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@brianmaurer_

co-founder @bristlehealth

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Comment · 4 days ago
Can anyone provide an argument for tokenized stocks, beyond just meme-coins for companies?
Comment · 19 days ago
Open to learning. How could RL yield novel discoveries? What I mean to describe are things reliant on empirical or real-world testing of human reception. How would that be synthetically derived?

We're seeing the cost of code drop dramatically and are facing the same problem in building new companies across most disciplines of, "what's a problem painful enough that someone will pay us to solve it?".

I suppose if we get to a massive enough scale we can effectively model every atom's interaction and human on earth's reaction to any stimulus but I think we're still some time off from that :)

Comment · 19 days ago
Same! I do think a vast majority of tasks are essentially next token prediction, but that's why I'm thinking that long, creative thinking periods will be what's actually valuable/rare.
Comment · 19 days ago
From my understanding of how LLMs work, I'd argue thinking will become the most valuable attribute of humans (as it has been for some time). LLMs will inevitably surpass humans at functions that we know how to do, and likely through cross-domain knowledge and connecting disparate concepts will surpass us at many functions. But LLMs haven't shown they are capable of truly novel thinking, because it's next token prediction, which is inherently based on existing sources.

I think we'll see a shift towards arts, creativity, research, etc. where true novel creation and an understanding of the human experience exists at a premium.

Comment · 19 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
As a non-technical and oft confused reader, this is very helpful! Also a very happy Scrimba user :)
Comment · 1 month ago
Open to sharing what workflow you're using on the lifestyle image creation? I've tried the Higgsfield MCP, and direct Figma integrations - but keep running into hallucinations on product dimensions, etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
I do the same thing with my subscriptions. Haven't checked the math lately but it seemed more cost effective in the past.
Comment · 1 month ago
Could "superintelligence" arrive as basically applying this overhang to all other domains?
Comment · 1 month ago
Would seem odd if Reuters didn't provide them access. They didn't seem to indicate or address it at all in the article
Comment · 2 months ago

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