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Eventually, we shall, as a human race working together, also figure out how to generalize this to all AI models, all robotics, and all human skills.
My friend Christopher Santos-Lang wrote a fantastic paper on how every strategy for any given Skill can be benchmarked against every other strategy such that we always end up with the best strategies in our shared universal repository of Skills. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20986
I never thought of applying Pythagorean Theorem here, but it's incredibly useful!
> "Venture backed tech companies are built to get huge or die. Like a lottery ticket, you either win big or lose. But outside of tech, it's common to run a business to generate free cash flow for its owners."
Only a small percentage of companies should be pursuing venture capital. Unfortunately, the way the tech media celebrates raising money, it projects that it signifies success. This has misled many startup founders.
"Square recorded a loss of roughly $100 million in 2013, broader than its loss in 2012"
AND
"Square would likely fetch billions of dollars in a sale."
How can BOTH these statements be true?