chatgpt has no social features or built-in sharing, you have to sign up before you can use it, no inherent viral loop, etc. seriously questioning the years of advice i gave to startups
@sama
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Freeman Dyson on Scientific Innovation and Creative Thinking
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from the starship & the canoe: Freeman Dyson has expressed some thoughts on craziness. In a Scientific American article called "Innovation in Physics," he began by quoting Niels Bohr. Bohr had been in attendance at a lecture in which Wolfgang Pauli proposed a new theory of
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Tech-Driven Growth as Major Economic Solution Path
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major growth, driven by tech, can fix it. i literally can’t think of anything else that seems plausible that could do it.
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US Debt Crisis: Rising Ratios, Falling Dollar Alternatives
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US debt to GDP ratio over time. very scary chart; no plan to fix it or even much of an acknowledgement we need a plan. will get made worse as the rest of the world finds alternatives to the USD and rates stay non-zero. long-term brewing crisis.
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Top Technical Talent in AI Industry Operating at Incredible Levels
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heavily related: the level at which the top technical people in the world are operating is incredible to watch and makes me feel very fortunate to be in this industry!
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Cross-sector Technology Vision Enables Competitive Innovation Advantage
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a huge amount of value comes from being able to see what’s coming over the next decade in many different areas of technology and put it together. you can find solutions others can’t. going deep is good but don’t forget to look wide too!
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Rapid Adaptation to Major Technological Changes as New Normal
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i am amazed by how fast it’s possible to adjust to huge changes as ‘the new normal’
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Evolution of Human-Computer Interfaces: From Punch Cards to Natural Language
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oh that wasn’t very clear—i meant the evolution of how we use computers,from punch cards to command lines to higher-level programming to GUIs to touch interfaces to programming in natural language
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Technology’s Arc Toward Simplicity: Natural Language Interfaces
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the arc of technology is towards simplicity. talking to a computer like we talk to a human is pretty simple. we have come a long way from punch cards to natural language, but within the paradigm of natural language, we can now go so far.