"You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker..."
"You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker."
-Ed Koch
(my second favorite quote of his)
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The compute efficiency of pretraining over time
This slide from the Anthropic IPO roadshow was a big factor in my decision to leave. It’s an insane plot and I’m surprised they made it public.
It shows the compute efficiency of pretraining over time. The y-axis is a **log scale**: they are seeing continued superexponential algorithmic progress.
Mythos was not a one-time deviation, but a point on a superexponential. They could already retrain Mythos with a fraction of the compute originally needed.
It doesn’t strictly imply a software-only intelligence explosion- they have been spending more on R+D. But algorithmic improvements do not require ridiculous creative genius and are on the verge of being automated. You do the math.
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"...Banks are dumping AI loans, tech bond buyers are saying no more and hedge funds are puking.
The wheels are coming off the AI funding rush..."
“.. Banks are dumping AI loans, tech bond buyers are saying no more and hedge funds are puking. The wheels are coming off the AI funding rush, implying much higher costs to clear the trillions of dollars in additional debt coming down the pike.”
@business @jessefelder
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"In 2014, my board kicked me out for saying no to spies.
In 2026, Jensen’s board kicked him out for saying yes to one.
So the board gets you either way."
🤦♀️ Jensen made a rookie mistake. He had a board.
In 2014, my board kicked me out for saying no to spies.
In 2026, Jensen’s board kicked him out for saying yes to one.
So the board gets you either way.
Founders: Don’t have a board.
Be the board 😏
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Since #Jesus spent his early days as the son of a #carpenter (#Joseph), many assumptions about his youth can be inferred
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"Sorry if you move to NYC you better plan on sticking it out forever or else..."
Sorry if you move to NYC you better plan on sticking it out forever or else you’re gonna be jealous for the rest of your life! Don’t do this in your 20s unless you’re serious, this is a 30s and over move I’m afraid otherwise!
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"This Jensen Huang thing is so ugly"
This Jensen Huang thing is so ugly. Guy takes a company from zero to absolute pinnacle, through blood, sweat, and tears, a pure founder’s founder, great products, makes so many people rich beyond their imaginations, champions open free local AI, and then the incumbent modern managerial safetyist human instrumentality establishment collectively decides they want to rip it all away from him because they think they can “do better”.
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Americans must not allow themselves to be distracted from the real #mission — maintain and exercise America's #sovereignty
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