Poolboy Q

Culture is product - Expect the Unexpected. Mostly DirtDAO, some $FwB, a smattering of other things

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

What if there was a way to:
• Mitigate climate change
• Create more life
• Grow the economy
• And make money along the way?

Let's call it *Seaflooding*

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@nickfloats So 5.1 they applied a photoshop airbrush filter to everything? 😬

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

Good storytelling

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

In 2016, Formula One was a struggling racing organization in desperate need of a cash infusion.

Now, with the Miami Grand Prix just days away, the group has reached a valuation of over $17 billion.

Here's how one great story turned a brand in crisis into a media juggernaut 🧵

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@thingtesting_ @drinkjaja Double the fun 🤩

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@tobyshorin Must be vintage

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@carolinedewet @SciPsychedelics @tferriss @ucbsoj @shayla__love @RachelNuwer @alanburdick @AnnAwad @michaelpollan Hasn’t happened

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

I’m typing crazy ass prompts into Midjourney.

I’m texting my boy all type of creative concepts.

I’m writing the jankiest Python code known to man.

It’s Idea Guy Summer.

[Jeff Sullivan @JeffSullivan__]

“The psychological difference between zero acts of creation and one act of creation, no matter how small, is impossible to over state.”

https://t.co/meudFltmWo

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

Sometimes I retweet something because I’m too lazy to use readwise to save it for personal reference 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Marcos Ortiz @marcosluis2186]

.@tferriss the video about how to build a luxury brand is incredible https://t.co/Xmb7mfXTGe

#5BulletFriday

[Mr Fraser @jgfraser]

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter (https://t.co/GpBBJY0Eqo) from @tferriss

[saarim zaman @poolnoodle93]

the vibe shift accompanying the transition from zero to high interest rate society that is happening rn will be more significant and schizo than the vibe shift resulting from the collapse of the bretton woods system in 1971 watch this space

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

LET ME OUT [of crypto twitter]! PLEASE LET ME OUT! 🙏🏼

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@fkpxls @otherinternet__ @0xstation At a meaningful scale?

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@Gabriel_Whaley The way over is under

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@brett1211 Any advise on how to find the good fits appreciated. Is anyone actually hiring from your proposed perspective?

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@brett1211 It’s usually those same hungry, wide reaching generalists that don’t align well with HR departments and will not make it through the institutionalized, risk averse, privilege reaffirming and degrading process. Speaking as someone that’s had so much difficulty navigating this

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@tobyshorin Whats your discovery process like and what’s guiding the search? Or just happenstance ?

[Poolboy Q @Poolboy___Q]

@tobyshorin Let her in!

[🇦🇺 Alex is Building @AlexIsBuilding]

You saw GPT-4 turn a drawing into a website, write code for Pong in 60 seconds & get 90% on a Law exam.

But it was only just getting started.

We're now 24 hours beyond its release, and the usecases are heating up.

Here's the latest news that you may have missed:
🧵👇

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

I don't think people realize what a big deal it is that Stanford retrained a LLaMA model, into an instruction-following form, by **cheaply** fine-tuning it on inputs and outputs **from text-davinci-003**.

It means: If you allow any sufficiently wide-ranging access to your AI model, even by paid API, you're giving away your business crown jewels to competitors that can then nearly-clone your model without all the hard work you did to build up your own fine-tuning dataset. If you successfully enforce a restriction against commercializing an imitation trained on your I/O - a legal prospect that's never been tested, at this point - that means the competing checkpoints go up on bittorrent.

I'm not sure I can convey how much this is a brand new idiom of AI as a technology. Let's put it this way:

If you put a lot of work into tweaking the mask of the shoggoth, but then expose your masked shoggoth's API - or possibly just let anyone build up a big-enough database of Qs and As from your shoggoth - then anybody who's brute-forced a *core* *unmasked* shoggoth can gesture to *your* shoggoth and say to *their* shoggoth "look like that one", and poof you no longer have a competitive moat.

It's like the thing where if you let an unscrupulous potential competitor get a glimpse of your factory floor, they'll suddenly start producing a similar good - except that they just need a glimpse of the *inputs and outputs* of your factory. Because the kind of good you're producing is a kind of pseudointelligent gloop that gets sculpted; and it costs money and a simple process to produce the gloop, and separately more money and a complicated process to sculpt the gloop; but the raw gloop has enough pseudointelligence that it can stare at other gloop and imitate it.

In other words: The AI companies that make profits will be ones that either have a competitive moat not based on the capabilities of their model, OR those which don't expose the underlying inputs and outputs of their model to customers, OR can successfully sue any competitor that engages in shoggoth mask cloning.