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Holy smokes.

OpenAI board member Helen Toner published an article Altman took issue with.

She described it as “an academic paper that analyzed the challenges that the public faces when trying to understand the intentions of the countries and companies developing A.I.”

lol.

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Suffice it to say that’s not _all_ the article talks about.

The article is literally an analysis of different ways you can force AI companies (and governments using AI) to slow development, and recommendations on how they can be used and which are best. Image
For example (I’m not making this up) the “tying hands” method, where you encourage someone to make public declarations, then threaten “punishment,” such as being “subject to congressional investigation” or facing “disciplinary actions from the board of directors.” Image
But wait there’s more!

What is an example of an organization that deserves punishment, and should be subject to (as she calls them) “costly measures?”

OpenAI (where she sits on the board).

OpenAI released GPTs too early, and forced a “race to the bottom” Image
She closes by commending Anthropic who apparently did it right by _not_ releasing their model quickly, and recommends policymakers weave these “tools” of “costly measures” into their toolbelts.

Insane. Image

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Beaches are empty. Airbnbs, hotels, rental cars are at 1/4 the usual price. Flights into Maui are empty.

Lahaina is closed. Rest of the island is safe and desperate.
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There people who travel to places only after they’ve stabilized from recent natural disaster.

Pretty clever.

You get the place to yourself and rock bottom prices. Everyone desperate to get the economy going.

That’s where Maui is right now.
People calling me evil for this take…

I just spent the last 3 days talking to all sorts of shop owners on the ground. Talk to the mayor, governor, etc.

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1. FDIC moves very quickly
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1. If you had FDIC insured accounts in SVB (<$250k) you should get that cash shortly, next few days.

2. If you had accounts that weren't FDIC insured, you become a creditor. There's an asset firesale, you're first in line.
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Building real businesses.
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Calling it now:

SpaceX is going to be one of the biggest companies of all-time, and almost nobody realizes how big it will be.

Short version:

Best team of all-time
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SpaceX is reusing rockets for the 15th time, no one else is reusing.

SpaceX launched 61 orbital missions last year and carried 70% of all payload to space in 2022. Insane.

And estimates say starship will drive their prices down another 20x. SpaceX used a single Falcon 9 booster 15 timesSpaceX has reused stages of rockets since 2017, no one else SpaceX driving down the price of launching.
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SpaceX is not only driving the price of launches to zero, but also the price of satellites.

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Now they're being mass manufactured.
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I think that’s entirely backwards.

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They’re not being replaced; they’re becoming 100x as valuable.
Look at programming.

AI is pretty far away from replacing programmers.

But now if you’re a programmer and you can build 10x as much stuff because AI is doing the heavy lifting…

Can you even wrap your mind around how valuable that is?
We’re going to build leveraging AI into the BloomTech curriculum.

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This is a wild new world we live in.
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