Ari Ramsan

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[Ari Ramsan @AriRamsan]

@GuptaPranit @TheRobertDoh @a16z @speedrun Phenomenal mission and incredible team!!!

[Beni Shafer-Sull @beni_shafersull]

@PhilippWehn thanks for hosting tn. At the end of the day, brand is all we have

[Ari Ramsan @AriRamsan]

@daymakerguy Me, naturally

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

We’re getting a dyson sphere, aren’t we

[amogh @OfficialAmogh]

hey! super excited to announce human behavior v2 ;)

we raised $5M from @paulg, @ycombinator, @generalcatalyst, @vercel to put your company on autopilot

product analytics told you what happened … human behavior now just handles it

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

On our way to rebuild Rome.
Starbase, Texas.

[richard @richardzphotoz]

A16Z is making movies now.

[Ari Ramsan @AriRamsan]

@szymczyk06 True!

[a16z @a16z]

Happy birthday, USA.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Lots of great wisdom here.

Aristotle’s Eudaimonia, flourishing, is not mere happiness but a life of excellence, fulfillment and purpose.

A free and prosperous society ultimately depends on the cultivation of virtue and character, not merely on laws, incentives, or institutions.

[Jasper Vyda @JasperVyda]

Great to bring together some of SF's best young builders and researchers for a dinner and panel with @GVteam and @velocityeleven. Inspiring to see what's getting built from Day 0. Thanks to all who came.

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

The popular conversation around AI in America looks nothing like the narratives the elites are driving.

For our new research, we analyzed 25,000 TikTok and YouTube videos about AI---and watched thousands of them ourselves---to understand how Americans are encountering AI in their everyday lives.

Despite an elite conversation focused largely on backlash, AI videos embracing AI outnumber videos about resisting AI 3 to 1.

These "adopter" videos don't focus on the things elites talk about: they talk about funny memes and effects AI can help make and ways you can use AI to help you with your job search.

There is a significant and organized social media community focused on resisting AI, but surprisingly, it's not mainly about job loss, data centers, or existential risk. Instead, it's about creative theft and the erosion of human-made art. This has all the hallmarks of a genuine movement---with organized efforts to support human artists, to report AI-generated content, and to oppose the technology in the real world.

All in all, when we look past the efforts of the labs and the media to impose a top-down narrative around job loss and existential risk, we find everyday Americans having a far different and in many ways more "normal" conversation (@random_walker)---one in which AI offers immediate and personal opportunities and challenges all at the same time.

Check out the full research piece, which is loaded with interesting real example videos, here:

https://t.co/AbFTqM4g7e

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

.@satyanadella just put the whole "water" debate to rest.

Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I have found it, the Platonic form of every New York Times op-ed.

[Ari Ramsan @AriRamsan]

@natecavanaugh @Special @a16z @brian_armstrong @ssankar Huge mission, congrats Nate!!!

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Self-driving cars are fun because you never see competing SaaS products having a literal standoff in the street

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem.

The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth.

The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

A lot of nuts we waste insane amounts of water subsidizing in places like CA are then shipped to China.

We are literally wasting 100s of billions of gallons to give China cheap nuts. Since they fund lefty protests, only data centers are the target for “wasting” water. Wake up!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Of course.