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“There's a Meaningful chance that we are going to make AI so powerful that we will lose control of it. And if we lose control of it, there's all kinds of bad things that can happen, including us all dying.”

“Five years from now, 99.9999% of all content will be created by AIs.”

“So in every domain, like AI starts off as a tool and then it goes up through the four levels. And so that's the thing to keep an eye on, is like, in, in your industry, if AI is starting off as a tool right now, eventually it'll become an assistant, then it'll …”

“I was doing AI music like four years ago and the biggest like EDM ghost producing website, which were, which is, they were responsible for like a large percentage of all EDM tracks. And they were selling secretly a third of all of their tracks were AI generate…”

“In a world where all the influencers are, you know, AI, they're not human anymore, or, like, a large percentage of them, rather, are AI influencers. A large percentage of all relationships online become with AIs because the AI can be tailored.”

“I measure this quite a bit, and the average person is actually only listening to about 10% of all of the actual sentences. In a given podcast or book that they're reading.”

“And level three is retention. Like, how do you actually remember this stuff later? That step, though, is actually, for most people, not even important, because the most useful thing is, like, just read faster and make sure you're actually understanding what it…”

“There's tons of weapons systems you already have that like, there's no human that decides like the robots decide for us. Like they shoot down the missile before we even have time to react, you know? So we've already given up the Like kill switch to the machine…”

“Basically it was linear from, like, 1960 to, like, 2012, then it was exponential in 2012 till today, and now it's going double exponential. That's a big deal, because now it's exponential. It's, there's an exponent on top of the exponent. So before, we only ha…”

“The amount of leverage now is, like, if you're, if you have a good idea, like, you can create the equivalent of, like, you know, a hundred percent company by yourself. You know, it was just some, like, random, like, just a handful of, like, no-code tools and s…”

“Internet one point oh changed the world by bringing distribution cost to zero. Like, you could argue that was the single most important thing that the internet did, was it brought distribution cost to zero. And you could argue the single most important thing t…”

“I think the next five years are going to be more, like more is going to happen in the next five years than like happened in the last, like, you know, 25 years.”

“I think blockchain will actually be useful here is you can cryptographically sign you know, content to verify that it was, in fact, created by the person who says it was created by. I think that's going to be absolutely critical”

“I think that Twitter is like sort of like an organism. It's like a living, breathing thing that has its own sort of consciousness and intentions and identities.”

“You don't ever do anything on Product Hunt. Like if you're, if your marketing launch plan involves Product Hunt at all, don't do it. That's fiercely competitive. You're competing with all the other 20 something males who want to start a business.”

“The easiest way to actually make something viral is, like, just copy something that already exists that's, like, viral, and then just, like, modify it a bit. Basically, my mental model here is, like, if you just want to get attention, you should change it as l…”

“Typing is almost always a sign of, like, a UI failure, because most people don't have that many different use cases for whatever that product is, so, like, just help them out by just giving them a few buttons that they can tap.”

“Facebook is the most powerful tool ever developed to assess content quality and assess demand.”

“Basically I find it fascinating that people, people like they try to accumulate a specific skill and they're like, I'm going to develop this skill. I'm going to get good at like making a websites or I'm going to get good at this programming language or this, y…”

“Right now, I average reading about two books a day equivalent of content.”

“I basically use boredom as a compass, and when I'm bored with something, that is a indicator that whatever I'm reading doesn't seem as likely to be useful or important”

“For content that has a longer shelf life basically somebody spends their entire life's work studying something, and they, they'll spend years trying to, like, find the perfect way to explain what it is they spent their entire life learning, and in five hours y…”

“I get about, 15 to 20,000 clicks a day in to make sure that every single sentence that I'm hearing, I'm processing.”

“I made in Two hours of work. I made a viral Facebook photo frame. It was like a circle around your head that said stay home, save lives, which if you're on Facebook, you would have seen it because hundreds of millions of people used it. And it was the most vir…”

“Best predictor of margins is competition. Where there's competition, margins get compressed, and almost everybody squeezes down to, like, a five percent profit margin over time, and so the only way to, like, increase that number is to find some sort of market …”

“This is just kind of early days of AI, but what it's gonna be is, like, first it starts with just a blank, you know, a blinking cursor in a search box where you have to, like, spontaneously think of what you want to ask the AI or what you want the AI to do, an…”

“The headline and thumbnail are where the entire decision process takes place on whether or not they're going to click on your article.”

“For most articles a good budget for testing, like if you're testing just headlines and thumbnails five dollars would be adequate. But 10 dollars to be safe.”

“So I would say the headlines themselves are all still written by humans, but I think when it comes to algorithmically created content, the headlines are gonna be the first thing that are actually completely written by AI.”

“Between dose and OMG facts, which are actually basically the same site. They're just on different domains. Cause we test on different domains.”

“Most YouTube is, like, lower information density than, like, because there's a lot of visual information on the screen that's not very useful.”

“We've raised thirty-five million in there full-time.”

“Every single day I spend some routine, like one to three hours, like actively just trying to get better at learning. So like conducting experiments and seeing what tactics and what techniques tend to like make me just learn faster.”

“So when I was 12, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of school and start homeschooling myself. And so I'm a middle school dropout”