Wil - e/acc
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Wil - e/acc
@wilfullyapt
E/ACC 🇺🇸 Techno Optimist. Python Developer building Artificial Modular Intelligence. Bibliophile. We're here for a good time, not a long time.

BREAKING: Iran is negotiating an end to the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz by allowing countries to pass if they shift from the US dollar to Chinese yuan for oil trades. This would cost the US $3 trillion a year and weaken the dominance of the dollar. Iran is crushing Trump.


We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵

Marc Andreessen: "Overall, the world, especially the western world, it's just stagnant." "Every once in a while you have somebody that comes along... I actually have an idea how to make things like fundamentally better." "Nobody licensed us to do any of this." "Anybody can start, build a product, start a company." "It's shocking to me how few people actually give it a shot." "The fate of the world over the next 1500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot." @pmarca with @davidsenra

if you can imagine it, you can build it

I deeply agree with Emily Bender's main point: LLMs are useless, unless you want to offload cognition. (The other two usecases she suggests are rare special cases of the third.) Offloading cognition into machines has always been the purpose and application of computer science and AI.



Everyone is talking about writing code 10x faster with AI. Very few are showing the products they shipped 10x faster.



JUST IN: Women driving for Uber can now opt-out of picking up male passengers.

this is fucking insane! the CEO of anthropic said what most C-suites only say behind closed doors. "50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years." this is the head of one of the biggest AI companies alive telling ordinary people to wake up. good news is that the playbook hasn't changed. pick an industry. learn the workflows. become the "AI guy" these companies need! you don't need a degree. you sure as hell don't need to be a McKinsey consultant. you need claude, a vertical, and the hunger to learn a business better than anyone else. god speed! will be rooting for ya.


Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.


The nation that can generate the most electricity will be able to run the biggest data centers. The nation that runs the biggest data centers will train the smartest AI models. And the nation with the smartest AI models will be the global military superpower.





