In Silicon Valley the post mortem of failure is lack of differentiation. You can’t copy someone else and win. Do it in your way, your unique style, and stop listening to the masses on how to build.
@waitin4agi_
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Contrarian Entrepreneurship: Building Against Common Wisdom
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“building wrappers is stupid” —> build a wrapper
“Products are the most important” —> build distribution
“YouTubers aren’t real entrepreneurs” —> do even more YouTube “Services companies suck” —> build a services company “India can’t make 3D games” —> do it anyway Between -
Reverse Social Sentiment Strategy for Innovation Success
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I changed strategy in my 30s, and everyone should try this once: Just average out sentiment from twitter/reddit on how to do something, and just do the exact opposite. This isn’t because redditors or twitter peeps are stupid, it’s because of saturation. When an idea reaches https://
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Economists Wrong About Future AI Economic Predictions
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everyone is allowed to give their opinions on the future and economists are mostly wrong about everything
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Post-AGI Economics Debate and Social Resistance
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one example of this is talking about post AGI economics. You will get attacked or called a fearmongerer for debating this online when the probability that it may happen in our lifetimes is reasonable. Debate is not allowed for insulting people's sense of current comfort. What do?
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Social Coding of Online Opinion and Institutional Response
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There's a problem with opinion online, which is that most opinion is social coded now. There's a scale beyond which you just cannot have independent opinion and if you do, the status quo with a differing opinion will form an immune response. Many people cannot watch a movie today
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LED Screens vs Smart Display Apps: Technology Trade-offs
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we use an LED screen, so not worth the time + energy, but when it gets better/more convenient we might switch. Skyglass is a good example of an app that shouldve had the potential to solve this
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Auto Rotoscope and AI-Powered Visual Effects Pipeline
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important to keep track of this flow, it'll get good fast. Auto roto + regenerate normals/depth and relight + shadow fakery
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Vertical TVs Rise as Short-Form Content Dominates Viewing
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with the amount of short form content people are watching, I'm surprised TVs aren't hung vertically
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AI Acquisitions Kill Founder Speed Incentives
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Was speaking to someone today about software acquisitions, and he said that acquisitions today don’t work as well today especially in AI because speed is the only moat and acquisitions (if there’s significant cash) kill founder incentives on speed.