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2023-04-25 11:51:20

Paradise is a garden, with a (water) view, within walking distance of a cafe.

2023-04-12 05:10:16

Much of the innovation in the last few decades was in search, social, crypto, and AI, because pure math is the last unregulated frontier.
Invite the regulators in and they’ll freeze innovation here just as they did in healthcare and energy.

2023-04-10 23:20:23

RT by @naval: We’re onboarding a hundred people onto the Airchat closed beta. To apply, simply follow @AirchatWaitList. We’ll review your Twitter account and DM you a code.

2023-04-08 14:10:15

RT by @naval: youtube.com/watch?v=85OzL0bn… https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1644662802362269696%2FNMwxgTWF%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x320_1 https://piped.video/watch?v=85OzL0bniyQ

2023-04-07 09:30:15

RT by @naval: The Industrial Revolution rewarded the intensity of one’s labor, The Information Age the clarity of one’s thought and the AI Revolution the purity of ones’s taste.

2023-04-03 19:00:18

R to @naval: (Inspired by a conversation with @JRysana ).

2023-04-03 18:40:19

LLMs are natural language computers - trained by natural language, programmable by natural language.
The best way to program LLMs may simply be to communicate clearly and precisely.

2023-04-02 20:20:18

We’ll know Google is serious about AI when they fire the current management team.

2023-04-01 21:01:19

Everyone will soon have “AI Anxiety.” https://twitter.com/naval/status/1639907821100859399#m

2023-04-01 16:51:17

RT by @naval: Universal computers perform any possible computation, with the right program.
Universal explainers create any possible knowledge, with the right idea.
Universal constructors build any possible object, with the right instructions.
“Possible” means “allowed by our universe.”

2023-03-30 18:11:18

RT by @naval: The RESTRICT Act is a bill that belongs in Beijing, not the U.S.
It would make @CommerceGov a dictator over trade, sanctions, investment, cryptocurrency, and more.
America can't outcompete China by becoming more like the CCP.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1641143165766729738%2FcLKqUF3D%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419

2023-03-28 00:52:27

The biggest near-term question in AI:
Will open-source LLMs with decentralized training be competitive with closed-source and centralized LLMs?

2023-03-27 20:11:20

Google rests upon the implicit assumption that users won’t pay 0/month for much better search, and OpenAI may prove them wrong.

2023-03-27 18:22:26

twitter.com/i/lists/15971154… https://twitter.com/i/lists/1597115448146898944

2023-03-27 04:31:22

You cannot know anything more than your awareness, and you cannot know anything less.

2023-03-27 02:15:51

Bet Microsoft ships a phone built around AI by the end of the year.
(Look out, Apple / Google).

2023-03-26 20:01:18

Business is the activity you engage in to monetize your specific knowledge.
It is not something to be studied and pursued in and of itself.

2023-03-26 08:41:18

Feels like everyone in tech is developing “AI Anxiety.”

2023-03-26 03:03:00

Aligning AI is impossible because aligning the humans building AI is impossible.

2023-03-26 01:04:09

David Deutsch, Tim Ferriss, and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality And Much More
https://youtu.be/FfWbcrObpUY https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1639337516003368960%2Fv8wKgKfz%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x320_1

2023-03-24 00:01:18

If it’s an AGI, it can’t be “aligned” any more than a human can, and if it’s not an AGI, it can be trivially controlled and doesn’t need “alignment.”

2023-03-23 18:21:28

RT by @naval: NEW podcast episode is up!
'David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) and Naval Ravikant (@naval) — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More'
Please enjoy! 🙌
https://tim.blog/2023/03/23/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant/ https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1638915526566215680%2FIR9V4OCi%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419

2023-03-19 09:41:19

RT by @naval: What kind of doom would you like today?
Financial Collapse?
Robot uprising?
Maybe bird flu or a nuclear exchange with Russia?
Maybe this particular moment in time we are hemmed in by collapse coming from every direction at once.
Or maybe doom sells really well.

2023-03-18 17:21:26

RT by @naval: The idea that GPT-4 level chatbots need regulation is sheer authoritarian lunacy.

2023-03-17 00:22:33

RT by @naval: Here is the snippet: https://nitter.net/pic/ext_tw_video_thumb%2F1636518644669640707%2Fpu%2Fimg%2FWCt3ipjY4aIdlFmX.jpg

2023-03-13 04:41:18

Someday, we will look back and realize that there were only two banks all along.
The Federal Reserve, the fully centralized bank, and all of its branches, and…
Bitcoin, the fully decentralized bank, and all of its stepchildren.

2023-03-12 19:31:31

The Internet only tolerates complete centralization and complete decentralization.
Everything in between gets destroyed.

2023-03-12 19:12:29

RT by @naval: The equilibrium is every startup having 50 bank accounts.

2023-03-12 18:01:27

You can’t guarantee some banks and not guarantee others.

2023-03-12 06:20:28

RT by @naval: In a world near fully automated by AI, the only thing that can never be automated is explanatory creativity.
People will never be made redundant.

2023-03-11 21:06:51

RT by @naval: Thinking this through, it’s the type of government-caused crisis that could lead to a CBDC.
Because I don’t know how businesses could practically operate with only a 50k max in each account.
They’d have to keep buying and selling T-bills. Instead they’d want to somehow send… https://twitter.com/naval/status/1634315841163628545#m

2023-03-11 16:40:13

RT by @naval: We just built a product @AngelList to help startups impacted by SVB that need emergency capital:
- Standardized Loan Agreement Docs (temporary loan from investors) with online signing & funding.
- Built in banking access (if your company needs it)
DM me if you need access https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFq6IPVgaAAAA53a.jpg

2023-03-11 11:45:15

R to @naval: Obviously do your own homework and this is not financial advice.

2023-03-11 11:45:12

Startups who got their money out can put their first 50K into FDIC backed accounts or M into (Insured Cash Sweep) accounts.
Rest can go into https://treasurydirect.gov or BTC / ETH if comfortable with crypto risk.
No point in taking bank risk until the Fed steps in.

2023-03-10 17:46:42

RT by @naval: I can't convince you to want freedom. But if you do want freedom, it can't come to you in the form of a centralized system, whether that's communism, backdoored cryptography, or centrally controlled AI.

2023-03-09 01:09:24

The timeless struggle between the people building new things and the people trying to stop them…

2023-03-04 19:15:46

A good heuristic for founders - if it wasn’t your product, would you still use it?

2023-03-03 21:10:38

Time for a “CopyLeft AI Data License” - if this data is used to train an AI model, then the model must open its source code and its weights.

2023-02-26 02:11:20

RT by @naval: There are ideologies obviously absurd to anyone with a common sense but are convincing to nerds with too much time. To refute their ideas you have to immerse yourself in a mountain of crap making it a sort of denial of service attack on your attention. Marxism was once like that.

2023-02-25 20:27:05

RT by @naval: AGI Doomerism is becoming a dangerous meme.
Left unchecked, this meme could lead to Luddite political movements on the scale of covid lockdowns.
Let's nip this disinfo meme in the bud before it gets out of hand.
https://www.network0.vc/p/agi-doomers-will-doom-us https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1628704968277630976%2FFb-aMI9G%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419

2023-02-25 20:27:04

We create product not to show how good we are, but to measure how good we are.

2023-02-25 20:27:03

If you think the AI is sentient, you just failed the Turing Test from the other side.

2023-02-25 20:27:02

My conversation with Professor David Deutsch.
His work combines the theories of knowledge, computation, evolution, and physics, to form the deepest current explanation of humans and their unique role in the universe.
https://nav.al/david-deutsch
https://youtu.be/YyxepLfH1ZU https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1629557618678321152%2F6grEVovZ%3Fformat%3Dpng%26name%3D420x420_2

2023-02-25 20:27:01

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.

2023-02-25 20:27:00

The only reason to age is to learn to not to give a damn.

2023-02-25 20:26:59

Understanding economics means continually asking, “But at what cost?”

2023-02-25 20:26:57

NY: What do you have?
LA: Who do you know?
SF: What do you know?

2023-02-25 20:26:56

With co-workers, optimize the ability to ego ratio.

2023-02-25 20:26:55

It takes time to develop your gut, but once it’s developed, don’t listen to anything else.

2023-02-25 20:26:54

The United States will gladly finance the Soviet Civil War until the end of time.

2023-02-25 20:26:53

All of the great entrepreneurs are artists.

2023-02-25 20:26:52

Partially decentralized is the same as centralized.

2023-02-25 20:26:51

Just as Instagram makes people look better than they are, Twitter makes them seem smarter than they are.

2023-02-25 20:26:50

If the body is a collective, then cancer is a revolt.

2023-02-25 20:26:49

“Particle collisions,” “chemical imbalance,” and “microbiome” are terrible explanations.
Explanations that explain everything explain nothing.

2023-02-25 20:26:48

Hold your kids when they’re young - otherwise you’ll be holding them when they’re older.

2023-02-25 20:26:46

Care about the product, not about the outcome.

2023-02-25 20:26:45

Be the kind of person that your kids would look up to, if you weren’t their parent.

2023-02-25 20:26:43

Automation means not having to do anything twice.
Automation with the Internet means not having to do anything that anyone else has already done.
All that remains are creativity and judgement.