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I should print and send this to some friends in UK accounting…
> I think it’s very hard to accept the exponential when it threatens something you’ve spent your entire life building, especially when your career is such a big part of your identity.
Never doubt the AI exponential, because it can catch up with your entire career while you’re still explaining why your profession is special.
Just listened to Cédric Villani, a Fields Medal winner, talking about how shocked he was by the progress of AI. Funny because I met him twice, including around 2018 when he was a Member of Parliament leading France’s AI mission, and we were already discussing how fast NLP was progressing with the new transformers.
France has 13 Fields Medals, second only to the US, and some of the brightest people I know come from that world. A lot of them have been caught by surprise despite following AI for years and using the products themselves.
I think it’s very hard to accept the exponential when it threatens something you’ve spent your entire life building, especially when your career is such a big part of your identity. You can see what’s happening to graphic designers or software engineers and still convince yourself that your own work will take another 20 years.
My guess is every intellectual profession will go through this, and honestly, even believing in the exponential doesn’t prepare you for the consequences. I work on this stuff all day, I expect progress to keep compounding, and I still struggle to imagine what that means a few years from now.
I don’t think nature has equipped us to really grasp exponential growth. We can understand the math and still struggle to imagine what it means for our own lives, even while watching it happen.
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We finally have an explanation for “Facebook is listening to me through my phone”. They’d never do that (and it’s not really possible).
Turns out literally everyone else was — and then selling that to ad data brokers.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
The Asian Century indeed
"The pace, and the expectations that came with it, felt almost as jarring [in China] compared with America as America's pace does compared with Europe. Everyone was just on it, all the time." world.hey.com/dhh/seven-year…
if Japan wasn’t amazing enough already, I just found out that they don’t have daylight savings. as close to perfection as it gets
ELI5 if an app is setup to login with Google Auth, what’s the benefit of also forcing two-factor authentication on top of that? Looking at you @deel
this is true
Tokyo is the only city where I don’t spend any time researching restaurants or looking at reviews.
I literally just walk in any direction and if any place looks cool I go in. Every single time the food has been amazing. Yet to have and meal in Japan.
Btw all the meals in the pics were around 6-12 USD
wow, heading out to BIC Camera now
🤯 Sony NW-WM1AM3 Walkman® Digital Media Player youtu.be/0pB1hcWcsAQ?si=zIj2…
just did a little thing with Claude Motion to introduce @ConnectorCentrl to some friends in accounting.
wow in 2025 the UK generated less energy per person than what it did in 1968 - when The Beatles' white album came out.
ourworldindata.org/data-insi…
where is it all going to end?
@KonstantinKisin etc
so let me see if I understand this correctly: that HomeView thing just launched by Apple supports multiple users, but the iPad somehow can't?
Every day at 12am P(D)T, Astra becomes unavailable. Must be an interesting cron job that takes it down.
Celso Pinto retweeted
As amigas da irmandade muçulmana. Sem rebuço algum. Muitos países muçulmanos querem-nos a milhas mas as “progressistas” vêem no islamismo da irmandade um caminho
can someone recommend a LinkedIn MCP server that helps me read and respond to direct messages, even if it does _just that_ and only to inbound messages? I don't want to send anything, just getting my ChatGPT Dot to manage those conversations
same with product features i'm finding... worked with Claude to redesign/rearchitect some complicated identity management bits for @ConnectorCentrl, left it to simmer for a few days after it was done, just reviewed with fresh eyes and about to go into production with just a couple of tweaks 👌 perfect
