> This has led to internal discussions on the best way to inform the community of the rapid progress to prepare and adapt the field.
I'm also getting real tired of these Silicon Valley and VC bros telling people how to live their lives and how things should be. No, you don't get to tell other people how to operate. Who gave these people this authority? No one. It's confusing, yet not surprising, as to why they think they have this authority.
This reads well enough as a platitude, but what do you actually mean?
How is mathematics gated and inaccessible? How do you specify mathematics without notation or some language? What intuition do you mean, as many mathematical ideas are non-intuitive?
There might be some confusion on your part on just how much AI compute has been installed in the past few years in relation to the total amount of CPU compute and the speed at which it was installed.
If the CPUs life was an hour, the GPU AI accelerator would have been around 5 minutes and is around 5x larger in total compute.
It should not be underestimated in any way the scale of what is occurring.
No, I think the confusion on your part is around what it sounds like when you say "in relation to human timelines". Humans have been here for around a million years. We've been living in cities for several thousand. It sounds like what you're actually comparing to is AI computing to pre-AI computing, which is reasonable, but I don't really see how that is accurately described by "in relation to human timelines".
That isn't humanly possible, you will blow out your neurotransmitters and not be able to think. Only being semi serious, but we can't make that many decisions a day.
That isn't typically how abstraction is tallied. The ceo doesn't say they use 15k employees, or the programmer uses 30B transistors. Or the director uses 120 workers. You enumerate what you actually interact with.
What does that mean though? Does it mean there are more than 500 different "agent" systems within Anthropic and employees interact with most of those in a daily basis?
This list also makes zero sense. It says to gather missing information after gathering all known information but before defining a problem. How could you even know what information is missing, much less information that is important, without knowing the problem? And if you're to gather missing information, that you somehow know about, doesn't that make it part of gathering known information? The rest of the list is just as dumb. This list is like a middle schooler was asked to come up with a problem solving framework.
This guy is usually all over threads in which he gets to show off his internal knowledge of Claude Code. I'm sure he'll be here after getting clowned.
The entire Bay Area seems like the most insufferable people known to man. These people have zero introspection.
> It says to gather missing information after gathering all known information but before defining a problem. How could you even know what information is missing, much less information that is important, without knowing the problem?
The post’s description of these steps is reasonable IMO. I’d write it as “put in order the relevant information you have” and “find the information which you know you need but don’t have at hand”.
By way of bad analogy, one could imagine writing up a document first off the top of your head, then filling in more of the document based on the documentation of the relevant systems, corresponding to these two steps the author describes.
Eh, the list and post is not really worth debating. Even the ideas of problems, solutions, and goals are conflated. This has just not been thought about deeply enough by the author to be thought deeply about by others. It's typical Silicon Valley pablum.
It bothers me how he and other billionaires think that it's all worth it letting them get so rich because they "give it away". It's almost insulting.
You know who could have used all that money all this time? The people you leeched it away from via this thing known as taxes and a functioning government. But no, let's give it away to private foundations who will serve only their needs.
> I have visited quite a bit of small towns that were actively built I suppose in the 60-s, and often see abandoned ambitious or even grandiose projects like a park here, or a community center there - fully built but totally deserted now, often in ruins.
I think those probably failed for different reasons, namely capitalism destroying the small town in America.
It's unfortunate for the non-rich though, because we have to have our lives affected by those who are rich but don't want to spend time with us. Munger's "architecture" is a good example of that.
Wrong. Mathematics is not a science at all.
> This has led to internal discussions on the best way to inform the community of the rapid progress to prepare and adapt the field.
I'm also getting real tired of these Silicon Valley and VC bros telling people how to live their lives and how things should be. No, you don't get to tell other people how to operate. Who gave these people this authority? No one. It's confusing, yet not surprising, as to why they think they have this authority.
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