Parker C

In our culture,

waiting has a bad rap. After all, if you’re waiting, what’s to show off on Insta?

The only way

out, I believe, is to make big hard decisions that make all of the little ones for me.

Like switching your

phone. I can’t win against the iPhone but I can simply not play. And that’s powerful.

If only the internet was a thing, it would have been tempting to bleed off the anxiety, and swoon into an infinite doomscroll.

Generative AI’s first

year out the gate—“Act 1”—came from the

technology-out

. We discovered a new “hammer”—foundation models—and unleashed a wave of novelty apps that were lightweight demonstrations of cool new technology.

We now believe

the market is entering “Act 2”—which will be from the

customer-back

. Act 2 will solve human problems end-to-end.... See more

But you’ll notice

what I slipped in there – I said we should focus first on preventing AI-assisted crimes before they happen – wouldn’t such prevention mean banning AI? Well, there’s another way to prevent such actions, and that’s by using AI as a defensive tool . The same capabilities that make AI dangerous in the hands of bad guys with bad goals m... See more

It’s wild how often we are lured into the phone to do one quick thing and then get stuck there forever. Smart phones are like one big ‘come for a quick tour of our timeshare and you get a nice weekend for free’ that end up with you buying the timeshare and living there fulltime (is this how timeshares work idk).

First, recall that

John Von Neumann responded to Robert Oppenheimer’s famous hand-wringing about his role creating nuclear weapons – which helped end World War II and prevent World War III – with, “Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin.” What is the most dramatic way one can claim credit for the importance of one’s work without sound... See more

The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages