Mike Grady

Induction scaled; no conjecture in sight.

@tunguz David Deutsch explains this well - explanations are the real substrate of knowledge. Not math.

Excellent book, the best one on Gödel’s Theorem(s) that I’ve ever come across. It still requires a lot of deep thinking to get through, and I’ve not been able to follow all the arguments in detail. However, I’m confident that this is the first book where if I DID make the effort to understand all the arguments, I could do so. One or two more detailed reading could get me there. One overarching point that I got from reading this book is how much reasoning behind these arguments relies on “meta” mathematical thinking, and our ability to use human language to elucidate such concepts. Those who think that the ONLY way we can truly comprehend something is if we completely formulate it in code or mathematics are deluding themselves. As are those who think that “philosophical” considerations have become completely meaningless and redundant.

@as400495 Probably. But unequal adoption may simply yield a system where verification / code firewalls become the real substrate all the agentic slop runs on. That is, tons more python / JavaScript still incoming.

Rust is by far the best language for AI to write code in because problems become obvious (opinionated compiler, tightly coupled memory management, performance on par with C/C++)

@bdomenech Jobs, Elon, even Rockefeller. None born with a silver spoon. This narrative much more true for socialist countries where the circumstances of your birth strongly determine your outcomes in life. Strange that they want to import this very bad system.

Jeff Bezos was born in Alberquerque to a 17 year old high school mom who divorced his alcoholic dad before Jeff was 2. He worked at McDonald's before his grades earned his way into Princeton. He started Amazon in a garage with a 245k investment from his parents. That's reality.

@BernieSanders And what do you propose the government do to the “unacceptable” and their property here in the land of the free? What level of wealth does the DSA believe is “acceptable”? Is it published? Can it change?

Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election. Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California. He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.

@xai @SpaceX @AnthropicAI “Maximally truth seeking”. Just a slogan I guess.

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → x.ai/news/anthropic…

@Jason @twistartups Your claw is on here double tapping

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@dailystoic You don’t own Marcus Aurelius, Ryan.

Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

@Dan_Jeffries1 Knowing the future is - quite literally - forbidden by the laws of physics.

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world. "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. "It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful." "Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. "That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. "That is it going to completely destroy democracy. "These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." Brutal. And right.

@LeonZeonidas @Loose_Alpha @pmarca Agreed. We must see things for what they are despite what we wish them to be. A valid reading of US history is that “institutional success” has rarely existed and most of the progress has been achieved by rare individuals with grit working in spite of the bureaucracy.

@GTdoubleE @Loose_Alpha @pmarca As much as I detest liberal elite self loathing and condescension, somebody has to drive the bus. Trump reminds me a little of Nixon, the outsider trying to get things done.

Every argument of “because of the smartphone” or “the Internet” or “social media” is cope, to avoid confronting the catastrophic collapse of incumbent institutional competence over the same timeframe.

@LeonZeonidas @Loose_Alpha @pmarca And perhaps the only times it has appeared to work in the last 150 years is when a sufficiently competent (or insane) person wrested enough power to actually get things done.

@Loose_Alpha @pmarca I would argue its competence was exaggerated, never really existed. The perception of competence assuaged the masses. An informed but incompetent populace is dangerous.

@BenjDicken I read the Oracle7 server concepts docs as a young engineer and it always helped throughout my career in a variety of topics.

Database Internals: Complete. I've now read both this and DDIA over the past 9 months. In some ways I liked DI more than DDIA. DDIA is great, but felt it was too verbose in the second half. DI is shorter and tighter. Every single engineer can benefit from reading Database Internals. (Yes, even all of you React Miami-ers!) This won't teach you everything, but it's a great place to start.

@tjparker @scikityearn I agree in practice. But on principle it feels a bit like letting the foxes regulate the hen house.

@scikityearn trying to change fundamental rx regs with zero involvement from the pharmacy or medical board was a bad strategy and will probably set everyone back

Wow, who could’ve seen this coming..

@pmarca @garrytan It is!

I think @garrytan's GStack is cool.

@SpaceX @cursor_ai Greatest VS code fork of all time.

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

@garrytan Indeed the new spam: some weird Obi Wan style emails as agents get plugged into more workflows.

The web is a real vector for prompt injection and data exfiltration, so it's interesting to implement all of these defense-in-depth layers since no one layer can prevent intrusion with just one layer. Coming to GStack Browser shortly

Sneak Preview: GStack Browser will do defense-in-depth on detecting prompt injections from websites

@Dan_Jeffries1 He has been repeating it for 3 years now. He is wrong, and it is a bad idea to circulate. We are at the beginning of software and knowledge work. Driven directly by people. People getting paid. The very beginning.

This message is wrong. It's deeply unimaginative. It's dangerous. It's destabilizing. It's going to get people killed. It scares regular people for no reason and mobilizes them against AI. It needs to stop.

@Jason It’s a website my man.

Incredible…. The 2% of people using these tools are experiencing AGI, and the other 98% belief AI is a ChatGPT 3.5 result filled with hallucinations One month is seven months of progress right now There is no precedent for what we are experiencing

@elonmusk This is not a good idea.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@DJSnM @GamewithDave Xcom was great

@GamewithDave Still worth playing today

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@sama Ideas are powerful, and always need to restated, criticized and defended. As ideas get loonier this is even more important, not less.

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512