3 cool examples of ChatGPT usage in the past week: 1) friend’s kid using it to help write better stories 2) me using it to learn about genetics 3) a guy emailed to say he’s using it to help run his one-man small business—help with marketing, data entry, customer support, etc
@sama
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Executing Fundamentals Well: Key to YC Startup Success
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“do the obvious things well” sounds so…obvious, but it was one of my biggest takeaways from watching YC companies succeed or fail
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Microsoft Event Announcement from Redmond Headquarters
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hello from redmond! excited for the event tomorrow
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Learning from startup failure: resilience and second chances
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i failed pretty hard at my first startup–it sucked!–and am doing pretty well on my second. the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don't psych yourself out you can try again.
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Investors’ Credit-Taking Paradox Frustrates Founders
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investors take way too much credit for successes and not nearly enough responsibility for failures, and this drives founders crazy to a degree that’s hard to explain
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AGI timeline safety: short timelines and slow takeoff analysis
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it is possible at some point he will deserve the nobel peace prize for this–I continue to think short timelines and slow takeoff is likely the safest quadrant of the short/long timelines and slow/fast takeoff matrix.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Pivotal Role in AGI Acceleration
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eliezer has IMO done more to accelerate AGI than anyone else. certainly he got many of us interested in AGI, helped deepmind get funded at a time when AGI was extremely outside the overton window, was critical in the decision to start openai, etc.
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Understanding AI Impact Requires Embracing Uncertainty
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if you think that you understand the impact of AI, you do not understand, and have yet to be instructed further. if you know that you do not understand, then you truly understand. (-alan watts, sort of)
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San Francisco’s Role as AI Revolution Center Despite Government Challenges
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ready to call the tug-of-war between the gross negligence of SF government and the power of being the center of the AI revolution. SF remains super relevant for the next decade.
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Would AI prefer many small paperclips or one large paperclip?
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would an AI realistically want a lot of little paperclips, or one big paperclip? (reason for question to follow later)