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we make a little money on it!

AI FTW! (dang please don't ban me for a low-quality comment :) i couldn't resist but will not make it a habit!)

That was the specific inspiration, yes.

"Understand" is up for debate, but it's clearly learning something. The fact that it's possible to learn general structure as well as we can from unlabeled data does seem like a si…

I think people should be impressed, but also recognize the distance from here to AGI. It clearly has some capabilities that are quite surprising, and is also clearly missing someth…

Thanks, but it's Sam McCandlish doing the demo (and the project).

The entire partnership is incredible and does a huge amount of valuable work, and startup advising, that they don't get nearly enough credit for. I'll still be involved (and will e…

added as a footnote

I also wrote this, which I think counting reprints is my most-read blog post ever: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...

The biggest reason I'm excited about basic income is the amount of human potential it will unleash by freeing more people to take risks. Until then, if you aren't born lucky, you h…

I just re-read this for the first time in years--it needs a re-write. I will try! But first this has inspired me to get to work on the forgotten Part II.

Dan and Scott do an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to make Hacker News what it is. I have never met two more thoughtful community stewards. They usually get more hate …

rigged IMO

We are playing with regular couriers for the first time! And against a pro team.

You are comparing startups at the end of 3 months of intensive work to ones at the beginning. They're totally different. It never stops being amazing to watch a team go from an ide…

Update: we will have something to share tonight, and I think people will be pretty happy :)