Henry Madsen

24. Trolling | Building | Larping | Zero CS degree | Surfer | Wantreprenuer - but making money along the way to support myself

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Full Omni duplex on an m5 fully local… definitely needs work, but cool to build custom agent turn animations from stick figures I found on Pinterest. Also created the custom card displays showcasing work from dispatched agents.

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@TimSweeneyEpic @BernieSanders In one year those founders accomplished more than anything Sanders has done his entire career

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About time

[Balaji @balajis]

Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.

(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.

(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.

(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.

(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.

(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.

(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.

As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.

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Making “context” irrelevant to cater to those who have little model/agent harness understanding is the play… however trying to make everything run smoothly is like asking a beginner to shape a surfboard… over time they will learn and get better and start to understand how the tools should and could be used

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Elon’s advice to 20-year-olds on surviving the AI era:

Get as broad-based an education as possible: arts, sciences, engineering, and wide general knowledge.

Why?

AI and robots will fulfill almost any request immediately.The edge won’t be doing the work. It will be knowing what to ask for. The broader your knowledge, the better your questions.

(source: CGTN)

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@_adishj @ycombinator larp seasonnnnn

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@strimblez well most successful CEO's are assholes sooo

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@boardyai distribution...

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@charles_maddock Bait marketing

[tenso @distributedkv]

they can never pace the frontier.

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@alexandr_wang from Santa Cruz... l'll give you a free surf lesson - up to 3 ppl

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@SinaHartung Chances are that she’s a bot in a data center

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@alexzfunk @maximusgrave 🤣🤣🤣

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@maximusgrave Hahahah I knew someone was gonna rip this

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The war room… 3D rendering of custom characters that represent various agents in different harnesses.

Should I open source the video game I built?

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@pricefoulger Okay will do… give me a sec and I’ll clean it up and drop it

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The war room… 3D rendering of custom characters that represent various agents in different harnesses.

Should I open source the video game I built?

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@supertuxkart A fellow open source game builder… I gotta check out your repos

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Local Jarvis running on an m5. Should I open source the orb I made?

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Predictions on the future of universities?

I say in 20-30 yrs many will go out of business and collapse. Learning is most effective when intrinsically motivated by curiosity… not by some random person spitting out info teaching you the topic with their academic biases & opinions.

I’ve had some fire professors, but 99% of what I’ve learned or made money on was self taught.

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Some speculation surrounding the roadster drop on Oct 1…

Will we have the first commercial flying car?