James Cham
@jamescham
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@bloombergbeta; of the San Gabriel Valley; investing in 2050; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders!
Palo Alto, CA
Joined October 2007
Sometimes, all it takes is to find kindred souls to feel like the world is an amazing place.
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There are so many products I would buy if the vendor just said "I'll do all the work for you" Instead, they all just want to tell me why they are 10x better But not really help me: - buy out my contract - migrate my data - onboard my team
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These three paragraphs from Kahneman in 2017 (pre-LLM) are something else - full of, as James says, "painful claims" that are grounded in a lifetime of research.
A painful claim from Danny Kahneman I can’t stop thinking about. “One implication is obvious. You should replace humans with algorithms whenever possible. Even when the algorithm does not do very well, humans do so poorly and are so noisy that, just by removing the noise, you can
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Extending ACA subsidies won’t fix the runaway costs driving premiums higher every year. CAHC’s @jwhite_health is calling on Congress to create real reform: more competition, transparency, and accountability. Subsidies alone won’t fix the system, but structural change will.
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TFIED, part 3. “agents create efficiency gains from lower search, communication, and contracting costs, but also introduce frictions such as congestion and price obfuscation. By lowering the costs of preference elicitation, contract enforcement, and identity verification, agents
nber.org
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TFIED, part 2: “continuous AI workflows with natural language.”
githubnext.com
GitHub Next Project: Towards Natural‑Language Programming for GitHub Actions
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A question about mobs as deliberative processes. How do they settle on answers so fast and with such confidence?
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Magnesiacore. Indoor Pool Drywall and Ceilings is a True Marine Wallboard. When it comes to indoor pools, natatoriums, or other enclosed spaces with high humidity and the moist chemical exposure it entails, you need a construction board that can withstand these elements.
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Pretty cool!
The open frontier of AI has never had a home to call its own. So we’re giving it one. 🌅 One day, one place, one hundred of the leading scientists and researchers working at the leading edge. Livestreamed to the world. https://t.co/pSiVkVdZnO
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Founders Fund has among the best returns of any VC firm, and their approach to the whole business feels different. No FOMO: "Are you never like 'ah, we passed on that round and now Sequoia's doing it'" "Basically never." No categories: "I don't think 'categories' should exist"
This week I had @traestephens on Uncapped. He's a co-founder of Anduril and partner at Founders Fund, and he's an amazing person. Hope you enjoy. (0:00) Intro (0:35) Choosing good quests in the AI era (7:35) Ethics behind solving certain problems (11:29) Working with regulators
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It’s a harder operating environment and it’s going to produce better people.
You know, I’m starting to think that this generation’s operators are going to be better than mine. It’s a harder operating environment for sure. And that produces better people. The kids are going to be alright.
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A painful claim from Danny Kahneman I can’t stop thinking about. “One implication is obvious. You should replace humans with algorithms whenever possible. Even when the algorithm does not do very well, humans do so poorly and are so noisy that, just by removing the noise, you can
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@WallStreetApes I am against waste, but this bridge also connects all the kids in East Palo Alto that have to cross over university at 101 to get to their zoned high school, Menlo Atherton High. So this one is not the gotcha people think it is. Go on a weekday at 7:45am or 3-4pm and then we
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Post 4/7: The "Don’t Work on Stupid Sh*t" Rule "Most things in this industry look rational if you understand the incentives." Panel 4 at AI 2026 was the most brutally honest 15 minutes of the night. @lessin (@slowventures, ex-@facebook VP, @Venmo investor) and @nikunj
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr
resonantcomputing.org
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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🙏SF friends: my former husband passed away two years ago and left our son his bike. It was stolen from his flat in the Mission. 😭If you see it, we would be so grateful for any tips. It’s pretty sentimental.
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If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius. For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living https://t.co/CR2aTORVgZ
#excellentadvice
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> large model cheaper than the medium model > reasoning variant not hosted by Mistral > occasionally outputs the Hebrew character yod in tool calls, leading to its on collapse...
We finished evaluating Mistral 3 large and *spoiler alert* it is not incredible.
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Conversation is a loom that already contains 1000+ messages and will continue for weeks, with a 50K-65K rolling window, and has no other goal except to get to know what Opus 3 thinks and has to say about all that (screenshot is from yesterday morning)
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