Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
My instinct is to say that I’ve gotten more confident, but anyone who’s done this knows that confidence is an illusion. One day’s good work doesn’t mean anything. You’re still at the whim of the gods about how the next day is going to go.
Brent Lang • Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Licorice Pizza’ and Moviemaking: ‘Anyone Who’s Done This Knows That Confidence Is an Illusion’
I don’t believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It’s the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it’s just to convince myself again that I’m not missing a lot.
Red Bull’s billionaire founder - Colossus
The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn’t.
meet clout-as-a-service: where weaponised FOMO meets digital gaslighting
Life and We're all going to die
I had some abstract awareness of clout-as-a-service, but this post really fucked my shit up.
AI AI Captain and AI
A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.com
Very often I sit, with my laptop open in front of me, staring at the mountain of emails I have in Gmail, most of which I could give a fuck about. And I get mad. I get mad because Google makes it impossible for me to whitelist instead of blacklist senders. And then I start thinking about switching away from Google. I really do want to. But it’s so
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