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14:13
Apr 16
@paulg
@1a1n1d1y Actually now I think it being a waste of my time is probably the right answer.
14:05
Apr 16
@paulg
@1a1n1d1y It's important to know how pliable current models are.
14:00
Apr 16
@paulg
I'm trying to figure out when a watch was made. Initially ChatGPT thought 1966 and Google 1965. I tried feeding their suggestions to one ano…
11:12
Apr 16
@paulg
@realsanketp And keep working. Can't forget that part.
11:11
Apr 16
@paulg
@PromptSlinger The canonical example is probably Replit, which turned out to be perfectly suited for AI coding. But to be fair Amjad did see…
11:09
Apr 16
@paulg
@edels0n There's a middle ground where they don't use the zero-days to destroy us, but in effect to install explosives in all our infrastruc…
11:05
Apr 16
@paulg
Which is why YC likes to fund founders who are optimistic and determined and genuinely like what they're building. Among other things, those…
11:01
Apr 16
@paulg
Of course the startups that kept going didn't know AI was coming to save them. They kept going because they loved what they were building, o…
10:59
Apr 16
@paulg
Other startups who had exactly the same experience in the first few years thought "this isn't working" and gave up. What they didn't realize…
10:56
Apr 16
@paulg
They only have this opportunity because they were already out there building stuff. That showed them exactly where AI could most effectively…
10:52
Apr 16
@paulg
AI is giving a lot of hard-working founders the growth they deserve. Every couple days I hear about another startup that was working hard an…
09:37
Apr 16
@paulg
@SteveStuWill Why would the heritability of IQ be higher in wealthy, industrialised countries?
07:29
Apr 16
@paulg
@MattACrawford I learned that my favorite watch dealer posts watches there before they come up for sale on their site.
07:19
Apr 16
@paulg
I finally tried to create an Instagram account. (I've managed to avoid it so far.) It was instantly suspended, before I'd even finished the …
07:16
Apr 16
@paulg
Something I taught 14 yo: Most progress is a mix of steps forward and steps back, just with with more of the former. But you can get a run o…
12:51
Apr 15
@paulg
@amaldorai They were a special kind with long arms for fitting over wigs.
12:49
Apr 15
@paulg
@smi30966 @anneapplebaum Actually it's interesting how many similarities there are.
11:44
Apr 15
@paulg
Interesting ideas tend to appear in multiple places in slightly different forms. Though that's somewhat of a tautology, because this is a bi…
11:42
Apr 15
@paulg
@geisonmcd Not consciously but like many interesting ideas it ends up appearing in multiple forms.
11:38
Apr 15
@paulg
@ux_andrew84 I know exactly what wokeness means. It means an aggressively performative focus on social justice. https://t.co/jvOj5Ayr3x
11:36
Apr 15
@paulg
@rachelnabors The "I'm your ally"s weren't sincere if they evaporate this fast when the wind shifts. And indeed that was a lot of what bothe…
10:22
Apr 15
@paulg
@phillipburch In this respect, yes. In some others, definitely not.
10:12
Apr 15
@paulg
(I know because my algorithm for voting is: vote for the candidates who don't have woke shibboleths in their personal statements, and it use…
10:10
Apr 15
@paulg
Only 1 of the 9 candidates for the Harvard Board of Overseers have woke shibboleths in their personal statements. Just a year or two ago the…
09:08
Apr 15
@paulg
@mattyglesias Ideally it would be because they have inside information that Trump is just acting tough.
09:07
Apr 15
@paulg
@anneapplebaum Surely the reason Russia is still fighting is that it suits Putin's interests to. He's now a war time leader with a built-in …
08:55
Apr 15
@paulg
Amusing edge case: If you post multiple nude statues, Twitter's image cropping algorithm makes you seem lascivious. https://t.co/wU5YF6prGC
07:44
Apr 15
@paulg
Self-portrait by Joshua Reynolds, 1780s. Other sitters can take their glasses off, but sitters in self-portraits can't. https://t.co/RAmCnr2…
07:25
Apr 15
@paulg
@Sherveen @kane I'm joking. Though it would have been plausible at peak woke. Incidentally, it's honestly, not earnestly. Have you been han…
07:13
Apr 15
@paulg
@kane Maybe she meant that literally. Not that she doesn't know why, but that you're not allowed to say why.
06:58
Apr 15
@paulg
@SableDima You're welcome.
06:58
Apr 15
@paulg
@AminSweiti No. In fact I did it without a single line of code.
06:58
Apr 15
@paulg
(I'm kidding about implementing this. The back button of every popular browser has always worked within pages as well as between them.)
06:56
Apr 15
@paulg
People often ask me for a way to get back to where they were after reading footnotes in my essays. I'm happy to report that I've now impleme…
06:49
Apr 15
@paulg
@motdotla There are multiple reasons, but the most powerful may be that the blank slate, which underlies a lot of liberal ideology, now seem…
06:43
Apr 15
@paulg
Cause and effect probably goes both ways here. Having kids makes you more conservative, and being conservative makes you more inclined to ha…
06:41
Apr 15
@paulg
@Luv_Xcuses Startups.
06:34
Apr 15
@paulg
@Edan_Krolewicz @garrytan No, the median age must still be about 24 or 25.
06:34
Apr 15
@paulg
A watchmaker told me that he prefers it when he opens a watch that needs service and the movement is dirty. If the movement is clean, it's m…
06:32
Apr 15
@paulg
Taught 14 yo (he's now 14) about the concept of a conservation law, and how doing good things for people seems to violate one in the sense t…
21:42
Apr 14
@paulg
@garrytan Not just that, but learn more.
21:38
Apr 14
@paulg
@attwellbrian 8 years? Is that a record?
21:32
Apr 14
@paulg
@withfaheem By all means do. Building something doesn't mean starting a startup.
21:31
Apr 14
@paulg
@riemannzeta It is true for college students too.
21:30
Apr 14
@paulg
@dlogosxyz 1. If you happen to start Facebook and you either have to run with it or let it die. If you're the 1 in 10,000 freak of nature w…
21:27
Apr 14
@paulg
@beforeblazer 100k profit is not a startup, son.
14:13
Apr 14
@paulg
@IvanGrujic 99% chance they're mistaken about the idea being good anyway.
14:13
Apr 14
@paulg
@paramendra No true startup, done right, takes only 20 hours a week.
14:02
Apr 14
@paulg
@user57068 The point is to enable them to find such all-consuming obsessions. A startup isn't really one, because you don't decide what to s…
13:59
Apr 14
@paulg
@bscholl That kind of thing is ok. But a startup, when done right, takes over your life.