Michael Trinh ✓

[text] The biggest danger of AI is not that it will think better than us, but that we may slowly stop thinking for ourselves. Once we trust AI-generated code, arguments, or research without understanding or verifying them, we also lose the ability to recognize when AI is wrong.

[text] AI researchers are working 80h-weeks to build a recursively self-improving AI researcher, essentially pulling all-nighters to fire themselves.

[text] You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

[text] AI doesn’t change the fundamentals. It changes how we work, create, and build.

[text] What better way to create demand than to create a problem?

[text] The first revolution amplified our muscles. The second amplified our productivity. The third amplified our connectivity. The fourth amplifies our intelligence. What will the fifth amplify?

[text] AI is making answers cheaper, which means the right questions are becoming more valuable.

[text] Focus means turning down exciting, smart, and even genuinely good ideas so your team does not spread itself too thin.