Ben Rothe
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Ben Rothe
@AnotherArtist2_
Potter in Chiang Mai, soon Berlin. Building a small internet for people who make things.
Katılım Temmuz 2022
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what if we name the next model "goblin"
almost worth it to make you all happy...
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one of the coolest things (also detrimental in some ways) about the internet is the optionality it gives you.
to become extraordinary, you only need to do one or two things people remember you for that are life altering. & the internet lets you keep compounding attempts at ~zero marginal cost until one of them lands. you can see examples everywhere like peter from openclaw. you see this time & time again in the internet era. that is a profound break from the past.
take for example ray kroc… he didn’t get infinite shots. every attempt for him cost years, capital, geography, leases, labor, & distribution. he got maybe a handful of real swings in a lifetime.
now one person can swing every day, in public basically for free forever.
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Built a realtime phonics + reading practice app that adapts to the reader's mistakes and reinforces sound-it-out.A little laggy because I'm running locally but so excited about this for my early reader!
OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs
You can build interactive applications with gpt-realtime-1.5, so users can control app state more naturally with voice. Hi Chappy 👋
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@BoringBiz_ Isn't it amazing that rich people's money makes more money
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Until you run your own business or dabble with real estate, you don’t learn to appreciate just how passive the market is as a wealth building tool
Don’t know the first thing about coding, AI, semiconductors or data centers? Zuckerberg, Sundar, Jensen and Elon sure do
And all you need to do is buy an S&P 500 index, and you have these folks working on your behalf to generate you income
That still blows my mind
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All my life, I’ve waited for this invention!!!!!
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@cremieuxrecueil Social circles are not random samples of any population.
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auspicious timing: we just built this. and it’s working.
it's called small world. it's designed to serve real life, not the other way around
it's a coordination & connection tool that increases the surface area of serendipity
everyone in the comments is asking how this makes money. the economics are easy now that you need 5 devs instead of 5000
on a $110 server we can handle 1-2 million daily active humans. the team is 5 people and 9 $200 codex + claude subs
small world is an extended trust network, so word of mouth only. if you know me personally or we’ve meaningfully interacted, comment or DM and i’ll send you an invite
sml.world
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
It feels pretty obvious at this point that someone’s going to make billions building a social app that’s just for friends, no AI slop, no brainrot, calm design, chronological feed and no concept of followers
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That is pattern-matching cultural anxieties onto a convenient set of villains.
I would argue that what you are actually experiencing is the hyper-visibility of low-trust behaviour through social media not a genuine structural collapse.
vittorio@IterIntellectus
high trust societies are only possible when the average IQ of a society is above a certain threshold. you can hope to have one with hordes of migrants from low trust cultures the same way you can hope to flap your arms and fly, nice dreams but impossible
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believe it or not, the world's entire population can fit inside this cube in new york city
that means we can move everyone here and use the rest of the planet to build data centers to run agentic workflows
seems like a no brainer to me
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@yoheinakajima mine are not words anymore. I would not understand what I wrote one minute later
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This collective suicide of humanity needs to turn around!
Brian Winter@BrazilBrian
Latin America is now aging faster than ANY region in the world. Chile has a lower birthrate than even Japan. What is going on?
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@davidpattersonx Should I get a 100k loan from the bank now? Do I have to pay it back in the post scarcity/post labour economics/UHI world?
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I understand how the economy works, and I know the impact that AI will have on the economy.
Ask me anything.
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@graceclarke Normal people just want to talk to AI in normal english. They are not interested what repo or github means. Just make me this.
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When I say I teach AI for Normal People, this is what I mean.
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