Apparently Vince Gilligan would've never made Breaking Bad if he had known a similar show was already on the air. I guess sometimes it pays to be naive as a young artist!

Reading about 1920s/30s Hollywood before the Hays code. Even though the cencorship ended in the 60s, I didn't realize that it was much more seedy than it ever was since. It feels more akin to today's wild west online clickbait streaming slop content than today's movie industry.

amusing postmodern content-pilled vignette here from an eSports player - a professional athlete talking about "creating storylines" as a goal as important as actually winning competitions.

the overseas titles for Everything Everywhere All At Once are pretty funny

When I see LLMs pretending to be someone's romantic partner and imagine what that's like from the inside, it brings to mind the experience of being a child or teenager relating to new social contexts - autocompleting based on cultural scripts, with only little causal influence

One intuition about LLMs that I have is that they are "oversocialized". If I imagine myself, who has gotten a lot of my data about life in text form online and always has concepts swirling around in my head, and I imagine a farm boy from the 16th century who talks to people a lot

TIL movie trailers are called "trailers" because they used to be shown after the movies, not before. They were *trailing* them

People who have been through job search and applied a bunch, how do you deal with cover letters? There are so many jobs that: - I'd def take and do good work for - Am not super passionate about - It's low but nonzero chance they take me for interview Cover letters take me

paul goes to badminton

Everybody less political than me is naive and clueless, everybody more political than me is mindkilled and hallucinating

I think people should recuse themselves from having opinions about topics when they're too biased, just like with professional conflicts of interest. So I'll go first: You shouldn't trust my instincts about the value of debating and abstract thinking. It's too deep in my bones.