March 15 2024
- JCal Christopher Walken impression
- Friedberg’s new family members
- 2 more dogs
- Based Tech CEOs
- Jensen Huang about pain and suffering and resilience and low expectations
- Alex Karp about short sellers coked up
- Seems folks are less scared of cancel culture
- Elon has taken more risk with what he has done
- Pain and suffering is necessary to succeed in life - its a requisite to greatness
- Hard to start a company
- Entrepreneurship is very stressful
- Have to learn to deal with rejection
- Persisting through failure is the most important trait you have to develop
- OpenAI training data sources under doubt
- Mira Murati - CTO - gave troubling interview
- YouTube was used?
- You might be able to train with no problem on public data
- Google might itself not have the right to train on YouTube data
- Others might be able to
- Vertical AI startups
- Harvey - AI for lawyers
- Abridge - AI for doctors
- TaxGPT
- Cognition - Devin
- Tweaking reasoning and long term planning on existing LLMs apparently was done here
- Developers will be even more valued because this stuff won’t always work
- Everyone is working towards autonomous coding
- How does this work with existing code bases?
- Sacks invested in Sourcegraph
- Coders will become much more productive over time
- You will have millions and billions of 1 person companies
- Tiktok ban
- Bill is warranted but its details are going to give government and intelligence community new powers that might be abused
- Example: a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B)
- What constitutes this? What do you have to do to be “subject to” their control?
- This language can be used to vex and harass your opponents
- This will hurt domestic companies also
- This will lead to regulatory capture and crony capitalism
- Google’s annual catering budget is 2*cost of starship
- Outro = Intro
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