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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

I enjoyed this series of essays, and a microsite essay series with a PDF version is a very neat form factor, if one has a thesis one wants to spread. https://t.co/NJavoBjgQF

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

“Any point of view on the substance?” Seems obvious to me that bullish on AI is directionally correct; seems obvious to me this community of practice more correct than other smart generally well-informed people about general shape of future.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

I cannot possibly underline this paragraph enough. https://t.co/qL1oiRgvxO

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

We, for all possible values of “we”, are going to need to step up.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

I also liked the line about “people with situational awareness have a lower cost basis in Nvidia than you do” and while I own no Nvidia I think this is a more persuasive investment memory than many I’ve seen in my life.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

*memo Perhaps if we spent a trillion dollars on compute clusters some combination of Apple and Twitter will create a keyboard which works.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

@patio11 what does having a lower cost basis in Nvidia mean?

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth If you have a position in a stock, your cost basis is the total amount you spent to purchase that stock. This person is implying ~“We successfully predicted the future—easy to do while building it—and bought Nvidia when it was cheap. It has since gone far up. It is still cheap.”

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

I quoted this line inexactedly and while I believe I preserved the substance will correct record, since people could reasonably read that as being a quote rather than a paraphrase. https://t.co/bu5vZgvduB

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

A previous articulation of this thought. I had several more in 2021 when I realized that there was a reason nobody competent had relieved the bingo guy yet. “Good news bad news, folks: we ARE the cavalry.” https://t.co/z23Ikir4wp

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 7 years ago

There is no hidden reserve of smart people who know what they're doing, anywhere. Not in government, not in science, not in tech, not at AppAmaGooBookSoft, nowhere. The world exists in the same glorious imperfection that it presents with.

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archivedvideos@archived_videos• about 1 year ago
Replying to @patio11

@patio11 Thank you for that, I've started reading it and didn't know what to think about it, it's nice to have the point of view from someone less into AI (I think?) than the people I usually read. I'll finish it this weekend

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