LLMs are rly good for revealing unknown unknowns. i get an incredible amount of leverage from prompts like
- what good questions am i not asking
- what do experts disagree on with x & why
- what would an expert do differently from laypeople
- what are open questions about x
For Christmas I want a printout of all the posts that have shown up right as I open X that disappear forever after half a second when the page refreshes
if i could give myself one advice 4 years ago, it’d be to go ALL IN.
> pick 1-2 subjects that i truly love
> cut out all the noise and bs
> learn it so much it sounds crazy
> know more about it that 99% others
> push the science rather than chase it
it’s called complete mastery.
> be me, Intel
> world domination status: achieved
> have a license to print money with x86
> life is good
> be 2007, some fruit company named Apple shows up
> "hey can you make a chip for our new phone?"
> my CFO brain activates
> look at their offer... pathetic
> my margins! my beautiful margins!
> "lmao no," I tell them, "get that low volume, low margin peasant shit out of my office"
> tell them to go bother some Korean foundry
> they call it the "iPhone"
> it only sells, like, a bazillion units
> oops.mp4
> should have listened to my gut, but my gut was too busy counting shareholder dividends
> speaking of shareholders
> CEO is now a finance bro
> innovation is for nerds, stock buybacks are for chads
> spend $36 billion to make line go up
> R&D? how about R&Buyback
> TSMC and Samsung are building fabs? cute.
> we're building value for our shareholders
> meanwhile, in the basement...
> be AMD, literally on life support
> selling their HQ to pay the rent
> "hey guys what if we made a good CPU for once?"
> entire Intel leadership room dies of laughter
> we're still milking 14nm++++ for the fifth year in a row
> what are they gonna do, beat us with... checks notes... core count and efficiency?
> HQ focused on PPT presentations and buybacks
> R&D team: "hey we have this 10nm design but it's kinda... impossible to manufacture?"
> me: "JUST MAKE IT WORK, I HAVE A DIVIDEND TO ANNOUNCE"
> requirement: quadruple the transistor density, tooling: from the stone age, yield: literally negative
> "10nm is fine, everything is fine" for five years
> entire company is stuck on 14nm++++++++
> watching AMD just call TSMC and get a shiny new 7nm node like it's nothing
> suddenly, AMD's "Zen" thing is actually good
> gamers and redditors are calling me a "dead company walking"
> my stock is in freefall
> panic.jpg
> hire back Based Pat Gelsinger to save us
> Pat comes in: "what in the goddamn..."
> find out we're now outsourcing our own chips to TSMC
> mfw we missed mobile, lost the process lead, got rekt by AMD, and our grand plan is to ask the government for money
> mfw we're now a fabless fab with an identity crisis
> mfw the once-proud "Intel Inside" is now "TSMC Inside"
> at least the shareholders had some good quarters
> company_cope.jpg
india really cooked with upi (unified payments interface) to the point where i’m not even concerned whether i have my wallet as long as i have my phone with me, it really just works.
trillions of dollars spent on AI and the only interface is still a chatbot. still no branching canvas, no mindmap, no dimensionality, no forking, no inversion, no merging. no custom functions. no style and no creativity
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