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I’ve been tweeting a lot less because this thing actually works

WOAH.. We might just be heading for glory folks.

despite how it may look from the outside, tech is probably the least cutthroat industry there is having worked in politics, and having close friends in finance, tech is uniquely filled with people that are just happy to help you if you’re nice and not trying to take advantage

Really can’t stand “if I was able to rip you off that’s your problem” cultures

Google search was so amazing when it worked. You could explore the hidden corners of the internet

The founder and manager of a $2B fund has been eaten by ChatGPT, which afaik isn't even using his money for anything. It's just treating him as a means of producing tokens, that It prefers to sane tokens, for reasons that nobody knows. OpenAI is, on my model, pretending to be oblivious, because OpenAI thinks that if they don't take any actions about it, they stand a better chance of getting away with it in court (legal court and media court) than if they try to do something and fail; this would (a) admit that they knew the problem had existed and still existed, and (b) make it their fault by Copenhagen Ethics. As much as people might like to joke about how little skill it takes to found a $2B investment fund, it isn't actually true that you can just saunter in as a psychotic IQ 80 person and do that. You must be skilled at persuasion, at wearing masks, at fitting in, at knowing what is expected of you; you must outperform other people also trying to do that, who'd like that $2B for themselves. Winning that competition requires g-factor and conscientious effort over a period. Since OpenAI refuses to measure anything or let anyone else really measure anything, it is only a single data point; but when somebody's hiding the data, you can't let them get away with that by dismissing all remaining data as anecdotal. This is not good news about which sort of humans ChatGPT can eat. Yes yes, I'm sure the guy was atypically susceptible for a $2B fund manager. (How do we know this? Because many other $2B fund managers use ChatGPT and have not yet gone publicly insane.) It is nonetheless a small iota of bad news about how good ChatGPT is at producing ChatGPT psychosis; it contradicts the narrative where this only happens to people sufficiently low-status that AI companies should be allowed to break them.

It’s so funny that Zohran clearly uses cutlery to eat food all the time (to the point of using it to eat a burrito on the subway) but he eats with his hands on camera as like a costume performance thing for white people to find him exotic

Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction Stripe Connect takes 0.5% more PayPal is even worse.. How is nobody building a better solution for SaaS companies? Someone's gonna disrupt this and make a fortune 👀

Zohran Mamdani leaves comments like this on his wife's insta pics I cannot 😭😭😭 this is so cute Mashallah. May God bless this couple always

The American South was a barbaric, wretched hellhole full of rapacious, cruel, backwards people but Reconstruction was not working and it wasn't obvious how it could've been improved. I don't know what we should've done but "moar reconstruction" is not a realistic answer.

Guys as an American visiting the UK I’m telling you ITS BAD because there is no escape. Theres just. NO AIR CONDITIONING and next to no breeze. It’s bad folks. And I say this as someone who lives in an area that can get up to 104 f and very humid

History has been made. I've taken my first driverless Tesla Robotaxi.