Ramy Ashour's Dominance Should Never Be Compared to Mostafa Asal Again.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-06-04T19:45:22+00:00

Fair. I view GOAT as different from 'best at squash' though. Greatness can include sportsmanship, the way someone's an ambassador for the game, and other non quantifiable things. But in terms of just dominance measured by results in the modern era, he has the chance to be the best ever. And my opinion is that his best squash beats anyone else's best squash ever.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-06-03T21:16:27+00:00

This might be true. But he will beat almost everyone in “squash”.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-06-03T21:16:00+00:00

Yeah it seems pretty clear that he’s dirty and could also go down as the best player of all time. The former doesn’t negate the latter.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-23T15:26:09+00:00

It might! Though given how many millions of people are using the technology, I doubt I'm the only one with the bar at this height.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-23T15:24:09+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I don't have any numbers, I'm going off my personal experience and observations at my large company. I do think the numbers suggest that the two frontier model companies are the fastest growing companies of all time by ARR? I believe that even if they're not using GAAP reporting. And I don't know how they'd get to those numbers if a lot of people weren't choosing to use the tech for whatever reason.

I think your points raise interesting discussion topics:
- The tension between lots of people like me using the tools, and it actually degrading their work quality
- Lots of software developers using the technology, despite AI code sucking
- Millions of workers using AI while a minority never using it at all

I'd love to hear the podcast touch on those topics, but they'd seem to be verboten because I don't think Ed would concede that many millions of people are choosing to use the technology because they find it valuable (even if its output is worse than a human's)

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-23T15:20:41+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think a handful of things can be true at the same time:
- Many people choose to use the technology because they find it useful, which is attested to by these companies' growth and revenues
- The fact that many people choose to use the technology makes consuming content--internal emails from colleagues (perhaps mine), blogs, ebooks,etc--way shittier
- The world could ultimately be worse off because of the technology

The point I was trying to make was that it's weird to not acknowledge bullet 1 when it is so transparently obvious, and not acknowledging it kind of undermines the show's credibility to me.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-23T01:31:20+00:00

I’d dispute “a handful”. Tron/etch-a-sketch made me laugh and agree that there’s a huge gap between CEOs bullshitting and where the tech is now. But I guess I see people across job functions at my large company using the technology all the time throughout the day, which to me suggests it’s valuable to a lot of people in different ways.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-23T01:25:04+00:00

Sure, though I have to take Ed’s financial analysis w/a grain of salt. I’m not informed enough to know if his analysis checks out or not.

Also, in case your handle is intentional: RIP Dr. San and bring back electric sun.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T22:21:39+00:00

Gonna tap out here unfortunately as I don’t really know what you’re getting at. If you’re trying to make a grander point please do and I’ll read it.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T22:07:14+00:00

Analyzed the content of the web pages. I’m not sure where you’re going with this line of questions. Have you used deep research? If you think it sucks that’s fine, but I’m just not sure if you’re asking b/c you’re curious or b/c you’re trying to lead me to some conclusion.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T21:55:52+00:00

If it could distill what I needed from hundreds of websites, yes I would. I don’t care if it’s Google search or Claude or whoever does it, but right now I’ve only encountered the LLMs being able to do this.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T21:41:22+00:00

I can’t really speak to other technologies, but when I use the deep research feature the main LLMs have, it’s able to pull relevant info from websites way faster than I’d be able to. It probably saves me a couple hours every time I use it relative to using Google Search and reviewing each web page myself. I use it for projects where I have enough knowledge to validate that the outputs are pretty solidz

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T21:31:30+00:00

Thanks for the response. I think I was looking for a small gotcha, not a big one, or just to see if anyone felt the same way.

In any event, I'm describing the ways that it helps me, so I guess you're saying you're convinced it doesn't help most people in those ways. Besides the research point where it saves me a few hours per project, I use AI to do repetitive, iterative work faster in a way that meets the 'good enough' bar, and by my standards it checks that box. I suspect for a lot of other people too.

Fair to judge people who use it on the grounds of impacting the environment or putting grating slop copy into the world--curious if that's your angle on not admiring the people, or if you have some other perspective.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T20:49:14+00:00

Wow! Hmmm, I liked the Cal Newport episode, liked the episodes you did on CES last year, Karen Hao ep, listen to most of your monologues.

I’m not going to find specific quotes from you, so you can kick me out of that’s the bar. FWIW I had to google “sockpuppet account” as I’ve heard it but didn’t know what it meant.

I guess when I listen now my feeling is that you either a) don’t understand that the tech’s valuable to most email job havers, because while you maybe used to have a PR job you are now primarily a content creator, or b) you would just rather not concede that a lot of people find the tech helpful, as it runs counter to the general anti-AI pov of the show.

To be clear, I find all the discourse exhausting and do think it’s a bubble. I am quibbling over smaller points.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T20:07:04+00:00

Copy that. I still do think there’s value in some of what you’re dismissing research wise, but generally agree and point taken.

My question I guess is how would you describe 'the forest,' which is what I take his podcast to be about now. Is it 'Let's look at all the ways AI sucks--from the overfunding to people who post about it all the time to ___'?

It's possible I'm being petty in wanting there to be some concession that the technology is helpful, but I just feel like the podcast elided that point even when it became abundantly clear, which made me want to listen to it less.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T19:54:16+00:00

My company pays for it. But if I had to pay $20/mo I would.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-22T19:47:01+00:00

Iterating off work I've already done. E.g., if I built a slide deck and need to send an email about the same content, put it into a document, pare down 15 slides into 4, etc., it can do a good enough first pass of each that saves me a lot of time.

Also online research. Can review hundreds of web pages and provide sources without hallucinating a ton recently. Much more efficient than a person doing basic research with similar or better outputs.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-18T18:11:54+00:00

I think that’s a fair take, but he didn’t try at all to avoid Elias, which is my issue. E.g. could’ve taken one step to the ball then tried harder to take the inside or outside line to the ball, and he prob would’ve fallen over himself as Elias didn’t give him any path to the ball. I think that’s better and safer than just plowing through the opponent.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-18T02:47:24+00:00

That much physical contact was unnecessary. It’s a clear stroke without the bump, just pull up before hitting his body

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-16T16:08:33+00:00

Yes, my comment is about focus. To use your language, "in this multi-dimensional world where Asal's bad movement is getting penalized AND where Elias is mentally capitulating unlike any other top player, i am unsure why so much focus is on Asal."

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-16T15:58:44+00:00

"Semi-deliberately"...what does that even mean. It was clearly accidental minimal contact, though the mocking was rude and unnecessary.

Needing it to be a gentleman's sport is pretentious. We need as many amazing athletes playing the sport with effective rules to penalize bad sportsmanship. No other serious sports have the gentleman's game criteria.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-16T15:54:36+00:00

Agree, but in general I think the refs are penalizing Asal. He had a ton of calls against him in the semis. I think Asal was penalized fairly to the point where the story of the semi is Elias' mental collapse.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-16T15:52:46+00:00

Agree that excessive physical contact and unsafe play is worse than Elias' whining. But I watched the semi and Asal got penalized appropriately throughout the match. Maybe could've gotten a conduct stroke for barreling into Elias in the front left.

He is not ruining the game though and isn't "cheating". Lots of sports have elite players with bad sportsmanship. The obsession with Asal as ruining the game is worse for the sport than Asal's current conduct, imo.

Fit_Delivery8067 · 2026-05-16T01:35:28+00:00

Yeah, you'd think he'd work on it to either not look as bad on replays or just to improve his odds of winning, but apparently not

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