Rod Hall

Kansas born San Franciscan via NJ, Paris and London. Recovering Technology Stock Analyst.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado I can’t. But I could potentially sell you some switches if you want to try.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado I have done a little thinking about these economics as I am sure the labs and others have done. This rationalization seems likely to create an even worse wealth and now capability gap. Only people with money can afford the tokens.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado Yikes….not good.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@polynoamial Good point. Another observation in tech - when people say 10 years that really means “we have no idea” or “we are guessing about what is needed to achieve something”.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado What skills should game developers now focus on? Mainly the creative side of the equation? Prompting for interesting environments?

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado Yep - this is flat wrong from what I see. Agree with @martin_casado

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado Oooh. As soon as I finish my concert this week I am diving into this. My daughter who is studying video game design will be mad at me - haha!

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado Ah - good point

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@RBReich Its called Citizens United and it its not particularly new.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@tommysantos14 Anyone who thinks the president drives the economy and that economies are somehow “inherited” needs to go get a better education in economics. The president has very little control of the economy.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@sriramk Long ago and before they apparently went Woke Wired just deteriorated into something not worth reading. It’s not a woke problem - it’s the fact that media has moved to clicks/attention and the quality has deteriorated across the board.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado I would also speculate that there is an information theory Nobel prize related to LLMs out there somewhere. There must be some sort of informational limit bounded by something??? Have you seen anyone working on this?

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado I had been thinking exactly this. I wondered whether Shannon information theory applied so this post just partially made my intellectual day!

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@vkhosla Economic policy? The rest I agree with. Neither side has an economic policy that makes sense to me.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Let’s talk about what is true:
- you’ve cherry picked two Canadian academics to back the bill who are not accountable to it, and not representative of consensus view
- you’ve aligned with a fringe group who is primarily concerned with science fiction AI risks
- you’ve met with an summarily ignored multiple California academics, founders, and investors

And the net is you’re going to hurt California research, and innovation. And you’re giving a hand out to big tech.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@martin_casado You are missing “I am a strange loop” by Hofstadter

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@RBReich You are conflating a lack of corporate regulation and inflation. Regulation might help but doubtful that it is the primary source of the inflation problem. And BTW - corporate profits ALMOST ALWAYS go up in absolute terms with inflation but they have rarely been the driver.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@Dan_Jeffries1 Fantastic post. Well said.

[Rod Hall @rodhall]

@gruber I thought this was what he has been doing?