Oliver Williams

[Richard Artoul @richardartoul]

OpenAI and Anthropic right now

[Nima Zeighami @NimaZeighami]

This perfectly captures exactly what it’s like talking to SF tech bros about AI or any upcoming technology

[Paul Graham @paulg]

LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

[Oliver Williams @spbackhoe]

@Sauers_ I only buy my work chinos at the cognitive gap

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

Remember when compilers would detect that someone was using it to build another compiler and silently inject bugs?

[Richie Rich @gofishh77]

This is odd. This is really odd.

Hotel room lasagna.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Nobody breaks the fourth wall quite like Julie Andrews. One look at the camera and she can steal an entire scene.

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[🐞𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 @lytho421]

Pourquoi autant de liberté

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I’ve listened to thousands of hours of great music since. What an awesome streaming service.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@snowmaker That made the hair on my arms stand up. Literally horrifying.

[Adrian Bliss @adrianbliss]

On trial in 2036 🤖

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore.

"American companies have been hollowed out."

"We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore."

"We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured."

"We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work."

"People are turning into architecture astronauts."

"They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout."

"But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers."

Via @HooverInst

[Jools @a_swift_half]

You don't need expensive advertising agencies when you have these elite skills.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Oliver Williams @spbackhoe]

@nbcsnl https://t.co/npDKww0AfF

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“If I were only interested in facts I would buy the telephone directory of Manhattan. It has four million entries, and they are all correct, but it does not illuminate.”

— Werner Herzog

[Oliver Williams @spbackhoe]

@wongkarwasian Maybe he likes very very small European paper?