Round 4 with Elon & Lex
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Round 4 with Elon & Lex Good to listen to while falling asleep
BIG TECH
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Elon and Lex Round 4 Discussion
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GPT-4 Outperforms GPT-3.5 with Enhanced Capabilities
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The GPT-4 model, developed by OpenAI, enhances AI with a refined knowledge base, better creativity, and improved conversation skills, clearly outperforming GPT-3.5 in terms of output quality…
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ChatGPT Experiencing Errors and DDoS Issues
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ChatGPT still not fixed, getting massive errors. Guess DDos still a problem
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Ex-Googlers Risk Overplacement Beyond Demonstrated Competence
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And so, relative to a non-Google hire, your ex-Googlers will be at positions within your company which their level of competence may not yet have, ahem, strictly speaking been fully demonstrated yet. The memeplex will have prepared them well for what they need to do next.
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Default Consensus: Salary Upleveling When Hiring Ex-Tech Executives
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"What's an example of default consensus decisions?" OK, so you're hiring ex-Googlers, right? You know what their payscale looks like. It is higher than yours. You will *systematically* uplevel them both to justify more $ and to make up for the sacrifice they take joining you.
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Google memeplex influence: corporate culture as systemic risk
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And so when the Google memeplex looks around locally and sees a lack of the comforts of home, which the memeplex is very capable of advocating for persuasively, sometimes it should be listened to and sometimes it needs to be treated like a prion that kills all hosts but Google.
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Google’s Path Dependency and Unassailable Market Position
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The way that Google operates is both extremely path dependent and also successful in the context of happening to be one of the most powerful, well-resourced, unassailable businesses that has ever been conceived of in reality or fiction, attached to a magic money printer.
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Google’s Organizational Culture and Its Lasting Impact on Former Employees
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The culture that is Google embeds a memeplex which sees organizations that do not operate as Google operates, and interprets this deviance as damage. Some people who previously worked at Google are extremely steeped in this culture and less than reflective of this fact.
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Lessons from Working with Former Google Employees
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I have had the opportunity to work with many people who previously worked at Google, and enjoy the vast majority of those interactions. But I will say a thing that must be said, for the benefit of people who will otherwise learn it the hard way:
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Identity and Work Culture at Big Tech Companies
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And a challenge of working there is "How much of my brainsweat/care/identity is entangled with playing the game that is Google and Getting Good at Googling? And how much is everything else?" Neither extreme of spectrum is optimal for most interesting values systems.