The irony is that for this very reason, new technologies rarely default to bringing widespread prosperity … Those who successfully rally for a technology’s creation are those who have the power and resources to do the rallying.
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Careless People vol 4
[Sheryl Sandberg about the cycle of wealth]… exotic travel for a year or more before becoming bored of that, then transitioning to getting very fit or some other personal goal. After achieving that, buying a boat or some other extravagant hobby purchase, and then finally getting divorced or going through some other personal crisis. If they come back from that, maybe, they attempt their own start-up or fund, or most likely, philanthropy.
None of this sounds very enticing.
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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 9
The amount of compute is based on three things: the processing power of an individual computer chip, or how many calculations it can crunch per second; the total number of computer chips available, and how long they are left running to perform their calculations.
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Kuidas vananeda vääritult vol 1
… kuid nende silmad seirasid naisi, nagu jälgivad hüäänid vigastatud gnuud.
Daphne polnud mingi gnuu. Ja kindlasti mitte haavatud. Kui ta oleks olnud eelmises elus gnuu, oleks ta olnud oma karja Kris Jenner.
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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 8
Monopolies are good, Thiel said, because “they are much more stable, longer-term businesses, you have more capital, and … it’s symptomatic of having created something really valuable.”
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Pisarate pood vol 1
Lapsemeelsus on hüva nähtus, see tähendab, et hingel on sinu sees olemiseks vabalt ruumi.
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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 7
“The first piece of startup wisdom I heard was ‘increasing your sale will fix all problems’,” Altman wrote in a 2013 blog post titled “Growth and Government” that thanked Graham and Thiel for shaping his ideas.
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Careless People vol 3
Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 6
He [Paul Graham] defended YC for not having many female founders by saying that most women had not prepared from an early age to succeed as tech entrepreneurs.
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The Year of Magical Thinking vol 3
Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
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The Year of Magical Thinking vol 2
Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 4
… staff writers Parmy Olson and Carolyn Silverman summarized it succinctly – the data “raises an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth at the top.”
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Careless People vol 2
The staffers should be given too much to do because it’s best if no one has spare time. That’s where the trouble and territoriality start. The fewer employees, the harder they work. The answer to work is more work.
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Empire of AI : dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI vol 3
The Upwork Research Institute of 2,500 workers globally found that while 96 percent of C-suite leaders expected generative AI to boost productivity, 77 percent of the employees actually using the tools reported them instead adding to the workload; this was in part due to the amount of time spent reviewing AI-generated content, in part due to the growing demands from superiors to do more work.
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