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Crazy how humanity's ecological niche is just knowing things more and better

Why is literally every subject so fascinating

If you’re under 30 and really ambitious but struggling I would give yourself a break. The world is an efficient place, it takes time to develop specialized, tacit, valuable knowledge that the world finds useful. The world is not going to shit, we are, like always, on a long arc

It's super wild to get deep connections with people from a foreign country while living in that foreign country. You see things through an additional cultural lens that people not exposed to that environment simply won't understand. I think it explains a lot of the outrage you

"I use AI in a separate window. I don't enjoy Cursor or Windsurf, I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers." DHH, the legendary programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails has the most beautiful and philosophical idea about what AI takes away from programmers.

I’m investigating Neolithic stressors

All advice boils down to either “do the hard thing” or “do the easy thing” and they both somehow can mean the opposite of their original simple intended meaning depending on the philosophy of the advice-giver Just don’t listen to advice is my advice (don’t listen to this either)

TIL James Dyson spent over 100 million pounds fighting EU regulation that benefited incumbent German companies (and not the consumer), lost, and then won in an appeal. Winning against the EU in a case like this is apparently rare And that’s one reason he’s a proponent of UK not

This. Just because consciousness makes use of computation does not imply computation of any kind automagically gives rise to consciousness. And this gets further muddied by the fact that the computation that LLMs are doing are made to emulate what we could recognize as

Oh! The best argument for why LLMs are not conscious is that by thinking they are you forbid a universe in which you could make an LLM that emulates human intelligence effectively but is *not* conscious I personally think that, this universe permits you to make a system that