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FinnLobsien
1,700karma·540submissions·July 18, 2019
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The average series D is 50-100M. This is 2.3B. I'm wondering if AI coding companies almost NEED to be this capital heavy to pay for the massive LLM costs.
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Would you make the same argument for smoking? I think we’re in a world so dominated by the attention economy and things optimized to hook us in that it’s hard to just say “I quit”.
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> The difference from the Nordics is that Germans have had the determination to go all the way with things, which means that for almost any great invention in the world there's always a German…
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My take having grown up in Germany: Germany has risen to one of the world's top economies with products known for precision manufacturing, exacting standards and a general assumption that "W…
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The question is to what degree that matters - if this power applies anywhere you can access ChatGPT (which is anything with a web browser), do you actually need to control the hardware?
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That's true. Plus the question of how much security you actually need. I've interacted with many, many websites and apps that were horribly insecure (e.g. a hotel checkin tool that stored pa…
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I thought this was an interesting article that gets a few things wrong. Obviously, shipping AI-coded stuff to prod will introduce security risks. But I also think it's important to define what le…
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I think this article is well-intentioned, but misses a few things: -Nir Eyal is also the author of "Hooked" which is about building habit-forming products, i.e. he's an architect of the…
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I don't think there's a convincing one but I think it's pretty obvious, no? -These days, people are pretty unlikely to pay just to have a blog when there are tons of free alternatives -…
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> speaking only for recent graduates I know personally well: ambitious students also want to be writers, for example. If only it were so easy as writing more makes you a better writer! So if you ha…
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I think everyone criticizing this is comparing it to the wrong thing. Many ambitious students: -graduate and work 100 hour+ weeks as investment banking associates. -join other people's startups w…
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I thought the S-Curve piece was interesting, but not complete. It's definitely true that Europe, Japan etc. are experiencing slowing wealth growth , but this specific visual makes it seem like o…
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It's not even that. It's management that sounds good vs. management that sounds bad.