Theory: AGI / ASI has been achieved internally @OpenAI, so @ilyasut hit the panic button and staged a coup.
Evidence:
10/6: @ilyasut tweets: “If you value intelligence above all other human quality, you’re gonna have a bad time”
10/16: at APEC, @sama proclaims: “4 times in the history of OpenAI––the most recent time was in the last couple of weeks––I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. Getting to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime.”
@ilyasut “He thinks the world needs to wake up to the true power of the technology his company and others are racing to create. And he thinks some humans will one day choose to merge with machines.” -@ilyasut
“You can call it this way. And I can understand why you choose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity.”
@ilyasut More evidence from APEC on 11/6
“The model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected.” -@sama on what everyone in AI will be talking about next year
Note: OpenAI had GPT-4 working 6-9 months before announcing it to the world
@ilyasut @sama OpenAI COO @bradlightcap confirms that Sam didn’t commit a crime or engage in “malfeasance”
In the near future, startups will source capital from their social media followers & user communities. @elonmusk is the pioneer here. @Tesla-style company cults will proliferate & dominate industries.
Obama-era crowdfunding regulations opened the door. Crypto made the future obvious. But it wasn't until a few months ago that fintech made it possible.
In May 2020, @AngelList released a revolutionary financial technology: the Rollup Vehicle (RUV) 🧵
How RUVs work: 1) Press button on AngelList 2) AL creates a new venture capital fund entity to invest in your startup on whatever terms you set 3) you raise capital for the vc fund from anyone with a >$1M net worth or >$200k salary 4) VC fund pledges all voting rights to CEO 🧵
Ask for FOUR REFERENCES
- 3 normal references
- 1 “worst reference ever”
The purpose of reference checking isn’t just to make the hiring decision, it’s to understand the whole person so that we achieve optimal success managing them post-hire
All reference calls are highly structured & documented in a Notion using a pre-fab template (more below)
Capital will flee too, but more slowly (as always). Soon-to-be-enacted tax hikes will accelerate the trend.
Remote-first is the default now.
Long live the dream that is Silicon Valley!
Silcon Valley is the new Detroit now, a vestige of its glory days.
When this is over, people will point to the Pandemic as the killer, much as one might point to an earthquake that fell a rickety old building.
But the real culprit was toxic cocktails or NIMBYism & hubris.
The NIMBYs created an utterly preventable housing crisis that made middle class newcomers feel unwelcome & unattached, because they could not afford homes.