Emmett Shear (@eshear) on X (original) (raw)

CEO of Softmax: Massively Multiplayer Learning Environments

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  is there still alpha in instagram reposts?
  
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  ceo any% 55:32 — new record???
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  That was easy. Have ppl never heard of swimming?
  
  
  The remaining 2% will be emailing me their solutions once a week for the rest their lives…
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  Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of
  @OpenAI
  . After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my
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  I continue to believe one of the biggest issues in our built environments is failing to use enough passive heating and cooling mechanisms. Failing to use enough passive components generally! Stuff in motion is stuff that breaks and costs energy to run.
  
  The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity [📹 Never Enough Architecture]x.com/i/status/17809…
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  I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m glad to have been a part of the solution.
  
  We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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  The NPC theory: “most people” don’t really have deep inner lives where they yearn for meaning and purpose, they’re just incentive-following automatons who will do whatever satisfies their hardwired drives. Just sheep following the trends.
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  Equally astonishing. Once we figure out the basics of something, the next 50 years tend to be wild.
  
  
  
  
  
  It still blows my mind that these photos were taken in the same century
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  We should legalize building apartments like these. For a family it’s far too small of course, but for a single person living in the big city? I would have absolutely preferred to save my money for other things.
  
  Would you stay in an apartment in Japan like this for $300/mo?
  
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  In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Each of these insights could probably be expanded into an essay, of course. Like the ones you would want me to expand on in the future.
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  The frame of “applying to jobs” is spiritually humiliating because it makes the job into the subject and the applicant into the object. You’ve cast yourself as a dependent on the Jobs’ generosity. A victim to its judgement.
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  I got prescribed a drug you took once a day for ~120 days, preferably at the same hour. So I set an alarm on my phone, carried my pills with me everywhere, and took them. When my MD asked about compliance and I said I hadn’t missed any pills, they expressed significant surprise.
  
  "The oral AIDS cure won't work because the people who still get AIDS will be too lazy to take it" is one of those things you just can't believe if you haven't lived certain places
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  “Burnout” is a particularly modern affliction, feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and paralyzed. I’ve found it’s best to think of burnout not as a disease but as a symptom, with many different etiologies. The big three: permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt.
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  New texting app that only lets you send and receive texts when you’re facing each other.
  
  when i’m bored i like going in maps and staring in the direction of my long distance friends while i text them