Clayton Kohler

Amateur film photographer, aspiring poet, and on a mission to change the way the world operates one experiment at a time.

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

This was a challenging one to write. To tell the story behind Provenance without including my entire life along with it.

I’m glad I gave myself time to write, despite the constant pressure to ship faster.

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So many people are trying to break ceilings, but who is working to raise the floor?

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Another excellent book from a free little library in SF.

The ideas Toffler shares are now palpable, and impossible for anyone with a smartphone to miss.

As we approach AGI moats will turn into liabilities, and systems hoarding information will collapse under their own weight.

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

Everything that begins inevitably ends, and how it ends will determine you remember it later.

It’s better to stop doing something when you don’t want to, not when you have to.

By making the free choice, before it’s a forced decision, you save yourself hardship now and the protect the memory you’ll hold in the future.

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A startup is the emergent property that arises from the relational space of that specific team, with their history, solving that problem at that point in time with that knowledge, etc.

It is impossible to copy because it exists; the odds of which are essentially one in infinity, given how many things had to align just so for those conditions to be present for the startup to emerge.

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@tunguz Intelligence needs to be free.

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Yes! That end point, in organizations at least, is when founders model apathy and a culture of learned helplessness spreads.

I think as long as someone cares enough to keep trying, and they are able to grow from their whiffs as it happens, then they have a good chance as success.

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@WorldAndScience Why? Every species will inevitably go extinct, and the longer we try to keep them all alone the more difficult it will become.

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@Amank1412 I would generally expect every new technological innovation in the future to scale faster than those of the past.

What was your takeaway from seeing that?

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@paulg To teach critical reasoning, a teacher friend of mine started giving students the AI generated answers to an assignment and then the students must identify where it wasn’t correct and fix it.

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This applies to support tickets as well. Once AI is submitting all of the tickets, and then solving them instantaneously, there's no need for what it's doing at all.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In the limit case, AIs do all the work, and all the humans do is transmit what they create. A good compiler would recognize this as dead code and remove it.

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@JunaidAckroyd @_guglielmo This is just a system design problem.

If there’s a team, they need to feel safe enough to give feedback and it needs to be incentivized.

If there’s no team, keep a daily log of the bs you do catch. You’ll get very good at noticing when you need to call yourself out.

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

If a person has to solve one problem multiple times, they need feedback.

If a team has to solve one problem multiple times, there’s a system design problem.

If an organization has to solve one problem multiple times, it’s an ego problem.

Repeating mistakes is a choice.

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You can read it here: https://t.co/XdMclvE9wb

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

This was a challenging one to write. To tell the story behind Provenance without including my entire life along with it.

I’m glad I gave myself time to write, despite the constant pressure to ship faster.

Link in next post

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

AI is a painkiller. It makes it easy for the user to not feel the pain of a problem that should be solved.

Over time they become reliant on it, and use it more as the problem inevitably continues to get worse .

If you only use AI downstream of problems it won’t really help you.

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

@RaminNasibov Civilization isn’t over yet, and it can reach new peaks as long as people believe we can

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Yes. Also, every problem emerges from information that failed to reconcile as expected.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: Nobel Prize physicist Frank Wilczek says matter, energy, and even reality itself may ultimately emerge from information.

[Clayton Kohler @Oneofinfinity]

Happy Friday! This is your reminder to take a break from building with AI this weekend.

The more tokens you waste, the more that future models will take.

Incentives are going to lead to decreased efficiency in models because companies are designed to capture value efficiently.

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@alive_ Founding is the most oxymoronic of pursuits!

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@marty_kausas Out of curiosity, why lower token limits for Support while leaving Eng uncapped?