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Please call me when Yann is right about literally anything.

No one has been more wrong and for longer about anything than Yann on LLMs.

in the first few years of any new technology only highly innovative companies (startups) use it.

people still were using punch cards when tape was invented, and still using tape when floppy’s were invented

and those were relatively small innovations not requiring substantial changes to the work. AI is another ballgame, this makes me more bullish on it than ever.

You know i used to think Ray Dalio was really smart, but literally every single article he writes is exactly the same

“this argument is laid out in my book” blah blah blah

This guy is so obsessed with being right about his sole theory that he has staked his entire identity on it.

When you only have a hammer, everything is a nail - Ray has been shopping the same theory without updating anything whatsoever about it for over 10 years.

this.

it’s genuinely shocking how much time is spent coming up with ideas like this, implementing them and making everyone report on it - for no outcome whatsoever

Doing hard things has always been, and always will be, hard.

Building a static HTML page was “hard” in the 90’s. It took actual skills.

Any piece that gets easier automatically opens up more hard avenues to tackle.

no one is willing to pay you for easy.

This view is now consensus, which is highly comforting as consensus is always wrong.

when every car around you is even bigger than this, you’ll appreciate not driving a minuscule car in america.

it is terrifying

Hiring illegal immigrants is risky and hurts businesses that choose not to cheat.

This article makes it out like neither the immigrants or the businesses that hire them have broken the law - when in fact they all have.

I’m no fan of ICE, the tactics are disgusting. but this article does not mention even once that both coming illegally and hiring illegal immigrants is a serious crime… in any other country you would deported for over-staying and no one would bat an eye. Why is the United States any different?

The flip side is: efficient capital allocation is better for our economy as a whole than trying to save certain jobs for emotional reasons.

Struggling businesses that can’t operate effectively and provide a poor return on capital should be shuttered - the only way to deal with the mountains of paperwork involved is to incentivize very smart people to work at very bad companies. smart people don’t like to work at failing companies. how to reconcile this and ensure efficient capital allocation? huge monetary compensation.

for an incredibly long article on a niche topic readers are unlikely to be familiar with, astonishingly the author never bothers to describe what ABA actually is or provide more than 1 vague example.

this is a cool idea. tried a few searches that were not confidence inspiring: missing prices, blurry, weird photos.

the searches in case you want to take a look: “dog collar” and “cat scratching post”

good luck with the product!

“the cave paintings of nudes are corrupting the neanderthal youth”

and yet - somehow we always survive.

If I am in a city (sf, ny) I am putting in my AirPods and booking it.

Why?

The only people that try to interact with you are either homeless, trying to sell you something, or trying to rob you. Or all 3.

It’s a shame as it really changes the experience of a city and makes everyone wary of everyone else.

If someone could actually enforce laws and clean up these cities, people might consider taking their AirPods out.

Until then, I’ll have my AirPods in, sadly.

LeCun has been saying basically this same thing since 2021-22.

It’s a lot easier to say what something is not than what it is.

His comments now are really sounding a lot more like sour grapes from someone who is ultimately behind in this race.

When was the last time he launched something truly new and innovative that isn’t just a copycat? Genuinely asking.

I used to pay a lot of attention to him but he’s like the Jim Cramer of AI. Always wrong.

Hey this is cool - our application helps real estate investors select locations. Our users would get a lot of value from this. Be happy to feature you!