“Technology is the only mechanism we have for escaping the Malthusian trap. But because we have been too cowardly to articulate this, because we have substituted ‘rationalism’ and ‘AGI’ for a coherent theology of Progress, the state sees the industry as only a parasite to be consumed.
If we cannot articulate why innovation is a moral imperative, we can expect the entire technology industry to end up like Boston. First taxed, then looted, then exhausted. And we'll be stuck wondering where it all went.”
I used part of my first ever paycheck to buy a piece of Silicon Valley history today. I’ve always wanted to buy this book.
This is the last issue of The Whole Earth Catalog, printed in 1974, the book that Steve Jobs quotes in his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford!🍎
It’s like talking to someone using only Morse code, it’s slow, it lacks a lot of information that could be transmitted through other mediums (image, sound, and so on)
The more time goes on the more I think it’s clear that chatting with crazy intelligent AI models, like you do with a friend, is not the best way to interact them.
The UI feels stuck in the past, and the smarter the models become, the more I feel that way
@karpathy What about the cooling/heating feature of 8Sleep, did that improve quality of sleep noticeably? Would you get it just because of that regardless of the accuracy of the sleep tracking?
🔍 Diving deep into LLM reasoning?
From OpenAI's o-series to DeepSeek R1, from post-training to test-time compute — we break it down into structured spreadsheets. 🧵
Another shot of today's Starship launch. I'm still at a loss for words. What an incredible launch, and to take place at such a beautiful time of day... wow, wow, wow.