Matty Hempstead

@mattyhempstead

seeking sparse rewards. i enjoy building startups. prev @fdotinc

Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

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Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 17
Day 29 of scaling a mobile app: > $1315 MRR > $73 revenue today > 148 new installs MRR seems to have hit a steady state this past week as the rate of new subscribers equals the rate of churning users. We are pushing the "new subscribers" variable on three frontiers: 1. A/B
Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 10
Day 22 of scaling a mobile app: > $1265 MRR 😭 > 155 new installs > $81 in proceeds Did some analysis of the organic videos today: - 45 videos posted on TikTok - 3.8m views total - 2 vids/day on average As expected, the highest viewed video has more views than the 24 lowest
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Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 16
Gummi
@gummibear737
Sep 14
LLMs cannot evolve to superintelligence via recursive self-improvement because that would require it to invent a new technology unknown to man But that’s impossible because the entire LLM technology is based on predicting what man will think/say/do Skynet isn’t happening w/LLMs
Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 16
RSI of intelligence is a feasible mechanism to incentivise RSI of simulations
sarah guo
@saranormous
Sep 16
Am I inside an RL environment
Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 14
letting the kids outside to play during the chatgpt vs claude ceasefire
Soviet Visuals
@sovietvisuals
Sep 13
Post-Soviet visual. Children at a civil defense drill. Photo by Oleg Nikishin, Kineshma, Russia, 1999.
Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 12
I have increased the scale of my benevolence
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Matty Hempstead
@mattyhempstead
Sep 10
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I wireheaded the fly and forced it to doomscroll flytok. Dopamine neurons are measured and artificially enhanced to ensure maximum enjoyment. My goal is to create a fly that is happier than all other flies combined.
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