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Adam Smith

@asmith
Founded Xobni and Kite, MIT, YC 2006, VP Eng Affirm; adam.net | linkedin.com/in/adamsmith314 | opsgo.cc/anonymous-feed…
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  • @asmith
    Adam Smith
    @asmith
    Jun 22
    OpenAI was started to democratize AI, but it looks like AI intelligence will be allocated by capital. If intelligence is logarithmic in compute, and Elon has ~10,000x my wealth, with AI he will be five times smarter than me. The difference in capabilities will be vast. (...)
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  • @asmith
    Adam Smith
    @asmith
    Apr 8
    Most technologies are democratic because they top out on how much you can spend. There is no $100,000 iPhone. But AI won’t top out. You can just keep buying intelligence.
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  • @asmith
    Adam Smith
    @asmith
    Aug 28, 2025
    Every teammate has a confidence ratio: how strongly they state their opinions, divided by how right they actually are. The 4 styles—and why proportional confidence wins. 🧵
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  • @asmith
    Adam Smith
    @asmith
    Aug 23, 2025
    Female vs Male life satisfaction with varying levels of male-female partner agreeableness. Many interesting conclusions here
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  • @asmith
    Adam Smith
    @asmith
    Aug 1, 2025
    In U2’s 2009 album, Bono says “The best of us are geniuses of compression.” That’s something one LLM might say to another 🤠
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