Amit Kumar

Teacher || Tech || AI || Curious about various things.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Humanity had 1,800 years of flat per capita growth. Then fossil fuels, electricity, machines, semiconductors and the internet happens and suddenly we started compounding living standards at 2% per year.

2% sounds tiny but compounding is magic.

Will AI break the barrier of 2%?

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Keyboards 🎹 made it easy to make music. Didn’t make it easy to make music that people like.

AI is doing the same thing to apps.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Profound wisdom often needs few words.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Very soon, proficiency with AI models may become for developers what aircraft ratings are for pilots: a marker of training, qualification, and the ability to operate specific systems effectively.

AI models clearance may become the new levels.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

People are unlikely to respect a leader if they believe the leader’s judgment is inferior to their own. In many fields, the ability to solve harder problems is one of the strongest signals of superior judgment.

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

Congratulations @elonmusk on amazing SpaceX IPO...what Elon is trying through spacex and optimus and xAI will ultimately make us all trillionaire if we become kardshev scale 3 civilization.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

The more notifications you stop on your phone, the more bandwidth you create in your mind for things that matter to you (and not to the notification sender).

Seriously, remove all attention-hoggers. Attention is all you got to spend in life.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The Gestalt Prayer by Fritz Perls

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful; if not, it can’t be helped.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I see a lot of enthusiasm about building sovereign models on my timeline.

That's great to hear and India needs it, BUT.. building a Fable-class model is a compute and funding game. Last I checked, India had ~50-100k H100 equivalents while frontier labs would have a million each.

Unless we have a paradigm shift in how AIs are trained, the conversation ought to be happening about amount of funding available to do what we want to do. Show me an Indian company that's secured funding/compute in the same range as that of Chinese AI labs (let alone American labs).

Without compute, what will happen is what has happened before: we'd promise to shake the world and then build models that are a year or two behind the top ones.

The path forward for sovereign models that I see is to invest in basic R&D so we have a chance to go beyond the current paradigm, OR the government pooling in several orders of magnitude more compute to seriously commit competing at par.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

"Assume you're wrong." -- @elonmusk

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

Scarce things are desirable

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

All bad behaviour results from short term thinking...All scams occur at places which has short term relationship with us...eg: internet scams...tourist places .... Airport...Station etc...where we only meet that person once

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

Complex things are hard to scale but is also hard to kill as we have no goalpost to attack because there are 100 different things involved. Eg: Hinduism has 1000s of gods and books so complicated and cannot be destroyed

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

Simple and standardised things are also easy to attack. Eg : coca cola has sugar and is not good for health.

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

Simple and standardised things scale.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Richard Feynman said it right:

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

A page full of banger quotes from Elon:

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[Amit Kumar @ajrocks002]

@arpit_bhayani It is quite related and really good advice.