Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
The John Henry of excessive use of the em-dash. Tweets are map, not territory. Co-author: Boom (Stripe Press): https://a.co/d/f7m2OG8
The best way to make sure there’s a steady supply of interesting companies to write about is to write the checks that make them happen.
This decade will be full of crises. The solutions will not be found in consensus frameworks—but in the anomalies they fail to explain. I started a frontier tech fund last year to continue investing in these anomalies. @ByrneHobart & @TobiasAHuber are joining the next phase.
Shopping for your kids on your own Amazon account just means getting pretty well-targeted marketing emails a quarter-century too late.
9yo has not explicitly said she misses school, but in the last week she’s sent me one book report on the Salem Witch Trials and a Canva presentation about ancient Egypt.
The LLMs have quietly developed the ability to be Proust characters. I wonder if these numbers somehow analogize to smell. When you think about it, a smell is an incredibly potent psychoactive that affects everyone differently.
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
If you’ve ever wanted what parenting is like, nearly 2yo demanded coffee (I gave him about a tablespoon), poured it into a toy toilet, and tried to drink it.
If we don't kill all the shrimp, there's a nonzero but tiny chance that humanity will be wiped out, shrimp will evolve intelligence, they'll eventually build ASI, and it will create 10^100+1 simulated humans and torture them for eternity. It's us or them, man. Us or them.
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
2028 is going to be such an interesting campaign, because whoever best hints that they’ll keep white collar crime legal will be able to raise so much from people who made their fortunes starting around 2025.
One of the things you can afford if you’re very well-off is an executive assistant you can task with buying surprisingly thoughtful gifts for friends and business partners. Imagine being the one who was told, years ago: “write a nice birthday story for my pervert friend Jeff.”
I heard that some of the AI researchers in Europe are only making $90m a year. Rough out there…
I wonder which school is going to be the GMU of disagreeable smart people.
It just struck me that this is essentially college admissions by Jubilee video
Having "saved memory full" in the screenshot of your ChatGPT session is the green text bubble of LLM use.
What’s the reference limit for pop culture? The opening scene of Barbie references something Kubrick got from Strauss who was talking about Nietzsche, who was writing about Zoroaster. Is that the limit?