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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

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6 months

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@wesgeorgia951 @ceciliakang @ES25720 Zuckerburg didn’t finish and Harvard doesn’t have the core system 💁🏼‍♂️

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4 years

@cassinicole90 @Pink I’ve never met you in all my life but I’m deeply disturbed by the disrespectful behavior trump is teaching our children and your condoning of it how dare you

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@kenvogel “My wife didn’t explicitly ask me to do the dishes” Man goes month not doing dishes Wife tells man she’s angry with him for not doing dishes “Well you didn’t explicitly tell me to”

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5 years

@paulg BREAKING- Single Anecdote Wipes Out Broad Observations

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2 years

@_____Lightning @nikillinit No NY has culture

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@srnlrsn

10 months

@gokulr you should be able to make an impact in a year - the 3-5 year time frame is old school, ESPECIALLY in the age of ai 🤌🤌

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@srnlrsn

4 years

@Afashioninsider @presrvb @abhorrent_ansel And a vote for Trump is what exactly?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@goldisacks A manhattan resident on e10th tried to make this argument 100 years ago and failed - you’ll notice stuyvesant st runs true e-w but few others

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@srnlrsn

4 years

@deaf_robot @ProjectLincoln Reasonable republicans created a party that was able to birth this mess.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

@apartovi I remember distinctly when I attempted to build Instagram Analytics on top of the Instagram API before Instagram Analytics was a thing. Facebook turned off developer API and shipped IG Analytics a year later. Goodbye startup.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 years

@markmobility Way to help solve this - introduce liability

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

@markmobility And remuneration for the error and trauma?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 months

@Nexuist “I’m the main character in my own life and I will have fun and there is nothing anyone else can do about it. I will always prioritize my entertainment over my conformance” New York is so edgy

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 months

@ChombaBupe also fascinating language in tos “you own the output” “you cannot freely use the output”

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 months

@DanielleFong Agree - Austin is a fantastic city

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

11 months

@vkhosla i never saw a player piano at carnegie but i hear palo alto concert halls are world class 😉😛

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@BradTonoff @_____Lightning @nikillinit I’m sorry we fail to understand allbirds as the height of self expression

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

25 days

@suno_ai_ small fender Rhodes keyboard ✨✨

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 months

@francoisfleuret concepts in maths are drawn from uncountably infinite spaces?? / chess moves at most countable / might even succeed in bounding game length / characterize bounded subsequences of game play

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@WillManidis No they’ll move to the west village after first landing in Murray Hill and post a picture of their stoop off Bleecker “west village is the only way to live”

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@PottsJustin We did Noguchi in our Greenpoint apt in 2018 😛

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@srnlrsn

5 months

@nikitabier now do miami dade

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

8 months

@antoniogm how does a city “where norms are just gone” build the future

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

7 months

today shipping Datamine : free terms of service redlines enter any saas url to find out - what you're agreeing to - how they may be using your data is your data their moat?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@paulg This is so out of touch.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@GergelyOrosz Use of openai come with indemnity clauses that protect openai from claims against a customer’s use

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 months

@vkhosla naw this presupposes cities don’t or shouldn’t yield natural efficient high scale transit new york’s subway is supreme self driving has nothing on the 6 train

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@antoniogm If a contrarian did a thing and didn’t tweet about it was it contrarian?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@blader @0x1ra Naw - important data represent our world’s state. The data generating function (so far) is the physical world.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

i thought it was *my* data 😳

Rachel Woods

@rachel_l_woods

1 year

WHY DOES IT MATTER? The problem with models that use other models for their training data is that it's a potential violation of terms.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

Biggest distinction between AI firms- What data they can ✨access✨ firm internet | ur computer | ur apps openai ✅ ❌ ❌ adept ❌ ✅ ❌ rewind ❌ ✅ ❌ google…

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

7 months

no one reads terms so shipped to read + summarize terms notice the rights vercel gets to customer data 😳

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@srnlrsn

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

AI is going to have a Napster moment. Generative AI as a new content distribution platform (e.g., as Napster was for ripped CDs) does not absolve it from paying royalties to content owners (e.g., authors).

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

At this point I think I need @profgalloway @karaswisher Pivot at least twice a week

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

Let’s talk about the future...

The Destruction of Everything but Silicon and Gucci

How tech’s abstraction will crumble all but truly unfair competitive advantages

link.medium.com

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

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@alexisohanian agree / keep returning to Fred Wilson who called this Jan 1 tho my intuition is it’s actually an ascendance of decentralization generally, perhaps as by blockchain

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@blader @0x1ra Not true. Most of the internets data is private

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@KevinAFischer Japan has long been like this - hard to imagine the us following suit - even the Europeans / UK appears hesitant!

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 months

Google is finally killing cookies. Google's Topics API, an opinionated and reportedly privacy preserving embedding of online activity, will replace them. The Topics API operates in-browser and maps observed browsing behavior to a Google-prescribed privacy-preserving list of…

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

9 months

@AviSchiffmann thoughts as a service

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@mikealfred people want to live in new york not the metaverse

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

11 months

@thealexker @ilyasut this is weak imo - feels the same as if testing if ai can reason through a proof but you wouldn’t anthropomorphize such an act

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

8 months

@yoheinakajima a possible refinement - every api has openapi.txt

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 months

Alt data flows in finance are a preview for data flows in AI. Alt data started in the 2000s with clever groups like Majestic Research sourcing non public data from creative sources like order numbers. Since Alt Data has become an industry and grown - sourcing many information…

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@joshelman @ShaanVP she is unphased

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@BradTonoff @_____Lightning @nikillinit Dude went to soho that one Tuesday

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

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@andruyeung underrated: Greenwich village and honestly lenox hill 11th bw 5th and 6th is the best block in manhattan

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@mattturck but actually businesses will follow airbnbs lead, own the customer and the interface, learn lessons from publishers with social, and ship a private LM within a controlled micro universe of data + plugins benefiting from a restricted context (eg only Airbnb related engagements)

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 months

I don't think I've smiled as big using an AI product as I have talking to EVI - absolutely thrilling

Voice-to-Voice Demo • Hume AI

Speak to the first empathic AI voice.

demo.hume.ai

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

Has anyone ✨actually✨ shipped a commercial differential privacy implementation? It debuted over a decade ago + I see many references to it but the utility / privacy tradeoff curve appears unfriendly to most toothy commercial use cases... 😏🙈

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@shaunking @PeteButtigieg This type of commentary is messy

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

Suits! 🙈✨✨

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

2 years

Fall 2022: Suits. Suits. Suits.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@web @hunterwalk @axios Collaboration in person for highly technical / abstract projects really needs to happen in person. Conversely, maybe cities just need more dense city planning- then the difference from home to office is 30 minutes in neighborhoods you walk around anyway

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

10 months

@rmcentush Physics above maths / maths on the same level as cs 😏😏😏

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Soren Larson

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2 months

@fabianstelzer all day long

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase | Union Square Ventures

We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve...

www.usv.com

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@Sigalow This will change if/when things return to normal. Institutional roots here are too strong / the cultural siren song of the city too intense. It’s one of the most important cities in the world- you’ll need more than a virus to change that.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

I predicted this when chatgpt launched

Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

AI is going to have a Napster moment. Generative AI as a new content distribution platform (e.g., as Napster was for ripped CDs) does not absolve it from paying royalties to content owners (e.g., authors).

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Soren Larson

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AI is going to have a Napster moment. Generative AI as a new content distribution platform (e.g., as Napster was for ripped CDs) does not absolve it from paying royalties to content owners (e.g., authors).

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

@jm_alexia this is nonsense phds aren’t some magical “now you’re Properly Educated” title

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 months

@KevinAFischer I remember when I first started studying analysis I was so satisfied writing this super long proof thinking smug “I am so smart” then to see a friend write the proof in a single line LangChain feels a bit like that

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@Bosefina On the flip side, spent years studying maths - number of times product folks ask “how well do u rly understand the problem?” 😏

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@rabois Key question - is the market competitive and how do you know?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@NWischoff @shaig another excuse {random Tuesday}

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

I’m amazed. I rode the subway some of whose tunnels were built 100 years ago, with no input from me, and it’s still more efficient than private transit. Stunned. @NYCMayorsOffice

Dr. Camilo Ortiz 👨🏼‍🎓

@DrCamiloOrtiz

5 years

Im amazed. My car drove me practically all the way home, with no input from me, changing lanes, merging on and off of 3 highways, in rush hour, in the rain, in NYC traffic!!! Stunned. @Tesla @elonmusk

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Soren Larson

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1 year

@FactSetManiac Yes but like 3 years ago

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 years

Excellent rundown of GME / players involved

Toxic

@toxic

3 years

Step 0: Citadel pays Robinhood for order flow. Citadel gets to see RH's orders a few milliseconds before they're filled. Citadel may choose to front-run some of those trades. Step 1: RH's customers and WallStreetBets start manipulating $GME. This is happening in the open.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

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@TurnerNovak what is this 2018

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 months

awesome to see in times square! we're on a mission to hyper-personalize everything / new york city let's goooo thanks to friends at @brexHQ for helping! :-)

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

@mattturck elon messing w u

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

@EmilyGorcenski @ztsamudzi Greenwald blocked me for pointing out this sort of nonsense

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

Reddit is selling its data to AI. But PRICING data is hard. This is because of 🔮info asymmetry🔮: AI data buyers can calculate the ✨MARGINAL VALUE✨ of new data - v other available data - economics of its data exercise Reddit can’t easily do either. 🤷‍♂️🙈

Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

publishers like newscorp or buzzfeed may wish to license content to ai such a content market may have ✨INVERSE ADVERSE SELECTION✨ ie info asymmetry where LM provider buyers are 🔮BETTER INFORMED🔮 than sellers of marginal value of content since buyers own the value chain

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

@andrewchen A less exotic idea: move to New York, take the subway, and let higher density living reduce CO2

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 months

@autistrophywife SF culturally evolved to Williamsburg where there is now a Hermes

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

@atroyn also fwiw - none of them live in New York - which I think says something

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@MadebyUche @micahjay1 funny - long time new yorkers have the opposite perception overrun with tiktok wannabes with no context or perspective

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 month

@levie Feels like this entire thread rests on AI capability not exceeding a certain threshold - eg if “AI software engineer” were to happen, why are you growing your software engineering team?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

7 months

@wesg52 @tegmark chickens achieved as world model internally

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 years

@anothercohen tesla roadster doesn’t exist v porsche boxster (will it still be called a boxster?)

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

@GergelyOrosz one argument “twitter is the town square / with community notes source of truth truth cannot be held to commercial interests you want truth? you have to pay for it “

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

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. @KevinAFischer and opensouls are absolutely brilliant i am not sure I have *ever* seen such a simple idea in tech create such beauty this is the sort of technology that requires real cross disciplinary taste so so excited to see opensouls scale up!!

Kevin Fischer — soul/acc

@KevinAFischer

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SUPER excited to share this talk I gave at @speedrun 's alumni demo day - this is the best talk I've ever given and to me really captures the spirit of @OpenSoulsPBC

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 months

correct

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

Wynwood WeWork nearly at capacity Miami Beach 80% with new workspace open

Luba Lesiva

@loobah_l

1 year

waaaah there's no tech scene in Miami waaaah The Brickell WeWork has booked out at 9am every day this week. Fielding overflow at my cafe this am.

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 months

Pretty neat: in Google Gemini you can @ Google services like flights, hotels, maps Unclear if this is a time savings v using the standard interfaces but neat direction tho feels more targeted than other instances I've seen

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

9 months

@janleike “Only WE can protect you from DESTRUCTION (buy our product 😘😘)”

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@BrandonReeves08 @huggingface @NathanBenaich @huggingface has some of the fastest / most exciting development in ML rn Literally have a question about a framework- see others in the community had it too a few weeks before and already started work on it Absolutely thrilling

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

@djrothkopf Or let’s just vote them all out?

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

3 years

@Charlieheaps @jameshamblin Public spaces you mean road? Like where cars take space otherwise for pedestrians and bicyclists?

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@srnlrsn

22 days

@laurenbalik just skimmed intuit tos “Your content remains yours” “By sharing your Content on the Platform you grant Intuit a license to use your content” “This license is royalty free [and] allows intuit to reproduce distribute sublicense and make derivative works based on your Content”

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

5 years

@ilyasut Not from a delayed gratification perspective. If given the option, I'm sure many would prefer to just do magic without the epistemology and measure theoretic probability theory.

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@srnlrsn

1 year

@KevinAFischer

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

7 months

@abacaj it’ll be difficult to enforce for two reasons: 1) tactically difficult 2) fair use argument: NYT had t&c to prevent “web scraping” and now “development of any software program … including training a ML model” OAI apparently wants to argue fair use for them but not you

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

2 months

pumped for Identity Con tomorrow planning awesome panel discussions on - future of privacy / agentic tech - history + future of identity - future of marketing with incredible panelists including @zweinberg @laurenbalik @ea_tweets @dyaffe @DanielDruger grab a ticket below

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@srnlrsn

1 year

Notion AI terms of service are excellent 👏👏

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

4 years

@nikitabier @VCComplaints What about a “partner” who’s 3 years out if college

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

9 months

Update: AI is having a Napster moment.

Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

1 year

AI is going to have a Napster moment. Generative AI as a new content distribution platform (e.g., as Napster was for ripped CDs) does not absolve it from paying royalties to content owners (e.g., authors).

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@NWischoff carbone was born to be on south beach pastis because of course itamae is seriously underrated surf club up north is one of the most beautiful restaurants on the east coast I SAID IT

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@srnlrsn

4 years

@lostinstl72 @profgalloway Galloway is a marketer. Defund the police is bad marketing. A meme that requires “that’s not what it really means” is 👏 not 👏 good 👏 marketing

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Soren Larson

@srnlrsn

6 months

excited to share some updates on what we've been building this friday :-)

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@srnlrsn

4 months

@NWischoff Love this! I feel like you’d love - coconut grove (amazing running routes / like Greenwich village but w/ peacocks) - Normandy isles / biscayne point - which btw is about to blow up HIIT: Anatomy on Miami Beach Steak: Dirty French or Beef Wellington @ Surf Club

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