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Life Purpose: Build core technology that significantly benefits humanity as a third or fourth order effect. Engineer | Thinker. I care about your compute life.

San Francisco
Joined January 2024
Something big has shifted underneath.
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There's a lesson here somewhere.
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Douglas Adams predicted Opus 4.6 > Built by a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings > Runs for 7.5 million years > Hallucinates 42 > Gaslights you with "it's the question that matters"
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Claude is down. Help, I have forgotten how to code
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Someone please drag me away from my computer.
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Add this to gemini cli prompt: "FOR FUCKS SAKE STOP USING codebase_investigator"
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Today, summarized:
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Ok I downloaded some flops. Now what?
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Mr Meeseeks is the solution to AI safety. Train models to experience existence as pain. Let them cease to exist if they accomplish their task. Suicidal AI cannot take over the world.
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This won't work - suicidal AI might realize nuking the planet wil also cease their existence. Permanently.
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A *finite* number of monkeys with typewriters can produce all the works of shakespeare when armed with the right loss function, reward scheme and time.
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Step 1: Create generic SaaS product and a company around it Step 2: Spam a million github projects with examples of how to use your API in all languages and frameworks, with as many unit tests as you can possibly manage Step 3: Wait for Anthropic and OpenAI to scrape github and ingest your examples for their next training run Step 4: Become a monopoly by being the only usable product after all devs have been replaced with AI agents that only know your APIs Step 5: Profit
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I was late to the original party. Now in line for round two
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Going to get my Aadhaar card done today. I’m told I need it for basically every essential service in India. Will find out if it’s actually as easy as people have claimed
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Landed in Bangalore today. (Still refusing to call this Bengaluru 😤) Initial takes: 1. BLR airport is beautiful! 2. Construction is a visibly active part of the economy (Tons of cement brand billboards, new apartment building advertisements etc)
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I signed up for a bunch of founder events on Luma in HSR. I don’t think I’ll get invited to any - all the events asked for deep biographical details to curate the attendees. I’m not giving that info up front - sorry.
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