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Shouldn’t the world focus more on Actual Intelligence?

AI doesn’t have ideas.

@GergelyOrosz Decided to cancel and to take a break from AI for at least 6 months since I think I am regressing too.

Clear enough that Anthropic is dumbing down their flagship model... to save compute? Or what? I'm paying for the $200/month subscription and this is getting just borderline useless compared to eg 2 months ago Good way to burn customer trust, honestly

Claude just keeps regressing for me, day after day. I swear that until a few days ago, when Claude did not know something, it kicked off a web search, figured out, and answered. Now it just refuses to do the work that I pay for. It's like showing you the middle finger. Really?

@GergelyOrosz Did some research to see what it takes to “create” my own LLM (step by step, options, implications and costs). Based on that draft, I started to think that it might be the retraining step; they are using the users to calibrate the quality of a new version after retraining.

Anthropic really is burning more and more dev goodwill Claude Code is suddenly getting unusable for stuff you could use it before (as in a day before!) and the AI now refuses to so stuff that it doesn’t think is strictly to do with software development. No transparency why ofc

AI is the death of AI ✌️

@paulg @davidsenra @pmarca It’s impressive how this kind of behaviour ends up being promoted as good, as “the way” or even as a principle.

@paulg @davidsenra @pmarca They concept of great is simply skewed and inflated the same way others have started to be in the past decades.

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

Amplify brilliance and you get breakthroughs. Amplify mediocrity and you get confident disasters.

@GoDaddy's support flow is absolutely mental. For the past 2.5 days I've been chats and calls with numerous people. Each time I start a chat, I end up going through the same questions over and over again. Each time I need to explain that I tried everything and it never escalates.

@siimland @paulg I think a saw a stand-up about an asian dad that was doing this to his kid because it was not acceptable.

Microdosing peanuts shown to improve peanut tolerance by 100-fold in peanut-allergic adults A new study gave people with peanut allergy a gradually increasing dose of peanut protein, starting with 0.5 mg/day and increasing the dose every 1-2 weeks After 1 year, their peanut tolerance had improved 100-fold, and they were able to reach a daily maintenance dose of up to 1,000 mg/day without problems They were also tested with a maximum tolerance dose of 4,400 mg, which 56% of the participants tolerated This study shows the efficacy of oral immunotherapy, which is supposed to improve food allergies through gradual exposure Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@fuckcomputer what? how did you copied my app?

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built a fully functioning web app in minutes http://localhost:3000/ check it out

@jobergum anything with grit > anything without grit

Imho a 22 year old that is fluent with coding agents combined with high agency and grit > lazy senior developer with outdated priors. A lot happened the last three years (and weeks) and most developers are asleep on it and haven’t updated their priors.

I really like the markdown viewer of @claudeai on web and mobile. It feels really good while reading. Does anyone know if this theme/style exists in @code?

The worst side effect of extreme wealth is the delusion that being rich makes you right.

@patrickc It’s mostly market correlation. It’s not isolated to these ones and it’s bound to happen because of diversification, hedging and speculation. They have their own pace for a while, but it’s almost unavoidable.

These companies are ostensibly in totally different businesses and yet seem to exhibit the same growth dynamics. What's the explanation? (Pictured: ~$200B -> ~$3T.)

@DanielleFong @patrickc Any part of a city can “live” on its own; it can scale. How is a living body comparable with a city?

studies from Geoffrey West at the Santa Fe Institute looked at the metabolic rates for animals, for companies, for cities. animals followed a consistent scaling law for metabolism -- getting slower as they got larger. and so did companies. but cities (and ecosystems) got faster as they got larger -- run at a higher pace, with a more rapid turn over rate for any atoms in the physical environment. predictable power laws over many orders of magnitude. for animals, they explained the metabolic rates based on a scaling law argument, basically that the fractal pattern of circulatory and respiratory networks, like arteries, veins, capillaries and lungs, will try to equalize the pressure drop and thus the energy drop through every cross section area about the branches. the fractal splitting allows the transport network to exploit as if it has most of another dimension, for flow and surface area. it's about the transport of the materials necessary for life, particularly respiration. for companies, and for cities, it is likewise like about the physical transportation networks, and the informational transportation networks. and the modern high tech advanced software giant has somehow evolved a new information architecture that is on a different scaling law, because of this different information architecture, compared to traditional companies. Actually Geoffrey West was hired to consult at Google about this. I think this preceded the move to "Alphabet" Nevertheless, it's not a full explanation. Apple is structured very differently from Alphabet. I am not sure about now, but back after Steve Jobs recently had passed, a friend of mine from Apple described it as "Steve Jobs made Apple like his supersuit, and then, he died, leaving nobody in the cockpit..."

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

@paulg For me it’s fluidity — no matter what I do, it needs to feel fluid, organic, natural.

They don't have precise shapes. It's more like I'm perceiving the writing with the part of my brain that perceives shapes. When I think about a paragraph that's missing something, or twisted around, or repetitive, it's like thinking of a physical thing with those qualities.

I know some people associate numbers with colors. This doesn't happen to me, but when I think about an essay I'm writing, the paragraphs often seem to have shapes. Especially the ones that need fixing.

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Notice the date on this. Miguel got it right in 2018. That's why I follow him.

On a different perspective, it can be seen as a creativity booster, since depending on the problem, I can actually iterate and progress faster.

Even though it’s useful, my first thought is that it can end up being a creativity killer.

I kept the distance for the past year, but for the past week, and specially this weekend I’be been using AI prompts intensively for all sort of problems.