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we're hiring! for onsites we fly people to sweden until our US visas are done
you'll enjoy working with us if you always have work top of mind, enjoy rational product dicussions, and want to build/sell/market something amazing
reach out through a mutual or otherwise dms!
i have resigned from openai
i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI
already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon
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sad people don't know that happy people have nearly only green dots (happy days) while happy people don't know unhappy people have mostly red
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>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:
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if you ever found something that's easy to do but made a huge difference in productivity or health, please reply or quote post
people sit on so many life changing secrets that are obvious in hindsight but never shared
it's a very common theme that people fix all their problems and never talk about it. literally any time i have some new insight at least one of my friends say "oh i did that x years ago and it fixed me too", are you stupid why don't you tell people about it
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why do middle class people who hate their job buy a handbag that cost 3 months of salary instead of retiring 3 months earlier
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i have the most liked video on sora 2 right now, i will be enjoying this short moment while it lasts
cctv footage of sam stealing gpus at target for sora inference
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burning out is real btw. when i was 18 i thought it was something for dummies who didn't wanna work. it took me ~3 years to recover fully, and could physically not work for 5months after it happened
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i feel like i've had cognitive decline past 2 years. by far two biggest downsides are:
1) i struggle really hard to keep code in my brain while writing or understanding code
2) 100x effort to remember things i naturally remembered before
please help diagnose, more details:
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5 yrs ago, i dropped out of high school in sweden to join a startup, with close to zero experience as an engineer. today i'm joining @OpenAI as a research scientist to build agi with sora
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i don't know what sf's PR team is doing but i'll do the work for them
i just wandered 20 minutes on a beautifully clean market street, no rotten smell, no people screaming in my face, no one doing heroin. this is powell station:
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turns out it's illegal to measure CO (not co2) under 30ppm, in case the general public "panics" from a lower reading that is not "alarming"
thank you once again US public safety standards for keeping me safe so i don't accidentally panic if it shows on my Airthings View Plus
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never compete when applying for jobs, there are hundreds of applicants with better grades and universities than you. but none of them will be making a personalized demo
i used this demo to get all my interviews like openai over two years ago before moving to sf
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uber banned in germany because it's illegal for drivers to arrange their own rides
europe truly hates freedom more than anything else. it shows in their 0% gdp growth last 20 years
a German court has ordered @Uber not to offer rides anymore because "the app violates the Passenger Transportation Act by arranging the rides directly with the drivers. The law stipulates that this may only be done through the central office of the car rental company."
- quietly wondering what the courts will decide once there are no drivers, but then again, that day is about a century away in Germany, so who cares, I guess 🫥
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TODAY WE LAUNCH SORA 2, THE WORLDS BEST VIDEO GENERATION MODEL
feature you and your friends with raw real world physics, putting an end to the uncanny ai vibes
let me show you how insane our model is, featuring me & sam altman:
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funny how inefficient the job market is. had a friend who i finally convinced to apply to the US and now he works remote for a much cooler job in the US with 5x salary. literally the only reason was because he didn't think of it
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have not had a massage in years, turns out knots build up that ruin your posture & cause long term pain and that you can just remove them
most people who are aware of this are so because back pain that they get massage for, and then decide to not tell anyone else
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what are your best ideas for how to slow perception of time? if you want it to feel like you are 7 years old again and a 1h lecture feels like a day, how do i slow down time to that?
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it's actually hilarious how tipping is just redistribution of capital from people pleasers to non people pleasers
tipping never increases salaries in the long run because free markets, so our entire tip becomes savings of the rude people that don't tip ironically
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three years ago in sweden i was thinking "if i worked at openai i would have unlimited motivation and never waste time again"
now i work there, and none of my brains promises about motivation were true, and never will be. rant about how people trick themselves about motivation:
Does everyone secretly feel that if you went back you to college now, you could learn so much faster, better, and deeper? And that your 18 year old self kinda wasted the opportunity?
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yeah look at that, i woke up in panic exactly at this moment when my blood oxygen dropped to 87%
i literally stop breathing at night, and my brain spikes my body with adrenaline so i wake up and don't die, and then it repeats. no wonder i wake up feeling hangover every day
what's your exact second to second blood oxygen percentage? oh you just know your day to day average because FDA regulation? you didn't buy a Wellue-S straight from Shenzhen?
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i was rejected at xai after failing topological sorting for a frontend role lmao
this was a long time ago before i realized i wanna do research, so turned out to be the good outcome
PSA: xAI doesn't do LeetCode style interviews. We ask you stuff that's actually relevant to the job.
x.ai/careers
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even top 10% people make all their career decisions based of avoiding negative emotion, there is literally zero competition for any job long term if you can take a little emotional bump. nothing is as uncompetitive as careers
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one thing i have noticed is that sad peoples brains have 100s of rationalizations for why they are sad, ie "but the sadness gives me meaning". the only way to know this is false is by being very happy 30 days in a row and you notice all suffering is bad
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this is incredibly sad, someone spent their entire childhood to get into MIT with perfect scores without getting in, and now can't live his dream
all this effort could have been spent on becoming economically valuable and he'd now have his dream job
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it's a very common theme that people fix all their problems and never talk about it. literally any time i have some new insight at least one of my friends say "oh i did that x years ago and it fixed me too", are you stupid why don't you tell people about it
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practicing leetcode to get good at coding is like practicing iq tests to get good at thinking
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pretty crazy we see no billionaires that panic over the thought of dying when they are like 50 and put 100% of effort and money into it?
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i 20x'ed another friends salary
he used to live in a city with zero engineers in sweden and he just moved to san francisco to work as an ai researcher
all he needed to do:
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"but you don't actually learn anything when you just ask chatgpt"
no one is forcing you to not ask 100s of follow ups,
thinking through the answer before asking, or reading through old chats to do repetition. not learning faster from llms is not a preference, it's a skill issue
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because we play fair at openai we will not disable chatgpt access to all Dave's Hot Chicken employees
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we are hiring a lot for sora, reach out in dm
if you are interested, please write two sentences max about why you are uniquely suited for product/systems/ml
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it's dangerous to be semi-ambitious, you might end up working 60h weeks for 30% higher salary in a middle management position with people you don't like. it's the sad destiny of semi-hard working people in sweden
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i'm virtually green every single day except maybe twice a year, and when i understood that some people are red nearly everyday i thought HOLY SHIT WHAT
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then they come up with reasons for why it's so good to not do the thing, and all their friends will agree, because they too don't want the ability to make a tough decision be something they'd every need to consider
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it takes max 1-2 years of optimal learning to contribute to frontier ai research starting from nothing, the hard part is the "optimal", not the learning
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for the past month, i have written down 1-3 sentences about what i did that day every night in a log
i really like this habit. saw someone comment this on the "how to make time slow down" post
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companies just wanna make money, so all you need to do is show them how you can help them make money
drop everything you have ever been told about getting a job and start over from that simple statement
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i bought every single one of them, let's see what works
i feel like i've had cognitive decline past 2 years. by far two biggest downsides are:
1) i struggle really hard to keep code in my brain while writing or understanding code
2) 100x effort to remember things i naturally remembered before
please help diagnose, more details:
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europe is waking up and invests nearly a full seed round into ai
The EU just launched a €1.1B “Apply AI” plan to boost artificial intelligence in key industries like health, manufacturing, pharma, and energy.
The goal is simple but ambitious: build European AI independence and reduce reliance on U.S. and Chinese tech.
Europe finally wants to stop buying the future and start building it.
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i've been unhappy multiple day in a row once in life, and i think my current definition of depression is: when you have enough red days in a row so that you don't know when you will get out of it and see no way of getting back to green
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examples:
- the cracked engineer that made 80k for 5y until they changed jobs 5 years to late to make 300k. couple millions lost
- the ultra problematic couple that didn't break up for 5 years, destroying 5 years of their lives and leaving deep issues
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1% of people end up in misery because they took the wrong action, 99% because they did no action. i don't wanna hear any excuses all numbers are against you, go act, be free, live well. it will take suffering nothing is free, don't wait for it
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"but i made so many tough decisions"
no. when choosing university you HAD to choose, otherwise you become a social outcast. when finding a job, you HAD to just to pay bills
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every single person i know who made a cool video demo of a project that shows agency & great technical ability has been reached out to from top labs & top companies
you never need to compete with millions of other people for your top pick role
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"but how do i learn ml with chatgpt"
don't ask me, ask chatgpt. that's literally the entire secret. take whatever questions you throw at real people, and ask it to chatgpt. this is insanely hard to internalize
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if you had bad posture (both when walking / working) and you permanently fixed it, reply what you did, what content you followed, what habits you had
if you did not fix or never had bad posture but give advice, make a disclaimer
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if you stay present 10s once per 30minutes and meditate 20minutes per day you will decrease volatility in emotion by 80% and remove 99% of frustration
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happiness is sadly a weird and touchy topic. unhappiness is often a chronic addiction to problems
if you were upset by the last sentence, that is likely your addiction inventing reasons for why you are special and deserve to be unhappy, and how i don't understand anything. rant:
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both these things might cause you immense suffering, but thr decision comes easy because you had to choose. most people have never made a decision where they were not forced to choose
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the reason interviews consists of questions from the interviewer about is because you are unable to sell yourself and unable to remove all the doubts the person interviewing you has
but you can just remove your interviewers doubts yourself and never have to compete, rant:
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want to change? try seeing your life like playing sims for a second, and imagine you played yourself like a character that wants to be happy and involve no emotion. or ask people that are extremely no bullshit (very rare) to very objectively question your life with no remorse
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in both these scenarios, they takes huge hits to their quality of living because it's so comfortable to take no action. not until you get a reason to hate your job or until your partner cheats do you act
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if you wanna maximize productive hours and have more fun when resting, work 12h all days but work nothing on saturday or sunday. waking up and knowing you'll do nothing that day is a huge game changer for resting up well and having a great day
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odd recent things about my health that might impact:
- i never feel rested, i think i could sleep for 12h every night
- RHR when asleep is like 39 and im not fit, and i wake up groggy
- i had a bad burnout for 3 years ago
- more sensitive immune system
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i have seen so much unfathomable cope, suffering, chronically undiscovered talent, capital destruction, and time wasted, and no convincing in the world can make these people change. they are ready to do ANYTHING to not make a decision
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sun is the only source of happiness with no downsides
no withdrawals, no addiction, you can't get used to it. it just adds on 50% happiness unconditionally
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I NEED ADVICE, i can't seem to gain weight. just measured myself again and i lost weight, even after heavy lifting and eating 1 pound chicken / salmon per day + nuts in morning, im 6'1" and just measured 152lbs
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we just reached number 3 on app store!
i have had so many friends tell me sora 2 is the first time ai made them laugh, this is truly a new experience!
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for us morons that can never do anything that takes less than 5 minutes immediately because we are lazy and have adhd so it will take at least 2h, write up all small things and then batch them all on saturday, ruthlessly ignore all responsibility until then
- if it's less than five minutes, do it now
- everything can be divided into less than five minutes chunks
- i spam a bunch of supplements: multivitamins, vitamin D, omega fish oil, creatine + protein for gym
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it takes 3 days to learn diffusion models top down, 6 years before you can learn it bottom up (academia)
historically you couldn't start learning about diffusion and then get into the math cause it's an unscalable way to teach students since it's so unstructured. but now you can ask claude recursively to teach you every single detail down to every single math intuition, which very soon will change how we see education
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why did the engineer take a million dollar paycut? applying for jobs is exhausting, interviewing is nerve wrecking, telling your collegeas you'll leave is extremely sad, getting new colleagues is scary
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universities don't have monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore, here is how i learned all the math intuitions behind diffusion models as a high school dropout with with claude:
it takes 3 days to learn diffusion models top down, 6 years before you can learn it bottom up (academia)
historically you couldn't start learning about diffusion and then get into the math cause it's an unscalable way to teach students since it's so unstructured. but now you can ask claude recursively to teach you every single detail down to every single math intuition, which very soon will change how we see education
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explain like i'm 12 years old, be extremely first principles so i really understand everything intuitively and bottom up and exactly what is happening, write out intermediate states of all code you provide so i can really follow intuitively what is happening, always compare the concept to something i know of since before, add tiny code diffs for each concept so i really understand how it compares to the previous sota, remember i don't know any math or ml, never be vague and make sure to always only use real world analogies, for example if you were to explain sinusoidal embeddings obviously write out multiple example embeddings and slowly increase them, assume i know nothing, search up what other people online are using before responding with your final answer, show me both the extremes of the concept and the problem people had before starting to use it
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i lost count how many people i've convinced & guided through a career transition that has successfully given them x3-10 salary at top companies
too bad i can't legally make money of it, and it's not culturally okay to make money from, so i guess i'll just never scale it up
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the few people i have met that share the very green experience have one thing in common - when they have a red day they know it will be ok tomorrow so they barely react with sadness / depression
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which is all fake obviously - none of these matter. say it's the engineers first job, are you telling me the FIRST job out of 50 million possible jobs happens to have the best colleagues, tasks, and salary, and you are now at the global optima?
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too many smart people unable to optimize anything but their local list of tasks they were just given, never having an honest thought about their own trajectory unless forced to, and then always choose the path of least negative emotion
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i haven't seen a broken phone screen for a few years now, they suddenly stopped breaking
still all you dumdums use phone cases, huge psyop. aesthetic destruction, stop it
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smart people often become really good at something in their youth, but even if they have enormous ambition they are stuck with their local ambition
if you are extremely good at one thing you can likely become extremely good at all the other things, contrary to popular opinion
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"a person who thinks all the time, has nothing to think about except words. so, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions. by thought, i mean specifically, chatter in the skull. the perpetual and compulsive repetition of words."
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anything that is motivational but where you took no immediate action is brainrot in disguise
strong feelings of motivation are extremely dangerous because they trick you into thinking that there is a potential permanent state of motivation somewhere. there is not
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the satisfaction that has come from every single hard decision in my life is huge, but only 2 weeks after the decision has been done. it always feels incredibly obvious in hindsight, but it's as hard every time to make the decision
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90% of big career decision mistakes happens in these, usually people spend ~0 seconds of their life thinking about them:
1) when they should leave their current company
2) make sure others understand how good you are
3) talk to enough companies to make a 1% percentile decision
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disgusting response to one of the most well written responses and simple explanation for why your policies lead to destruction of wealth
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with o3, talent is now magnitudes more scarce than knowledge
suddenly highly talented 17 year olds can contribute just like ppl with 10 years experience
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since young people still think you need a phd to do frontier ai research and chatgpt came 3 years ago, there are still 3 more years until they are on the market. and more talent is needed than ever - this is the best time in history to speed run learning ai
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the brain loves tricking you into temporary strong motivation, that never leads to anything and fades within 2 days
i had this at least 20 times when younger, and it was fake every time. the solution is, again, just get a job and your brain will be ok with working hard
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people think getting a job is taking a day and writing a cv then sending to a few companies, something you can do on the side for a day or two
if you struggle finding a job or if you want to optimize your choice of job it's not weird and highly rational to spend 1month+ fulltime
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remember that most people are not value aligned with you - they try to make you happy short term, not long term. the moment they see emotion in you, they'll stop helping and start help you cope instead
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a lot of ambitious people focus 100% on being more productive doing something and 0% on what the something is
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i hope that one day creating trillions in economic value for the world will be seen as heroic, as wealth creation is the only thing we know to increase life standards within the nation & globally
Typical psych profile of a tech oligarch: Born rich but with below average intelligence. Anxious, anhedonic, antisocial, disagreeable, humorless, disliked by others. Bland on the surface, but driven by an implacable mania and shrewd aptitude for making money. Entirely amoral.
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things that i already do:
- i sleep 8.5h same time every day
- i workout every other day, strength + cardio
- i eat healthy and varied, no sugar
- making sure i'm not highly stressed
- no stimulants or substances
- no brainrot scrolling except x
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brain does not let you even consider making the decision, and generates a huge emotional response when you try, which clouds your mind. become good at thinking about tough decisions rationally. it's much easier when you have someone smart with you
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