igorstravinsky @jsondowns

I’m going to regret this. Startup founder, reluctant Twitter-joiner, temporarily semi-anonymous until I get my bearings here. Austin, TX Joined April 2023

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

6 days ago

I’ve never hit the like button so hard before in my whole life.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

3 weeks ago

Wait I noticed I apparently have a blue check now but I'm not even a real person yet.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

3 weeks ago

Fighting tall poppy syndrome will be one of the defining battles of our age. I worry it is only going to get worse in the near term.

andrew chen @andrewchen

3 weeks ago

Fighting tall poppy syndrome will be one of the defining battles of our age. I worry it is only going to get worse in the near term.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

4 weeks ago

Why does DoorDash in Austin have an entire category for “Poutineries”?

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The best-case scenario that could come from this is people start realizing papers, in undergrad at least, are not a good way to assess knowledge of a subject, but only how well you can write papers. I've been banging this drum for a while, maybe now profs' hands will be forced.

Justine Moore @venturetwins

a month ago

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

a month ago

How many dates before I ask her if she can invest in my startup seed round?

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tobi lutke @tobi

a month ago

I find the media’s takes on SpaceX’s achievement utterly outrageous. It’s straight out of Ayn Rand novels. What is the game here? Usually incentives explain these things but there isn’t even a follow the money type motive that I can detect? It’s just tribalism? nihilism?

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

a month ago

You know, I used to think Brexit was a bad idea but it’s making more and more sense now.

Thierry Breton @ThierryBreton

2 months ago

You know, I used to think Brexit was a bad idea but it’s making more and more sense now.

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Paul Graham @paulg

2 months ago

If you try to "align" an AI in a way that's at odds with the truth, you make it more dangerous, because lies are dangerous. It's not enough to mean well. You actually have to get the right answers.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

2 months ago

"Deploy with impunity" will be my new motto.

Mike Solana @micsolana

2 months ago

"Deploy with impunity" will be my new motto.

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Daniel @growing_daniel

2 months ago

Hopefully nobody. Release us from this fucking hell of constant accountability. The rise of ubiquitous cameras gave birth to the most stressful period of human history, and the development of totally perfect deep fakes is our only way out.

Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu

2 months ago

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

3 months ago

Wait for real? Is he just trolling now or what

Sam Altman @sama

3 months ago

Wait for real? Is he just trolling now or what

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

3 months ago

I'm in the "just stupid and keep going" group.

Darren Marble @darrenmarble

3 months ago

I'm in the "just stupid and keep going" group.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

3 months ago

Come on, I love Austin but it's not even the top food city within Texas, never mind the whole country (Houston top TX food city of course).

Alex Cohen 🤠 @anothercohen

3 months ago

Come on, I love Austin but it's not even the top food city within Texas, never mind the whole country (Houston top TX food city of course).

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

4 months ago

I remember the first time I got one of these as a pre-revenue founder and I was FREAKING OUT, before I realized there was an "alternate calculation method" that they don't tell you up-front.

Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke

4 months ago

I remember the first time I got one of these as a pre-revenue founder and I was FREAKING OUT, before I realized there was an "alternate calculation method" that they don't tell you up-front.

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Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k

4 months ago

we should all be more concerned about all the important western institutions - governments, corporations, colleges, etc. - trying to stifle free speech and indoctrinate the young people into believing that there's only one single, narrow perspective that is "good" and the rest…

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

4 months ago

brb becoming a Rasputin impersonator

Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey

a year ago

brb becoming a Rasputin impersonator

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

5 months ago

Everyone is using this moment to brag about which universities they attended.

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

5 months ago

"technology-crazed capitalism" Imagine being so brain-damaged that you think that's a bad thing.

Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad

5 months ago

"technology-crazed capitalism" Imagine being so brain-damaged that you think that's a bad thing. https://t.co/IfrgOk7qBF

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igorstravinsky @jsondowns

5 months ago

There is going to be so much pushback in the coming years to the idea of AI tutors - "only real teachers are qualified to do this and that..." - don't fall for it. The sooner we can disrupt the legacy education system the better for ALL students.