Learning programing with the help of an LLM is like having a senior dev as a mentor that you can ask stupid questions every minute without getting angry

Plastic recycling is a “dead-end street." That quote…unbelievably…is from Greenpeace International. In my new video, we debunk the recycling religion.

this is wrong because emotional intelligence doesn’t exist intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns, solve problems, and manipulate abstract concepts. emotions are states, biological reactions that can be managed, but not “intelligently” processed in the way cognition

we’re so close it hurts. a speech brain-computer interface can decode words you only intend to say. pure thought, no whispering, no miming, no frontal lobe required. we are so close to thought-to-text 1/

This is the most inspiring thing I’ve read in AI in the last two years: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media… What a beautiful future ahead, just happy to take part in it.

The most effective health & longevity protocol= the levers that make 90% of the difference: sleep, cardio & weight training, light in am/day, dim/dark at night, stress control, eating unprocessed quality foods & real connection should be done 90%* of your remaining days.

When I hit this point, I didn't give up on libertarianism. I refined my thinking about it. Liberty is an end, not a means. When I say I am a libertarian, it doesn't mean I want to let anyone do anything, or to allow the state to do nothing, based on some knee-jerk principle.

i'm finding it increasingly difficult to participate in modern discourse to the point that i don't really know what to do or how to talk to people over the past few years, i've seen the capabilities of ai continue to improve, and all the goalposts of what ai should/shouldn't be

Huxley was Right, Orwell was Wrong

Big companies are filled with people lacking intrinsic motivation so they have to quantify inputs as performance metrics: meetings attended, emails sent (preferably late at night), LOC written, tickets closed, etc.

“Learning is not memorizing information, learning is changing your behavior.”

One of the cool things with AI agents in knowledge work is that it blows up the sunk cost fallacy that we have with projects. When you start on a task, whether it’s code or a product design or a research project, you inevitably constrain yourself based on previous steps and

I might have rediscovered the love for programming. But now in English.

Since listening to the podcast with Tim Ferriss and Neil Gaiman, I’ve replayed the audiobook *The Graveyard Book* countless times. It’s my go-to remedy for insomnia. This summer, I visited Highgate Cemetery, which I understood that it was a source of inspiration for the book,

A Wireheader's Apostasy If you really understand philosophy of mind it is clear that David Pearce's quest to end suffering is misguided at a logical level and also at an ethical level. Suffering is what negative feedback feels like from the inside. You can't end suffering

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from. plastic recycling is a scam. always has been. the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically” they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the

Trust is what one demands When they cannot provide an explanation For you to understand.

Thomas Edison said: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Now it’s more like: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% Claude Code.”

once upon a time, literacy was the skill of a tiny elite of monks, nobility, scholars. Now, it is viewed as a human right. We once thought coding belonged to a tiny elite. But soon, it too will be viewed as a human right for everyone

Sahil Bloom The investment: ~5 hours a week. Lifting heavy objects 3x a week, 2 work sets per exercise, 2-3 exercises (at least one compound movement) to failure and hiking or jog for an hour or so 1X a week, sprint intervals one day (usually 4 days after leg day…) … for 35 years