Ford Smith
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VC + Fixing the American Food System 🥕🥩🌱 Founder @ultranative & @centerforminds.
The ancient Greeks made a psychedelic from toxic fungus, wood ash, & water — and served it to thousands every year for 2,000 years. A paper published today in Nature showed how. Plato drank this. Cicero drank this. The Western world was built on a psychedelic sacrament.
LMAO! Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley says that **20%** of healthcare workers in America are HAITIANS, which is why we have to keep them here TWENTY PERCENT!!! 🤣 You’d have to have an IQ of 20 to believe that bullshlt 🤡
If God' Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit Exists? Please exist in my life. I beg you Creator. Please show me what I can do to stop this suffering. 😭 #gaming #brøndby #VodacomGiganathi #VodacomGiganathi #Irán #Israël #bible #life #love #Panamá2026 #music #lord
You're given a choice: (1) physical immortality or (2) digital immortality (uploading). Which do you choose?
Consciousness is a moral category. The reason humanity is perturbed by death, with respect to information, is because such an event erases I/O entirely from that person in this life. A.I., and software in general, does not share this problem of death that is unique to humanity.
as someone who works on making LLMs run faster and cheaper every day, i can confidently say the question of whether theyre conscious has exactly zero impact on whether theyre useful. we dont need our inference stack to be conscious, we need it to be correct, fast, and affordable. the consciousness debate is fascinating philosophy but its a distraction from the actual engineering problems that determine whether AI creates value. the gravity formula doesnt need to exert weight to help you build a bridge @Hesamation
Do you support President Trump putting sanctions on South Africa until they stop the White Gen*cide? YES or NO ?
Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."
Giga is one of the first great AI companies to come out of India. Here are some crazy stories @varunvummadi shared: 1). He came from a poor background, but made $100k winning kaggle competitions. 2). To start Giga he turned down an insanely high paying offer from a high frequency trading fund. He had to convince his parents. 3) Giga is a completely different idea from what they started YC with. They wound up building AI customer support after they talked to Aadit from Zepto and realized it was a big need. 4). Most people thought it was too late - many companies were already doing AI customer support and some of the had raised large amounts of money. 5). It wasn't. Giga was able to close huge customers like Zepto and Doordash very quickly. They just built faster and better. 6.). If AI coding agents didn't exist, he'd need 7x the team size to run Giga.
