Jayson Margalus

Co-founder at which makes games and surprising objects. Higher ed professor. This is an adventure, so treat it like one.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

Been working on this for the last six months. Glad to finally share the latest badge work by my company, Fourfold, for the @thotcon hacker conference! Details and more will be posted throughout the weekend!

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

every metric you choose to optimize is a decision about what to ignore. be careful.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

This is what mathematicians do. I’m pretty sure it’s uniquely human. https://t.co/vRginxhkAj

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

@robbystarbuck They’re ingredients in things that people buy. This is not hard, it’s how the market works.

[Cardinal Cupich @CardinalBCupich]

It was a joy to bring a little piece of Chicago to the Holy Father.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

@pmarca You seem to be thinking a lot about this lately.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

Who is this convincing? Who is this for?

Good echo chamber stuff, tho.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope.

It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before.

Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.”

The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence.

We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard?

The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”.

But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks”. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence.

The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate.

Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over.

If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

Side note: it can feel aggressive or mean at first, but if you do this in a direct and clear manner they often appreciate it later on.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

A lot of teaching is informal. Some things I work on regularly w/ students:

- Send a calendar invite if you ask for a meeting
- Cut through the BS. Say what you need
- Treat people like people, not Pez dispensers for opps
- Be respectful of time. Your urgency is not another's

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

I really think more faculty should do this. When you get an email or an ask that falls short, say so. It's to the student's detriment if you don't and they go out into the real world without knowing these things.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo in World Communications Day Message: “By simulating human voices and faces, wisdom and knowledge, consciousness and responsibility, empathy and friendship, the systems known as artificial intelligence not only interfere with information ecosystems, but also encroach upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships.” https://t.co/XH7is1CxLC

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: “The Epstein class is above party.”

“They don’t associate as Republicans or Democrats.”

“They’re above judges.”

“They’ve got visa waivers.”

“They fly private planes.”

“They don’t mingle with the public.”

“John Paulson, one of the three billionaires who’ve [funded my opponent], was in Epstein’s phone book.”

“He also was implicated in these files as … reaching out to Jeffrey Epstein to get money from him to honor Howard Lutnick.”

“It’s a really small world when you get into the billionaires.”

“And they’re not partisans.”

“My hat’s off to Marjorie Taylor Greene for taking on those threats.”

“Lauren Boebert … they took her into the situation room and tried to whip her into taking her name off of the discharge petition.”

“And then the President vetoed a bill that would’ve brought water to a large portion of Colorado over Epstein.”

“It’s not just about Lauren Boebert.”

“Why are people in Colorado deprived of water because their representative wants to expose a sex trafficking ring?”

Tucker Carlson: “Why do you think Epstein, of all issues, is the one that Donald Trump was willing to destroy his presidency over?”

Massie: “The people who are funding the ballroom, the people who are funding the arch, the people who are funding the rebranding of the Kennedy Center, these are the people who are also funding my opponent.”

“These are the people who have the ear of the President.”

“These are the people who are dominating our foreign policy decisions.”

“And these are also the same people who are in the Epstein files, by large part, or their friends are.”

This is the issue that pushed Trump and the Epstein class to spend $10 million desperately trying to defeat Massie.

And the race is closer than you think.

His campaign needs all of our help right now to survive.

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @TuckerCarlson

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

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[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

Watching executives get loud boos at commencement speeches for peddling their AI slop is awesome. Keep it up. Lisa Su has one soon!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

He ends on a note of Boomer-tier pessimism (sorry Ken!) but otherwise I co-sign.

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

Now that we've moved into our new house I'm building out a woodshop. Bought a Sawstop table saw, new miter saw and planer, and got all of my old woodworking tools back up and running. We're back!

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY 💲💲💲💲💲

[Jayson Margalus @jaymargalus]

Hard to find a picture of me not smiling on my bicycle.