The Wisdom Wall
10 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“So there's only one of two stable solutions. Either you pay the copyright holders, which I actually think doesn't work, And the reason is because someone in China will crawl it, and they just dump the weights, right? So they can just crawl and dump the compressed weights. Or if you crawl, make it open. At least…”
“I want to take on more technical risk and less market risk. This is the classic VC learning, right? Which is you want to build something that if people Get it. If you can deliver it, you know, people will want it. And it's just hard to build as opposed to you build it and you don't know if they want it.”
“The problem is that the nature of training these models is highly centralized. They benefit from supercomputer clustered compute. So it's not clear how any decentralized model can compete.”
“economic power and military power is downstream of technology. In fact, even culture is downstream of technology.”
“If this all ends up in the control of one company, They're actually going to be slower to innovate than if there's a dynamic system, and that dynamic system by its nature will be open.”
“Almost all technology has network effects underneath, and so even if you are open, you're still going to win, and you're still going to control all the most of it.”
“In terms of falling asleep, I don't think it's really about whether you look at your phone or not, believe it or not. I think it's about what you're doing on your phone. If you're doing anything that is cognitively stressful or getting your mind to spin, then yes.”
“all the pressure and all the anger that all the mega movement is doing against the left is pointless. It's all about keeping the right wing in line.”
“It's only in stress that you sort of are forced to grow.”
“if you want to fall asleep, the hack I found is everybody has tried some kind of a meditation routine. Just sit in bed and meditate, and your mind will hate meditation so much that if you force it to choose between the fork of meditation and sleeping, you will fall asleep.”