But the window doesn’t last long. As Paik thinks of it, “each time a new shift occurs, it is analogous to the formation of an unstable radioactive isotope. The radioactivity throws off a huge amount of energy in the form of capturable enterprise value, but is subject to half-life decay. Over time, the isotope decays and eventually becomes lead, at... See more
In one of my favorite essays, Choose Good Quests , Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner write about the moral imperative for founders who’ve gained experience, resources, and connections building easier companies early in their careers to use their experience, resources, and connections to tackle really... See more
Social as a model works when people have about as much to offer as they want to receive along a given axis. But no trait is distributed uniformly; there are are outliers in the nice-to-look-at, nice-to-listen-to, nice-to-read, nice-to-get-stock-tips from axes, there's a population that can offer a respectable performance with these traits, and... See more
But I think that if it’s true that AI does more of the basic work that humans do, more people will work in Flounder Mode. We will have the luxury of following our curiosity, and curiosity is something that the LLMs seem to lack. It’s human.
Deep Dive: Building an American TSMC | Contrary Research
They show me what “infinity thinking” looks like—the Evolutionary Braid of Time. All of creation entangled with itself, from microbes to dinosaurs to horses to humans to sentient AIs. My consciousness hits the limits of my own body—all I want is to break out of this infinite loop. I feel how frustration becomes the impetus for every leap in... See more