Garry Tan
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1,293 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Garry Tan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the same clod, same weights, same context window size, same API.
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But the leverage is not in the weights.
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It's in what context you give it, how relevant it is, and does it happen at the right step.
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We'll come back to this.
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Now Spinoza has a definition I think about every single week.
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In ethics, he defines joy as the feeling of your power of acting increasing, which is why the first time an agent does a week of your work in an afternoon, it doesn't feel like a convenience.
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It feels like joy.
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And that's not me being poetic.
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That's the technical term.
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Your power of acting increased.
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Your canatus just got bigger.
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He defined the opposite to you, by the way, sadness, the feeling of your power of acting decreasing.
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If your Sunday nights have a specific heaviness, like your ability to influence the world is receding, that you feel like you're quiet quitting, then this is what you feel.
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And hold that thought, because we're coming back to this in the second half of this talk.
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And it gets political.
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So here's the equation for the next decade of your life.
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A frontier model which is rented and a commodity.
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And getting cheaper by the quarter.
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Plus your context, which is owned by you and unique, no and ideally nobody else on this earth has it.
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plus a harness that wires them together.
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