Sam Iglesias

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vibe coded a cute lil personal webpage last night…with a hefty licensing fee for the FF Meta typeface https://www.siglesias.com/

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on exec review getting punted: “sam, you should be relieved because it was getting down to the wire for you” “actually my favorite cereal is captain crunch”

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people who are aggressively empathetic turn out to be weirdly bad at clocking people’s motivations it’s like the gimmes (sad person is sad) give them a false sense of clairvoyance (person who gave me weird look hates me) see also correlation between empathy and magical thinking. same deal.

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yeah, one issue is the lines are blurred. social norms brought to truthseeking organs. truthseeking organs that deliver hard truths face social sanctions etc etc unbelievably pernicious

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When you can’t be brutally honest you’re left with two choices: 1. Try to be honest without being brutal 2. Devalue honesty Feels sometimes that culturally we are pinballing in vain between these two approaches.

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agreed—must go through great pains to conceal from it which point of view is yours. sadly most people who use it for feedback, especially personal feedback, really *really* like being affirmed vs deal with evenhanded criticism. in this regard Claude is probably best at pushback.

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Tim Dillon on All-In is phenomenal.

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have ChatGPT design your Ben & Jerry’s pint of ice cream based on what it knows about you. Here’s mine:

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microkitchen is delivering today

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next episode of WL is gonna go hard

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next episode of WL is gonna go hard

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wait so has gene hackman been dead for two weeks?

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lol so fuckin good

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GOODBYE PIN (taking requests)

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