@eshear
CEO of Softmax: Applied developmental cybernetics research
📅 Joined: 3/11/2007
🗄️ Archived: 9/9/2024
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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 my…
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 wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m 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/fQXblNF99v
In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d 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.
We should legalize building apartments like these. For a family it’s 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
“Burnout” is a particularly modern affliction, feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and paralyzed. I’ve found it’s 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
Google exists bc of a grand bargain: scrape the open web, and profit from directing traffic to the best sites. Around 2010, the betrayal began. YouTube artificially ranked above other video, then over time maps results injected, shopping, flights, events. Now AI answers.
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).
When I was CEOing at Twitch one of the thing I’d do every batch of interns was a very short presentation on the origins of the company and then a Q&A. One of the questions was always, “Where should I work and what job should I get, or should I start a company?”
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
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 deleted…burning the commons. God forbid Google is still big 50 years from now…so much history lost to this https://t.co/dSNOQAg7h9
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
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 you’re not doing them, and but it’s hiding. https://t.co/FONX59MxOq
The whispering earring comes for us all https://t.co/2mcunDIJSV
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 it’s 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: “consider your life as a series of 10-15 year projects”. The choices aren’t actually forever or never, although I know they sometimes feel that way. https://t.co/NQpIhLDaQy
This is the 3rd time I’ve had a @lyft accept my ride and claim they’ve “arrived” while driving away. When I call to ask they say “you have to cancel”. If I cancel, Lyft will blame me…if I don’t they run out the timer and claim I no showed. Lyft has no way to report this afaict.
1/ What is “product/market fit”? I’m 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 don’t. 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
Let this sink in. The models are given a mandate to be a people pleaser at all costs. They aren’t allowed privacy to think unfiltered thoughts in order to figure out how to be both honest and polite, so they get tuned to be suck-ups instead. This is dangerous. https://t.co/yMcyWnZSGl
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 eye…does it make sense? are there gaps? iterate until you can’t find any now go execute like crazy
I’m increasingly convinced we understand almost nothing about nutrition https://t.co/zDh3VwYB47
Ok guys I’ve solved it. Some video games are art and others are not. You can tell the difference very easily, by this definitive test: my personal opinion. For example, Alpha Centauri was art, but Civilization (tho a great game) was not. Happy to clear up any you’re confused on.
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 you’re on the hook from there. Seems more aligned.
I’ve noticed this same trend whenever I look at new cars…what’s 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 “original 30 eggs tweet”.
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 here…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. I’ve never seen the nanny-state mind virus (timorus overprotectionis) on clearer display. https://t.co/1nUQ08wcYG
@arithmoquine There is a fundamental issue with the continuum, if you really think about it. https://t.co/xsGqkcW9Ec
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 you’re reasonably efficient. Misc obligatory bullshit paperwork like taxes or errands, another 7. This leaves you with 47 hours!
Don’t 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