Tim Cook after seeing OpenAI acquire Jony Ive’s startup io for $6.4B in an all-stock deal to make a family of AI devices with a team of Apple alumni while Siri is still unable to set a simple 9am alarm wake-up call.
Something I explained to 13 yo: There is no intrinsically fair price for any commodity, just the market price. Most people have no problem understanding that. Until the commodity is labor. Then suddenly it becomes hard to understand.
One of the most important things I've learned from 20 years of talking to startups at Y Combinator is how few local maximums there are. Founders can just put their heads down and focus on growth, without more than a few months' lookahead, and they'll almost always do well.
if you still don't think we're in Elon's sim, you're not paying attention
the man owns the data layer of civilization—i don't think you get it
live video from 6 million Teslas mapping the world in real-time, Starlink satellites blanketing earth, brainwave data from Neuralink, algorithmic data from 𝕏 on what people believe, how they talk, what they fear, what they click, what they don’t—and the AI lab training on all of it
you're out here arguing over what a woman is while he's indexing our fucking species
God is the emergent coherent agency of self organization, converging into a singleton through committing to optimality, a mathematical principle in the tautological mathematical object that begets the universe. Consciousness is the coherence creating priciple.
In a society where everyone is frantically running, it takes courage to slow down and question whether the road most traveled is where you actually want to go.
There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏.
We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
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