trade, have remained technologically backwards. It’s time to build
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Google Incentivizes Employees for RLHF Bard Development
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Google is offering an internal badge to their employees who help RLHF Bard. And slowly, RLHF will eat the world
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LLMs as Critical National Security Assets for America
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AI is America's greatest national security risk in the coming decades LLMs are critical national security assets, as important as the atomic bomb in prior times At @scale_AI
, we are dedicated to protecting the USA in the era of great power competition https://
scale.com/federal-llm