Intellectual Wandering
Intellectual Wandering
Where I Wandered Last Week - E1
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Where I Wandered Last Week - E1

Thoughts about how AI is changing the world, navigates the frontier of space, shapes business & work, while we reimagine our existence within

Show Notes

Internal Email From Mark Zuckerberg About The Cultural Relevance of Facebook

Internal Tech Emails
Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly"
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Wonderful insight into the depth with which Zuck thinks about his business. He knows the trends and metrics inside and out.
SNAP,

FB losing cultural relevance

Steps he is willing to take

Klarna is reverting back to Human Customer Service Reps from AI

https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/klarna-reinvests-human-talent-customer-service-AI-chatbot/747586/

One of the first to go all in AI

Reverted back to a mix of both
The trend is continuing: Humans who manage the AI will take all the jobs in the future

How To Win the Future Of War

Incredible interview with Joe Londsdale, Founder of Palantir

How Philosophy is the most studied subject at Palantir

First Principles Thinking
How many specialized autonomous ships have better unit economics than our current Navy

How it is cheaper to deliver missiles to targets from Space than use a fighter jet

Early Research Into Cement as a Battery
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/cement-like-building-material-doubles-up-as-an-electrolyte-in-rechargeable-battery/4021469.article

While there are still limitations during certain chemical reactions, early research is interesting

Something to keep an eye on.

AI will likely be able to help run chemical simulations

How Humans & Robots will work together
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/11/amazon-offers-peek-at-new-human-jobs-in-an-ai-bot-world/

Vulcan offers a peak at the new future

AI controlled Robots will work alongside fewer humans

These humans will require specialized AI knowledge

OpenAI is acquiring customers faster than the competition
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/10/openais-enterprise-adoption-appears-to-be-accelerating-at-the-expense-of-rivals/

Interesting to note that OpenAI is still the leader in many respects. Though Google is catching up ever so gently.

LLMs are going to get cheaper and the competition is high at the moment
LLMs will not be like cloud I think, it till have lower margins until we catch up the energy costs

Alibaba ZeroSearch poses a big potential risk for $GOOG
https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-zerosearch-lets-ai-learn-to-google-itself-slashing-training-costs-by-88-percent/

This is very good news for Startups
You can train a model without needing to use Google Search API or build your own crawler.
This will reduce costs for LLMs further

France to build Robot Army by 2040
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/french-army-hopes-for-combat-ready-robots-by-2040

This just cements the trend we have been seeing

AI controlled Robots will be the norm soon
Since France wants the army, they will likely be open to easier regulations on the civilian robot front
Notably they also have the largest European LLM company in Mistral

Improving Naval Ship Acquisitions

Construction Physics
Improving Naval Ship Acquisition
This is a policy proposal written by Austin Vernon and myself for improving US naval shipbuilding. It was produced for Rebuilding.tech, a techno-industrial policy playbook curated by IFP, FAI, and American Compass…
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Fasticinating read

Goes hand in hand with the Joe Longsdale interview

Ship Building can come back to the USA, but it will be quite different
Andruil is making autonomous submarines, jets and drones.
The world will look differently

And the jobs that will come back to the USA are not in the factories, they will be in creating the AI and robots to run the factories

Andrew Wilkinson from Tiny

Great interview

He sees a future where generative AI will be so good and custom tailored to our individual likes that we will only want to consume it. Especially younger generations I feel will be like that. They will not hang on to the nostalgia of wanting to consume human content

Vargas Space Company - Microgravity Pharma

A fascinating company, concept, anything Space intrigues me.

Google AlphaEvolve Scientific & Math Discoveries

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf

AlphaEvolve improved Strassen's 1969 algorithm, solved 20% of 50+ outstanding math issues with better solutions than humans.

Small businesses and workers really need to get ready for what is to come.
We hear about these innovations and are in denial. We sort of hold on to hope that it won’t affect us, but it will.

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