Genuine Q: Is this business model still feasible? Its hard to imagine anyone other than apple sustaining a business off of hardware; they have the power to spit out full hardware refreshes every year. How do you keep a team of devs alive on the seemingly one-and-done cash influx of first-time-buyers?

I’ve always considered myself a “process” person, I would even get hung-up on certain projects because I enjoyed crafting them so much.

LLM’s have taken a bit of that “process” enjoyment from me, but I think have also forced some more “outcome” thinking into my head, which I’m taking as a positive.

I grew up leveraging many of the same programs, this post helped illuminate how lucky I was to have them. Thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808603-the-mountain-in...

I’ve learned that being brutally honest with myself and others regarding what I’m feeling and why has been super helpful.

It _does_ run the risk of sounding childish, but thus far I’ve found the open vulnerability more rewarding than punishing.

Identifying when I’m irritable, I’ll say “I’m grumpy, I’m gonna suck to be around, sorry”. Or when the real reason why I don’t want to do something is just because “I’m feeling shy”, etc.

Its hard to break the whole “men should be stoic” expectation but I’ve found people are remarkably understanding when you’re honest about why you’re feeling what you’re feeling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Neither do you? None of us do, in fact I’d imagine the people trying for AGI right now would have a better guess than you or I.

> there would be an immediate and total power vacuum caused by the advancements. these advancements would be so huge that it would change the geopolitical equation beyond recognition.

This sounds like you’re assuming someone will flip a switch one day and the most powerful mind in history will be let loose. I’m not sure AGI will advance that fast. We might have alot of incredibly “stupid” iterations of AGIs first, for many years before a clever one rolls around.

> this is intrinsic and unavoidable. it cannot be disproved or denied.

Were all just making assumptions here, I don’t think yours get to be called “intrinsic and unavoidable”.

I understand the concerns here, but if you’re willing to claim the end of the world, I would suggest basing your claims on something, or atleast making your assumptions explicit. E.g. “assuming we achieve AGI, and its equipped to rapidly become more powerful/intelligent than the whole of the human population…)

OpenAI offers the ability to fine-tune some of their models: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

There are also other services that will fine-tune an LLM, for a specific domain, for you: https://activechat.ai/build-your-own-chatgpt/