@eshear
CEO of Softmax: Applied developmental cybernetics research
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is there still alpha in instagram reposts? https://t.co/nuR6MUTaPy
That was easy. Have ppl never heard of swimming? https://t.co/Ba2v4kFBr9 https://t.co/5yGRYRFEHd
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of myā¦
I continue to believe one of the biggest issues in our built environments is failing to use enough passive heating and cooling mechanisms. Failing to use enough passive components generally! Stuff in motion is stuff that breaks and costs energy to run. https://t.co/ucJWpR3SvM
I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasnāt sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. Iām glad to have been a part of the solution. https://t.co/AGoDBbwhkq
Equally astonishing. Once we figure out the basics of something, the next 50 years tend to be wild. https://t.co/W9EJufhdP8 https://t.co/fQXblNF99v
We should legalize building apartments like these. For a family itās far too small of course, but for a single person living in the big city? I would have absolutely preferred to save my money for other things. https://t.co/1ooYXFxXx8
In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought Iād share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Each of these insights could probably be expanded into an essay, of course. Like the ones you would want me to expand on in the future.
āBurnoutā is a particularly modern affliction, feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and paralyzed. Iāve found itās best to think of burnout not as a disease but as a symptom, with many different etiologies. The big three: permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt.
Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world. https://t.co/9gfnaeAPqH
The real villain here is Google. Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet. This is the natural end state of that process. https://t.co/VVyjq7IlVB
My very favorite kind of vacation has become the kind where several families that have been friends for a decade+ get a house together somewhere beautiful, and then we just enjoy being together (meals, playing sports or games, chatting, going on walks).
This is your reminder to turn off self-view entirely during video calls. Why would you voluntarily receive 1d4 psychic damage per round? https://t.co/OMe2jYqVPw
I like each of these bc they each compress a pretty complex counterargument into a single image that avoids getting lost in the details. Are there more? https://t.co/zx3qrcRgZ4
Minimalist reconstructions are not more accurate, they have their own assumptions (this is true not only of fossils but of models in general) https://t.co/YoFGBNVabG
Every time I see a beautiful view with massive floor-to-ceiling windows that flaunts itself constantly, it reminds me of the Zen View pattern from A Pattern Language. I remember how after 6 months with a floor-to-ceiling view of the bay it became invisible to me. https://t.co/g6PyZm96An
There are crystal structures that simply won't form anymore, even though they did a few decades ago. Real life Ice-9? Could make an incredible sci-fi book. https://t.co/plVu56KejX
Hope no one was trusting Google with anything important! YouTube videos or Blogger websites etc that are owned by inactive accounts will just get deletedā¦burning the commons. God forbid Google is still big 50 years from nowā¦so much history lost to this https://t.co/dSNOQAg7h9
The jump between the second panel and the third holds the entire secret. The correct question is asked (why am I not?), and then artfully avoided by an associative switch to self judgement. There is some reason youāre not doing them, and but itās hiding. https://t.co/FONX59MxOq
Apropos the recent controversy: the word delve is rarely used in English. Except used by LLMs, and in formal register Nigerian English. https://t.co/izRMkRfS8h
Why is the northern coast of Africa so much smoother than the southern coast of Europe? https://t.co/PDkgWjQp8X
Some of my favorite writing is single author short story sci-fi collections. Why are they so rare? https://t.co/TvtvnX44E2
@BenRatkaj Counterpoint. https://t.co/pfG6Dz5dnP
We have lived through something akin to The Great Renunciation, except instead of men renouncing interest in fashion itās all of society renouncing interest in design. Buildings are boxes. Everything is in white or black. Mass degreebelization. (Reversal may be coming tho!) https://t.co/QWQKlDZZwi
In October 2006 we started working on live video for the internet. That became Twitch. More than 16 years later, I'm now a father and ready to move to my next phase of life. I wrote a blog post, but the short version is: thank you so much to everyone who built this with me.
Advice my dad gave me that stuck with me: āconsider your life as a series of 10-15 year projectsā. The choices arenāt actually forever or never, although I know they sometimes feel that way. https://t.co/NQpIhLDaQy
This is the 3rd time Iāve had a @lyft accept my ride and claim theyāve āarrivedā while driving away. When I call to ask they say āyou have to cancelā. If I cancel, Lyft will blame meā¦if I donāt they run out the timer and claim I no showed. Lyft has no way to report this afaict.
1/ What is āproduct/market fitā? Iām not sure I can give you a definition. But maybe I can share what the subjective difference is in how it feels when you have it and when you donāt. Founding a startup is deciding to take on the burden of Sisyphus: pushing a boulder up a hill.
@Duderichy This is my favorite animation!!! I have it bookmarked on my phone for parties. Such a whitepill on past 40 years. https://t.co/hScqcrooJr
The fantasy of the all-powerful slave has legs: the genie bound to grant wishes, the golem that defends, the spell that animates a broom to clean on its own, the Mr MeeSeeks box. They share a commonality: a deep intuition that this goes wrong somehow. https://t.co/j3mpjFQTCx
How to do hard stuff: write down a 1 page doc with your key assumptions, the hypothesis/goal you want to test, and your plan to do it now read it with a maximally critical eyeā¦does it make sense? are there gaps? iterate until you canāt find any now go execute like crazy
Iām increasingly convinced we understand almost nothing about nutrition https://t.co/zDh3VwYB47
wake up babe, AI faction compass just became more relevant https://t.co/MwYOLedYxV
What if we paid prisons a flat rate per inmate per year, much higher than the current amount, but in exchange the prison was on the hook for any recidivism? You get paid for the 4 year sentence, but if they go back to prison youāre on the hook from there. Seems more aligned.
Iāve noticed this same trend whenever I look at new carsā¦whatās caused this convergent evolution? Is it really regulatory standards, or is this kind of hybrid SUV some optimal point in design space? https://t.co/kmKBDOF9Ul
One of my favorite policy ideas is "25 at 25": every American inherits $25k when they turn 25 years old. At that point you've probably been in the workforce a few years, and you understand the world a little. This would everyone to take a risk on a venture or career.
Even weirder, after animals emerge from hibernation they are often incredibly sleepy and immediately have to sleep! https://t.co/pyRzSNO7fb
It might ruin the joke sometimes, but I would appreciate a version of trending on this app that featured the patient-zero tweet for whatever nonsense is currently trending. Like when everyone is posting about eggs on my timeline, show me āoriginal 30 eggs tweetā.
18 law firms somehow miraculously have exactly identical wage scales that get updated in parallel? Hey DOJ, I think there might be an antitrust opportunity hereā¦any gunner of a federal prosecutor want to really make a mark? https://t.co/BpQmhLdWoZ
The replies to this thread blow my mind. People legit believe the state needs to protect them from bad haircuts by ensuring hair stylists meet training standards. Iāve never seen the nanny-state mind virus (timorus overprotectionis) on clearer display. https://t.co/1nUQ08wcYG
You have 168 hours per week. For most, sleep takes 56 of those. A full time job is anyone 40. Food, grooming, exercise add another 18 if youāre reasonably efficient. Misc obligatory bullshit paperwork like taxes or errands, another 7. This leaves you with 47 hours!
Donāt worry the human brain is definitely immune to adversarial inputs, nothing to see here https://t.co/XNlq26P9v1
This a beautiful proof that atoms must be conscious, actually https://t.co/ujme1kQt9N
I was told recently that I should stop posting on a topic until I've understood it more deeply and mastered the material. That seems to me to be backwards. It is exactly the material with which you are thinking the hardest and evolving your thoughts on which you should write.
I think about these two charts a lot. What is going on??? https://t.co/ECGQQP99K9
I'll be 40 years old soon. I thought I'd take a look back and see how I've spent it. Good memories, very few regrets. https://t.co/Uqka01osTJ
Frank Zappa once said āNo change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.ā Maybe the same thing is true of tech wearables. https://t.co/grB8rzWRbw
The core emotional drama of the metamodern adventure (everything everywhere all at once, umbrella academy, Loki, rick and morty) is Heideggerās dread. Dread is the recognition that ultimately, systems of thought (ideologies) cannot produce any ultimate meaning.
āThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.ā ā Richard Feynman "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." ā Colin Powell Meditate on the interplay between these two insights and you will achieve agency-enlightenment
conspiracy theorists are fundamentally optimists. a horrible moment that occurs, often sometime in your 30s, when you truly fully realize that the conspiracy theorists are wrong no group is secretly in charge there is no plan no one even really understands what is going on
I donāt know if this study will replicateā¦but Iāve long believed humans have a basic need for synchronization. Itās available through team sports, dancing (especially if everyone is dancing the same dance), choir, complicated group photos where everyone jumpsā¦ https://t.co/rWsYGhXrpC
When I have a problem, and itās proving difficult to solve, Iāll often go on a walk about it, go talk to a friend about it, go try to solve it again. But when itās proving intransigent, Iāll go write an essay proving why it just cannot be solved. That almost always fixes it.
All cars should have this by law, like brake lights and turn signals https://t.co/alDt1EmEWG
For people who believe āthere is no ethical way to make $1bā, i am curious: what is the maximum number of dollars that could be ethically made in a lifetime, in your opinion? I presume itās not $1b-$1, but perhaps itās that last dollar that makes the difference to you?
My most contrarian take is that, given the empirical results, the American government is actually very effective and well run on the dimensions that matter. It may look like we are led by bumbling malicious incompetents, but if so weāve channeled their energy marvelously.