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Brendan (can/do) on X: "Distillation as a service (DaaS) is the fastest-growing market in Silicon Valley"

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Source: x.com

You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the proprietary knowledge you must reveal to make that intelligence useful. The better you want the model to perform, the more of that knowledge you have to feed it!

Source: snscratchpad.com

My son can learn why his father chose A vs B and can continue this family software business (jk). Even though it's a bit far-fetched, this should be exciting: for the first time in our existence, we have a way to educate people at scale, efficiently. How can someone learn about all the operational and technological innovations that happened inside IBM or Apple?

This bet on ASI is only possible because the labs have the money printer that lets them lose billions without a sweat, in the hope that they'll make it all back with ASI.

To infer from all this: the attention economy monetized human focus, ad-tech monetized personal data, and both started as quiet defaults before they became explicit markets. Human expertise is the next input being gathered by default.

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  • This is so obvious that the frontier labs have stopped giving subscription-tier users CoT or reasoning outputs. - They banned PewDiePie for extracting CoT! [^11]