Byrne Hobart

Byrne Hobart

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Epistemic trespasser. I write The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 48,000+ subscribers. ~lableg-tadrex

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Technology destroys some jobs, but it just redefines others. If you go back far enough in medical history, "barber" and "surgeon" describe different areas of focus, but you'd generally have the same guy do both.

If you were Ken Griffin, how much would you pay Anthropic to do this? Feel free to round to the nearest billion. twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status...

2.5yo saw me helping 6yo with Beast Academy: “Are you guys playin’ math? Can I play math when you’re done?”

A document so explosive that you can’t even talk about how to talk about it without catastrophic national security concerns would be a great background detail in a Pynchon novel.

The Wall Street Journal

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter https://on.wsj.com/45Mx1aO

I think Ace Greenberg vaguely alludes to this in Memos from the Chairman, when he's writing about his mandate that every Bear MD must be available by phone at all times.

Models just keep getting more capable: turns out LLM chatbots are smart enough to pass on venture deals with founders who are just going to take the money and not build anything.

Unfortunately it's an absolute nightmare to get the permits for building a new Ezra Klein, so existing owners of Ezra Kleins, such as Ezra Klein, get windfall profits when demand goes up. This dynamic may well apply in other industries, worth looking into...

All-time nominative determinism when Walter Kirn gets confused with someone else due to kerning.

You are hallucinating. This is AI slop, I am not the president of anything. The National Association of Evangelicals? WTF? Take this crap down. x.com/michaelsalla/s…

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