Mark Soares

@jack Honestly i see his post as basically wanting to activate the entirety of the collective human intelligence by making opportunity accessible to everyone. Humans are nodes in the collective human intellect, activating the most nodes is sensible policy.

yes

This completely desireless aesthetic shall henceforth be known as the Ozempic-design trend of the 2020s.

@OwenKemeys It's almost as if the triggering is the strategy; create something so grotesque that people will clamor for heritage. Shock the customer into remembering what they love about your brand.

We live in hell

@beffjezos Why is the publish feature still showing a twitter favicon and titled Twitter Publish?

It's been 4 years since the Twitter acquisition. Why is the default theme of this app still blue? Why can't I switch the theme on Android. Still stuck in the Twitter era rather than X era

Incentives rule everything; where money flows, so does attention, and vice versa - the result is cathedrals of all shapes and sizes at each stage. The internet wove humanity into a single, collective mind. Social media and mobile devices reduced the latency of capturing the human experience. AI is this infrastructure and network, the human collective substrate, actually understanding the world. This is basically the human organism as a collective, waking up and coming online.

PRINT OUT THE INTERNET Ok. Let me make it extremely concrete. Where did this giant sprawling datacenter come from? It was printed out from the Internet. Specifically, Zuck used the Internet to gather men, make money, organize materials, purchase territory, and shape it to advance Meta's goals. The principal such goal is, ultimately, the replication of Meta itself. This datacenter makes money in the cloud, which enables Zuck to purchase more land, which he repeats all over the earth. Think of it as viral growth, but in the physical world. Now extend that beyond Meta, towards any Internet tribe...such as your following. After all, where was your following built? Was it built one handshake at a time? No, it was built on the Internet. And where do you spend your time? Do you spend it convincing people in a small town? No, you probably spend it on the Internet. And where do you make your money, use your money, find your information, talk to your ideologically aligned friends? Again and again, the Internet. As Orwell said, to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. The Internet is, right this moment, in front of your nose, as you're looking at your screen. Yet despite being the single most important force in the world, the thing that billions personally engage with for hours per day, the driving force that essentially didn't even exist in daily life just a few decades ago, perhaps the most popular thing humans have ever created...the Internet is still somehow underestimated. After all, the Internet is now much larger than America, with billions of users. The Internet is actually much wealthier too, as it's the only thing with global economic scale comparable to China. The Internet also now drives every single political and military event, from the initial Twitter-driven election of Trump and Brexit, to crypto and AI, to the advent of drone warfare. In fact, the Internet was in part built by America to outlive America. That's why Paul Baran of RAND proposed a packet-switched network, so that the Internet could resist a nuclear attack. ARPA eventually adopted the same blueprint on efficiency grounds. But Baran's initial idea remains important: even if the American state went down, the Internet's network would stay up. Concretely, what it means is that brilliant Americans designed a communications system that could survive even as everything else went down. So that we could restore America from cloud backup. We might need to draw on that property. We might need to print out the Internet, to organize social networks in the physical world, to gather peers together online to start building the societies we believe in offline. Because if we can print out a datacenter, we can also print out a new city.

@powerbottomdad1 LoveFrom is just McKinsey for brands too cowardly to double down on their heritage. One general rule of design is never interrupt italians when they're designing - they don't need your help.

in a just world, everyone involved would fall on their sword

@paulg There are ways to stimulate that adoption, like what Facebook did with rolling it out for universities first, or the invite only approach - but definitely agree that if your idea hinges on the momentum of widespread adoption, then your idea is probably only 20% of the challenge.

A startup idea that only works if there are already a significant number of people using it is not a valid startup idea. There has to be some subset of users who need what you're making so desperately that they'll use it even if no one else is.

I think the new Ferrari feels soulless. That's fine for daily drivers but luxury cars should make the heart race a bit. Personally, I find the 1971 Chevy Camaro much more eye-catching.

@CarsonJ56754901 Well they have to test them for drugs, and only those on performance enhancing drugs are allowed to compete.

@marksoares But how would they know if they are truly not enhanced? I thought they weren’t tested

Banning non-enhanced athletes from the Enhanced Games would be hilarious.

@camiinthisthang That mythical 10x engineer is actually a designer.

I’m more and more convinced every entrepreneur needs their cofounder to be a cracked designer

@tetsuoai That account was always a jerk; they blocked me after i mentioned one of their videos was AI generated, which they didn't seem to realize - and they seem to relish the reach impact that their large account blocking me would have. Kudos to @nikitabier for putting a stop to that.

Quality account... 👌

@elonmusk Product == Brand

Product >> Brand

I think @PalmerLuckey is right of course. This seems like the perfect usecase for ZK - a zkpatent office would permit verifiability while allowing exclusivity. It would be amazing. Maybe something Starknet can build @EliBenSasson ?

Vibenomics

@khloyakafe Whoa, SF has Cakemaxxing events now?

603 cakes at SF cake picnic today!! (pics in thread)

There's a world in which a single human can command an entire corporate AI structure; Elon-archetypes aside, the fragility and risk of a single human operator would likely stunt the value of the org. It seems more likely that a % of an org will be "human operators". Each operator commanding a team of AI agents, delivering an oversized output while being responsible for ensuring the company executes in an aligned manner. There's no point in shying away from this - if tomorrow you were given the individual ability to fly, why wouldn't you?

To be a pessimist is to defeat oneself.

@levelsio Few things induce panic as much as seeing Claude set to 4.6 after a multi-hour coding binge

I know Anthropic has a GPU shortage but every day forcefully putting my effort back to medium feels...well....annoying

@tracewoodgrains Should have named it differently, and probably should have had a team manage it standalone.

Grokipedia. Don’t hear much about that these days.