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The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.

We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j

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What might I put in place to allow me to go off the grid for 4 to 8 weeks, with no phone or email?

5. Algorithmic feeds are failing: StumbleUpon helped me start to understand, almost at a humanistic level, how vast the internet could be. TikTok often yields a similar result, though with a key difference. On TikTok, almost all videos trend toward a kind of visual consistency and repeatability. Silly voices or bits of speech become ‘sounds’, to be... See more

Beyond simply writing out the instructions & examples you want to send to a model, prompt engineering for your product will also include actual software engineering needed to stitch in the right inputs from your customer experience, inject context from other data sources and consistently format responses in a usable way. It also includes picking th... See more

What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity. How could it? And this is the essence of transcendence. If we have limitless potential then what is there to transcend? And therefore what is the purpose of the imagina

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Elon’s proposal for a world view/ motivating philosophy: “Understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe” To that end, Elon aims to “Expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we may better understand the nature of the universe”

Kids should be taught there are infinite possibilities and to seek careers that don’t even exist yet – they don’t have to fit into what exists