Niraj Tailor

[Saronic @Saronic]

Today, we're proud to announce the future home of Port Alpha: Brownsville, Texas.

Our next-generation shipyard moves from vision to reality through a planned investment of more than $3 billion to establish one of the world's most advanced shipyards, built for software-defined shipbuilding and autonomous maritime systems.

Port Alpha is expected to generate more than $160 billion in regional economic impact for Cameron County and $264.5 billion for the State of Texas, while creating up to 10,000 direct jobs — which makes it one of the largest economic development projects in modern Texas history.

More than a shipyard, Port Alpha represents a new model for American shipbuilding — combining advanced manufacturing, software-defined production, and autonomy at unprecedented scale. We're proud to continue building in Texas.

Learn more: https://t.co/02rXoR9vR4

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Interesting.

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

And remember it’s $7 trillion yearly! Not including all the borrowed money!

[Patrick Carroll @PatrickC1995]

I agree, it's kind of insane the government hasn't done this yet with its $7 trillion budget.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

“I don’t ever give up” Congrats @elonmusk 🚀

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I have never been so bullish on the United States of America.

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

@StigTheWhite @JerryPikePhoto In a lot of cases soot is used as a cooling method. You can treat its characteristics like an ablative. Atleast that goes for kerosene engines in the nozzle chamber

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

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[Peter Nixey @peternixey]

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.

Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way.

StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day.

It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views.

But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans.

What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on?

When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on?

This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies.

Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default.

Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer.

Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go?

We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done).

So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions.

None of which you'll find on StackOverflow.

(I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

[Firefly Aerospace @Firefly_Space]

🚀 Alpha has reached orbit! FLTA002 has gone #ToTheBlack

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

Mass shootings are a new American tradition.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

NEW: Just signed our budget. California will now be the first state in the nation to achieve universal access to healthcare coverage.

This is what being “pro-life” ACTUALLY looks like.

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

@lorraina_1996 This is a red flag, you’re signing yourself up for a death trap

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

😮‍💨

[Ali Wolf @AliWolfEcon]

Builder in Austin said dominos are starting to fall. One builder dropped prices over $75K this week on homes with a base price below $700K

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

Shorting the housing market Michael Barry style

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Today, Nike opens the Serena Williams Building — the largest building on its Oregon campus 🏢

➖ 1 million sq. ft.
➖ Size of 140 tennis courts
➖ Houses 1000 designers
➖ 4 cafés named for tennis titles
➖ 'East Compton Court'
➖ 'Olympia Theater', named after Serena's daughter

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

@markhuu @martianlune We’re doing real life shit, your coming to my sisters wedding like who tf would’ve thought

[Niraj Tailor @ILLTweetYouRite]

@markhuu @martianlune ong, never did I expect I was gonna meet family