Chief Optimist

Yeah, everything is going to shit but Optimism is THE ONLY way.

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@Nicolascole77 social

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@Ozacle23 Interested

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@DylanAnder HP

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@JustAnkurBagchi Aeey congrats!!!

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@waitin4agi_ René Girard ??

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@JustAnkurBagchi Aeeyy congrats!!

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@JustAnkurBagchi IMO most of it can be ascribed to fatalism

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@savi0joseph @DeltaOGaming @rowancheung UBI most probably.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Your brain is always going to make up a problem for you, which means usually something fake and stupid. Inner peace is a myth. Only solution is to find real problems to solve, ideally ones with large upside for yourself financially or for humanity, often there’s an overlap.

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@OpenAI Dafuq!

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Welp.

[Kevin Cannon @multikev]

I think I need to go lie down.

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

more has happened in the last year of AI than the prior 10

we are unmistakably in the fiery takeoff of the most important technology of the rest of our lives

everybody—governments, citizens, technologists—is awaiting w/bated breath (some helplessly) the next version of humanity

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@drydenwtbrown Really cool.

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@HarryStebbings Listened it for the first time today. Too good.

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Insane week

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

A couple things happened in the world of AI this week. Here's my TLDR (which is getting so long it'll need its own TLDR pretty soon):

- ChatGPT going multi-modal
- ChatGPT brings back the "browse" functionality
- OpenAI and Jony Ive working on iPhone for AI
- Anthropic partners with Amazon in $4b deal
- Amazon Bedrock becomes widely available
- The CIA is building their own custom ChatBot
- Spotify cloning podcaster voices for translation
- Tesla's Optimus robot can sort autonomously
- Getty launches their own AI image generator
- New Windows 11 rolled out this week with AI Copilot
- Snap partners with Microsoft for AI advertising
- Microsoft shares AutoGen research for customizable agents
- The writers strike ended and studios will be allowed to train AI on writer's works
- Google accidentally indexed Bard conversations
- Cloudflare launches AI tools to help customers deploy AI models
- Meta shows off Emu, their new AI Image model
- WhatsApp and Messenger to get AI stickers
- Meta will be rolling out niche chatbots to help in specific areas
- Meta is working on personal chatbots tailored to our individual needs
- Meta is rolling out image editing with Segment Anything functionality
- Meta is adding natural language chat to its sunglasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban
- Leonardo AI just added the ability to use LORAs
- Pika Labs adds "Text Encrypt"
- Genmo adds "Video Effects"
- Polycam lets you do gaussian splatting easily
- Zapier now has AI Canvas
- Dall-e 3 is available in Bing Chat & Image Creator

What did I miss?

[Brett Smith @brettsmth]

Computers, AI and the internet can be tools of oppression. But the more people there are who know how to program computers, the more power people have against centralized control of technology. @amasad saying it like it is

[David Perell @david_perell]

Let’s talk about this video of a man dancing at a music festival.

The lesson is simple: Pioneers are mocked in the moment but lauded in retrospect.

This isn't just true for flash mobs. It's true for building companies too. Big business opportunities often begin as unpopular, low-status ventures. Startup studios were a strange concept when Paul Graham founded Y-Combinator in 2005, but he’s now one of the most influential people in Silicon Valley. And startup studios have unlocked billions of dollars in value. In 2010, someone bought a pizza with 10,000 Bitcoin, and people were laughing at crypto. But the people who held their BTC have 1,000x’d their money.

The world rewards people who take risks, and to take a risk is to bet on what’s unpopular in the eyes of the crowd. Whenever you find a wide disconnect between perception and reality, it’s time to bet big.

What’s my big bet? We’re still in the early days of online writing. Writing on the Internet is still considered a weird and cringey thing to do, and even after I tell people that more than 1,500 people have taken my course, they ask: “So... how do you make money?”

Ummmm… course sales. The course makes money. That’s my thing.

People haven’t caught on to the fact that writing online unlocks extraordinary wealth. Bill Gurley was writing about marketplaces in the 90s, which led him to invest in Uber (one of the best startup investments of all time). Y-Combinator grew out of Paul Graham’s How to Start a Startup essay. Other examples include Mark Sisson with Primal Kitchen, Emily Weiss with Glossier, and Alex Hormozi with Acquisition dot com.

People always laugh at the first person to do something. But if that thing is interesting, someone else will join in. Then, another person, and another. Finally, a whole crowd will join, and the person who started the trend will go from looking like a goon to a genius.

The world doesn’t necessarily reward hard work. It rewards people who make bold bets on a bold thesis that turns out to be correct.

Be the first person to start dancing. Get it right and the crowd will eventually join.