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Ryan Li
@ryanli28
cultural spring will come when we take spengler, wittgenstein, emerson, vico, guenon, huxley, cucinelli, and christopher alexander seriously
Venice, CA Katılım Ağustos 2019
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Feels like we're entering another golden era of web design. Well done @dayjobstudios (for @AmcaInc)
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i’ve long told my friends that the only company I’ll ever work at is Amca.
i spent a year before joining exploring all sorts of stuff. during that year, I was frustrated with the soullessness and abstraction of companies in SF, but wanted to work with extremely effective people and escape the bullshit of neocorporate America.
to my dismay, nothing fit this mold - except the company that I knew my former business partner Jai was starting. i now get to work with many of my closest friends, turn ideas into reality in weeks or months (like this office), and shape how we build physical things in America.
we now have an extra $300 million to do this, and I’m hiring a wide range of people across design, business operations, strategy, special projects, “comms”, talent, and more.
many of the roles I hire for are shaped for the people who we meet, since we work across so many domains. so if you can’t find anything that fits, but any of this resonates, see below
Jai Malik@jaimalik
I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others. We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
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Ryan Li retweetledi
I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others.
We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
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Soulva being so popular on Doordash is a sign of SF's lack of variety when it comes to quick dining options.
Their meats are drier than sand, their kale is rigid and bitter. It's such mid office-worker slop.
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The Protestant Reformation was probably the most destructive event humanity ever has or ever will experience and virtually everything wrong with the world today can be traced to the logically consistent application of its principles.
🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛@nonregemesse
Which opinion about history will get you like this?
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🙌 great response
As it’s not a pedestal or some luck of the draw bs, it’s intentional and a journey and like all lives it has good and bad times
The difference is how you move through those swings of life and how you show up even when it’s shit! As you accepted its all momentary and the now is the only true moment to live intentionally.
I hope that makes sense!
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Every once in a while you meet someone who seems more Alive than everyone else. It's like everyone else is pretending to exist, but they're actually consciousness manifest - they're dynamic, both funny and tragic, passionate, aware. They've got eyes that actually look at things instead of merely passing them over. It's like coming into contact with the kind of person reality was actually made for.
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@WillManidis what is the holy war that the modern corporation can or should solve?
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there’s a set of strange little fictions that tech has chosen to believe as some sort of basis set for the perceived morality of their work
chief amongst these is the idea that the legal system doesn’t exist, and when it does, it’s a precise mechanistic process
tech is “positive sum” and a “community” which means you pretend that the standard weapons that exist for the modern corporation-coercive litigation, ip blocking and trolling, standard white shoe law firm stuff- is “negative sum” or “something bad we don’t do here”
this leads to a weirdly formalist view of the legal process. that we must avoid it at all costs, but if we must engage in it, then it’s a fair and repeatable process that must necessarily yield if not the truth, then at least the same outcome repeatedly and provably.
it’s this instinct that gives you Anthropic’s odd contract formalism. this is how you end up thinking your best move is to show your cards at the forefront, and thinking you’ve won the hand.
there’s incredible potential for outperformance available to you for betraying any of these silly norms that tech uses to feel good about itself. the modern corporation must avail itself of all possible edge, and holy wars require holy weapons, so get busy.
Chris Beiser@ctbeiser
If you look at Dario's public statements, a lot of his thinking has long been focused on the proper relationship between the DoW, AI, and the CCP. He takes a firmly form-determinist view: the US is democratic, so its unipolar dominance is good; the CCP is authoritarian, so its equal competitiveness is bad; upcoming AI capabilities will lead to a decisive military advantage for whoever possesses them, which should be used to prevent lesser states from procuring the same capabilities. Putting aside the wisdom of attempting a Sophon lock on the world's largest economy, this cosmology puts a lot of trust in the US state—to be beneficent in general, to retain democratic responsiveness when given unfathomable powers, and also, to be willing to act as a junior partner to them. Given the fixation, you would have expected them to have thought a little further ahead in terms of how they would interact with the DoW. For all the credit they're getting for sticking to their redlines, Anthropic has dramatically flubbed the iterated prisoner's dilemma called "Getting capabilities to the military but not ones that are dangerous to the world." In using their final redlines as an opener, they made it utterly predictable that someone would compete on those redlines. The blame for OpenAI having no chips left to trade away except mass surveillance and autonomous weapons should land cleanly on them. I find it particularly galling in how this has been framed as playing 180-IQ 5D chess, rather than starting a race to the bottom and trying to stop just short of the finish line. If the administration kills them for their hubris, I would applaud it.
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it’s obvious that the value of a business is no longer the present value of its future cash flows. good riddance! such a framework implied that human labor should be minimized ad infinitum, but is there not intrinsic value in meaningful labor? certainly the christian monastic and buddhists thought so…
a business with zero future cashflows but that provides fulfilling work for thousands is no value-less business, no matter what a DCF model tells you
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this is why my girlfriend and i are eloping in the woods this summer
house of A🌷@houseofala
I am unfortunately developing a disgust reflex towards weddings & marriage. The diamonds, the humiliation ritual engagement photo sessions, the posed intimacy, the exotic destinations. All for show. To post and to outdo. Love is a costume. The union is not sacred, it’s not the entire purpose; it’s just the consequence of a big aesthetic party
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Teaching a seminar on how to get into stuff like this at Vibecamp this year. Use code “HEZBOLLAH” for 10% off your ticket
Will@WillAttract
Want a happy relationship? Get you an autistic girlfriend.
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You only believe this because modern construction methods have not been questioned for decades. There are obvious improvements in both design and building that could dramatically simplify the construction process and put it within reach for millions
pnorm@paleonormie
don't do this unless your dad is a retired contractor and you can take literal years off from your 9-5 without consequence
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