Kevin Rose

Rose said Meta has strong assets but lacks the talent to compete with the leading AI labs.

“Meta, I just don't think they're going to make it, man. Listen, they have great businesses. Instagram is phenomenal”

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Rose argued Google's unusual chip architecture is a bet on continuously self-improving models rather than discrete model releases.

“What Google is betting with this high throughput kind of wide memory architecture is the future is continuous learning”

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Rose predicted the AI field will be dominated by three players: Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

“It's a big three. It's three players. Okay. It's Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI”

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Rose said cheap consumer camera systems plus APIs now let anyone build AI-driven home automation, including license-plate gate opening.

“I programmed it. So when it sees the license plate on my car, it automatically knows to open the gate because it knows it's me”

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Rose said relaunched Digg has grown from about 20,000 weekly users to close to 500,000.

“We've got like, we went from 20,000 people a week using it to now we've close to 500,000”

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Rose advised that people should consider investing in companies whose products they love rather than only buying the products.

“you find something that you love and you buy said object when you should actually buy the company”

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Rose said terminal lucidity in people with advanced Alzheimer's raises questions about whether cognition is fully localized in the brain.

“there's these people with like full blown entanglements in their brain, full on, you know, the Alzheimer's for like a decade. And then they become completely lucid. Where is that coming from?”

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Rose said he wants to stop deferring long-held interests with the phrase 'one day' as he approaches 50.

“I want to stop bullshitting myself and stop saying like, Hey, one day, one day I'll get into Japanese woodworking”

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Rose described a brief retreat insight in which nothing felt lacking and nothing could be added or removed.

“I had a sense of nothing lacking”

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Rose argued that the pain of losing someone is a direct consequence of the love felt for them.

“But I realized that that gap... is just love at the end of the day because i wouldn't have it unless i loved this man so much”

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