Michael Daugherty 🌳

Trying out a new LLM prompt to make sure I get it to bring up perspectives not about my original question: “and what do they not want us to know about X?” Conspiracies are everywhere!

Working with AI feels like everyone is either cooked or cooking.

@TinkeredThinker It's just a normal church

Cut it in half and it's the church of e/acc

I'm so glad I signed up for Github in 2010 before their current CAPTCHAs! I'm sitting next to a coworker signing up for their first github account - he has had to do 50 captchas in a row!

@jasonlk @wquist I did this for some GPs at AngelList - crystallizing carry allows the LP and GP to make separate decisions about selling/holding. Mostly in LP secondaries where the buyer wanted 0% carry and LP was open to discount but GP wanted to hold. Can be done in most fund docs w/some work

@wquist I honestly have no idea how this works but it would make a lot of sense Personally — I would love to distribute some winners to LPs but personally get to keep my carry as stock and go longer myself

We are going to see more GPs distribute private stock to LPs. And those LPs will hire folks to help manage the liquidity. And everyone forget that this is exactly how it worked in the 70s, 80s, 90s - just with less liquidity and more fees cause back then we just used the public markets. This is the same story for growth capital too…

@ericbahn I wait 5-6 min. I ended up building this into @quillmeetings as an auto reminder actually if no one says anything in the first 5 minutes of the meeting 😁

Aight, I'm curious now--what is your grace period for waiting on someone on a Zoom before you log off? Is 10 min too generous?

Love that ChatGPT can now generate creative and practical swag ideas for @quillmeetings just from our landing page. LMK if you'd like either of these.

Claude wrote some music for me, and it's not bad! Massive improvement over last year. Check it out: claude.site/artifacts/d63f…

Overall, it was quite fast to create for a first pass, but has taken enough tweaking that I maybe could have coded a custom solution that would perform better with just a bit more work.

Sometimes ChatGPT is dumb and forgets to read the manuals 🤦‍♂️but this has generally been quite good for looking up details in a new place.

I made custom GPTs for my apartment and car in ChatGPT by uploading all my docs, user manuals for appliances, etc.

@robertghilduta I see you already have it ready to do some yoga!

hello world!

@MIT This is great news - I've always been grateful for the financial aid I had access to as an undergrad at MIT. Talent is not distributed by wealth, so keeping great education affordable will be life changing to many.

Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025: Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families. mitsha.re/Wg8550UbkFc

@cyantist Watched this last week :) Still entertained after so many years

Now watching Gladiator. It rose to the top of the list so I figured I had to. Pretty good and hard to believe I’ve never seen it. Are you not entertained?!

This email from a customer made me smile all day. Exactly why we're building Quill - so AI can help you be the best version of yourself possible.

@AntipenkoL3792 @nivi @DavidDeutschOxf Weather prediction is a different sort of system than consciousness within a universe, IMO. Weather prediction techniques are more monte carlo-esque. But maybe that's what Deutsch is comparing to with multiverse theory, ie. in which % of universes would I write this comment in...

@mpdaugherty @nivi > small changes in inputs result in large changes in outputs @DavidDeutschOxf told this is wrong. Chaos theory is wrong. Small∆i=>Small∆output. Big∆i=>big∆output. Humans will be able to predict weather very good.

People, including me, have said that the brain is a computer. In short, if the brain follows the laws of quantum physics, it can be simulated on a computer. But that means the brain will always give the same output for a given input. It also means that knowledge creation is predetermined. I’m doubtful of both of those conclusions, so I reckon there’s an error somewhere above.

@nivi I'm not super familiar with David Deutsch, but my understanding is that quantization is at the Planck level; very different than even micro-scale inputs. What's the difference between an uncountable set of states and an analog system? The universe is ~10^61 Planck eras old...

@mpdaugherty As I understand from David Deutsch, this butterfly effect idea is generally not correct in the real world because everything is quantized so it absorbs the input variations.

@IndieHackers I could see selling a limited number as an alternative to equity fundraising, but I wouldn't do it once the business is up and running. They'll be a liability to handle if you ever exit. Also would want to be really confident in cost model...

Offering lifetime deals. Yes or no?

@rubenharris @Ayaka__Matsui @LilsG31 Wow, awesome! congrats!

If you are in New York in October, I will be performing in Carnegie Hall 🎻 #youngandcultured @Ayaka__Matsui are you ready? Shout out to @LilsG31 for setting this up