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Best of Twitter week of October 21-27, 2024
Alexey Guzey
October 29, 2024
Hi everyone,
As always, comments/corrections appreciated!
NVIDIA now has a greater market value than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market.
Combined.
[h/t Torsten Slok]
— Jason Zweig (@jasonzweigwsj)
12:06 PM • Oct 24, 2024
A strange, little-appreciated fact is that arguably the leading gene synthesis company has never turned a net profit in the eleven years it has existed and has no clear plans to do so in the immediate future
— Max Langenkamp (@mslkmp)
3:34 PM • Oct 18, 2024
Makes me wonder how many Jonathans there are behind other Legendary Geniuses.
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
3:16 AM • Oct 26, 2024
OpenAI is threatening to trigger their vaunted "AGI Achieved" loophole mostly to get out of the Microsoft contract and have leverage to renegotiate compute prices
We're living through a cyberpunk workplace comedy plotline
— Caleb Watney (@calebwatney)
2:19 PM • Oct 18, 2024
most illuminating part of the Huberman hit piece is that the meme about therapy just empowering mentally ill people to weaponize therapy speak is absolutely not a meme
— Quintus 🏛️ (@QuintusActual)
1:26 AM • Mar 26, 2024
^ thread
we’ve created a world people hate to live in, yet we insist everything is the best it’s ever been
— r (@theorizur)
1:39 PM • Oct 21, 2024
in hindsight an obvious perspective: classify companies by what the principals use the surplus on
Stripe: good writing
Google: lots of stuff. e.g. Waymo, amazing quantum computers
Jane Street: unusual charities
Epic Games: programming languages?
Amazon: self-optimisation— gavin leech (@g_leech_)
1:33 PM • Oct 19, 2024
There's a lot on my timeline about failing to appreciate the pace of AI progress. You can also be wrong in the other direction!
It's been fast, but not as fast as some thought a couple of years ago. The world seems much the same to me, with some very cool new tech.
— Ollie Base (@Ollie_Base)
10:28 PM • Oct 21, 2024
^ my current synthesis is roughly: everything techno-visionaries say is coming will in fact come, except way slower (the person quoted is an alignment researcher from openai)
"Sonnet is not in control of their Minecraft character, the agent framework is.
[the framework] forces Sonnet to delegate tasks to functions--subagents, ...--that are stupid, and are misaligned.
and that makes the system as a whole do things that Sonnet alone would never do."— Henry! (@sleight_henry)
6:42 PM • Oct 21, 2024
I keep saying “this is my last comment” but then I eat my words. So I won’t say it this time but you know I think it ;-)
Summary of everything I've said since 15 Oct
— Pseudoerasmus (@pseudoerasmus)
3:34 PM • Oct 23, 2024
^ commentary on the recent economics Nobel to AJR, which I think is a huge indictment of the entire field of economics & supports my thesis that we should just start anew.
In retrospect, AJR, by setting the terrible standards for scholarship in economic history in particular might've been responsible for me not getting a PhD in economics: economic history and development was my biggest interest in undergrad, right until i realized none of it is real and none of the professors I knew cared. This was why I decided not to pursue a PhD in the field.
This is also why I think we ought to build new institutions of basic science where scientists actually care about truth.
🚨 What happens when the gov't cuts prices on medical technologies?
New research (w/ @YunanJi) finds a 61% price cut led to:
75% drop in innovation (may fully offset savings)
49% fewer new firms
28% more production moved overseas
3x repair/replacement rate🧵(1/n)
— Parker Rogers (@parker_rog)
5:45 PM • Oct 23, 2024
The US divorce rate has been on a pretty precipitous decline since 2000, nearly halving in the last 20 years.
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban)
9:19 AM • Oct 26, 2024
relatedly, you need to keep feeding your intuition
if you keep betraying your gut and prophetic dreams –
I'm afraid they will one day leave you well alone.— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
1:09 AM • Oct 26, 2024
Have a great week!
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