Andrew Wooster

Looking for the frontiers. — AI/App consulting, founder @apptentive (acquired), ex-Apple, 5th gen California cattle rancher.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Trying hard not to comment on the Current Thing.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

“With that money we could completely waste it by subsidizing demand”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Elon Musk's net worth has just surpassed $1 trillion, again.

With that money we could make college completely free in America for over a decade.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

@dweekly If only there were a natural product that was durable, biodegradable, and a byproduct of an existing industry. 🤠

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

And seized for the benefit of people who aren’t citizens, fwiw. It’s insane, and probably unconstitutional.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

If California’s “billionaire tax” passes, it will amount to the first time that a government in the U.S. has successfully taxed the assets, rather than the income, of extremely rich people as a class. https://t.co/mtMLp4ar1R

[Robert Bye @RobertJBye]

Finished my weekend tinkering making a microphone for dictation and voice mode!

What’s super cool is Claude
- Picked the components
- Designed the circuit
- Made the firmware
- Created the breadboard diagram
- Did the 3D design
- Optimised for 3D printing

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Eh, I think the public panic over nuclear was comparable.

The public outrage over housing being built anywhere near them, or any housing over two stories tall anywhere, has also been a constant my adult life.

[constans @constans]

This kind of public panic is something I have never seen in living memory. Probably nothing like it since the Industrial Revolution. We seem to have adapted to other innovations like computerization, process optimization, the car, and air travel without this kind of mass panic.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Staring at a giant mound of legal and compliance documents and yes I can think of a few things AI is useful for.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

I’m a competent adult. Why do I need an “AI agent” to check into a flight for me?

I’m literate. Why do I need an “AI agent” to read and write emails for me? Also, I don’t get so many emails that I can’t answer them myself.

The reason “no one uses AI” is that there’s no serious utility here for the vast majority of people.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Yeah, I may not agree with religious leaders often, but this is squarely within their area of thought. Consulting with them is good.

(Being angry when they disagree is hilarious though. Like what did Ant expect?)

[Natasha @natashaghoskins]

IMO the labs building tools nearly a billion people use every week should be thinking about morality. So why not bring in leaders who have spent their entire careers thinking about good and evil within their own varied and rich religious practices?

Treating it as a scandal is stupid.

[Matthew “Movies” Thomason @ThomasonTown]

THEY JUST SOLD ALL THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT WAS SITTING AROUND???

God bless this person for realizing what they had and sharing it with us.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

@can Very handy for having a model check app programming results visually.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year

That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Whenever I hear about some new AI threat I can’t help but think of these words from C. S. Lewis

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

My favorite part of this article is one of the visiting scholars pointing out that by Olah’s logic he is by far the worst slaver in history and he must immediately give up this abhorrent and immensely lucrative project, which anthropic people ignored.

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

It is basically the only reliable radio for most of the Western states.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

TIL that ~25% of households in the US pay for SiriusXM!

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

I was briefly into mountaineering in my early thirties, at like a tourist level, and now am watching a guide I spent a month with in Africa as the central figure in an Apple documentary. 👀👀👀👀👀

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Pretty clear that the job of most programmers is no longer about writing code.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

@CarolWalshReal1 🥵

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

I like my current apartment. 🫠

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

I hope everyone really likes their current home. Because you probably aren't buying a new one for a while. 😳

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

I’m pretty much putting my house search on hold to see how the mortgage rate and Bay Area IPOs shake out.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US 30Y Note Yield rises above 5.60% for the first time since June 2002.

That’s another +36 basis points this month alone.

8% mortgages will arrive next week.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

Hard to justify buying a house in the Bay Area with mortgage rates rising and prices so high.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

I don't know how this resolved, but something is going to break with 7.6% and rapid rising mortgage rates.

[Andrew Wooster @wooster]

So I guess crypto does have a use case.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Amazing.

These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out.

Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets: