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Adam Stone retweeted
96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide.
3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
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All this hand-wringing over capex from Facebook, Microsoft, Google and other new entrants is unnecessary.
When products are this good and improving this fast, we won't overbuild; if anything, we'll be constrained by physics and regulation.
And these machines will last a decade, as software gets relentlessly more efficient and we find creative uses for older clusters.
Earnings will be absurd in the next five years, as companies like Microsoft, Uber, Tesla, Robinhood, and Meta have revenue per employee DOUBLE every 3-4 years.
Pay attention to revenue and earnings per employee.
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Elon Musk on today's announcement with President Trump:
“We signed a joint declaration regarding superintelligence safety. We agreed to a number of things that include joint monitoring, board special committees, and just generally grading each other’s homework.”
Adam Stone retweeted
There are so many seasoned software executives who are completely out of their element with the types of products that will breakout in the next few years.
Over the last 20 years, their brains were wired to build apps that deliver value by outputting deterministic results, but AI produces value from probabilistic results. This is such a different way to approach how something should work.
Young people who are thinking in this way from the outset will be at a significant advantage -- in the same way they were advantaged when thinking about how products could be social in 2010.
Adam Stone retweeted
96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide.
3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
Adam Stone retweeted
I do not agree with every decision the Israeli government makes. I also do not agree with every decision Canada makes, or the United States. But I believe all three countries should exist.
Disagreeing with a government is healthy. It is what citizens of democracies do. Questioning whether a country should exist at all is something else entirely, and we should be honest about the difference.
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On Monday, Montreal city council votes on a motion to cut the city's ties with Israel. I am speaking up because this motion is dangerous for Montreal, and my reason has nothing to do with which side of that war you are on.
My family arrived in Montreal in 1956 as refugees. This city gave us safety, dignity and the chance to build. That promise has drawn generations of immigrants here from every corner of the world.
I am not going to debate a war on the other side of the world, and that is exactly the point. A municipal government has no jurisdiction over foreign policy. Cities do not end wars.
But a motion like this lands right here at home. Jewish Montrealers are less than one percent of this city and the number one target of hate crimes. Those are police statistics, not opinions. Our synagogues and schools have been targeted, and families I know are scared in a way I have never seen.
When city hall singles out one community's connection to a foreign conflict, it brings no peace anywhere. It brings fear here.
Montreal has real emergencies. Housing. Homelessness. Infrastructure. That is the job.
This city has been a safe haven for my family and so many others, and it must remain one for everyone. @SorayaMartinezF showed real leadership in June. Council should reject this motion on Monday.
Adam Stone retweeted
cancer curing vaccines will also simultaneously rid the world of anti-vaxers and ai haters
our hatred of cancer is unifying
Adam Stone retweeted
"The pursuit of excellence does not need justification." 🎯
Mind boggling to me that I can make a thing faster and there's always people that ask "but why?" What kind of mentality is that? The pursuit of excellence does not need justification. Also, I find in so many cases, we can't know the impact of an improvement until we do it.
For example, one I've talked about before: Ghostty's high IO throughput has enabled terminal program (emulator and TUI) fuzzing at a speed thats incomparably fast to prior solutions. This has resulted in upstream patches to resolve issues in popular projects like btop, tmux, and more.
Speed enabled that anecdotally example that lifted the tides of adjacent communities that don't rely on Ghostty technology at all. I didn't predict this.
Make things better because they can be better and let the results naturally play out.
Adam Stone retweeted
Jews account for approximately 0.2% of the global population. And yet antisemites believe this tiny minority is not only on a quest for total world domination, but already controls banks, the media, industry, government — even the weather.
The myth of Jewish power is a centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
Watch to learn more: antisemitism.adl.org/power/.
Adam Stone retweeted
How is the Thiel Fellowship so successful?? It’s not that they are picking any smarter kids than @Harvard, or that the network is any better than @YCombinator. I think it is because agency is a skill that you can learn. And the sooner you start the better you’ll be.
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I was curious so I tried it, and apparently you can fix bugs by just explaining what you want in more detail!
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Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.
The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.
If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.
There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
Adam Stone retweeted
.@travisk says AI will make human labor even more valuable and in-demand than ever before:
"Let's say the entire world - everything in our world - was automated, except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings - you would basically have like a thousand buildings a day."
"How valuable would those plumbers be?"
"Each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing would be the long pole in the tent to progress. You can't get those thousand buildings unless you have a plumber."
"And by the way, you'd get so much efficiency everywhere else that you'd need millions of plumbers."
"Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust."
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GOOD NEWS 🚨 Prominent tech investor Jason Calacanis recently secured rare access to Tesla's "Optimus Lab", and the glimpse he got of the future left him absolutely stunned 🤖
"I saw Optimus 3. I can tell you now: nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember Optimus. It is going to be the most transformative technology product ever made in the history of humanity. I believe there will be a one-to-one ratio of humans to Optimus, and I think Elon's already won."