Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
- Around 20 to 25 percent of the readers, the heavy readers, account for 80 percent of the revenue pool of the industry of what consumers spend on books. It’s the really dedicated readers. If they got all-access, the revenue pool of the industry is going to be very small.
- Trust the trendline.
from I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs by SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead
- It wasn’t about a corporate card, or even just building better software for finance teams to use, but about improving every part of the business that involves a transaction.
from Ramp and the AI Opportunity
For Abacum is improving every part of the business that involves a decision, target, and $$
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
- “ Owning the workflow” means embedding the product so deeply into the customer's operations that it's not just a tool, it’s the nervous system of a department.
from Ramp and the AI Opportunity
- Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for
from I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again by mataroa.blog
- If you have the resources to spend some time exploring, if you are on to interesting threads of novelty that few other people have, and if you have the spirit to tighten your belt, throw out your map, and explore off-road, then your real job is to do so. It is a grave sin to neglect that kind of cosmic duty. But many more people have the means and ... See more
from Quit Your Job by Wolf Tivy
- Anxiety of incompetence : my skills are devalued and i have to learn new ones
- Anxiety of irrelevance : people might not relate to, value, or think about me
- Anxiety of uncertainty : I don’t know what the future holds and it feels fickle
from Agency in the Age of AI by Anu
A generalization of what people feel when thinking about AI
- What I learned from reading “Situational Awareness” is that the next generation of privilege-blind Silicon Valley investors are even more out of touch than expected. It’s really sad and feels like a cosmic joke that the world’s most affluent class of people who legitimately have the resources to change the world for the better are living and thinki... See more
from The Rise of the AGI Profiteers