📢🎉 Some personal news–Friday was my last day leading the https://t.co/Jdh34aSRUY engineering team. Today I start a new, foolishly ambitious adventure: backed by @southpkcommons, I'll be making a new, super-fast, super-awesome spreadsheet for businesses: https://t.co/EUNaUpigHC
@fwiles I remember desperately waiting 3 days to download the demo for Wolfenstein, had to restart multiple times. It was like a 15 MB file I think lol.
All successful companies have a niche, but vast majority of niches cannot support a successful company. So advising a company to "find a niche" is true, but worthless advice in aiding what is fundamentally an exploratory process.
@ibogost More examples: veggie mac + cheese w/ ham, homemade clam chowder, thai green curry, butter chicken, spaghetti w meat sauce, etc.
TL;DR— learn to enjoy cooking, make big batches, buy single-portion microwaveable containers & freeze.
@ibogost Cook twice a week in big batches & freeze it in 2 cup tupperware containers. Food stays good for months so you'll have endless variety, low cost, easy, satisfying portable meals. Example dishes: chili w/ rice, butternut squash ravioli with sausage, sage orrichieti, etc.
There may still be big job losses / shock if demand doesn't match the output of the newly efficient white-collar workers, but IDK if people's demand for things was satible we'd probably all still be farmers.
GPT-4 might be a chemistry / coding genius, but it has less willpower than an amoeba.
Realizing how often when I want to engage w/ people for work, I am not looking for their intellectual output but rather the force of their will.
My gut is this wave of AI will provide huge efficiency gains for jobs that are intellectually constrained, but we will still need & want a human in the loop for the foreseeable future.
Also I think ppl tend to overestimate how many jobs are truly intellectually constrained.
@adityaag Yeah totally wild to be living through this. Also it's clear there was a "step function" in emergence somewhere between GPT-2 to GPT-3 scale LLMs. Will there another level of emergence / phase transition that will occur past human intelligence (e.g., at 5x or 10x human level?)
@simonw We actually just shipped an AI powered scraping chrome plugin last week: https://t.co/Yr8QHPLnc5
(haven't promoted it at all yet, but it works really well!)