Erik

Erik

@rdical.bsky.social

baseball, tech, shitposting

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i once had a VC take me out to lunch after a pitch just so he could tell me i should lie more honesty is selected against

we had mediocre but positively trending user growth numbers and a realistic estimate of future growth, estimating it will take 2-3 years for the market and models. this was a b2b AI company in 2023. i was told to lie and say it was all happening in 2024. turns out my estimate was pretty good.

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Replying to @btavshanjian.bsky.social

This was going around Twitter today, if you ask Claude “is X lat Y long land or water?” and plot the results, it has clearly embedded a map of the globe in its weights over time

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Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

they shouldn’t have released chatgpt until it was exactly as good as codex is now. woulda saved everyone a lot of headaches.

it should’ve been API only and generally a thousand other things should’ve been done better. but releasing the consumer app in 2023 was a huge boner.

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what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

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