making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
The performance of highly advanced artificial intelligence models is constrained by the knowledge available to them.
Even if GPT-6 is smarter than you, if it doesn’t have access to the right information, it won’t be able to say anything truly interesting.
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humans are social animals, and we try to keep ourselves inside a kind of circle and mentally inhabit an enclosed space.
well, the sublime is what lies just outside that circle. other ideas about the world. other ways of thinking, other ways of feeling. and it’s transformative.
because humans don't naturally like limits. when your mother tells you, don't do that, that's exactly what you want to do.
the word sublime, from the Latin means up to the threshold. up to the threshold of a door. and looking through that door on the other side is a sublime experience. so when you take a hike and you're feeling like a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, and you're feeling your heart beating and you're feeling this rush of adrenaline, you're so excited, you're experiencing a sublime emotion. and that sublime emotion is a kind of an expansiveness as opposed to the closed spirit that we normally have.
and it's liberating and it's exciting.
we create our own reality. we have imaginations. we can imagine new kinds of political structures. we can imagine new kinds of social ways of interacting. we can create instead of just passively consuming what other people give us.
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
measuring something’s value by how much money it makes is like measuring he value of sex by the amount spent on prostitution
AI-powered second brains will fix the “cold start problem.” When we have to manually populate your library with ideas, it has little value in the early days. It grows slowly, but gradually compounds. After months and years, it becomes a rich well of inspiration. Imagine if you had access to that value within the first few minutes of using an app,... See more
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Sublime’s battle cry is clear and compelling