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Jun 19, 2018 7 tweets 3 min read
How to detect a fake expert and professional bullshitter/poser/pretender?

They are equally experts on everything, any topic, it doesn't matter.

It takes time and discipline to be an expert. After 10 years of wisely invested experience, you might be one.

norvig.com/21-days.html
Choose something that lets you grow, not a dead end

The likelihood of boundaries in your growth is much greater w/ a boss than being free, eg freelance

BTW: What's worse? If the boundary is in your capability to create value or in getting rewarded for it
Your growth & freedom are also severely limited by some contracts; eg renting your brain 24/7, giving up all rights to any intellectual property for as long as the contract lasts

Here's the link to the relevant part of the parent tweet tree:

As an entrepreneur, employee, or even a candidate: always be able to walk. Otherwise, there's no negotiation, and that ensures a bad deal, for you. Don't accept bad deals, you can easily find yourself losing (not winning!) to not lose even more.

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Do not restrict yourself to already walked & well known paths, go to the unknown (blue ocean), research, i.e. learn what nobody knows and cannot be taught, you will be the only one w/ your skills. Nobody is better than you at being you.

Focus on what brings joy to you, your intellectual interests. If you are good at something, the society will want more of that thing from you. If that is a virtuous cycle of joy & freedom or a vicious cycle of capitalist oppression depends only on you.

We all have have things we like to do, focus on what feels like work to others

You don't need to compete and be the best, but you need to be yourself, happy, free, different, and valuable for society, as an artist, engineer, creator, entrepreneur,…

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Dec 30, 2021
Both web3 and the metaverse jeopardize untapping the relevance of crypto: “X as code”:
$BTC: money
$ETH: contracts

Software is eating the world. Eating the web or VR only delays the unavoidable

Relevant: create value, solve problems, do things that matter, fix what sucks,…
Web3 is a terrible choice of name too

Crypto is undoing a lot of the centralization in web 2.0*, and requires technical knowledge. Today, it should be 1.2 IMHO

* Similarly to Jamstack: less PHP, more REST & static pages. Nobody promised linear evolution…
Many people expect crypto will become easier, more polished, and gain mass adoption

It is about freedom & DIY, avoiding intermediaries & centralization, much like GNU/Linux. It's not about getting rich. In fact normally freedom comes at a cost

When mass adoption for GNU/Linux?
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Mar 14, 2021
Several things may be considered as "triggers" of an AI winter, e.g
—"aging" of teams
—not meeting investor expectations after diminishing returns
—whistleblowers ending the hype by exposing lies
—…

TBH: I think those are symptoms, but not the root cause
The root cause is: "running out of hype"

The biggest threat (TBT) for GPT-4 is not bad practices in OpenAI, investors disappointed with GPT-3, or Gary Marcus calling BS on GPT-3

TBT is finding something to sell not sold for GPT-3 yet

IMHO — as always
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Mar 12, 2021
After watching "Counterfeiting Kills Economies (And Helps Them Too)"

I would like to see a fight:

— Companies innovating too fast for patents to be useful for them

vs

— Companies with business models relying on patents to impede competitors' innovation
imdb.com/title/tt961786…
The documentary is coming from Amazon, which has an "interesting" relationship with intelectual property

As more companies join the debate, data about the impact of patents on innovation and economies should be presented, to defend each case
Theory and practice do not always match, and the reality is dynamic. What was true one century ago may not be true now. The system needs maintenance

For example, Tesla applies the open source philosophy to their patents, and they seem to be doing well
tesla.com/en_IE/blog/all…
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Feb 12, 2021
I am going to make a short thread to explain how Sutskever's tweet signals (IMHO) the beginning of the next AI winter

You may understand my use of a pseudonym to comment on "work ethics" on the Internet, as potential or current employers might read it
If Sutskever's opinion were not relevant enough, it has been seconded by other famous AI researchers, like Brockman, arguably making a point through example, and not just words

I am personally never sure if Domingos' "factual" descriptions are criticizing or supporting making a deal with Moloch for efficiency

Arguably, if you have the stamina to work 2x hours, you will get 2x results, all other things being equal
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Aug 14, 2020
Checking the oldest links in my Pocket reading list

It would be interesting if most news (like this) were live, updated with new data, maintaining the URL (w/ diff?)

BTW: prediction: knowledge jobs will keep increasing in quantity, decreasing in quality
Now this is a "keeping tweets for posterity" thread

Mostly random ideas, like this thread about patents:
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Aug 10, 2020
Particularly relevant for time management
Set an aspirational hourly rate, it will help you to quantify the importance of activities and stay focused
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