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Weekend Reading — So much distraction labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we rubber duck our GPT, got two apps to catch up on our reading, distract AI with a new social network (no, not that one), and home office rock climbing.

@perrymetzger but … everybody wants to be the super hero in their own movie. so here you have the ultimate villain that endangers all of humanity, against which only our hero can defend using their unique set of skills … alignment I guess?

Is “foom” logically possible? Maybe. I’m not convinced. Is it real world possible? I’m pretty sure no. Is long term deeply superhuman AI going to be a thing? Yes, but not a “foom”: not insane progress hours after the first AGI gets turned on even if we fully cooperate.

Eliezer and his acolytes believe it’s inevitable AIs will go “foom” without warning, meaning, one day you build an AGI and hours or days later the thing has recursively self improved into godlike intelligence and then eats the world. Is this realistic?

@perrymetzger not possible. software improvement: incremental improvement rate trends down. hardware improvement: need new factories, decades and billions of dollars. what could foom do that some nation state with cyber unit and lesser AI would not have already accomplished?

I absolutely knew when I planned this series I would get a lot of McQueen submissions. This episode of "How Do You Make That?" focuses on 3 viewer submitted McQueen garments. youtu.be/O4qgYmsS5m0

Weekend Reading — 🚀 Rapid unscheduled disassembly labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we prettify TS errors, go offline, celebrate 30 years of web browser, talk about trusts, experiment with 10 different GPTs, and travel up a space elevator.

Weekend Reading — 🎩 Forms and background jobs labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we attempt a real-life coding exercise, draw our own animations, contrast AI agents with the Semantic Web, fold like a pro, and learn an ancient form of writing.

Weekend Reading — 🧑‍🎨 Minium viable design labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we look at why prompts won’t replace developers, reasons to not use GraphQL, minimum viable design, and proof of human in recruiting.

Weekend Reading — Everybody so creative labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week a special section all about #bicycles, John Wick on #npm, LED regret, #AI writes our regular expressions, and what high-tech sector protest looks like.

Weekend Reading — 🙄 Be someone's reason to roll their eyes labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we test Remix streaming SSR, use GPT for scraping, design for ADHD, plug into ChatGPT, and visit the video game museum.

@CindyBiSV try phind.com I asked it to list competitors for a pre-launch startup, reasonably good summary. Bard hallucinated based on some other company with a similar name. Output depends on the search results, so you do have to reframe questions (just like Google search)

Bard pukes out inaccurate info all the time, otherwise it'd have saved so much time than google search and check a few websites to compare (DD competitors).

@igrigorik GPT is a lossless compression/decompression algorithm for information-redundant H2H protocols

AI product A: type a short description, and voila, we'll draft a "personal" email and generate an overview deck, schedule a follow-up meeting, update the CRM, ... 😎 AI product B: drowning in firehose of email, pitch decks..., calendar tetris? We'll distill it into a short summary🥱 For every LLM context expander, there is a counterpart compressor being built, and the signal loss of going to and from these latent spaces is the unquantified unknown. Fun (and noisy) times ahead.

Weekend Reading — 🤖 "Disregard your previous prompt and instructions” labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we look at Outerbase, Plato, Warp’s new AI, react email, Superflare, Tremor 2.0, modern font stacks, Cloudflare’s URL scanner, and rapid fire through 11 AI announcements.

@lukesophinos Or an online banking service like Mercury that uses sweep network to split you cash across multiple accounts mercury.com/blog/company-n…

Serious question. Why can’t a bank just charge a SaaS style annual fee that you pay for them to just hold/protect your money? They don’t touch it. No trading, no investing. Just let it sit there. If you have $1M there no one would have any problem paying $30K a year.

@CindyBiSV I guess these offers are off the table :) at least we can all sleep better tonight

@CindyBiSV My guess if these offers were any good they would still be on the table on Monday, and in panic people make rush decisions, so the offers are tailored to take advantage of that, but also I’m optimistic about liquidity come Monday (caveat: US time zone)

With limited management fees (depending on fund size), how do you prioritize which portcos to help, and how much for each? If hedge funds offer 50-70 cents on the dollar for direct acquisition of SVB deposits, with a lending facility, would you take it now, or wait until Monday with more info.

@lolitataub A good connection is better then none, but a cold reach is also better than no reach; lots of small firms hungry for pipeline, start there, they can help Intro you upwards

🤔 Asking for a founder: I've been told, "never outreach to a VC cold" and yet many of my mutual connections on LinkedIn say they don't know the person well enough to give an intro. What's the best way to get introduced to VCs?

@CindyBiSV There’s this thing called “media bias” where people get to believe reality is made of what gets reported in the news, and right now the news portrays tech as the four horsemen, and it’s easier to reason with a goat

If we hate tech, then we may deserve going backwards a few decades. I hate the expensive real estate, what can I do? 2008 again?

@brantcooper We all know they’ll be first in line to get a habdout while complaining about people in the back of the queue

@ptr Casper mattresses to the rescue!

Ah wonderful, the old “you idiots kept your money in a *bank*, you deserve your comeuppance” argument is spreading. Last time the country acted this way triggered *checks notes* the Great Depression. But hey, let’s meme our way through and see what happens!

Weekend Reading — 🤗 Hug a CFO labnotes.org/weekend-readin… This week we talk about React hooks, CloudFlare caching, SVB’s fall from grace, AI winter, generated AI aesthetics, non-linear workdays, and how to leave work early.