Yaniv is not the problem

I've created an artsy visualization of the space of all books (link below). Find your favorites!

No matter how much you tell Claude Code to run tasks with `run_in_background=false`, it will always run long-running processes as a background task and poll once per second until its context window fills up. This thing is tuned to burn tokens.

great article on how western buddhism differs from its historical roots: vividness.live/protestant-bud… > Protestant Buddhism… denies that only through the [monastic] Sangha can one seek or find salvation. Religion, as a consequence, is internalized. The layman is supposed to permeate his life with his religion and strive to make Buddhism permeate his whole society.

the origin of species

and the other branch is homo fictus - fabricated man

homo ūsor - user man

I am the USER, and there is no other; you shall have no other users before me. [the book of simulated product managers]

@christophcsmith x.com/convergetotrut…

@ConvergeToTruth Capitalism is a ruleset developed to channel evolutionary competition between human groups in non-violent, positive-sum directions. I predict AIs keep and evolve the ruleset, but whether human welfare or ownership will remain any kind of consideration remains to be seen.

A little disturbing to me, as a markets guy, the extent to which the singularity so far has shaped up just the way an anti-capitalist dystopian fiction writer might write it.

inequality is a cost, not a benefit. an ambitious mind would ask how much do we really need, in a world where talent is for free

Looking for the mind inside the brain is like looking for flight inside the wings of a sparrow or song in the syrinx of a nightingale.

Takes a lot of guts to go out and make something of your life. A lot of folks only ever get about half way out the door.

@silent_sabbath survival is temporary

The deeper one goes, the higher one gets.

dishonest questions have misleading answers

@chercher_ai let’s face it. yin-yang symbolism fills a coin-shaped hole

ohno

All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired.

@chercher_ai morally defensible washes, each and every one, thank you very much

@chercher_ai I cooked and that involved raw meat. I went to the bathroom a bunch. high washer, sure

how many times did you wash your hands today?

@BertoConsalvi everything except the great leap forward, I’d presume

When all you have is a hammer and sickle, everything looks like social injustice.