When you have to put down your personal wealth to solve a problem, you are incentivized to solve it.
When you confiscate money from others to solve a problem, you are incentivized to keep it unsolved.
“It is certainly hard to believe that a little company (@SpaceX) that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever.”
@elonmusk
you're telling me anthropic & google are paying spacex ~$26b a year for compute?!!
this is more than half the run rate of openai & anthropic just from compute deals & that doesn't even factor in the rocket launches at all.
elon accidentally ended up owning a significant portion of three of the scarcest assets in ai.. power, chips, & physical deployment capability. the best lesson here is that if you’re selling picks & shovels during a gold rush, you don’t necessarily need to find the gold. you just need everyone else to keep digging. & also non software elon is pretty much unstoppable, like prime michael jordan type thing.
There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.
i post about hci because i think about it constantly. obsession would be an understatement at this point.
the gap between what the machine knows, what you want, & what it actually does for you is absurd & closing it is the most interesting problem i’ve ever worked on.
what a time to be alive.
"You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser” - Jensen Huang
Jensen nearly lost his composure during a heated debate about selling chips to China, despite showing tremendous patience in response to the pushback.