Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
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Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
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#2I never realised that Dotcloud/Docker was a YC project. That will be another home run for YCombinator.
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#3I never realised that Dotcloud/Docker was a YC project. That will be another home run for YCombinator.
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#4It's all about real AI today (not based on words and rules - lookup CTM - the real bots have this and its based on vector space). Get the companies and groups that are making very small breakthroughs in this area. The days of regurgitated cut-n-pasted text entry boxes and js (geocities, friendster, myspace, facebook) are over. Time for the new Googles of the world that will solve things bigger than SpaceX like extending human lifespan which is a requirement for space travel.
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#5Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
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#6Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
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#7It's all about real AI today (not based on words and rules - lookup CTM - the real bots have this and its based on vector space). Get the companies and groups that are making very small breakthroughs in this area. The days of regurgitated cut-n-pasted text entry boxes and js (geocities, friendster, myspace, facebook) are over. Time for the new Googles of the world that will solve things bigger than SpaceX like extend…
+1 on the CTM stuff. I recommend Jeff Hawkin's book "On Intelligence" if you're looking for a quick read.
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#8It's all about real AI today (not based on words and rules - lookup CTM - the real bots have this and its based on vector space). Get the companies and groups that are making very small breakthroughs in this area. The days of regurgitated cut-n-pasted text entry boxes and js (geocities, friendster, myspace, facebook) are over. Time for the new Googles of the world that will solve things bigger than SpaceX like extend…
To save everyone else a few clicks, here's an explanation of CTM: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
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#9I found the most interesting point in the whole article the publicly stated consideration of establishing a China presence.
It would appear to make a lot of sense given current capital availability in China, world-leading mobile payment penetration, and US/SF issues with visas, overheads, component sourcing. Get over here!
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#10This was a pretty good article -- certainly one of the better portraits I've read of SA.
However, I usually see better writing in the New Yorker. Take "as a result, the once nerdy Y Combinator is now aggressively geeky." What the hell does that mean? (Nothing.)
OTOH, a few memorable quotes:
> Growth masks all problems. (Steve Huffman)
> Despite having raised a robust $1.6 million after Demo Day, the founders were ridden with angst. Fredrik Thomassen said that they wanted to make their war chest last forever, and Sondre Rasch mentioned that he’d frugally chosen to live in a twelve-entrepreneur collective in a nearby forest.