Matthew Bouchard

Artist Engineer Creator. I used to work on movies like Avatar, Star Wars, and Harry Potter but now focused on turning science fiction into just science

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@JDVance Are you blaming a peaceful protestor for being shot 10 times by two officers because he was helping someone who was violently pushed by a masked ICE agent and then pepper sprayed?

JD unlike your boss you’re relatively young, are going to live a long time regretting these times

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@StephenM Look dude you can have different opinions than me but it’s farcical what you just said. You’re looking like a total moron on this public forum for not seeing what is clear to EVERYONE else. You probably didn’t even watch the video did you. (If you did, make a Dr appointment. )

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@JoeyRiz @ryangrim @JoeyRiz - I can see the confusion, but the person unlawfully shoving a lawfully protesting US citizen to the ground is actually an ICE agent!
Alex Pretti (Tan coat) was coming to the assistance of the potentially injured women, but the ICE agents detained and executed him.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

Rejected admittance! Maybe Nvidia needs to spend a few cycles on human packing algorithms. :) They couldn’t find a way to fit all ticket holders in. Weird.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@RepMTG You really shouldn’t be a member of the House if you didn’t pass 20th Century History.

And given your comment about inflation seems you flunked macroeconomics despite studying business. (Did someone pay you to write this tweet at 6:24am on a Saturday ? !)

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@LebbyRachel1 @elonmusk Wow. So there’s been a war in Ukraine the last three years after Russia illegally invaded. President becomes head of the military command. He is a soldier first for his nation, as Churchill was for Britain fighting the Nazjs. I thought that was kinda obvious.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@honey Wow - “really into coupons…” that steal referrals from people I want to support ? OMG. I had trusted PayPal since its beginning but this is easily the most obvious form of duplicitous if not outright illegal behavior from a major company since EnRon. You guys suck. #byepaypal

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

Just got my @BCdiploma blockchain certificate from Stanford Online https://t.co/jSI72V5HWk

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@Jason Band: Lambda LeX
Album: Functional Programs

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

Who goes to a German restaurant and orders an IPA. 😂🍺

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@paularambles No different than most other counties. Have you never worked outside of US? While you can’t work you can convert to tourist Visa. This is from Blind forum and most replies dispute this.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

Wow $8 baguettes at MTV farmers market. Still exploring this new area I call home ( for now ). Opposite is an idling Caltrain which hasn’t moved for 30 mins. Had thought I’d see zero homeless but sadly these poor souls abound even here.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@carlosruizsaenz Explain why you are spamming this and why I should not report you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@westcoastbill

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@triketora Wow! Happy Birthday!!

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

La fin d'été à Paris @ Jardin des Tuileries https://t.co/IshnYGVwVO

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@dhess @sigfpe I don’t believe there were; however ask yourself: I’d this were true would George actually admit it? :)

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@sigfpe @dhess Have you experienced UK “customer service” recently? You’d be fortunate to hear they are incapable of “dealing with your request” :) usually no answer.

[Matthew Bouchard @mtbouchard]

@sigfpe Yes! I know JP. Oh this looks great. Thank you! I’ll definitely read it. I’ve read Mythical Man Month and seems like a good follow up.