Peter Diamond

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[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@signulll Usa really is crazy

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@didem5654 Double and add 2 = 110

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@signulll USA really is a crazy place

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@JeffBezos Usa bottom half income tax paid 3% v 9-10% in Uk.
Usa bottom half total tax revenue 7-10% v 20-25% in Uk.

That's messed up

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@elonmusk Northern Ireland!

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

Has anyone thought about what happens with two competing AGIs?

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made:

"AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research."

And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it:

"So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation."

A corporation that already knows everything about you:

"An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data."

From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think:

"Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism."

And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house.

He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power:

"They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash."

The sarcasm is the point.

Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one:

"That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction."

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Everything around me is rotting, so i build. that is it, that is the whole reason. God built six days and rested one. he could have stopped at function, he could have given us eyes that only see useful things, but he made color. he made sunsets. he made the shape of a woman's back. he made the sound of rain hitting a dirt road at night. beauty was not an afterthought, it was the first thought, everything else came after. i build because the world is falling apart, and a man who does not build is just watching a fire. i lay bricks straight, i put flowers where nobody will see them, i sand wood until the grain is smooth enough to hold without a glove. these are prayers. and the man who says beauty does not matter has never built anything, he has only consumed, and consumption leaves you hollow. everyone i know who only takes has the same eyes, empty, always hungry, looking for the next thing to swallow. hold a hammer instead. hold wood. hold stone. make something that does not need you to survive, and then walk away from it, and feel what that is. that is the closest i have ever got to being alive, and i am not giving it back.

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Marc Andreessen on the 5 personality traits of an innovator

“When you’re talking about real innovators—people who actually do really creative, breakthrough work—I think you’re talking about a couple things:”

1. Very high in trait openness. “Just flat-out open to new ideas… And the nature of trait openness means you’re not just open to new ideas in one category—you’re open to many different kinds of new ideas… But of course, just being open is not sufficient because if you’re just open, you could just be curious and explore and spend your entire life reading, talking to people, but never actually create something.”

2. High level of conscientiousness. “You need somebody who’s really willing to apply themselves—typically over a period of many years to accomplish something great… For most of these people, it’s years and years of applied effort. You need somebody with an extreme willingness to basically defer gratification… Of course, this is why there aren’t many of these people—there aren’t many people who are high in openness and high in conscientiousness because to a certain extent, they’re opposed traits.”

3. High in disagreeableness. “If they’re not ornery, they’ll be talked out of their ideas… Because the reaction most people have to new ideas is ‘Oh, that’s dumb.’ So, somebody who’s too agreeable will be easily dissuaded to not pull on the thread anymore.”

4. High IQ. “They just need to be really smart because it’s hard to innovate in any category if you can’t synthesize large amounts of information quickly.”

5. Relatively low neuroticism. “If they’re too neurotic, they probably can’t handle the stress.”

Video source: @hubermanlab (2023)

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

🚨 Simulation Theory: The Double Slit Experiment proves particles act like waves until observed then they snap into particles.

What if our reality only "renders" when we're looking, just like a video game optimizing resources?

Check out this episode from The Why Files breaking it down, tying it to Simulation Theory. Are we in a sim?

This could be the key to unlocking the true nature of existence!

The Why Files video did a great job on explaining the Double Slit Experiment & Simulation Theory

What do YOU think—real or rendered? Drop your thoughts below!

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

"If you can wait and not be tired by waiting" 💭

🔊 Former Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC, makes a return to Chopper's Politics podcast with a stirring reading of "If" by Rudyard Kipling

LISTEN HERE: https://t.co/QDujy7BQH2

@ChoppersPodcast @T_Louloudis

[TBPN @tbpn]

Alex Karp: "Everybody's worried about their future, but there are basically two ways to know you have a future."

"One, you have some vocational training, or two, you're neurodivergent. And when I say 'neurodivergent,' I mean broadly defined."

"It's really an inversion [for people] with the 'normal-shaped skills'... Meaning the thing they can do that used to be valuable is not so valuable."

"The thing they need to learn to do is be more of an artist, look at things from a different direction, be able to build something unique."

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@dwarkesh_sp @elonmusk @collision Very easy to see language is the limiting factor for Elon

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@elonmusk @lamps_apple @Ryanair https://t.co/rBQTjqB18f

Always a bigger fish 😅

[Larissa Phillips @larissaphillip]

This is probably the biggest thing I learned living on a farm. We are in a constant state of defending our boundaries from decay, rot, overgrowth, wild animals, and just general collapse.
And the town doesn’t do it for us. I think this has a profound political effect on the rural mindset.

[amit @amitisinvesting]

$PLTR

For the past 2 days, people thought they were actually cool to make fun of someone who isn’t sitting still or thinking faster than they can talk.

As someone who quite literally relates to speaking much faster than I can think, which many times has resulted in me sounding unconventional publicly, it was laughable to see people dunk on someone who built a top 20 company on the planet because he’s different.

Guess what…

Your unconventional and idiosyncratic tendencies…are your superpower.

Hard to make it in life if you are the same as everyone else.

For all the people who can relate to someone unconventional and someone who refused to get stuck in a box — Palantir’s new Neurodivergent Fellowship is for you.

Absolutely love this. This is why Palantir wins.

They never apologize for being different.

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@UKLabour child poverty is a relative measurement where household income is less than 60% of median, how can it be abolished if relative?

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@RockChartrand This

[Peter Diamond @peterdiamond1]

@BillAckman @ZohranKMamdani @elonmusk I was thinking the same thing. No mention of Americans at all

[eigenron @eigenron]

One of the best things I’ve heard @naval say and you’ve probably never heard this so I’ll just drop it here. Ties to the theory of analogy and natural philosophy.