Been trying out ChatGPT Canvas and its not that bad at writing but it sucks the genius out of any idea and produces something so mediocre that it deflates me. Its like I’m feeding the machine instead of the machine feeding me

my mother pointed out that Austin has a similar topography to the town I grew up in, something I had not noticed until now, and now I believe in topological determinism for where you live

gloom

People fetishize pain because pain is the only kind of proof of your own realness that you can trivially generate without help from others

Narcissism is the delusion that others are more real than you and can be roped into generating proof of your own realness while avoiding pain 

Angst is the realization that others feel no more real than you and there is no pain-free path to feeling real

Absurdism is the realization that this condition is extraordinarily funny

the famous corollary to hurt people hurt people - sometimes people hurt themselves so that they have permission to hurt others

weird year, lot of friends left for other cities but moved into a great city with girlfriend. Put a lot of work into a couple of things but not much to show for it

I used to watch Manchester United games but now I just go for a run and play the game on my headphones cause I know there’s a good chance they lose, unfortunately it seems like the quality of radio commentary has gone down and I’m probably a harbinger consumer

I used to watch Manchester United games but now I just go for a run and play the game on my headphones cause I know there’s a good chance they lose, unfortunately it seems like the quality of radio commentary has gone down and I’m probably a harbinger consumer https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopular-products-1223

“psychological inward search” is also just a form of entertainment

i don't know when we'll have agi. it could be 6 months or 6 years. but what i do know is that 43 years ago krishnamurti predicted  that when computers do take over human intelligence, we'll be left with two choices. either complete sedation of the senses through ai generated… https://t.co/CJg4VFVUN8

Ashwin Sharma

“psychological inward search” is also just a form of entertainment https://x.com/Ashwinreads/status/1870264144013701356

mediocre enlightenment is when you find a pareto optimal amount of suffering that you are okay with

too many projects in crypto are the equivalent of basic, flimsy, temporary shelters. iron roof, loud in the rain. no insulation. built to last a year, then the tribe moves on. 

crypto needs fewer shacks, and more cathedrals. who on earth will build the cathedral.

Die a hero or live long enough to be a meme coin.

what differentiates slop from something that is just bad is that slop is cynical and is produced despite the knowledge that it’s bad

Introducing Pocket: The Future of AI in your Hands https://t.co/TTUr2liVCt

akshay

Hardware slop https://x.com/AkshayNarisetti/status/1869427056993546261

Framing TikTok as the MTV of this generation kind of soothes me

Framing TikTok as the MTV of this generation kind of soothes me https://www.8ball.report/p/internet-cool

faust

haven’t got one yet but I’ve not been this excited about a hardware product in 5 years

The alien race is in a great stagnation of its own resorting to drones over flying saucers at the speed of light

good to have some slop in your life keeps you humble too much slop otoh makes you feel poor and anxious

The slopstack:
Midjourney 
DoorDash
Shein
ChatGPT for writing 
Temu 
10mpg truck 
Athletic Greens 
hawk tuah
Memecoins

playing around with Repplit agent and building something small feels like writing a blog post

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