Anish Acharya
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8,262 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Sep
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How do we have fun?
I don't think it's a model or a capability challenge.
It's just a product design challenge.
so excited
Not very seriously.
And it's a funny dark fantasy that we seem to have as, you know, Silicon Valley collectively.
Like things have never been better really by almost every measure, by how sort of distributed all the opportunities are, by the kind of technology we have access to, to the types of ambition we're allowed to have.
and to the number of companies that are sort of independently working on things that are winning.
And yet there's this sort of discussion of permanent underclass, being outside of the light cone, I've heard it.
And it's not just something for deep insiders or outsiders.
It feels like there's a real fear kind of from researchers at foundation model labs all the way through to the Silicon Valley layman.
I mean, here's like a couple of points that I think are really important.
So first, I think the last era of tech was a lot more centralized.
If you look at network effects, that's sort of the gold standard.
You worked on a network effects product.
That's the gold standard of businesses from the mobile era.
And those things led to dramatic centralization, right?
Of course, all of them are definitionally sort of end of one networks.
If you look at what's happening now, it's like every part of the stack, there's not even two relevant players, there's like 20.
You know, you've got labs, you've got open weight, you've got different variations within both.
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