We spent the whole weekend rehearsing with Zea 🞶 for her presentation. Hope she's having fun now.
Creating things is combining many many things together. One must have mastered too many domains, too many techniques. And in making you'll never understand how much you have matured, as each of these things are tiny details which may feel worthless. But then together, they make sense.
And this is correct about ideas as well. Good ideas are perhaps the combination of many small ones. That is why they feel so fragile.
I'm tired of being this broke. This has been a year of living hard every single day. Someone at my level of proficiency must not be thinking if he can afford to take a taxi and survive this week.
One by one, my subscriptions are getting canceled. I don't have any money to pay them. I'm tired.
These days a "Feature" is a reason to accept feudalism.
Hollywood is basically an alignment system. They try so hard to be "fun" and reinforce the propaganda upon people. It is obvious; what is not obvious is why people keep feeding this trash to themselves.
When I saw just how lightweight the textual content of the archive can be (currently only 250KB), I felt that it would be so possible to have a static search system. Also I hated the homepage for quite a long time. It had become useless, but I used it to search (using the browser) through all of my titles. So I replaced it with a search engine.
Designing the search results were really hard. At the end of the day, I opted for a generic table based look, until I can figure out how each record should be shown in the search results. One thing that I'm proud of is how the tables look (and how awesome are their automatic merging)
The default path is companies racing to release the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology we've ever invented with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety. Rising energy prices, depleting jobs, you know, creating joblessness, creating security risks. That is the default outcome because energy prices are going up. They will continue to go up. People's jobs will be disrupted and we're going to get more, you know, deep fakes and floods of democracy and all these outcomes from the default path.
Yuval Noah Harari a different frame, which is that AI is [...] like a a flood of millions of new digital immigrants, of alien digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize level capability work at superhuman speed; will work for less than minimum wage. We're all worried about, you know, immigration of the other countries next door, uh taking labor jobs. What happens when AI immigrants come in and take all of the cognitive labor if you're worried about immigration? You should be way more worried about AI.
Maestro Postman 🞶, who's a wonderful media thinker in the lineage of Maestro McLuhan 🞶, used to say, clarity is courage. If people have clarity and feel confident that the current path is leading to a world that people don't want, that's not in most people's interests, that clarity creates the courage to say, "Yeah, I don't want that."
If there was a 10 billion question: are we going to get abundance or are we going to get just jobs being automated and then the question is still who's going to pay for people's livelihoods? So the math as I understand it doesn't currently seem to work out where everyone can get a stipend to pay for their whole life and life quality that as they currently know it and are a handful of western or US-based AI companies going to consciously distribute that wealth to literally everyone meaning including all the countries around the world whose entire economy was based on a job category that got eliminated. So, for example, places like the Philippines where, you know, a huge percentage of the jobs are are customer service jobs. If that got automated away, are we going to have Open AI pay for all of the Philippines? Do you think that people in the US are going to prioritize that?