Peter Zakin

@pzakin

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I think one of my more radical takes is that the thiel fellowship didn’t go far enough and someone (thiel, andreesen etc) should just build a Silicon Valley enmeshed high prestige credentialing option for college aged kids.

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Ex employee of mine is looking for contract work ideally in crypto. If interested feel free to dm and I can provide more details.

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Wrote a new post trying to unpack the possibilities behind AI that knows how to code. https://pzakin.substack.com/p/codesmithing

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A thought I keep coming back to: some of the best AI companies of the decade probably aren’t doing anything in AI today.

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something i've been wondering about: is the state of the art in AI research to be found in corporate contexts like OpenAI, FB, MSFT, GOOG... or in government/military contexts.

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Good day for Jeremy Irons gifs.

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A few ideas about the future: - AI offers replacements for complex supply-side arrangements (self-driving cars vs driver networks, synthetic content vs netflix, algorithmic vs social graph). Age of AI overtakes age of networks. - AI-enabled solipsism. Info diet is 99% human, 1% machine. When does inversion happen?

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A small hack to build or maybe someone has built already. FollowHN. “Follow” HN users. Turn hacker news activity into a twitter feed.

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Notes to a friend on career strategizing: https://i.imgur.com/037ZHoB.png

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A concept i'd like a good name for is how ahead of conventional attitudes you are on a particular subject. It's sort of like the time dimension of edge or alpha. On a given subject, you might be months or years ahead of the market...

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"TutorTilt": a group of people pool funds to share the cost of a tutor. Kind of want to do this for chess.

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New notes. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C80Dj7pphIh0FThbov5tfh8y37V50dL2N8GeOBLIZyw/edit

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why is yahoo still a top 10 most trafficked site in the world?

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On reflection, kind of interesting the way that automation manages to eliminate network-based moats: Uber -> moat of drivers disappears in a world of autonomous cars. FB/Twitter -> moat of in-network content creators disappears in favor of algorithmic feed and eventually synthetic content.

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Starting to get into pickle ball. Any LA casters who play?

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Start of a rabbit hole on prison breaks in US history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prison_escapes#2000–present https://i.imgur.com/jfDoHiV.png

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Fun idea I was toying with this week: https://twitter.com/pzakin/status/1613260520790069250?s=20&t=peCcxLNs9SXZ7ZWwcLC8WA.

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Obvious but still useful observation imo: one of the primary reasons the iPhone created opportunity for developers was because it unlocked new blocks of time that users could spend in apps.

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light prediction: Microsoft-OpenAI launch an AI-centric web browser where search bar is replaced with a search experience combining ChatGPT + Bing.

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Wrote a small post this week that makes an oversimplified/slightly obvious point, but which nevertheless i think is important and underappreciated: war for user attention is zero sum. https://pzakin.substack.com/p/attentionomics

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