Aston Motes

@__aston__

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Aston Motes
@__aston__
May 31, 2020
In extraordinary times like these, it's natural to look for extraordinary actions to take to make things better. But, unfortunately, these extraordinary times are the result of a lot of very ordinary behavior. Look at your day-to-day actions for ways to make a lasting difference.
Aston Motes
@__aston__
Apr 9
Wow, nice work @grepdotai team!
AJ Asver
@_aj
Apr 9
Grep just achieved SOTA on the three major deep research benchmarks, beating Perplexity, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic. We're a two-person founding team.
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Aston Motes
@__aston__
Oct 9, 2025
It has been six weeks since Bill Gurley has appeared on BG2Pod! #wheresbg1?
Aston Motes
@__aston__
Mar 3, 2025
Yes, all we need is a recession to get prices low enough for these "asset light" (non-wealthy) people to have a real chance at participating in the investment economy.
Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamath
Mar 3, 2025
1. Trump is more popular with young people than old people. Most young people don’t own stocks or homes (aka they are asset-light). 2. Trump is also more popular amongst working and middle class folks. Most of these folks are also asset-light. It stands to reason that a fall
Aston Motes
@__aston__
Oct 17, 2024
LLM thought experiment: If in fact we're able to train a super-intelligent model from a corpus of average-to-above-average intelligence... Should we therefore be able to train an average-to-above-average intelligent model from a corpus of below average intelligence?