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Marc Wilson
@marcwilson1000.bsky.social
Managing Partner at Global Advisors - Quantified Strategy
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa
I keep koi and enjoy golf and running. I love photography, sports, arts and music

https://marcwilson.me
" #UI is pre-AI." — Naval #Ravikant - #Venture #Capitalist

Ravikant's influence on the technology landscape extends far beyond individual company investments. As co-founder... - https://with.ga/mb0wr
#AI #quote
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“The #robustness of people is really staggering.” - Ilya #Sutskever - Safe #Superintelligence

Understanding what Sutskever means by robustness requires examining not just human capabilities but the specific ways in which #AI systems are fragile by comparison... - https://with.ga/fjaz5
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November 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“These models somehow just #generalize dramatically worse than people. It’s super obvious. That seems like a very fundamental thing.” - Ilya #Sutskever - Safe #Superintelligence

Sutskever... - https://with.ga/4m6qb
#quote #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“Is the belief really, 'Oh, it’s so big, but if you had 100x more, everything would be so different?' It would be different, for sure. But is the belief that if you just 100x the #scale, everything would be transfor..” - #Ilya #Sutskever - Safe #Superintelligence - https://with.ga/2ii31
#quote #AI
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“Never #invest in a company without understanding its #finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.” – #WarrenBuffett

Buffett, revered as one of the world’s most successful and influential investors... - https://with.ga/eqzag
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November 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“Great #ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.” - Sam #Walton - American #retail pioneer

This quote epitomises Sam Walton's core #leadership principle - openness... - https://with.ga/t0qqn
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November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“The win will be teaming between a human and their judgment and a supercomputer and what it can think.” - Dr #EricSchmidt - Former #Google CEO

Schmidt’s statement emerged during.. - https://with.ga/9jk98
#AI #superintelligence #quote
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“I do think countries all should invest in their own human capital, invest in partnerships and invest in their own technological stack as well as the business ecosystem... I think not investing in #AI would be macroscopically the wrong thing to do.” - Dr #FeiFeiLi - Stanford - https://with.ga/xryfh
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“I think #robotics has a long way to go... I think the ability, the dexterity of human-level manipulation is something we have to wait a lot longer to get. ” - Dr. #FeiFeiLi - Stanford Professor - world-renowned authority in #Artificialintelligence

While #AI ... https://with.ga/im26x
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“That ability that humans have, it's the combination of #creativity and abstraction. I do not see today's #AI or tomorrow's AI being able to do that yet.” - Dr. #FeiFeiLi - Stanford Professor - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg3W
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“How does #Africa benefit from [ #AI ] ... without stable governments, strong universities, major industrial structures - which Africa, with some exceptions, lacks - it's going to lag.” - Dr #EricSchmidt - Former #Google CEO - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg3O
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We had heard that Kgodisa had hidden her cub while she went hunting. We found the spot and watched it for well over an hour.
The cub did not move despite intently watching birds and us and having been left alone for the whole day.
Full res photo link in the comments.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“We need something like 10 terawatts in the next 20 years to make #LLM systems truly useful to everyone... Nvidia would need to 100× output... You basically need to fill Nevada with solar panels to provide 10 terawatts of #power...” - Trevor #McCourt - #Extropic - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg3n
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November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“You have to be very #gentle around people. If you're in a #leadership position, people hear your words amplified. You have to be very careful what you say and how you say it. You always have to #listen to what other people...” - Stephen #Schwarzman - #Blackstone
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November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“I always felt that somebody was only capable of one super effort to create something that can really be #consequential. There are so many impediments to being #successful. If you're on the field, you're there to #win ..” - Stephen #Schwarzman - #Blackstone Founder - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg2n
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November 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“If you upgrade that assistant to see video at 1 FPS - think #Meta’s glasses... you'd need to roughly 10× the #grid to accommodate that for everyone....” - Trevor #McCourt - #Extropic CTO

The quote underscores a crucial bottleneck in #ArtificialIntelligence .. - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg2g
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November 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“The idea that chips and ontology is what you want to #short is batsh*t crazy.” - #AlexKarp - #Palantir CEO

In response to famed investor #MichaelBurry’s high-profile short positions against both Palantir and Nvidia... - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg2j
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November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“We have very smart people, and we can put these [ #AI ] tools in their hands to make them more productive... By using AI to reimagine processes, we can create operating efficiencies that give us a scaled opportunity to reinv...” - #DavidSolomon - #GoldmanSachs CEO - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg2d
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November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“At #scale, nothing is a #commodity. We have to have our cost structure, supply-chain efficiency, and software efficiencies continue to compound to ensure margins. Scale - and one of the things I love about the #OpenAI partnersh...” - #SatyaNadella - #Microsoft CEO - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg1k
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November 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“Generally speaking people hate #change. It’s human nature. But change is super important. It’s inevitable. In fact, on my desk in my office I have a little plaque that says 'Change or die.' ...” - #DavidSolomon - #GoldmanSachs CEO

Solomon’s #leadership at... - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg1b
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October 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“[ With #AI ] we're not building animals. We're building ghosts or spirits” - Andrej #Karpathy - Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

Andrej Karpathy, renowned for his leadership roles at #OpenAI and #Tesla’s... https://wp.me/paWI18-dg16
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October 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“People have said we’re hitting a #plateau every month for three years... I look at how #models are produced and every part could be improved...” - #SholtoDouglas - #Anthropic - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg0W
#AI #scaling #bubble #quote
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The talk about #AI #bubbles seemed very divorced from what was happening in frontier labs and what we were seeing. We are not seeing any slowdown of progress.” - Julian #Schrittwieser - #Anthropic - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg0R
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October 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#AI is so wonderful because there have been a number of seismic shifts where the entire field has suddenly looked a different way. I've maybe lived through two or three of those. I still think there will contin...” - Andrej #Karpathy - Ex- #OpenAI , Ex- #Tesla AI - https://wp.me/paWI18-dg0O
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October 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM