Jonah Dykhuizen

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By owning the platform where innovation happens, Google cements itself as a thought leader and direction-setter, earning the ability to shape the narrative on ideas that are larger than itself.
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet's worth of free labor.
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
In the long run, the best models are the ones which can be iterated upon quickly. We should make small variants more than an afterthought, now that we know what is possible in the <20B parameter regime.
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
On a bet Warren once did 400 sit-ups in a sauna. The man he bet against was to keep count, but he wilted in the intense heat and quit after 300. "You're crazy," he told Warren. Warren did the last 100 alone in the sauna. The prize was a bottle of beer.
IRONMAN - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com
There are strong incentives for the teams currently trying to build the first AGI to do so quickly, with little regard for safety, without publishing or sharing information.
Why the development of artificial general intelligence could be the most dangerous new arms race since nuclear weapons | by James Blaha | Medium
Neither likes the idea of the performed life of a naked call option, of being a shell waiting for a ghost to be conjured up within. Both seek substance. One seeks financial substance within reach of non-exceptional individual striving far from white elephant student loans and high rents. The other seeks cultural substance far from centers of soul-sucking premium-mediocre consumption theaters. Both work hard at acquiring real skills. Max Millennial can actually market on the Internet and make memes happen. Molly Millennial can actually guide you to better coffee than Starbucks offers.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Like wearing a nice sweatshirt, learning the lingo, and hanging out at a hackerspace with a code editor open, looking the part, but only scrambling to learn a new skill if somebody actually hints they might want to hire you if their funding comes through in a few months.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
The Randian strivers will continue putting in their 100-hour weeks figuring out obscure crypotography and machine learning problems and 3d printed tiny houses so our premium-mediocre free-riding gets just a little bit more sustainable every year.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Because you see, while it is somewhat important that everybody drink some kool-aid, it is absolutely crucial that the leaders drink a lot of their own kool-aid
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
It’s like 90% true. We’re 90% of the way towards the brave new world. Utopia is always just 10% away. It just takes the other 90% of the time to get there.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
The wealthy do not actually want to be surrounded by a naked, devastated dystopia. They are not vampires who would enjoy the sight of environments drained of life energy. They like to think they are simply winning the most in a society that’s winning overall.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
That’s what the Trumpenproletariat don’t get. The apparent hypocrisy of the bicoastal “elites” (really, the premium mediocre) isn’t weakness or low moral fiber. It is a necessary fiction that’s critical to the bootstrapping logic of the new economy
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
You may not be contemplating becoming an Uber driver any time soon, but the Uberization of work may soon be coming to your chosen profession." Note that he said "professions." The Uber effect does not just affect cab drivers and house cleaners, but extends to lawyers, doctors and even (some day) venture capitalists.
Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API'
Drivers are opting into a dichotomous workforce: the worker bees below the software layer have no opportunity for on-the-job training that advances their career, and compassionate social connections don’t pierce the software layer either. The skills they develop in driving are not an investment in their future. Once you introduce the software layer between ‘management’ (Uber’s full-time employees building the app and computer systems) and the human workers below the software layer (Uber’s drivers, Instacart’s delivery people), there’s no obvious path upwards. In fact, there’s a massive gap and…
Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API'
Premium mediocrity is a pattern of consumption that publicly signals upward mobile aspirations, with consciously insincere pretensions to refined taste, while navigating the realities of inexorable downward mobility with sincere anxiety.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
premium mediocrity is creating an aura of exclusivity without actually excluding anyone
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
At some level, civilization itself is at a transitional premium mediocre state somewhere between industrial modernity in a shitty end-of-life phase, and digital post-scarcity in a shitty early-beta phase
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
The entire idea of the country that is France is kinda premium mediocre
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Premium mediocre is food that Instagrams better than it tastes.
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
In software, distribution often wins, and as such, if I were building a new product, just like at most other points in software history, I would go after the spaces where I either a) had distribution edge already, b) saw an opening where there’s not an existing large player with distribution, or c) had an insight into a uniquely differentiated product in an existing space.
What Does the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Look Like and What Should I Build? – Elizabeth Yin
I think that we should assume that every site in the future will utilize AI to provide a better user experience with greater personalization.
What Does the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Look Like and What Should I Build? – Elizabeth Yin
I could imagine some sort of partnership between websites that have a lot of data and an OpenAI competitor here so that existing large destination sites will not lose to ChatGPT.
What Does the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Look Like and What Should I Build? – Elizabeth Yin
Brand matters less than before. Actual differentiation matters more.
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
ChatGPT searches among all of them for the product
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
This is a pretty good summary of what’s coming for every industry that plugs into ChatGPT: increased competition, pressure on margins, shifts in consumer behavior, and a pressure to innovate on the things that matter in this new paradigm.
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Here’s the hard thing about easy things: if everyone can do something, there’s no advantage to doing it, but you still have to do it anyway just to keep up.
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
In 2022, Facebook/Meta did $116.6 billion in revenue and Google/Alphabet did $282.8 billion in revenue, the vast majority of which, in both cases, came from serving ads. It’s hard to think of better internet business models. But I think OpenAI just did by accident.
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
The Action Engine subsumes search and any number of products that let users do things, and it does them for users with nothing more than a simple promp
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Nearly half of the YC W23 class is building apps using OpenAI’s APIs
Attention is All You Need - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
The key characteristic of Aggregators is that they own the user relationship. Critically, the user chooses this relationship because the aggregator offers a superior service. This makes it difficult to make antitrust arguments based on consumer welfare
Defining Aggregators
aggregators enjoy winner-take-all effects:
Defining Aggregators
most aggregators get started by delivering superior discovery
Defining Aggregators
value has shifted away from companies that control the distribution of scarce resources to those that control demand for abundant ones;
Defining Aggregators
new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
When every supermarket aisle looks like a sea of sameness, when every category abides by the same conventions, when every industry has converged on its own singular style, bold brands and courageous companies have the chance to chart a different course
The age of average — Alex Murrell
This kind of visual homogeneity is a common occurrence in the art direction world, where ubiquitous styles operate less like trends and more like memes; remixed and diluted until they become a single visual mas
The age of average — Alex Murrell
Until the year 2000, about 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, remakes, reboots, or cinematic universe expansions. Since 2010, it’s been over 50% ever year. In recent years, it’s been close to 100%
The age of average — Alex Murrell
Koolhaas, in effect, is arguing that soulless is becoming the default design direction of all urban architecture.
The age of average — Alex Murrell
What if this seemingly accidental, and usually regretted, homogenization was an intentional process, a conscious movement away from difference toward similarity?
The age of average — Alex Murrell
The anthropologist Marc Augé coined the term “non-place” to describe built environments that are defined by their transience and anonymity. Non-places, such as airports, service stations and hotels, tend towards utilitarian sterility. They prioritise function and efficiency over a softer sense of human expression and social connection.
The age of average — Alex Murrell
Though they’re not part of a chain and don’t have their interior design directed by a single corporate overlord, these coffee shops have a way of mimicking the same tired style, a hipster reduction obsessed with a superficial sense of history and the remnants of industrial machinery that once occupied the neighbourhoods they take over.
The age of average — Alex Murrell
We have been travelling to different countries, engaging in dull negotiations with representatives of polling companies, raising money for further polls, receiving more or less the same results, and painting more or less the same blue landscapes. Looking for freedom, we found slavery.
The age of average — Alex Murrell
If that differentiator is digitized, competition shifts to the user experience, which gives a significant advantage to new entrants built around the proper incentives
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
their suppliers are not exclusive in theory, but increasingly are exclusive in reality as both benefit from a virtuous cycle of more users leading to increased utilization of suppliers.
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
the best distributors/aggregators/market-makers win by providing the best experience, which earns them the most consumers/users, which attracts the most suppliers, which enhances the user experience in a virtuous cycle.
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Instead, suppliers can be commoditized leaving consumers/users as a first order priority.
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Internet has made transaction costs zero, making it viable for a distributor to integrate forward with end users/consumers at scale
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
the Internet has made distribution (of digital goods) free, neutralizing the advantage that pre-Internet distributors leveraged to integrate with suppliers.
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson