- sd9This is “impressive” negotiation from Altman. Can’t imagine this being good for Disney.
- You can start with "hey this is useful for small businesses who don't necessarily have the same concerns" or "hey this is useful for personal notes" or any other use case that doesn't implicate the machinery of a massive bureaucracy.
- Everything has to start somewhere. Or should we just freeze software where it is today?
- My kingdom for an LLM that tells me I’m wrong
- If I were on a train and there was even a chance that we were careering towards a collapsed bridge... I would appreciate that train stopping before we find out.
- It’s ok to believe and advocate for something that reduces your individual ability to accumulate capital.
- In math you have to disbelieve your own eyes and intuition an awful lot. Not in this case, I grant you. But there are plenty of counterintuitive results.
- Well, yes, it is false, hence there are problems.
But imagine this was a domain you weren't familiar with, you didn't know that pi != 4, you didn't know that the proof was false going into it. Could you have come up with a list of problems so quickly?
For what it's worth, I'm not sure that problems 1 and 2 are actually genuine problems with the proof. You can approximate the length of a curve with straight lines by making them successively smaller. This is the first version of calculus that students learn. Problem 3 is the crux.
- The problem with visual proofs is that there are perfectly similar looking proofs that are false: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/12906/the-staircase...
They’re great and cool for things you already know to be true, but they can be tricky.
- Customers and management should always be part of the loop. This is reflected in the original quote and my comment.
I just think that having to be micromanaged from the top down is completely miserable, is worse for the customer, and is time consuming for execs. It’s not a way to live.
You as an engineer should be familiar with users’ needs. I got into this field because I love automating solutions that help users solve their problems. So of course I want to know what they’re doing, and have a good idea of what would improve their lives further.
- Well you factor that in too? And be willing to change focus if that's the feedback.
- What do you mean? The quoted text is the exact strategy I always use.
I don't want or need to be told top down what to do, it's better to think for myself and propose that upward. Execs appreciate it because it makes their jobs easier; users get the features they actually want; I get to work on what I think is important.
What am I missing that makes this a bad strategy?
- Why are you so aggressive?
- This is nothing to do with trade.
If region X happily produces and sells rotten meat, no other region is obligated to trade with them. But region X might choose to import non-rotten meat if they want.
- Thiel's ramblings seem so unhinged, delusions of grandeur.
I am so thankful that I'm not rich enough to be surrounded by people who agree with every single half baked thought that I put out.
- The whole point of money is to pay for problems to go away.
No idea how good Zoho is, but if you can pay $X/month and never even think about the problem ever again, then that is compelling, and the value of that depends on the customer.
- Something like Harry Potter must be worth more than $100M for 14 years, for example.
- Why are some models better than others today if everything is publicly known and many organisations have access to massive resources?
Somebody has to come up with an idea first. Before they share it, it is not publicly known. Ilya has previously come up with plenty of productive ideas. I don't think it's a stretch to think that he has some IP that is not publicly known.
Even seemingly simple things like how you shuffle your training set, how you augment it, the specific architecture of the model, etc, have dramatic effects on the outcome.
- After experimenting with Gemini 3, I still felt like Sonnet 4.5 had the edge. So I'm very excited to start playing with this in the wild.