Ian Hill

Founder and CEO of Palpable AI - the first Voice-Only AI assistant that Gets. Stuff. Done... better than humans:

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An AI Pal that Gets. Stuff. Done.
Better than a human!
https://t.co/rjLQJfYYXD

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@MollySOShea I think he also realizes that strict alignment to a questionable vision is far stronger than weak alignment to various “perfect” visions

Large companies have so many people pulling to their own vision they can’t execute

Elon doesn’t abide that

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@garrytan He’s being naive in assuming “productivity increase cancels out gap from population”

Why?

Because income drops from tech always land unevenly.

If AI favors “capital” over “labor” then *mean* abundance goes up but only because really rich people got richer… median goes down

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@tristanbob I got “local AI fever” briefly

Somehow it feels like, just by spending money, you are being productive and clever

But then you do the hard math and realize it is neither

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You guys should learn more about the “technology” that is macroeconomics

His take is bad.

Eg he thinks price decreases are good because he doesn’t unserstand one person’s price is another person’s salary. If both go down, you’re not better off.

Which goes down more is non-obv

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Deflation and “lower prices” is not automatically good.

The price of a haircut is a barber’s income. Every price is someone’s salary. If prices go down at the same amount as income, you’re not better off.

In fact, you get economic depression because things like debt contracts are locked in at the higher price

Macro Econ is a “technilogy” worth knowing about

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@Regman_ETX @lennysan @pmarca @a16z I get that’s the point he *thinks* he’s making but It’s just not how it works.

The price I pay for a haircut is the salary for a barber. The price of corn is a farmer’s income.

If prices drop, all else equal, so do incomes.

Which drops more is very esoteric.

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@mwseibel A good spokesperson for this: Stephen He (https://t.co/LMruGP9plG)

He is famous on Youtube for imitating his Asian dad.

People don't realize his "American accent" was actually the imitation... he spent 2 years learning it.

It glitches your brain to hear the difference

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@garrytan Just came back after 10 years away.

Had some "hell-scapy" vibes

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@rasmalai Scheme

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@ThePrimeagen AI is better than 98 percentile of humans at a given job...

You, as a developer, are in top 99th percentile so it doesn't add value to you

If you were trying to write investment copy for a pitch deck, Gemini 3.0 might be better than you now

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@paulg Plus, most large companies actually just want to wait for the Microsoft version of your service

Entire startups die trying to jump through the approval processes when large companies lead them on

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Does anyone have a framework or questionnaire for interviewing potential co-founders?

Some questions would be start-up specific but handy to see what's out there

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@dev_maims Debugging it all

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@garrytan tae kim is wrong

If you actually build with AI you'd note that Google's data points are steeper than anyone, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

18 months ago Google was behind

6 months ago, they were just behind

They are now ahead of everyone except Anthropic

Next data point...

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@DavidSacks This is just naive as to how "truth" works.

"Unbiased" sits at a point equidistant between political sides

"Truth" sits wherever it sits

That means "truth" ≠ "unbiased"

People increasingly arbitrage this by adopting extreme positions

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@ConnorWaslo @sanchetio
I was looking at your Caddy video... very cool

I'm a founder in the personal agent space and it's fun to see good use-cases

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@ikirigin @garrytan This. I don't think Garry has been watchin enough kids movies

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@AndrewYNg Unless you define what you mean by a bubble upfront, it is hard to evaluate anything else you say.

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It's getting hard to shake the feeling that today's AI project is just tomorrow's new feature for one of the Big-AI firms