Stefan Mai

Builder. Older than all dogs. Creating: Hello Interview. Sold 2 startups, failed 1, ready for more. Previously ML eng leader FB, AMZN.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@0xblacklight Agree that many people are using them this way, but some of the most interesting problems require computation and simulation to answer. Those can't be solved with just storage?

[Founders Fund @foundersfund]

MAFIA EP 001

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@GrantSlatton @GetRowZero If only they had a version of Dr Pepper with calories to give energy to the machine.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@snowmaker What are the biggest successes so far?

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@zachweinberg I think the case is that (a) AI development has externalities which the existing tax structure isn’t covering and (b) AI which replaces W2s with deductible opex is net negative for tax revenue.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@MikeIsaac I think the index thing is terrible but in this case the retail investors just ... don't buy?

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@GrantSlatton Someone called golf courses "grass farms" and the link hasn't left my mind since.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@GrantSlatton https://t.co/DIbvrGzkD5

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@housecor Let's go further and disallow tests. That way we *force* the team to write bug-free code.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@schrockn RIP @temporalio

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@NathanpmYoung There's some irony here. If they're honest about their aspirations of effectively hollowing out the white collar economy, the public may conspire to prevent them from accomplishing it. If instead they say AI is just there to assist, they might actually pull off the hollowing.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@GergelyOrosz Getting these nonstop. The pattern of a crazy domain inconsistent with the text with obvious pitch really feels like something email hosts should be able to filter.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@KING5Seattle Meta _has cut_. These layoffs already happened. They're given severance and the filings are done to comply with the WARN act.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@austinc3301 What’d you learn?

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@austinc3301 Put them all in one big bill and let the special interests counteract each other.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@GergelyOrosz I think they screwed up here but expecting status page updates to be an immutable ledger always puts an extra pressure on the oncall teams that they also need to be doing PR. I'd prefer real-time information that helps me make decisions as a client/customer.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@stevemur What's your source for #2?

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages.

The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse.

I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee.

There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true.

But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@KelseyTuoc @RFishBlueFish @AlexNowrasteh Seems like the offense should be "leaking confidential information" not "insider trading"? We shouldn't go out of our way to regulate prediction markets and introduce additional enforcement costs on taxpayers for what is a dubious business at best.

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@morgantepell Not bad?

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

The obvious bull case for AMD is that software is the weakest moat. If the AI wave is bottlenecked on hardware, all of that energy and investment can be focused to solve these problems.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

On paper, MI300X has many advantages compared to the H100/H200, but in practice AMD's hardware is effectively nerfed by their catastrophically weak software. TL;DR: out of the box you will not be able to use MI300X for ML/AI training.

2/9

[Stefan Mai @iamnafets]

@morgantepell Alright I'll pump your bags and wait for an activist takeover.