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Chad Senders

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Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 3h ago

Before the billionaires, it was trivial to order anything to your house within a day. To search for anything on the internet. To facetime your family. To stream arbitrary media. To be in self-driving cars. To watch rockets the size of skyscapers land vertically. To have multiple AIs in your pocket.

General Strike@ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 6h ago

Billionaires are utterly miserable. If they were good people they’d be spending their money on making life better for everyone, saving the planet and quietly enjoying their wealth with loved ones. They can’t do those things because they’re sociopaths who live to be in the spotlight and ruin lives.

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s a more normie friendly way of saying his cars are probabilistic inference machines operating at the very physical limits of computation, both in terms of thermodynamic efficiency and speed. No one actually thinks the summoned entities from inscribed runes forged in sacred kilns are alive.

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Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 4d ago

We’re making it so proprietary software is no longer the moat to become a billionaire. Everything becoming decompiled and open source at a time where the barrier to entry for contributing to software is going much lower. Only way to become a tech billionaire now is with taste, not walled gardens.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4d ago

The billionaires weren't satisfied with being monstrously, spectacularly, obscenely wealthy, so now everything is trash.

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 7d ago

I remember people saying this before the last election. predictionmarketspicks.com/articles/pre...

Did Prediction Markets Predict the 2024 Election? A State-by-State Accuracy Audit

Polymarket had Trump at 61% the night before. Polls had a coin flip. Here's the honest state-by-state accuracy scorecard for Kalshi and Polymarket — including where the markets got it wrong — plus the...

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Michael McDonald@electproject.bsky.social · last wk.

It is hilarious how a fake Talarico story promoted by the prediction markets revealed how much garbage information prediction markets provide

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · last wk.

Anthropic owns the toaster though. Would a cafe then not be able to tell customers to not be mean to it's toaster? One can certainly still buy their own toaster (run local LLM inference) and do whatever they want with it.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Honestly I do trust 8 surrounding cameras and a convolutional neural network trained on billions of miles of driving data to be better than the average neighbor at driving

WestieMom@westiemom.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just remembered a conversation with our neighbor this morning. They now own TWO Teslas. He was telling me how much safer auto drive is than him being in control, and I'm glad it was still dark outside because my face absolutely does not lie

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 2w ago

The machineness of something seems like a blurry boundary for what we should accept is moral behavior towards it. We're made up of symmetric nanometer containers and protein motors with stators and rotors, would an alien intelligence think of us as machines? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 2w ago

i don't have a leg in this exchange but writing off pillar vc as “venture capital something something” is one of the most entertaining things i've seen on bsky in a while invested in the Bridge seed round and got no clout on the billion dollar exit

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This guy, who has “venture capital something something” is his bio, first criticized me for publishing some of my work behind a paywall instead of all of it for free - and then, after I reminded him that this is my source of income, came back with this condescending “advice.” Don’t be that guy.

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 2w ago

It actually makes sense why meta stock went up 26% last month. Investors seeing the new world centered around ai animal videos and how much engagement it generates on the app.

EL-P@el-p.bsky.social · 2w ago

safe to say there is an ongoing, full on metal health crisis infecting countless souls on instagram daily. a widespread, absolute and desperate loosening of reality with consequences we may never fully understand but will absolutely feel. yes, i'm talking about cute animal videos being AI.

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would guesstimate that 100% of the population does labor 100% differently. Fixed software assumes you are common to the next person, and operate within bounds. AI assumes you are different and operate at jagged edges. Any two techbros doing agentic engineering will do so differently.

Daniel Mintz@danielmintz.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would LOVE to see tech bros’ guesstimates of what shares of the population do different types of labor. Part of the infatuation with AI has to be that they can’t really imagine what most people do all day

Chad Senders@chadthesender.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wonder if relying on vendors is the issue, instead of using a generic frontier cloud agent. My primary hobby is skating. I use agents for advice with it, e.g. Based on last workout / planned workout, what would be best to focus on, how to approach a trick, etc. No vendor offers this afaik

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Or, take something else that happened: A retired person who proudly had a schedule. It was a lot of time allocated to their hobbies, the purpose of which is to not clock in but to prioritize. You can’t really optimize that and it didn’t fit what the vendor thought an agent should do.