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building anew / prev. @openai

San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2012
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Why on earth did you leave @OpenAI? It's come up on nearly every call I've had in the last few months, with founders, investors and customers. Here's my honest answer.
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Oh how the turns table
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Ayo this mf bout to reengineer every single app in existence
I reverse engineered tiktok
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Good afternoon America 🇺🇸
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Point a microphone at its own speaker and a single number decides whether the sound dies out or turns into a howl. The whole debate about AI improving itself is an argument over that number, and I think it's more in our hands than either camp admits.
🤖 Made with AI
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Notice what all three questions share. They describe the room around the loop, and people build the room. So the oldest question about any loop is the one that matters most: who is steering?
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I. J. Good called the machine at this loop's end our last invention, if it's "docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control." Most skip the if. Norbert Wiener built cybernetics on kybernetes, Greek for steersman. A microphone can't steer. We can.
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Much of the recent hysteria (which will never end btw) around RSI forgets that these machines are only self-improving toward whatever we point them at. So the scarcest skill is knowing where to point. This part will always be ours. Let me believe it will always be ours.
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if a founder eats more or less during a VC lunch is that bullish or bearish? Does that mean they’ve got that hunger in them or are they just fat
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my team just likes to eat bro
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lots of hurdles with this idea but people hating purely on how the glasses look clearly have never built anything from 0 -> 1 or heard of an MVP holy
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again. Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard. It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min. Pre-orders are now live at: subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again. Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard. It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min. Pre-orders are now live at: subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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mfs will launch a video like this only to build a gambling app. we're mfs
every startup hype video in the year of our lord 2026
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Delusional optimism is the eternal moat, the GOAT moat Never doom
Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.
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