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By reading the comments I wonder if perhaps OAI & ANT are not going to be “model” companies and they are going to be the ones innovating in many fronts and cashing in for the benefits of those advancements…

What I’m trying to say here is, what if, they are staying closed strategically so they keep their most advanced models close to their chest until they make an incredible discovery. Say they cure cancer. In this case, they are taking that IP collaborating with big pharma and cashing in on the upside of such discovery.

So, what if on top of being just another enterprise and consumer product that accelerates the way we all work and live, it also becomes this factory of breakthroughs and that’s where open source models can’t compete with them.

Just speculating…

AI for me I just another balancing act. Lean too hard on it and it will be noticeable and detrimental, lean to hard away from it and you’ll be left behind by those who learn how to balance it.

I think it's important to see if this could happen on a larger scale. What if it wasn't only French supermarkets but also important supply chain chokepoints of food worldwide? What would happen to food prices?

You're right. I'm not sure.

I even thought: next time my partner gets a headache I'm just going to give her a vibrator and test it out.

Pleasure is not only about sex, it can take many forms, and us humans re the ones that really learned how to get pleasure from a lot of sources.

Good point on the first paragraphs. The why seems to be that it’s mostly about pleasure.

Although not essential for survival, pleasure seems to be programmed in us as a species, so the body evolving this to give women the balance of a complex pleasure organ to make up for the pain — in so many levels — they go through during birth.

So maybe nature was like “they suffer a lot during birth and pregnancy, let’s give them a clitoris that gives them REALLY good pleasure that the male counterpart won’t be able to ever experience or comprehend.”

I think you’d be surprised by how many people just see the vagina as a whole you stick a penis in. But agree with this not being a big mystery being unlocked.

This article feels like it's full of no big mystery being unlocked other than the clitoris non-sexual stimulation being used as pain treatment during labor, but I'm sure not as effective as just some potent pain killer.

Can “on-prem” solve this debate?

You can self-host on-prem or in the cloud.

Don’t sovereign wealth funds and pension funds also invest in VCs? So even if it’s “private” people are holding the bag?

Also, I think comparing WeWork to AI labs is not valid.

These labs have increasingly become of public interest and are shaping economies around the world, WeWork was just not at that level.

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Has anyone read this book? If so, have you done it recently? What are your thoughts on what’s being said by Leary?

It feels pretty spot on in most cases where he extrapolates the way we create, process, distribute and consume information and I can see how the development of newer technologies just enforces his hypothesis.

I know he’s infamous/famous for being dialed up in LSD most of the time, but nevertheless I’m finding this read very interesting.

I know this is not what you’re asking for, but I’d instead advise you on not using email as your primary sales vehicle.

I also know it depends on the product you’re selling.

Most often than not, email is a big pile of mess for most people, so getting their attention is just really hard.

If you can, if it’s viable, go to their office, shake their hand and pitch the product face to face.

Too far? Call and schedule a meeting.

Anyone can send an email blast to thousands of contacts. Not many have the courage to just pick up the phone or see people face to face.

Sorry I couldn’t help! But I hope this is useful :)

I wonder what the AI version of Albert Hofman will come up with.

I mostly meant humans in general. Not only CEOs. But... yes... maybe if the psychological development was better, Elon would not have been bullied, and perhaps would have been a better human.

Partially agreed. There are also just evil people that are not billionaire CEOs, and I am not sure if ALL billionaire CEOs are bad — I don't really pay too much attention to them.

There are evil people in general. And, it may be solvable if we focus on humans, the environment they grow up in, the information they consume, their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc...

But, we keep focusing on the wrong thing thinking that a robot or an LLM will solve these problems for us as a society. I honetly don't thinks so...

I agree with knowing what's happening! But taking things at face value from tech companies, especially when they are at an early stage and maximizing for attention just doesn't feel right to me.

At the end of the day, bad things will happen and there's little that can be done about it. Just look around and see how things just take the path of their own whether it's violent or peaceful.

I'm not advocating for it to really show it's dangerous. I do not want yet another harmful weapon to exist. But, I think we knew what we were walking towards in the first place. So, acting surprised and then being up in arms about it feels counterproductive.

Do you really want there not be a powerful AI that doesn't turn harmful? Don't contribute to it, don't buy into it, don't use it. We might miss on the positives, but also miss on the negative aspects of it.

Humans have been doing this for years even before the advent of the internet as we know it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking]. Maybe not at a larger and automated scale allowed by AI, but this is not superhuman intelligence... this is speed super intelligence.

My interpretation is that this is just another media campaign to say "oh look how powerful our model is".

I can see this was shared before a couple of years ago, so just reposting for the sake of sharing and caring <3

Functionality is great across Apple devices. I think they are really adamant about their lack of interest in making their platforms open to other OSs.

You're right on there not being an API, but...

Both Notes and Reminders have a full AppleScript / JXA interface that Apple has maintained for years. Any LLM with shell access can read notes, create folders, add reminders, mark them complete, etc... + iCloud syncs everything out to iPhone/iPad/Watch/Vison/whatever-comes-next automatically.

I’d been a user of Obsidian, Notion, ClickUp and tried a myriad of other tools until I realized that Apple Notes and Reminders did the job just fine and worked perfectly across devices. Opening obsidian in my phone never felt natural, and most of the time I just want to write a quick note or add a quick task which didn’t feel as intuitive on my phone using third party apps. Also, the voice recording and transcription options in Notes are the best one I’ve used so far.

Notes can be organized in folders just like in obsidian and Reminders are clean and simple to use. No infinite options to customize, no moving blocks and no infinite properties. Simplicity feels good —- for me —- when it comes to these kind of tools.

These also work great with Codex and Claude Code, and with the hopes of Apple getting their act together with an AI integration, I think it might be the better option to manage one’s writing and tasks.

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I see some Apple haters’ cortisol levels rising on this comment. Please, this is not me saying that Apple is better. I’m just saying that it’s a solution I’ve found to work for me, and it may work for others too. Just like your super customized Obsidian vault in your cute Linux machine works for you and others.

I wonder if anyone has thoughts on the future of “content”? I ask this because of the general adoption of LLMs for information seeking.

On one side, I think that those who manage to generate a trusted audience can benefit from this as LLMs generate generic content.

On the other side, people could get so used to generic content — like Tik-Toks — that it will only be a handful of people coming to those generating thoughtful content.

Turns out shitposting and trolling will save humanity.

That's a good view point. Perhaps they're not being alarmists or trying to scare people, but being honest about the capabilities.

Perhaps it can be better articulated and framed in a way that's well received. But, maybe that would be over-promising or not being honest about the future.

Agreed. But, could it be trained ti be deceiving? Especially when we bake-in advertising into it?

Because we don't like uncertainty, and the AI future is uncertain. There are multiple high probability scenarios.

Because we're seeing how its capabilities increase overtime. I find the rate at which I prefer to go to an AI than an UpWorker is scary.

Because we——the people——are not in control of it. We're at the whims of whatever it and the tech bros want (technocracy).

>Private equity relies on a basic technique known as the leveraged buyout, which works like this: you, a dealmaker, buy a company using just a small portion of your own money. You borrow the rest, and transfer all this debt on to the company you just bought. In effect, the company goes into debt in order to pay for itself. If it all goes well, you sell the company for a profit and you reap the rewards. If not, it is the company, not you, that is on the hook for this debt.

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Not how I've seen this work. These often require a personal guarantee, in some cases the homes of whoever is applying for the loan. So, whoever wrote this article has no idea of the real acquisition process.

>Humans won’t be needed for most things.

Who the hell thinks that’s a good idea?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be happy to spend most of my time with my loved ones, talking, having fun, and investing my time in creative endeavours, but that’s just seems extremely unlikely. It feels more like we’ll be surrounded by constant wars, full of resentment and anxiety doomscrolling the live coverage of the destruction of what it means to be human.

That’s not being an AI doomer. That’s reality. Just open your goddamn eyes.

Amazing! Yet another life destroying invention. What could go wrong?

This is when I ask sincerely: how does AI truly benefit the average Joe?

Sure it can help you do things “faster” and it can give you “private/cheaper” advice.

But, AI feels increasingly like a thing that will make the powerful a lot more powerful with their data centres and automation shenanigans.

All the hype feels like it’s being injected into everyone’s brain like a virus. Oh look at this shiny new tool! But, how does it actually improve everyone’s life? We’ve gone from AGI to tokens as a service.

Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home.

I’m completely divided here. I love using these tools, and it makes work enjoyable. But, like we read recently “you’re not your work”.