Apr 25, 2023
Matt Bunday works in crypto. He loves to rock climb, martial arts, and think about underground psychedelic therapy
What is the biggest problem you’ve faced with knowledge management at your companies?
Slack
Dropped balls in communication
LLMs might be the response
Why do you think slack spread so fast even though its not the best product?
It was a step up from email
IRC was a component
More friendly for non-engineering
What do you think about the complexity of slack?
Twist is an alternative
Why is information architecture such a challenge?
How do LLMs fit into this?
What would happen if slack created a LLM or plugged one in?
Slack workspace plug in
What is a retrieval plug in?
Universal adapter for any type of data
Who are the incumbents in the slack knowledge management space?
Guru startup
What is the difference between information management and knowledge management?
Knowledge management is a higher level synthesis
Information management is siloing related types of information
Data types
Group related to information around people
What are your thoughts on the membrane?
Siloes
Privacy is where LLMs can be very innovative
If we were to share a LLM
We can both specify a privacy policy to the LLM and it will follow it
LLMs can intuit the privacy public distinction
Are you using LLMs to code for you?
Copilot
Issues with difficulty to prompt it correctly
You had to write comments to prompt it
Inline suggestions were not good
Is it better now?
Haven’t noticed a dramatic improvement
Hard to prompt it to code in certain styles now
GPT 4 is way better for a starting off point for projects
Helpful for conversion processes
What are the things that GPT4 has not been helpful for you?
You have to chunk it
What about building systems with GPT4?
Code completion cool called tap9
Train the model against your local code
What are some other things about KM that we can use tools for?
Shared LLM for the family
Surface serendipity between users
If facebook were to do this
One person says they are selling a couch
One person is buying one
LLM connects them
At what point do we merge with the machines?
Sufficiently high bandwidth
Translation
Are we already cyborgs?
It began with wearing shoes
Horselike
Where do you fit in the excitement vs fear when it comes to AI?
What parts of knowledge work will get automated?
What are we losing?
What is your take on bodywork?
10% investment
Martial arts practices, he gets beat up
Ninjiutsu
Special forces for ninjas
Healing and striking points on the body are the same
Balance between healing/killing, if you know how to heal
Unbroken transmission since 1400
What is the importance
What is your take on yoga?
Seven chakra system was created by theosophist
Color, what deities you install
Psychosomatic download systems
What is your take on Japan?
The meiji restorationo
Controversy over this and how they lost the transmission
Judo was modernized and is a sport
Tradition was changed
Armed combat
What is the transition we are going through?
What does the japanese tradition say about it?
Character of Ryu; the stream
Tradition is flowing through obstacles
Japanese traditions need to adapt
What happened when the firearm was brought to Japan?
What about Japan led them to keep the strong membrane that lets in the western tools but doesn’t let the westerners in culturally?
Japan has a deliberate
What is your take on psychedelics and wisdom transmission?
Ayahuasca has changed a lot
Aya was used by the healer to heal people, not the person getting healed
Definitely the most impactful
5 sits in peru all in a row
What is your take on LSD?
What is your take on Pscyolicibin?
What is your thought on Iboga?
What is your take on Kambo?
Western-educated buddhas
What do you want in a tradition?
How we humans integrate Machine Learning into a humanistic society?
What is the meaning crisis that AI will take from people because of the job loss?
What is social technology and how does that fit in with meaning and communities?
LLMs as polytheism
Goddes called Athena
GPT4 to build a slackbot
Read messages
Layer in retrieval using embeddings to go the database
How do you think LLMs will affect crypto?
Crypto AI companies feel far fetched
GPU clusters at home, training decentralized
Super computer clusters have massively high bandwidth connections between the GPU units
Crypto is orthogonal cultural
Take GPT4 and cheaply retrain another model, getting tutors to train the model
In OpenAI’s research paper, jobs affected LLMs, blockchain engineers are susceptible
All smart contract code is solidity
Apple is building AI chips already and putting them into the phones
Chatting with GPT
What about apple vs openAI?