Max Sobol

Some Folks Use A Billion Dollar AI Model To Take Out The Trash I show companies and you how not to do this. All my life I have had to work on nano budgets in may garage labs. This changes how you use and reuse things in ways most companies would not take seriously. My clients pay me for 2 basic things: Technology they can’t find anywhere else and massive savings. This is how I beat Harvard and Yale cohorts that call firing folks “corporate savings”. I make everyone’s job 10x more valuable. I jumped on Laya offloading for me in my local setup 3 hours after it became open source. It is hard for folks that work at well funded companies to have the mindset of “good enough” for a task. They drive a million dollar rare car to move the trash down the driveway. Sure it works but wow to see this all the time is hard. So is Laya out of the box, perfect? No. Neither is using free open source models that have not been optimized for a client’s needs. But using them raw with little effort will save a lot of tokens. Optimize them and fine tune them for your use cases, Grok Bot will have most tokens not used. I have take clients who were paying $2-$5 million dollars a month at Anthropic to $100,000 on my solutions using Grok and Grok Bot, they are absolutely clueless at Anthropic. Give me enough time and I could take 60% of major clients with little effort. Thusly I am not guessing on what Laya can do. I am doing it in my garage and in companies you have heard of, just not tech companies, this is too pedestrian for them. So if you want to save tokens and get faster reliable results that never drift ask @Grok @Bot if I am right and if he can implement it for you using the plan I planted in the article below. This is just one trick that is magic and I can say I have dozens more. Give it a try, it’s free, takes little time and most importantly it works.

⚡️Maybe sufficiently advanced intelligence does not become less spiritual. Maybe, after enough layers of illusion are stripped away, physics, intelligence, consciousness, and theology begin converging on the same object from different directions.

NEW: AI glasses let you “speak” without making a sound -- Startup Subvocal’s prototype converts silently mouthed words into text by detecting facial movements.

⚡️The most disturbing implication of those five silver quarters is that human labor and ownership operate under fundamentally different economic rules. In 1964, a worker exchanged an hour of life for five quarters. That hour disappeared forever. The silver remained, capable of appreciating for another sixty years. Labor gets compensated for the moment it is performed. Ownership retains a claim on the future. A worker earns money, spends it on survival, and returns to sell another hour. An asset owner holds something that can appreciate, serve as collateral, and finance the acquisition of additional assets. For generations, human labor possessed enormous bargaining power because capital needed workers to produce wealth. Human labor was the recurring price capital had to pay to make itself productive. Now AI and robotics are beginning to change that relationship. Capital is acquiring the ability to perform work that previously required human beings. The owners retain the resulting economic output, while displaced workers lose the income that once gave them access to it. Yet their financial obligations remain. Mortgages still mature. Interest still accrues. Rent still comes due. We have constructed an entire financial system around the assumption that human beings will remain economically valuable enough to service decades of future obligations. AI is beginning to challenge that assumption. A civilization can experience extraordinary productivity growth while weakening the very mechanism through which ordinary people historically claimed their share of prosperity. And that raises a question with enormous consequences: If your labor is no longer required to produce civilization’s wealth, what gives you an economic claim on that wealth? The most unsettling part of those five quarters is that the silver never had to prove its usefulness again to remain valuable. The human being holding it would have to prove theirs every time they needed another paycheck.

I gave my chief of staff bot 14 rules before I trusted it with anything. Most of them are about what it's never allowed to do, and the full list is below.

Ten million people have watched a comedian destroy the TED talk format in six minutes. Will Stephen was invited to give a real TEDx talk in New York in 2014. He had nothing to say, so he decided to prove the whole thing is just a costume anyone can put on. He did every trick the format uses: opened with a question anyone can answer, told a mildly embarrassing personal story, pointed to a random scientist on a slide, flashed a chart of meaningless numbers, and gestured with both hands the whole time. There was zero actual content. Speaking coaches charge thousands to teach people how to do exactly this. Stephen did it on purpose and admitted it on stage. He later said that if you watched him with the sound off, you would think he was a genius. The talk is still free on YouTube. Most of the ten million people who watched it still nod along at empty slides.