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Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by black_knight »

aatd86 wrote: post #168
mattlondon wrote: post #117

I too would very happily do just the bits of my job that I like, when and how I want, and have any requests or comments or complaints I make get immediate attention and responses. All in the knowledge that no one is going to be time-tracking me or doing performance reviews, and I can just not do work at any moment I don't feel like it or have something better to do that day, like go to my private island or take my pr…

He was in your spot at some point I've heard. Nothing is impossible.

Dreams and hopes are powerful weapons of suppression. Everyone is a millionaire just down on their luck at the moment…

In our advanced society, with incredible automation, we should _all_ have vastly more freedom and control over our time.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by Version467 »

energy123 wrote: post #130
cj wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, what types of prompts are you running that benefit from 10+ minutes of think time? Whats the quality difference between default ChatGPT and Thinking? Is it an extra 20% quality boost or is the difference night/day? I've often imagined it would be great to have some kind of chrome extension or 3rd party tool to always run prompts in multiple thinking tiers so you can get an immediate response to read whil…

It's for planning system architecture when I want to get something good (along the criteria that I give it) rather than the first thing that runs. I use Thinking and Pro. I don't use the default ChatGPT so can't comment on that. The difference between Thinking and Pro is modest but detectable. The 20 minute thinking times are with Pro, not with Thinking. But Pro only allows 60k tokens per prompt so I sometimes can't…

I recently bought into the $200 tier and was genuinely quite surprised at ChatGPT 5.2 Pros ability for software architecture planning. If you give it ~60k tokens of your codebase and a thorough description of what you actually want to happen then it comes up with very good ideas. The biggest difference to me is how thorough it is. This is already something I noticed with the codex high/xhigh models compared to gemini 3 pro and opus 4.5, but gpt pro is noticeably better still.

I guess it's not talked about as much because a lot fewer people have access to it, but after spending a bunch of time with gemini 3 and opus 4.5 I don't feel that openai has lost the lead at all. The benchmarks tell a different story, but for my real world use cases codex and gpt pro are still ahead. Better at sticking to my intent and fewer mistakes overall. It's slow, yes. But I can't write requirements as quickly as opus can misunderstand them anyway.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by bell-cot »

lionkor wrote: post #150
elictronic wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything you are mentioning are user issues. AI search myspacing googles ad business is an investor issue.

They're all Google issues.

When you're the 900 lbs. gorilla, you can get away with a whole lotta shit.

And "Don't Be Evil" was a long time ago in a Google far, far away.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by krelian »

aatd86 wrote: post #168
mattlondon wrote: post #117

I too would very happily do just the bits of my job that I like, when and how I want, and have any requests or comments or complaints I make get immediate attention and responses. All in the knowledge that no one is going to be time-tracking me or doing performance reviews, and I can just not do work at any moment I don't feel like it or have something better to do that day, like go to my private island or take my pr…

He was in your spot at some point I've heard. Nothing is impossible.

So was the last lottery winner. I can certainly improve my chances but there is a huge amount of luck involved.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by pyrale »

aatd86 wrote: post #168
mattlondon wrote: post #117

I too would very happily do just the bits of my job that I like, when and how I want, and have any requests or comments or complaints I make get immediate attention and responses. All in the knowledge that no one is going to be time-tracking me or doing performance reviews, and I can just not do work at any moment I don't feel like it or have something better to do that day, like go to my private island or take my pr…

He was in your spot at some point I've heard. Nothing is impossible.

https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2023/07/28/the-infamous-coin...

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

aatd86 wrote: post #168
mattlondon wrote: post #117

I too would very happily do just the bits of my job that I like, when and how I want, and have any requests or comments or complaints I make get immediate attention and responses. All in the knowledge that no one is going to be time-tracking me or doing performance reviews, and I can just not do work at any moment I don't feel like it or have something better to do that day, like go to my private island or take my pr…

He was in your spot at some point I've heard. Nothing is impossible.

Not for long; he was 25 when Google was founded, it was a billion dollar company not long after. He could've retired when Google went public in 2004.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by jacquesm »

leoedin wrote: post #121
vander_elst wrote: post #46

If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, system programming, wine tasting, carpentry, sport, traveling etc... There are *so* many interesting things to do and so little time. I guess time will tell but at the moment I have a hard time imagining myself getting bored.

Yeah, my main worry about retirement is that I’ll spend all my money on tools and projects.

That's going to be the main problem for me heirs: where do all the tools go :)

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by tempestn »

black_knight wrote: post #171
aatd86 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was in your spot at some point I've heard. Nothing is impossible.

Dreams and hopes are powerful weapons of suppression. Everyone is a millionaire just down on their luck at the moment… In our advanced society, with incredible automation, we should _all_ have vastly more freedom and control over our time.

That attitude is the weapon of suppression. Yes, it's true that life isn't fair. But it's also true that people have agency and can make material improvements to their own quality of life through smart decisions and dedication. Of course most of us won't start the next Google, but that doesn't mean dreams and hope are bad in general.

Re: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

awendt wrote: post #135
senorqa wrote: post #114

> Sergey Brin’s lesson for the rest of us Is it? I know people who are really happy without doing much in their retirement. Probably because they weren't workaholics. To my mind, if one doesn't have hobbies during the working years, then they will struggle to find purpose when they retite.

This! People need to get a life. I wouldn't have any trouble keeping myself busy after retirement. I do not have nearly enough time for the things I really WANT to do beside work.

I think that's the one silver lining of the pandemic's lockdowns; some people were at home again for extended periods of time, finding themselves with a lot more free time and in a place that wasn't just for eating and sleeping.
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