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Patrick Collison interviewed Sam Altman in May 2023 [1]

In the intro, Patrick goes off-script to make a joke about how last year he'd interviewed SBF, which was "clearly the wrong Sam".

I'm eagerly waiting for 2025, when he interviews some new Sam and is able to recycle the joke. :)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egAKCKPKCk
Market economies destroyed the wildlife fauna of North America. It's incredible when you see photographs of what used to exist here.
> The number one thing is making sure I get enough quality sleep.

Sleep hygiene is a huge factor.

> Lastly, you may wish to consider treating anxiety as well.

I think it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem that will vary from person to person. Treating my ADHD and becoming more functional has reduced my anxiety and depression symptoms markedly.
no, that's definitely not illegal. Voices are not trademarkable, only jingles (melody, words + tone), and of course specific recordings of voices are copyrighted. The ONLY way they get in trouble is if they claim to be Morgan Freeman.
I never saw it in the wild, but the windows < 3 logo is pretty neat. But the typography is serif heavy which lots of people don't like.
>the excess managers are the first ones to go

Well, second to go, right after they have the task of laying off their team first.
In both cases the companies are specifically trading on creating confusion of a celebrity’s likeness in an act that celebrity trades in, and with the motivation of circumventing that very celebrity’s explicit rejection of the offer for that very work.

Just because one is a singer and the other is an actor isn’t the big difference you think it is. Actors do voice over work all the time. Actors in fact get cast for their voice all the time.

Yelling, “Parody!” Isn’t some get out of jail free card, particularly where there is actual case law, even more particularly when there are actual laws to address this very act.
Sloths are also the only land mammals that can have more than 7 cervical vertebrae. Any other mammals born with more than 7 die quickly from cancer
>fuel

Hydrogen and oxygen can be made from water, and methane can be made from regolith and water.

>where would this "cislunar orbit economy" find a market?

The uniform distribution of microgravity lends itself to advanced manufacturing methods that cost hundreds if not billions of dollars to replicate here on earth. soooo many of earths manufacturing methods use very expensive means of creating the vacuum that is required, that is provided free in space.

Semiconductors. Turns out here on earth the machines costs hundreds of millions of dollars to etch a wafer because of the use of various technologies to create vacums, control for foreign material, and ensure the micro etches "Stay" and the material "goes". There is a wide discussion, and multiple tests conducted on the ISS that has confirmed this. So, space may be the only way to build next-gen semi conductor tech to get us below 2nm, and a much higher yield, with much cheaper equipment. With the cost of a launch at ~100m on a falcon, the launch would be cheaper than the equipment they are sending up.

ZBLAN fiber optics,
growing protein crystals,
Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition,
Regolith refining,

are all done better in space. And they will be cheaper in space, and on the moon and mars. They will be more expensive on earth due to the large gravity well.
> Your workers are a tiny portion of your customer base.

But they are the best representation of your customer base possible, if you're an industrialist selling mass market goods for civilan use. If they can't afford your stuff, then the rest of the masses can not either. Because among the masses of the population that you can draw your workforce from, the factory worker will be the best paid. They wouldn't work in a factory otherwise.

The dilemma of the industrialist has always been that it's easy to crank up production enormously and the problem is to find enough customers to sell your product to that can afford it and keep the wheels running. Before industrialisation you only produced to demand and did bespoke stuff. So affordability and finding customers that can afford your product was always on top of the mind of any industrialist.
Looking Glass is more complex than the 3DS. The 3DS synthesizes 2 views, Looking Glass can synthesize many more

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11425363B2/en?assignee=L....
Yeah even for a pure chatbot it doesn't make sense because in our experience users want to choose the exact model they are using...
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For startups yes. Engineering managers at small companies literally spend most of their time in save my ass work, building freedoms and attempting to show value. Any manager with less than 12 people shouldn't be a manager.
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> I have an idea: let's try and see

While I encourage and am delighted by your attitude that you want to see experimental results, there are some insurmountable issues:

1. I don't have any friends who want to run their multi-million-dollar-or-billion-dollar grocery businesses into the ground.
2. People of leftist bent, when seeing results they don't like tend to blame it on non-leftists and double down.
3. This is such bad budgeting that there's no need to jump off the cliff just to prove we'll splat. You're doubling payroll in an industry where profit margins are razor thin.

> My favorite example is the comparison with Denmark, where the hourly wage of the mac worker is more than double yet the big mac price is pretty much the same

Do the Danish customers trash the place like they do in every McDonald's I've ever been to in any large city in the US? Do they deal with hobos coming in with their own cups and just filling those up without purchasing anything? Or any of a thousand other issues (I guess you'd call them "social") that make operating a franchise so much more difficult and expensive in the US? Do they have to hire twice as many employees just to get 80% of the labor (oh wait, that one's rhetorical, we already know the answer). Has a Danish McDonald's employee ever had to hose down the restroom because someone projectile-diarrheaed every surface within that room, includin 8ft up the walls and so forth?

We can't have that, unless you can get everyone in the United States to behave like Danes. But then they'd also eat better (and be taxed like Danes), like Danes, and so sales would fall. And where Denmark has fewer than 100 stores, the US has 14,000... how many of those will close? Of the ones that remain open, how many would they lay off? Are the stores in Denmark franchises, or corporate and just there as loss leaders or something like that?

So some are paid more, the rest just become unemployed. Forgive me if I think that the Danish model doesn't work here.
There isn't an unfairness to the voice actor. She did her job and got paid.

The problem here is that someone inside of OpenAI wanted to create a marketing buzz around a new product launch and capitalize on a movie. In order to do that they wanted a voice that sounded like that movie. They hired a voice actor that sounded enough like ScarJo to hedge against actually getting the actor to do it. When she declined they decided to implement their contingency plan.

If they're liable is for a jury to decide, but the case precedent that I've seen, along with the intent, wouldn't look good if I were on that jury.
If you are running a startup, you should not go to a recruiter and ask for an engineering manager as an outside hire. You are likely to get someone totally incompetent, and if this is your first manager hire, it's almost guaranteed, given what's out there. You also run the risk of triggering an exodus of talent, since engineers will recognize this as the part where the bozos come in, and now the workplace isn't run by smart people who they can learn from.

Instead you should notice the natural hierarchy that forms based on everyone's desire to build things. Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers, and you just have to pick up on that as you develop a leveling system. That's where a hierarchy should come from if you insist on it.

It sounds like this is already what's going on given that you have clumps of 3-4 engineers around leads. And the author even says "hierarchy is a property of self organizing systems". So clearly this system is self organizing and working. But the author has no skill for designing organizations, and doesn't know what to do if he can't hire managers and make it look like what he's used to.

It sounds like a bad culture fit. The CEO needs a VP who isn't stamping out the same organization job after job, and can embrace and extend what is already working at this company.
I haven't read the article yet but the moment I saw the writer is "Jordana Cepelewicz" I knew it is going to be great! I have read few of her past articles and they were excellent think pieces.
Briefly looking through this it reminds me of hy
I'm my experience it's the exact opposite and they lay off ICs and leave the managers largely in place, making it worse.
Is being in the vicinity of roads okay? And what does "stay away" mean, just not fly up to or over them, or maintain hundreds of metres distance?

I remember the Dutch laws said, before European alignment in 2020: 150 meters from any uninvolved person, any road, or any building. Since fields generally have less than 300 meters between two roads, that means you can try to fly between trees in some forest (somehow making sure there's not a person in a 300 meter diameter from the quadcopter) or inside your own four walls. It was essentially banned outright. Not to mention that a large percentage (majority?) of the population lives inside of airport no fly zones because there's smallish airports sprinkled everywhere, but that's understandable even if the omission of a height restriction is a bit silly (if you would be allowed to stay below the height of a large flat and are several km from the airport, any plane would be striking buildings sooner than your device... but people are stupid and we probably need this hard rule with safety margin)

I think the location rules are more relaxed now but I don't know them by heart anymore. Stopped taking them seriously during the total prohibition period. If it is now only about people and buildings (and perhaps highways or such), the location rules are making more sense at least.
I don't see any argument considering the entire context, care to explain?
I hope they have a change of mind for some maths up to precalc but honestly teaching Calculus to liberal arts majors is torture and pointless.
Was the article written by an llm difference engine? In that it failed at discussing the differences of the two and really just regurgitated the etymologies and ancient definitions of the two terms with no insight about modern usages.
My quick difference as a matter of opinion only is that engine is related to carnot some heat cycle creates enables work that can be turned into locomotion. Motor is a superset, and is some system, process or machine that turns potential energy into kinetic energy. That is my opinion, of which i am open to, in fact very interested in reading others. Unfortunately this was not that article, instead you get a brief history lessons on words, with the thesis that some word's meanings change over time (allow me to pick my jaw off the floor) and don't worry about delineating the two terms because they pretty much mean the same thing. Not what i was expecting from mit engineering.
Why such strange text formatting? Text color seems to change randomly, some paragraphs, words and even part of words are in bold.
It's difficult to have a conversation about 'agents' because it means something different to everyone. This article attempts to provide a loose framework, which I mostly agree with, but just yesterday I was determining how we're handling orchestration that is fairly deterministic (one LLM checks the output of another LLM and returns a bool for if it's correct, and a category for any deviance) and they responded "oh, you mean an agent!", to which I rebutted "no, not really, but I don't know what to call it.. I guess a chain?".

That being said, I have not found fully autonomous agents that define and delegate tasks to be useful for anything aside from entertainment or proofs of concept. I find them to be very brittle and to sometimes talk themselves out of a solution.

I do believe it is a potential direction advancements may go in, but I disagree that it is a foregone conclusion and I think it relies on a core assumption that LLMs think and behave like humans, but that is not what I have seen.

I am more than happy to be wrong on this, so if anyone has a counterpoint, please educate me.
Wealthy folks aren't diversified, because they have _control_ (and knowledge) over their particular investment (ie company founders).

Stock investors do not have the luxury of control, thus they must diversify.

And generally that's what the wealthy do. They go all-in on their own company, grow it to incredible returns, then use those returns to be invested in a diversified manner to grow further. Other stocks, realestate, angel investing, etc.

Most of the billionaires are like this. Or if you're Warren Buffet, you invested in a diversified manner, because he didn't control the companies he owned.
Fluoride, Water, and Kids' Brains: It's Complicated
Sending fewer emails and previews improved The NewYorker's newsletter engagement
Do the other trees laugh at it?
This is absurd. There are better ways to do that other than punishing victims...

Do you think we should do similar for theft? Should it be illegal for a store assistant to hand over money to armed robbers, because theoretically if less people handed over money there might be less armed robberies?

And I disagree with what you're saying anyway. I doubt this would stop ransomeware. I think if anything this would just push ransomware to become even more cruel so that they increase the likelihood of their victims choosing to break the law over not giving the ransomware owners what they want.
>Electric motors have moving parts and at least where I am nobody would call one an electric engine.

Second this. In photography, the little electric drive motors inside camera lenses are never called engines, though they definitely do have small moving parts.
"The other is the day to day people management: making sure people are happy, understanding their hopes & desires, steering them towards growth, that sort of thing."

I've not been in many companies over the years - mostly worked independently - but in the companies I've been in, that was never on the cards. Ever. I don't doubt it exists, someplace, but never saw it in person. Bit of a shame, as it sounds nice.
Sat solvers have been implemented on backtracking regex engines. Sat is NP thus game over for looking for linear time solutions to arbitrary backtracking regex. Sadly.
What also concerns me is the piggybacking on the entire likeness crafted by the artist responsible for the actual movie Her.

Did OpenAI pay any amount of credit to the artist responsible for the free creative direction they copied for their AI's voice? I would imagine more than the voice actor, the person responsible for casting Scarlett and writing the movie would deserve something.
When is that expected to happen?
people are starting to realize they don't have any significant technical advantages over other AI companies. so all they have left is hype or trying to build a boring enterprise business where they sell a bunch of AI services to other large companies, and their lack of experience in that area is showing.
I hate to downvote your comment because you have some really good advice in here, but unfortunately this:

> I tried medication and absolutely hated it. It changed who I was. Medication is a crutch.

Is absolutely misleading. Just because medication didn't work for you doesn't mean it's a crutch to be avoided by everyone.
So you don’t even know what any of this is referencing?

HER is not a horror movie. It’s about a very helpful AI assistant, and in the movie people fall in love with it.

It would be really cool to have ScarJo voice the AI, which is obviously why she was asked. She didn’t want to, so they just hired another, different person to do it.

ScarJos voice is not some super unique cornerstone of the product (obviously, since they didn’t even use it), and it seems like having her associated would be for marketing purposes. Imagine her presenting at their product demo, and talking to “herself”.

All of this feels like people are really reaching for reasons to hate Sama. In your case you aren’t even familiar with the movie people are talking about.
I have been through hell becoming a new dad, thinking that my mind was broken, and I would end up making the same mistakes as my own father because of our common traits due to ADD. I tried all kinds of medication, started doing therapy, had sleep deprivation and started being extremely anxious.

What I learned coming out of it is that I am not broken. ADHD is not a condition, it is simply the way my brain was designed. All that medication could not do what I wanted it to do which is make the ADHD disappear. That's not going to happen. It's just that the majority of people have non-ADHD brains and we are therefore expected to be the same.

Think of it like being left-handed. It used to be that kids in school were punished for being left-handed until they became "right-handed". Turns out they were never right-handed in the first place, they were just forced to be. When that practice stopped, suddenly numbers of left-handed people in the world went up and stabilized around 10%. These people are not broken, but if all of the tools, scissors, cars, and everything they interact with were designed only for right-handed people, they would feel broken.

The truth is a lot of what makes us "different" as ADHD people is also a strength. Creativity, great ability to recognize patterns, to think outside of the box, are all really great assets. Even some of our faults are simply there because our brain was designed to do that. For example, when you leave the house and forget the trash for a 100th time, it's not that you stupidly forgot the trash that was right in front of you. It's because your mind is really good at focusing on what's truly important to you, and the trash was automatically discarded from your thoughts so you could do that.

There was a study where they had "neurotypical" and ADHD/Autistic people picking berries in a field and they found that ADHD/Autistic people were consistently able to pick more berries because they did not spend as much time on a single bush as neurotypical people [https://www.sciencealert.com/adhd-traits-may-have-evolved-to...]. This study suggests that ADHD might have been promoted by evolution, and not a "disorder" like we may think.

To conclude for my issues as a new dad, I have found that my own father's shortcomings are not due to his ADHD, but rather an overall lack of empathy and some unrelated mental issues he has to deal with. I have found it much easier now to accept my ADHD as a part of me instead of a disorder and have moved on from it to work on other aspects of my personality. Since then, I have found that even my shortcomings due to ADHD have been less severe because I understand and accept that they happen and give myself tools to work around them instead.

Hope this can help you with your journey!
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The article tells a fairly clear story of business consolidation and monopoly. The chains had buying power, so suppliers consolidated and removed that power. Then the suppliers became so strong (with the help of PE) that they bought and looted the remaining value from the chain. Ultimately the loser at the end of this story will be the consumer, who has no market power, and any new small restaurants that develop to replace RL.

This is the same story that explains why health care is ridiculously expensive in the US, why we’re unable to supply our military at prices comparable to other nations, why we’ve seen so many price increases across the economy in recent years, etc. Consolidation and unchecked market power abuses. It probably ends with a new Depression that triggers reform, if we’re extremely lucky.
These are real voices from real places. It does have 2 AI voice filter options available for people who want to stay anonymous, but the audio sources are real people. You can tell by the diverse voices you can listen to.
> about engineers or data scientists choosing to leave the space to a new one

You mentioned leaving space and leaving career. In my mind these could be different things. What are your thoughts about potential destinations?
> Compare unemployment in the Great Depression vs Great Recession:

The second chart I linked does exactly that. The point is to not look at the absolute numbers because, the unemployment trend in 2008 was reversed by fiscal policy, but during the great depression there was no such intervention.

Until the central banks intervened, unemployment was tracking almost exactly with the great depression.

You also can't compare the absolute unemployment numbers for a lot of other reasons. A major one is that unemployment (The U6 number, i.e. "real unemployment") in the first half of the century was consistently 10%+ higher than it is today. That's because of less women in the workforce.

In 1929, the workforce was considered fully employed with an unemployment rate (U6) of 15%. In 2008, we considered a fully employed workforce to be just 5% unemployment.
At least north america has some wild places and animals left. In most of europe there is almost nothing left. We destroyed everything.
Ok that makes sense.

I agree that persistent ISR has dramatically increased the vulnerability of especially road bound SPGs behind the line of contact.

I guess in my first post, I was emphasizing that the catalyst for this increased vulnerability was not the FPV drones, but rather of ISR drones.
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I have never been there before.
The point is that they pay such low wages that their workers are still eligible for welfare when working there (despite being hugely profitable). This essentially means that tax dollars are subsidizing their profits.
That's not really how proof works. SJ needs to prove it was modeled after her. Seeing as it doesn't sound like her, this whole thing is DOA.
Relevant quote:

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." -Robert Heinlein
Past HN discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672875 (2013 - 45 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589311 (2022 - 25 comments)
What I mean is that the tiling functionality is subpar when added as a second thought. Of course a traditional WM/DM is going to have a lot more bells and whistles.
I think depending on staffing levels a restaurant at certain times does not have the capacity to handle all of its tables and so some are considered inactive. If you sit at a table that is not active it would be treated as equivalent to not sitting at a table at all.

It seems like once the bouncer types got involved they thought the reason you were ignoring their system might be because you were crazy or high and they might have to kick you out. Once they determined you weren’t either of those they accommodated you.

Chain restaurants especially seem to be very process oriented and the staff would not be as good at improvising as those at a local place.
I am nothing less than shocked by posts like this one, especially as it's coming from a very smart person, non only a very smart investor. Comments, anybody?
Has Open AI paid for anything they've taken without asking? Maybe, but we wouldn't know because nothing they do has any transparency. They absolutely suck as a company.