amritrp

explore, observe, do

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

One of the worst predictors of founder success we've tracked is how well someone pitches; the correlation between pitch quality and outcome was actually negative.

Zuckerberg was so awkward in early investor meetings that VCs wondered if he could ever manage anyone, Larry Page refused interviews and earnings calls for years, and Jan Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19B as a Ukrainian immigrant with limited English.

Highly articulate people are great with the 45min process of telling a story to strangers, but this is a pretty different skill to building a company. Founders who spend years optimising to be persuasive have often optimised away from the building skills that compound over the 10yrs of execution that come afterwards; it’s incredibly hard to do both well. The articulate founder will impress your partners but the awkward one will return your fund.

[Cata Paul 🃏‍‍‍ @CataPaul2]

🥾 Top 100 countries for hiking & trekking

1. 🇳🇵 Nepal
2. 🇵🇪 Peru
3. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
4. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
5. 🇨🇱 Chile
6. 🇨🇦 Canada
7. 🇳🇴 Norway
8. 🇮🇳 India
9. 🇺🇸 United States
10. 🇦🇷 Argentina
11. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
12. 🇧🇹 Bhutan
13. 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
14. 🇹🇿 Tanzania
15. 🇮🇸 Iceland
16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
17. 🇮🇪 Ireland
18. 🇪🇸 Spain
19. 🇫🇷 France
20. 🇮🇹 Italy
21. 🇦🇹 Austria
22. 🇩🇪 Germany
23. 🇸🇮 Slovenia
24. 🇭🇷 Croatia
25. 🇲🇪 Montenegro
26. 🇦🇱 Albania
27. 🇬🇷 Greece
28. 🇹🇷 Turkey
29. 🇬🇪 Georgia
30. 🇦🇲 Armenia
31. 🇲🇦 Morocco
32. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
33. 🇺🇬 Uganda
34. 🇰🇪 Kenya
35. 🇿🇦 South Africa
36. 🇳🇦 Namibia
37. 🇲🇬 Madagascar
38. 🇯🇵 Japan
39. 🇰🇷 South Korea
40. 🇨🇳 China
41. 🇲🇳 Mongolia
42. 🇻🇳 Vietnam
43. 🇱🇦 Laos
44. 🇹🇭 Thailand
45. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
46. 🇵🇭 Philippines
47. 🇲🇾 Malaysia
48. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
49. 🇦🇺 Australia
50. 🇦🇺 Tasmania
51. 🇲🇽 Mexico
52. 🇬🇹 Guatemala
53. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
54. 🇵🇦 Panama
55. 🇨🇴 Colombia
56. 🇪🇨 Ecuador
57. 🇧🇴 Bolivia
58. 🇧🇷 Brazil
59. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
60. 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
61. 🇨🇺 Cuba
62. 🇯🇲 Jamaica
63. 🇬🇱 Greenland
64. 🇮🇸 Iceland
65. 🇫🇮 Finland
66. 🇸🇪 Sweden
67. 🇩🇰 Denmark
68. 🇵🇱 Poland
69. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
70. 🇸🇰 Slovakia
71. 🇷🇴 Romania
72. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
73. 🇷🇸 Serbia
74. 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
75. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
76. 🇽🇰 Kosovo
77. 🇵🇹 Portugal
78. 🇦🇩 Andorra
79. 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
80. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
81. 🇲🇹 Malta
82. 🇨🇾 Cyprus
83. 🇯🇴 Jordan
84. 🇮🇱 Israel
85. 🇴🇲 Oman
86. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
87. 🇮🇷 Iran
88. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
89. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
90. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
91. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
92. 🇲🇲 Myanmar
93. 🇰🇭 Cambodia
94. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
95. 🇫🇯 Fiji
96. 🇼🇸 Samoa
97. 🇻🇺 Vanuatu
98. 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
99. 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
100. 🇱🇸 Lesotho

🖇️ Source: backpackr. org

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

If the market clearing price for an accurate M&A or IPO model is $150/hr, why do we pay 3-6% of the deal value?

[alz @alz_zyd_]

Math folks look at AI output, it's clearly legit math, and they're like, yeah this thing knows how to do math

Humanities folks look at AI output, and are immediately like: this thing can't possibly be as good at interpreting texts as we are

[Naval @naval]

Hardware is the moat that buys you time to build the software castle.

[Kanak Mani Dixit @KanakManiDixit]

Nepal as an AI power bank - Bikash Pandey
https://t.co/5nzOmvX2tK

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

The Internet doesn’t care about your title.

@naval

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

The worst people to work with are those who shoot down ideas prematurely.

[Siddha Performance @KapilGuptaMD]

@DogmaofNothing Cleverness and strategy is not Truth.

[amritrp @amritrp]

@Joao_A_Furtado @Caltrain connect to BART across the bridges, then we're talking ...

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.

Such a sense of urgency reveals an extremely distorted view of reality.
No wonder the more based members of the organization seeked to marginalize the superalignment group.

It's as if someone had said in 1925 "we urgently need to figure out how to control aircrafts that can transport hundreds of passengers at near the speed of the sound over the oceans."
It would have been difficult to make long-haul passenger jets safe before the turbojet was invented and before any aircraft had crossed the atlantic non-stop.
Yet, we can now fly halfway around the world on twin-engine jets in complete safety.
It didn't require some sort of magical recipe for safety.
It took decades of careful engineering and iterative refinements.

The process will be similar for intelligent systems.
It will take years for them to get as smart as cats, and more years to get as smart as humans, let alone smarter (don't confuse the superhuman knowledge accumulation and retrieval abilities of current LLMs with actual intelligence).
It will take years for them to be deployed and fine-tuned for efficiency and safety as they are made smarter and smarter.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Aging occurs when individuals start focusing on their past. This holds even more for groups, tribes, and nations.

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

Imagine being ignorant of technologies that's propelled 100,000,000x gains in the last few decades
* FinFET
* 3D NAND
* High K Metal Gate
* Argon Fluoride Immersion Lithography
* Low K Dielectrics
* Copper interconnects
* Strained Silicon
* Gate All Around
* 3D Stacking
* EUV

[Sam Altman @sama]

absolute equivalence of brahman and atman

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

“Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.”

—Charlie Munger

[amritrp @amritrp]

@stevesi @vkhosla won't you think AI that smart can figure out such statistical bias that mere humans can see?!

[रोशन शिबाकोटी 🙏 @roshansibakoti]

गाउँले चोर लखेट्दै थिए, चोर स्मार्ट थियो,आफै चोर चोर भन्दै गाउलेको समुहमा मिसियो, सानोमा सुनेको कथा आज फ़ेरि याद आयो ! मातातिर्थ र ललिता निवासको सरकारी जमिनमा किर्ते मोही खडा गर्ने बाबुराम भ्रष्टाचार बिरोधि जुलुसमा मिसिएछ, बरिलै! 🤣

[amritrp @amritrp]

@brb1954 this coming from one directly responsible for death of 20k innocent people