Society
I remain wary of "bright line" arguments that AI cannot do judgement, or creativity, or empathy, etc. and thus these are places for humans. It may be true for parts of these processes, or we may have legal/social reasons for keeping AI out, but the lines tend to get breached.
Anyone else approved for a loan every single day 20 times or so? Overcome with joy, really
The scariest thing is in 4-5 years we're going to have kids on peptides, nootropics and Claude Code entering the workforce
Immortality is attained by having children, leaving the world in a better place than you found it, and pushing the human frontier. Not by drinking “longevity mix powder”.
I struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to me at lunch. She turned out to be 93. It's not often you can compliment someone by saying they look 80.
Marc Andreessen on the history and definition of the meme: "There are sort of two definitions of meme. Number one: a meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally. That's its colloquial usage today." "Underneath that, though, is a deeper idea. The term 'meme' was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins." "The physical transmission of information through living things is the 'gene.' And then the conceptual, intellectual transmission of ideas through people, networks of people, and societies is called the 'meme.'" "He basically said... successful ideas propagate like a gene does. They spread from person to person, and they flourish." "Democracy is a meme. And communism was a meme. Religions are memes. This is kind of this very core idea of basically ideas and concepts traveling through kind of what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious: the sort of complete assembly of minds on planet Earth."
AI will make teenage billionaires a thing why? People have long argued that we'll see more 1-person unicorns from AI, as the tools allow a singular visionary to scale themselves. That's obvious. But it also follows that AI software will be created and run mostly by young people, and billions will be made in the process AI also makes coding and product building as easy as making videos or posting a photo. The data says that the time rich (rather than money rich) dominate internet usage -- after all, they have more time to consume, and more time to create. Because the time rich are mostly composed of kids and teenagers, it means that software will mostly be built and used by young people. Think social media, Roblox, chat, etc, but coded by teenagers for teenagers we're approaching a timeline where instead of going to school, getting a job, getting married, and having kids -- the linear form of life we've had for 100+ years -- we will see kids go start to building products and starting companies from a young age. This means huge disruption for universities and society, but also that we will see people build build build. A good thing IMHO. The future will be built by young people, for young people, and billions will be made as a result
ensuring AI is accessible and benefits all of humanity is the challenge of this century
As stories about AI increasingly become stories of either catastrophe or salvation, I worry that people are increasingly discounting the possibility (not certainty!) that we get AGI without a singularity. People are deferring decisions we need to make now. Reminds me of a poem.
Countries with 1B+ people: 1. 🇮🇳 India: 1,476,630,000 2. 🇨🇳 China: 1,412,910,000
Your social status ≈ your college. Your college ≈ your SAT score. Your SAT score ≈ your SAT English score. Your SAT English score ≈ how much you've read. ∴ Your social status ≈ how much you read in high school. (Successive ≈s leak a lot, but still rather surprising.)
Feels like we're actually in one of those "everything is about to change" moments
AI is being adopted faster than any technology in history. The window to get policy right is closing. Today we’re contributing $20m to Public First Action, a new bipartisan org that will mobilize people and politicians who understand what’s at stake. https://anthropic.com/news/donate-public…
Anthropic is donating $20 million to Public First Action
Skate spot is swarmed by Super Bowl stuff and an anti circumcision protest lol. Will still be here an hour or two at least
Addressing the India AI Action Summit today was a profound personal honor. AI can improve billions of lives and solve some of the hardest problems in science. The best outcomes of AI are not guaranteed. We must pursue AI boldly, approach it responsibly, and work together through this moment.
To quote Fight Club again, “We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like."
