SOTA in LLMs explained:
- Ant (least based) idiotically nerfs the best model. Everyone wants to work here
- xAI (most based) somewhat pathetically has the worst model. No one wants to work here
- oAI constantly oscillating between the other two. Jobs flow from xAI -> oAI -> Ant
About 5 years ago, Elon was giving @Erdayastronaut a tour of the Starbase launchpad. A worker at the site walks up, hugs him, and says: “We’re going to make it.”
He’s probably a millionaire now.
Been to Spain, people out there are not happy, they really believe this kind of stuff. There will probably be a very, very violent uprising if these people keep ruminating on their (misplaced) anger x.com/p3rr0t0rtug4/status/20…
If you taxed 100% of Elon’s net worth, confiscated every penny, you could fund the current US government for about… 49 days.
We don’t have a revenue problem.
We have a welfare spending problem.
A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
paulgraham.com/wealth.html
time for the annual reread.
to be studied, not read.
with more life experience, you learn things missed entirely on previous reads. this only happens with the best of Timeless books.
make a podcast series again on Incerto plus Poor Charlie's Almanack? 200 hrs of "work" :)👨🏻🍳
No billionaire actually built a billion dollar company through hard work. Apple’s cofounder said the garage story is a myth. Bezos got a $300k investment from his parents. Google’s founders were Stanford grads with access to venture capital. Stop promoting the bootstrap ideology.