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Sahil retweeted
if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time
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LLM went from hallucinating 3-digit multiplication to fundamentally improving multiplication algorithm itself.
...In 5 years.
oh yeah btw guys we can do integer multiplication faster than n log n lol
I was definitely very surprised when this one came in lol
github.com/openai/math/tree/…
Sahil retweeted
Too many writers forget this:
Your first draft is NOT your final draft. It was never supposed to be.
It's simply the raw material — the clay from which you'll craft a beautiful sculpture.
So don't get down because it's not a work of art yet.
What you do with it from here is where the real artistry begins. ✍️
Sahil retweeted
Bad dialogue is one of the most obvious signs of amateur writing.
And it's one of the things that will make a reader set down your story prematurely.
Here are the 5 most common dialogue mistakes I see in manuscripts and how to fix them.
Sahil retweeted
Terence Tao made a very powerful point:
“In most cases in pure mathematics, the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field through the efforts to solve such problems, and then to digest any partial or complete solutions that emerge for further insights.
Prematurely solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods—particularly without full transparency into the solution process—can contaminate this process to the point where it actually becomes a net negative for the progress of mathematics as a whole.”
I’ve been following Terence Tao for like 20 years, and I have always been impressed by the clarity of his thinking.
This clarity stands out even more in this difficult moment, as AI labs turn mathematics into a battleground in their race for supremacy.
In this race, they risk damaging one of humanity’s highest intellectual endeavours.
Sahil retweeted
i never knew there was an actual term for this:
epistemic loneliness is a cognitive form of isolation that happens when you cannot share complex ideas, inner thoughts, or meaningful perspectives because you lack a willing, able, or understanding conversational partner.
Sahil retweeted
i often think about my dad doing a trip around the world in the 80s, must have been a real adventure. No internet, no one's speaking english, no international credit cards. You basically had one travel guide book and had to explore for yourself. Watching The Beach gives this feeling a bit
Sahil retweeted
Anthropic just published a support page that should terrify anyone holding its shares on the secondary market.
"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, that has not been approved by our Board of Directors is void and will not be recognized on our books and records."
Void. Not restricted. Not pending review. Void.
That means if you bought Anthropic shares through Forge, Hiive, or any other secondary platform without board approval, you are not a stockholder. You have no stockholder rights. Your transaction is invalid.
It gets worse. Anthropic says it does not permit SPVs to hold its stock. Any transfer to an SPV is void. Investment funds claiming to offer indirect exposure are "most likely relying on mechanisms that attempt to circumvent our transfer restrictions." Forward contracts, tokenized securities, synthetic exposure products, all of it potentially worthless.
Their advice to investors: "Assume that it is invalid."
There is a multi-billion dollar secondary market in Anthropic shares right now. Platforms are pricing the stock at $265-$1,400+ per share based on a $380 billion valuation. Real people have put real money into these positions. And Anthropic just told them none of it counts.
This is the purest possible illustration of counterparty risk. You can buy a share of a company and have the company itself declare your ownership void because you bought it through the wrong channel.
Sahil retweeted
bro was right.
Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%.
Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs.
AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time.
SaaS is cooked fr 😭
Always fascinating to read such back stories, goes to show how it takes years of belief in yourself, consistency, failures before you shine.
Even more motivated for my own fantasy fiction universe!
Andy Weir describing how he wrote The Martian and film got made is very entertaining.
He said, “I wanted to make sure dorks like me would enjoy it, so made it as scientifically accurate as possible”
Here the play-by-play:
▫️started writing full time in 1999 after getting fired from AOL (which had just merged with Netscape)
▫️he was a programmer and had a ton of stock options…because he was fired, had 6 months to excercise them and sold at AOL’s peak before bubble popped
▫️spent 3 years on book ideas that got “no traction” (and no agent wanted to sign him)
▫️went back to work as software engineer and wrote online as a hobby (webcomics, short stories, serials)
▫️The Martian was one of three serials he was working on 2009 (other one was about alien invading earth, another about a mermaid in 19th century New England)
▫️sent stories to a mailing list of 3,000 readers he had built up over a decade
▫️took 3 years to write The Martian, “posting a chapter at a time [every] 2 months” or so
▫️ “spent more time researching than writing, because researching was more fun than writing” (very relatable)
▫️readers corrected him along the way and when he was done, a bunch of them asked if he could make a Kindle version because reading it on his website sucked
▫️Weir didn’t want to charge because was making solid living as programmer…but Kindle has minimum of $0.99
▫️all his fans started buying the Kindle book and leaving positive reviews
▫️this “sales spike” pushed book up charts and hit bestseller lists and just snowballed after that on Amazon
▫️within a short span, major book publisher reached out…then Matt Damon expressed interest on a film project…then Ridley Scott threw his hat in the ring
▫️Weir negotiated these deals while “debugging code” on his day job
Described the process as “one of those things where everything just snuck up, bit by bit” before boooooooooom!!
Film came out in 2015: made $630m on $105m budget (and Project Hail Mary might pass that now).
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Link to vid (2017): youtu.be/EXD3b6OLtsg?si=qaSH…
Sahil retweeted
Andy Weir describing how he wrote The Martian and film got made is very entertaining.
He said, “I wanted to make sure dorks like me would enjoy it, so made it as scientifically accurate as possible”
Here the play-by-play:
▫️started writing full time in 1999 after getting fired from AOL (which had just merged with Netscape)
▫️he was a programmer and had a ton of stock options…because he was fired, had 6 months to excercise them and sold at AOL’s peak before bubble popped
▫️spent 3 years on book ideas that got “no traction” (and no agent wanted to sign him)
▫️went back to work as software engineer and wrote online as a hobby (webcomics, short stories, serials)
▫️The Martian was one of three serials he was working on 2009 (other one was about alien invading earth, another about a mermaid in 19th century New England)
▫️sent stories to a mailing list of 3,000 readers he had built up over a decade
▫️took 3 years to write The Martian, “posting a chapter at a time [every] 2 months” or so
▫️ “spent more time researching than writing, because researching was more fun than writing” (very relatable)
▫️readers corrected him along the way and when he was done, a bunch of them asked if he could make a Kindle version because reading it on his website sucked
▫️Weir didn’t want to charge because was making solid living as programmer…but Kindle has minimum of $0.99
▫️all his fans started buying the Kindle book and leaving positive reviews
▫️this “sales spike” pushed book up charts and hit bestseller lists and just snowballed after that on Amazon
▫️within a short span, major book publisher reached out…then Matt Damon expressed interest on a film project…then Ridley Scott threw his hat in the ring
▫️Weir negotiated these deals while “debugging code” on his day job
Described the process as “one of those things where everything just snuck up, bit by bit” before boooooooooom!!
Film came out in 2015: made $630m on $105m budget (and Project Hail Mary might pass that now).
***
Link to vid (2017): youtu.be/EXD3b6OLtsg?si=qaSH…
Sahil retweeted
At standard float percentages, these three companies would need to raise $432-576b from public markets in a single quarter. From 2016 to 2025, the entire US IPO market raised $469b.
Sahil retweeted
MASSIVE CRASH IN CYBERSECURITY STOCKS SINCE ANTHROPIC LAUNCHED CLAUDE CODE SECURITY.
Over $52.6 billion wiped out in just 2 days.
CrowdStrike is down 20%, wiping out $19.6 billion.
Palo Alto Networks is down 8.9%, wiping out $11.7 billion.
Cloudflare is down 18.5%, wiping out $11.2 billion.
Zscaler is down 17.3%, wiping out $4.6 billion.
Infosys is down 3.4%, wiping out $2.9 billion.
Okta is down 16.7%, wiping out $2.6 billion.
Sahil retweeted
JUNE 2028.
The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation.
What happened?
citriniresearch.com/p/2028gi…
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Talk to a top-tier creative and chances are, you’ll be blown away by how prolific they are in their consumption: The musician who listens to 10 albums a week, the designer who’s visited antique stores in 57 countries, the architect who’s living room is stacked with piles of reference guides, the writer who’s read 1,000 novels, the filmmaker who watches 400 movies per year. The method varies, but the core pattern stays the same… it’s constant consumption, day after day.