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He forgot the tokens! It's not simple weights and numbers all the way down. The available output is pre-set by the tokens we allow it to predict. There was a whole bit in there abo…

Sure there is some minimal marginal cost, but it's so close to zero that it's usually negligible, and the incentive is to basically give it away and "monetize" something else. Your…

But focusing on production cost is silly. The cost to consumers is what matters. Software is already free or dirt cheap because it can be served at zero marginal cost. There was on…

One thing that has become clearer to me over the years is that reasoning by analogy (like this article does) sounds a lot smarter than it is. If you look from first principles, it'…

This video was fascinating. I didn't know about "open endedness" as a concept but now that I see it, of course it's an approach. One thought... in the video, Ken makes the observat…

I did a chat with Gemini about the paper, and tldr is... * They introduce a loop at the beginning between Q, K, and V vectors (theoretically representing "question", "clues" and "h…

Appropriately prioritizing problems has never really been society's strength...

I think we're not factoring in that people will react. We're already all starting to realize that the free for all is getting quite hard to navigate. My hunch is that within 10 yea…

Ok, echoing my top level comment... An alternative framing that I've come to find more helpful is to take your life expectancy, and cut it by 2/3. For example, if you're 20 years o…

> You should organize each day as if it were your last, so that you neither need to long for nor fear the next day. I've come to find this "live each day like it's your last" advic…

Guided aspects... he sent over a questionairre ahead of time with a lot of broad questions. We then did a one hour zoom call going over the questions and getting to know him. It's …

One session meaning one time. Both of us think it would be valuable to do, but on the timescale of like... once/year or once every few years. But there are people who do it once/mo…

I'm located in San Francisco. I asked around a bunch of friends, got intros, and talked to a few potential guides. Eventually got linked up with someone who's been doing it for a n…

This actually took me a bit of time. I had to search around. But can give advice. If you're serious, email me at bwest87 at gmail.com

A friend and I did a "guided" psychedelic session earlier this year. We did it individually over one weekend. It was great. She did it for more therapeutic reasons. I did it more f…

Oakland relaxed a lot of zoning, and permitting regulations about 5 years ago, and so now you're starting to really see production sky rocket. This article [0] mentions 2019 was ha…

yes, I should have clarified. They still do hack weeks AFAIK (I left about 6 months ago), but they no longer do continuous "20% time"

Eh, maybe. Your core responsibility is to ship on time. Especially at a startup, it's not only "ok", it's usually the "right" call to ship faster, and accumulate technical debt. Th…

You can do it a few ways. But in my experience, the simplest and best way is to force people to demo something at a pre-specified time. If you're doing it "hackathon" style, then i…