charismatic authority

@signulll this is why people calling AI deflationary are retardmaxxing

apple products are sold out. infinite demand for inference, rate limits everywhere. anthropic & openai growing at ridiculous pace. nvidia & google at all time highs. record meta earnings. we are now more supply constrained than demand constrained. i suspect we’ll see inflationary pressure again very soon. fundamentally, technology is the economy, & the economy is technology.

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I still haven't heard of anyone who lost their job to AI. not a single person.

charismatic authority in action

@illscience ai will generate more demand than supply. we're already seeing it happen with tokens.

@realkdi i think this technology will be more broadly deflationary than any we've seen before

Am I the only one who believes that human desire has no ceiling? We will be playing new status games, seeking new types of luxuries that suddenly becoming necessities, eyeing vacation homes on mars and complaining about indignities that our ancestors would pray for.. It's never enough and it won't be this time either..

@rand_longevity we're in the joint-invention era.

we are at the end of human invention, its now the machines turn

human capital > social capital > financial capital

@elonmusk @nikitabier @tenobrus just never go full retard

@nikitabier @tenobrus *most days We can’t win them all. I sometimes get more retarded, sometimes less.

nikita has pretty straightforwardly been the best thing to happen to this platform the entire time i've been on it. sometimes he fucks up but he always clearly actually gives a shit

@AndrewCurran_ he chose a bad metaphor. "it's like the worst thing ever except it's not exactly like it"

Sam Altman on the lure of The Ring.

@a16z @pmarca live dangerously!

.@pmarca on exposing yourself to risk: pmarchive.com/guide_to_caree…

@pmarca create a Kurzweil fund, investing in his timeline tech.

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

@karpathy @jenzhuscott it's a lot of immediate friction for little immediate pay-off. like writing a will that takes 36 hours of interviews to complete. most people want to talk to their dead relatives. but few want to preserve their data for their relatives to speak with them once they're dead.

Yes it's the tractable form of brain upload. There's a ton of scifi on brain uploads that requires way too exotic tech (scanning and simulating brains etc), when we're about to get a lossy and approximate version of that *a lot* sooner via LLM simulators. You can easily imagine a "brain upload" startup - you show up for a few days to carry out detailed video interviews, then they use all that data with an LLM finetuning process to "upload" you and give you an API endpoint of your simulation that you can talk to. Look at what's already possible with HeyGen as an example, but combine it with an LLM model that has deep knowledge and personality. Trippy and admittedly kind of dystopian but in principle quite possible around now.

As I build my own 2nd brain 🧠 on Obsidian using @karpathy ‘s wiki idea, it suddenly dawned on me - one day when we r gone, our kids could inherit an interactive map to your mind, passion, obsessions, work, fascinations… It’s kind of beautiful way to think abt your 2nd 🧠.

@sporadica too much introspection

The real trick is to just be the person with $55k in the bank and a $50k car. If you’re gonna work hard to make a lot of money, you better spend some fucking money you’re not a monk!!!

@bayeslord e/acc masons

What should our guild be called

coin a new term, something like claw-coding

Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded monster that is being actively attacked at scale is not very appealing at all. Already seeing reports of exposed instances, RCE vulnerabilities, supply chain poisoning, malicious or compromised skills in the registry, it feels like a complete wild west and a security nightmare. But I do love the concept and I think that just like LLM agents were a new layer on top of LLMs, Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents, taking the orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls and a kind of persistence to a next level. Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. I also love their approach to configurability - it's not done via config files it's done via skills! For example, /add-telegram instructs your AI agent how to modify the actual code to integrate Telegram. I haven't come across this yet and it slightly blew my mind earlier today as a new, AI-enabled approach to preventing config mess and if-then-else monsters. Basically - the implied new meta is to write the most maximally forkable repo and then have skills that fork it into any desired more exotic configuration. Very cool. Anyway there are many others - e.g. nanobot, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw (lol @ prefixes). There are also cloud-hosted alternatives but tbh I don't love these because it feels much harder to tinker with. In particular, local setup allows easy connection to home automation gadgets on the local network. And I don't know, there is something aesthetically pleasing about there being a physical device 'possessed' by a little ghost of a personal digital house elf. Not 100% sure what my setup ends up looking like just yet but Claws are an awesome, exciting new layer of the AI stack.

2025 - the year we embraced the sacred Kurzweil timeline.

compare this with Robinhood and you'll quickly understand that weak leadership creates weak presentations creates weak companies.

@creatine_cycle make her taste your story

*on a first date* me: "i work in storytelling" her: "what does that mean?" me: "i'm a tastemaker" her: "never fucking speak to me again"

@bayeslord agreed. love the player, love the game.

good for him. well deserved for seeing far ahead and doing something about it