remember when covid started happening and you were on 4chan like holy shit and then you told your friends about it IRL and they didn't take you seriously at all and had no idea? and then two months later the entire world shut down that's where we're at with AI rn

We've cured about 40% of cancer since 1990, so this is fairly tractable.

Fun article for some value of "fun", but assumes AI is strict substitute for knowledge work at lower price point and most consumer surplus unpriced a la Wikipedia, as opposed to either large amount of value captured as profits by <insert entity> or large increase in real output

Iranian sleeper cell sent 16 inches of snow to our house

Press F. Incredible amounts of wasted time and effort, only to give up on the privacy protections and control freak ethos that were the original justification for not shipping capable models. x.com/i/status/20376…

The returns to absorbing pain around non automatable processes will continue to increase as competitors find it easier to slurp down pure return to capital, including de facto endowments

This is a fancy way of saying you need to actually figure out how to use the computer. Accurate!

I wrote a short story about institutional memory, that which grows in the places where it used to be, and a part on your car that has been there since 1957 and does nothing.