We tool-builders tend to forget that most people are primarily interested in the outcome the tool produces, not the tool itself.

Attended a great event with Niall Ferguson last month. A favorite insight: “To understand the world at present, one must be well read in history and in science fiction”

Happiness is a choice.

Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness.

You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and then you die.

How you choose to interpret them is up to you - its your choice.

Quote from 3 Body Problem

LLMs are to Google Search, what Google Search was to AltaVista and Lycos.

This will change the whole internet on its head:
* SEO and SEM are gone (and replacements will emerge)
* Publishing will be very different with some people eager to get their information into LLMs, others…

In case you missed today's eclipse, there are always more to come (at least for the next few hundred million years).
Here's where the total eclipses will be for the next 100 years:
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comput…

Why did America demolish the world's most beautiful train station?

And what it says about us... (thread) 🧵

2023-'24 in the startup world isn't just a story of an AI boom and startup closures.

I'm seeing a lot of pivots away from broad 'moonshot' strategies to revenue-focused vertical or 'niche' plays. For some it may be too little, too late. For others it's truly working.

as a longtime fan of Conway's 'Game of Life' algorithm i never once considered visualizing the time axis physically -- this is breathtaking and elegant to me

credit:
instagram.com/reel/C2hoRnFsm…

Take a look into the mind of the machine! visit my new project here: moebio.com/mind/

I repeated the same completion prompt 'Intelligence is ' hundreds of times and used this to peer into the statistical and semantic behavior of chatgpt