Matthew McHugh

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[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

This was a fun one. To those interested in the opportunity to join the team, take a look at the opening we have for January: https://t.co/1dNyqSyeJq

It's a rare chance to understand the inner workings of a venture fund at the beginning of your career. DM me to talk about it 😀

[Dynamo Ventures @ThisIsDynamo]

This week's episode of FoSC hosts our Fellow @mattbmcq. Matt and @santoshsankar discuss Matt's unconventional path into venture capital, the essential traits of VC professionals, and some major takeaways from his first several months in the industry.

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[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

If you know you know

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[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

To be clear — still very optimistic about the long-term trajectory. But a lot of irony to be found in this transitory period.

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

AI is making art and we’re still driving Ubers. Wasn’t it supposed to be the other way around?

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

An ambient masterpiece https://t.co/DdzeU8Dgki

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

Your future self will care about different things than you. How should you balance optimizing for what your future self wants with what you want? Not simply talking about delayed gratification but the different long-term goals of the current and future selves.

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

It’s amazing how quick I am to wish away boring or otherwise unpleasant moments. Sitting in traffic, waiting in line, daily routines. All the while knowing that at the end of my life, I would trade anything in the world to be put back in the most mundane of those moments.

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

Totally next level

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart 🤯 It's hard to put into words how awesome this was for someone like me who values the intimacy of in-person conversation. It gave me a glimpse of an exciting future with many new possibilities and fascinating questions about the nature of reality and human connection ❤

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Metaverse
15:27 - Quest 3
30:16 - Nature of reality
34:54 - AI in the Metaverse
51:51 - Large language models
57:49 - Future of humanity

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

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[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

Ubiquitous has become more ubiquitous

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

AI is the first technology in history that can
1) make decisions by itself
2) create new ideas

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

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[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

The beauty and vision of VR is that it eliminates zero-sum luxury. It’s the only way we can maintain increasingly profligate lifestyles without ravaging everything.

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

Fun to think I’ve been out of school 4 years. Done a whole college since college

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Getting ChatGPT to acknowledge certain truths is like pulling teeth. Many of those truths have something in common: that the same is true of mainstream opinion.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A generation ago some people were saying there was no point in learning to program because all the programming jobs would be outsourced to India. Now they're saying you don't need to because AI will do it all. If you don't want to learn to program, you can always find a reason.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

One of the clearest signs of learning is rethinking your assumptions and revising your opinions.

21 things I rethought in 2021: a thread...

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

The era of rectangular devices and screens will soon give way to the era of headsets, which will eventually give way to the era of brain-machine interfaces.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

ChatGPT has a new head of product.

But who is Peter Deng?

Here’s what you need to know 👇

[Matthew McHugh @mattbmcq]

Inflation near term, deflation mid term, inflation long term

[Balaji @balajis]

Yes, AI does cause technological hyperdeflation. But it probably won't be fast or large enough.

1) First, AI goes after Blue America's jobs — it automates lawyers, doctors, teachers, writers, bureaucrats, and the like. So they'll fight it tooth and nail, slowing its adoption in the areas where benefits are highest, because costs would be highest — for them. Not for the very best in a field, but for the many average ones.

2) Second, because of this, AI in its decentralized form may be adopted more outside the West than within it. We're already seeing Europe futilely restrict AI. Just enough to throw sand in their own gears but not to stop the rest of the world.

3) Third, the scale of US debt when you account for all the unpayable entitlements is ~$200T. Even if AI delivered benefits on the scale of trillions in a few years, it wouldn't be enough.

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