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neilgsmith

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About neilgsmith

A child of the 70s, I've been in love with tech and coding for 50 years, from the ZX81 to LLMs. I retired and resolved to work on tech projects interesting/useful to me and that I would only work on things that I would make available to others:

Next Arc Research is the first such project - AI Era Investment Research beyond the Mag 7 - see nextarcresearch.com - free month for HN folks: https://www.patreon.com/NextArcResearch/redeem/CC2A2.

Progressive Immersion is another - language learning in an immersive context using modern classics - see the Amazon Kindle catalog. http://bit.ly/3M7be6I

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    Comment #46319874

    Thanks for the question - in brief, I'm trying to gather opinions as to whether M.I.N.D. (see below) is truly an effective metric to evaluate: "if AI capabilities keep improving an…

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    Comment #46316879

    OP, I built this chart as a way to stress-test AI narratives using a simple structural framework. The “thing” I’m showing is the mapping itself: it separates two questions that oft…

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    Comment #46265196

    I’ve been working on "Next Arc Research" — https://nextarcresearch.com - a wrapper around my curiosity to understand how AI, compute, and capital might change markets by 2030. It’s…

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    My approach is to invest for the long term, diversify a year's worth of living expenses into assets inversely correlated to tech, hold a diversified portfolio across different tech…