Talin Koutnouyan
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Talin Koutnouyan
Though we yearn for clarity, the universe whispers caution. If you listen closely to those who’ve made it, you’ll find what many of them want most is to return to the unknown. Kurt Cobain said he wished he could’ve stayed forever in the moment right before Nirvana got big. Virgil Abloh believed no piece mattered more than having the freedom to make... See more
Yancey Strickler • What we lose when we start with the ending
The world has always been a sorry and confused sort of place—yet poets and artists and scientists have ignored the factors that would, if attended to, paralyze them.
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers.
• Plato: It's remembering a soul.
• Freud: It's desire in disguise.
• Buddha: It's letting go.
• Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness.
• Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies.
• Kafka: It's a wound that... See more
Unfilteredx.comThe problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness . Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but... See more
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
Distinguishing healthy self-acknowledgment from destructive shame that hijacks our inner narrative and blocks love, creativity.
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Very good. So I think acknowledging the flaws is critical, critical, always. Acknowledging my humanness, my vulnerability, my frailty, the fact that I make mistakes, the fact that I fall, I stumble, and I sometimes have a very weak moment. And even internally, the fact that even if nobody sees it, I'm struggling with something that may be very,
... See moreSimilarly, I think people need to ask themselves – and it might be easier if we ask each other – What do you really want to be doing? How did you fall in love in the first place? People start optimizing for things like “hm, if I did this I would get 5% more traffic” or “I would get to the next follower milestone” I think because it’s visible, and... See more