I’m starting to become convinced you actually become a better programmer by having the LLMs write the code, because programming is less about writing code and more about clear thinking, and free-form writing forces you to think. The code is downstream from that.

According to dynamical systems, psychiatric disorders can be seen as energy landscapes with peaks and valleys. OCD has deep valleys where neural activity gets stuck, while schizophrenia has shallow valleys that let neural activity roam too freely, connecting unrelated ideas.

The global logistics industry has pioneered the real world use of bitcoin in paying ransomware bribes.

greatest productivity hack is to work on something really cool

most people frame their entire worldview on the fear of judgment from others this creates a form of consensus matrix, where perspectives are more like clusters the art of marketing is basically just mapping these clusters and tailoring cognitive exploits accordingly

damn this hits

people are mostly wrong about psyops and information warfare. you can bet your bottom dollar that the boomer spooks are not great at manipulating online opinion. they lost control long ago

mathematics is insane because it appears to be one of the most dangerous drugs with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively taken by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "understand the logic of the dream" and basically get oneshotted by it

Devin AI starting at $500 a month is a somewhat bearish signal. If their technology actually works they would be giving it away for free to startups, and finding a way to take 30% of the startup’s revenue down the line. Like AWS. Or the App Store

Think about this study a lot

The Soviet pricing authorities began exempting products from the labor theory of value formula because they realized it decimates the incentive to innovate. Lol.

xAI You must construct additional Pylons

open source will win, in the end. in the meantime, labs should focus on pushing the frontier as far as possible. packaging and distributing ai to the world for the sake of maximizing access is a secondary, while important, goal.

thinking about how in life, like in chess, you don’t actually need to know the prior moves to make the best decision, only the current state of the board

"LinkedIn is OnlyFans for middle managers"

no certifications. no college courses completed. no documentary features. no awards. god, you're pathetic.

The old left-wing Twitter trolls used to twist what you said. The new right-wing ones don't understand what you said. So everyone who's used Twitter for sufficiently long is able to answer the question: what's worse, engaging with intellectually dishonest people or stupid ones?

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”