https://x.com/TheAhmadOsman/status/1981598358088134687?t=H7k3k2YWiaeE0TMc0fEi1g&s=19 > be us > Larry & Sergey > a dorm in Stanford, caffeine shakes, wild ambition > slap together a janky web crawler > accidentally organize the entire internet > call it Google > build search, email, maps, docs, OS, phones, browser, car, satellite, thermostat, AI lab, TPU farm, and quantum computer > 2025 > everyone talking about AGI > OpenAI: “we need data, sensors, feedback, and scale” > us: staring at Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Waymo, Pixel, Fitbit, Docs, Calendar, Street View, and Earth Engine > "damn. guess we already did that." > YouTube: 2.6M videos/day > Android: 3B phones, streaming sensor data 24/7 > Gmail: 1.8B inboxes of human priors > Search: global-scale RLHF > Waymo: 71M miles of real-world self-driving footage > Google Earth: modeled the entire planet > also your calendar > people training LLMs on books and PDFs > we train on humanity > every click, swipe, tap, misspelled search, scroll, and bookmark > feedback loop from hell (or heaven) > depends who you ask > OpenAI: “we need $100B for GPUs” > us: already built TPUs > custom silicon > datacenters pre-co-located with planetary data lakes > no egress, no latency > just vibes and FLOPs > coders: fine-tuning on GitHub repos > us: 2 BILLION lines of internal code > labeled, typed, tested > every commit is a training signal > Code LLMs dream of being our monorepo > AGI recipe? > multimodal perception > real-world feedback > giant codebase > scalable compute > alignment signals > embodied sensors > user data for days > yeah we’ve had that since like 2016 > no investor decks > no trillion-dollar hype rounds > just a 25-year accidental simulation of Earth > running in prod > OpenAI raises $1T to build AGI > investors call it revolutionary > us: quietly mapping 10M new miles in Street View > syncing another 80PB of Earth imagery > collecting another year of Fitbit biosignals > enjoy your foundation model > we OWN the foundation > people: “but Google is fumbling” > true > we’re fumbling in 120 countries simultaneously > with the greatest compute footprint and research team on Earth > fumble hard enough and you loop back into winning > AGI? > we don’t need to build it > it’s already inside the building > powered by Chrome tabs and doc revisions > mfw we spent 20 years indexing reality > mfw our data is so good it scares us > mfw the only thing stopping us from AGI is a meeting between four VPs and one confused lawyer > call it research > call it scale > call it “planetary simulation-as-a-service” > we call it Tuesday

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I've been involved since circa 2014 (was mining dogecoin in my college dorm). The guys who just want it to "just come back to my entry" are all incredibly new. I use crypto quite frequently and actually really enjoy the experience.

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