Alan Pinstein

Serial Entrepreneur. Product guy. Systems thinker. Trying to live in the future. Mild AI psychosis.

[Alan Pinstein @apinstein]

@ggraham Yes for sure. No natural brakes. And the reactive nature of current society amplifies the negative effects of this.

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@ggraham Actually I don’t think that’s true. Resilience and connectivity are orthogonal. Concentration and JIT inventories have much more impact on resilience and supply chain risk. Markets cannot organize resilience bc its benefits cannot be economically captured.

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@ggraham That would definitely change my level of concern!

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@dessaigne @rubenharris Delegation != abdication

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@ggraham @mnolangray Fair points, but on the honeybees you found the science! I am always open to novel explanations. If they are just interesting observations, and offered as such, fine. If I’m being asked to change my life bc of unfounded things, I have a big problem with that.

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@ggraham @mnolangray I don’t know, I am kinda of a process guy. And I get concerned when people believe crazy illogical things get too much power, regardless of their other good ideas. I don’t trust the process.

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@Stammy @sesame The voices are really human-like! Quite impressive... the way you use utterances for transitions and steering is impressive.

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Wow @mercury is really impressive. Turnkey banking, expense cards, invoicing, accounting & Stripe integration, it keeps doing things I didn't expect it to. Has made spinning up a modern biz incredibly easy!

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@davempayne @camdoody Entelechy!

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@TODNewsHub I love mass transit. So much that I did an entire term paper on it, moved to NYC for a while w no car. And in Atlanta I live near a MARTA station. But I don’t get LR on the beltline. I don’t see what problem it solves. Show me numbers not pictures.

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@adcock_brett Yo… the next live stream should be these guys packing the merch to ship!

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@Jason That said, if it doesn’t end up a winner take all marketplace, it’s possible uber is still needed.

Low probability but if it comes true UBER will skyrocket in value.

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@Jason Uber’s value is from solving the cold start problem and building the largest marketplace. However, self driving cars don’t have a cold stat problem. They will be supply constrained. I struggle to see why high volume self driving companies will need them.

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@Jason Also, UBER p/e is 18, despite frankly amazing recent growth. The market is discounting their future. Saaspocalypse-level discounting.

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@SeeBQ @davempayne Looking foreward to the post camp report! AI powered education should be transformative. I am playing around with it now, protyping an app for learning piano.

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@ggraham Yeah... can get close w/MRMU zoning and Beltline overlay (relaxed parking req's)

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@elonmusk We should be able to run our own algorithms on the data. One algorithm isn’t enough for all of us, even if we can see how it works.

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@ggraham It’s much more capital efficient than rooftop as you get large economies of scale and easier mounting.

Of course it does take more space. But us humans use a lot of power.

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@ggraham @KalmiaLatifolia Presumably someone has done decent research on this topic? @grok ?