Solving homelessness in Santa Monica. Cofounder fullsend.io.
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California should flourish.
But right now, our cost of living is insane, wildfires rage, homelessness is everywhere, and red tape chokes our ability to solve any of it.
I’m 6th generation Californian Dick Lucas and I’m running for State Assembly to unshackle California.
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We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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nvidia bull signal
Another day, another DOJ indictment of people smuggling export controlled AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore. DOJ specifically says this was done because Malaysia and Singapore do not have license requirements. And BIS continues to do nothing.
justice.gov/opa/pr/californi…
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AI take off doesn't mean all companies are irrelevant. It means those best positioned to take advantage leave the others in the dust. With ASI, manufacturing and regulation become the bottleneck.
The companies with the factory space and permits go parabolic.
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People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.
It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.
People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.
But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.
After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.
Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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The word on the street is out. FSD is a personal driver. The moms are even talking about it now. Neck beards and elon stans needn't bear the burden alone anymore.
The sleeping bear of suburbia is awaking to the magic.
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Our Q3 Company Update will be streamed live on X on October 21 at 4:30pm CT
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daily reminder the US is the only country with free speech.
I went on television to debate what makes a woman a woman. Four years later, I have a criminal conviction and face new charges that could put me in prison, writes Dora Moutot. thefp.com/p/i-questioned-tra…
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where @CJHandmer lays out the amazing race: will batteries get cheap enough to make terrestrial compute pencil out better than orbital. it's elon v @ELoosbrock, godspeed brother 🫡
My second interview with @CJHandmer, Founder of @TerraformIndies.
0:09 How the Mass Driver is going to work
2:54 Mass Driver vs scaling Starship
4:26 Economics of space compute vs building data centers on Earth
8:53 Why large scale projects are becoming illegal
14:26 Terafab
20:02 Starmind
26:19 Maximum scale as fast as possible
27:43 Luisiana launch tower buildout
30:13 Elon’s decade long company baking period
32:56 Firing teams
37:35 Starting companies
41:57 Being unfiltered publicly
42:52 DOGE
46:39 Deregulating without a major war
55:17 Founder-led companies are mini dictatorships
58:53 Taxes
1:03:26 Civilization hard resets
1:05:30 Starship scaling constraints
1:07:16 How Elon sets objectives
1:09:31 Universal high income
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This makes total sense. Not everyone is on X listening to neck beards yell at them every day telling them they need a chief of staff bot. This needed to be baked into the product.
SPACEXAI 🔥: Grok Bot is getting a Primary Bot! Primary bot is meant to be your main AI assistant that can manage other bots and act proactively.
> “I'm here to be your primary bot. I can manage your other bots. Task me with anything. I'll make sure it gets to the right bot.”
> Bot prime appears in the latest iOS app.
Now it’s a SpaceXAI turn to hop into a private assistant area and compete with Muse. I think it is also a best possible time for Grok Bot to capture global markets outside of US.
Bot Prime! 🤖
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babe, new relentless interview just dropped
My second interview with @CJHandmer, Founder of @TerraformIndies.
0:09 How the Mass Driver is going to work
2:54 Mass Driver vs scaling Starship
4:26 Economics of space compute vs building data centers on Earth
8:53 Why large scale projects are becoming illegal
14:26 Terafab
20:02 Starmind
26:19 Maximum scale as fast as possible
27:43 Luisiana launch tower buildout
30:13 Elon’s decade long company baking period
32:56 Firing teams
37:35 Starting companies
41:57 Being unfiltered publicly
42:52 DOGE
46:39 Deregulating without a major war
55:17 Founder-led companies are mini dictatorships
58:53 Taxes
1:03:26 Civilization hard resets
1:05:30 Starship scaling constraints
1:07:16 How Elon sets objectives
1:09:31 Universal high income
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Starship transiting the Sun this morning during Flight 14 — prior to this morning's mission, this has never been captured before with the world's largest and most powerful rocket.
I’ve ached over this shot for years, mainly for two reasons: what does methane exhaust look like silhouetted against the Sun, and how violent are the acoustic energy waves from 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster?
Well...now we have an answer.
📸 - @NASASpaceflight
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it's actually such a whitepill that we're taking our institutions seriously again with a focus on good design and UX
🚨 EPIC! Secretary Rubio just announced ALL NEW US passports will NO LONGER arrive in trashy beat up mail
Instead, he's sending passports in elegant gold and white packaging
"For something as important and dignified as the US passport, it will arrive the way you would expect it to."
American exceptionalism! Great symbolism! 🇺🇸
And it can ALL be done easily through America .gov. No more spending hours!
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Now is the time to serve your country. Take the way things used to be done and grind it under your heel. A new era is dawning of revolutionizing how America can serve its people.
jobs@ndstudio.gov
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
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American government is hosing Apple like launch events showcasing things that will actually benefit citizens.
And you are blackpilling anon?
Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
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Zuck has it right. AI isn't going to destroy all the jobs. Like all technologies it's going to create vastly more jobs, opportunity, and wealth for everyone.
We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses. Meta already serves billions of people at scale and helps hundreds of millions of businesses reach customers. Today we are starting the next major pillar of our business, Meta Enterprise Platform, to help businesses use AI to grow and transform in new ways as well.
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