one of the heuristics our team implements is to do things that maximize the amount of [find out] to be derived per unit [f*** around]

fiction casts models into the territory of 'what if'?

what if this type of character did this? what if science worked this way? what if humanity faced these challenges?

the ability for an author to answer any of these questions is a product of their ability to observe, integrate and simulate the human psyche at collective and individual levels.

taste will bind infrastructure. you can't choose tools until you've used enough bad ones to know what good feels like

aion, jung

a book is a set of prompts for you to do synthetic data generation - karpathy

If God is the cognitive will of the higher level intelligence people are the components of-like cells in your body:you-then imo way to think about ‘proving’ that relationship is collaborating towards such a frequency of miracles at our level of ingression that it would be ‘scientifically’ irresponsible to write off as coincidences

> our greatest moat?
> **chuckles**
> **pulls left hand out of pocket and grabs tip of hat to pull it down just a little lower**
> oh investor, our greatest moat is that it would take our most competent competitors WEEKS to order the same materials we have from japan.

enterprise ai plans: incognito mode that charges you for pretending not to listen

gating a working product behind a sales demo is telling your best customers to go use your competitor's free trial