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Executive Order to halt production of all Marvel movies

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Looking for an article/tips like this, but for Plan Mode

@abram Thariq has a good prompt for plan mode - let me dig it up

@TheStalwart @pmarca But seriously, haven’t you guys done a ton of episodes about chips being in everything? So is it like, semis are eating the world?

@TheStalwart @pmarca But isn’t everything computer?

This is a compelling argument from Tim. @pmarca ended up being wrong about software eating the world. I’ve previously said on the podcast that Andreesen was vindicated, and this made me change my mind.

@katech0n Or Russell’s “sense data”, ie experience reduced to a collection of inputs - some information theory at play here as well. Have you read Gleick’s The Information? There’s a line in that I’m thinking of in particular, will try to find it.

You’re probably right that the seeds were sown with literacy, but I’d argue that industrialization totalized the “discrete” mode of perception to an unprecedented degree, mainly by injecting it into the very foundation of economic life. Cf Heidegger on “standing reserve” in The Question Concerning Technology But yes disregarding the scope, to your point I think you can extend the effect itself chronologically as far back as mass literacy, insofar as writing is a technology. (Which is also why I don’t think this effect can be feasibly reversed). Coincides with the Machiavellian turn toward instrumental/this-worldly politics as well

I hate to be that guy but it is prob both true that - the ancients did not have an “inner world” in the way that we think they did - they had better lives as a result and retardmaxxing is the wrong solution to the right diagnosis Try this 10 second exercise, you’ll see what I mean. Look at your phone/laptop and answer the question “what is this object” WITHOUT using any words. You should start to feel a tingling at the back of your head, maybe even a sense of anxiety. Do this for a day* and you will understand - Plato - Genesis chapter 2 / John chapter 1 - early Wittgenstein - basic angelology - Lana del Rey - why Guenon/Evola hated fascism - why psychedelics are stupid - why Kant is a bastard who should be put on trial for the murder of philosophy and every patriot should spit on his grave There’s a lot of evidence that this is the default state of the ancients, unmediated by the post-Industrial excess of information/categories. So when Marcus Aurelius tells you he’s sad, he’s probably experiencing something very different from you and me. * heads up if do this for > 1 week you will genuinely go insane. speaking from partial experience. would not recommend

@sur4js This had me lol’ing

liberal: I'm a liberal conservative: I'm a conservative Andreessen: NO FUCKING INTROSPECTION

@TheStalwart @jimprosser This has been the eternal problem for the consequentialist ethos of silicon valley

This was a great piece from @jimprosser about how AI companies communicate with the public. Whole thing is really worth reading. Also, I feel like this a great way to characterize a certain mindset personfamiliar.com/p/ai-humanity-…

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, Erin go Bragh

@JosephNWalker Obsidian?

Obsidian x Claude Code has been a game changer for me. I’m maybe 20-30% more productive. Is anyone else finding this?

@bcherny This is cool, but ideally these are just baked into the Claude Code experience. I don’t want to have to remember which skill to use in each prompt. And there’s no need to reinvent the wheel with a new /review skill or /frontend-design skill

Really great writeup

@trq212 Can you just give us a list of skills you guys find most helpful and that you’ve validated?

@TheStalwart This is why yo see Facebook/Meta rebrand 462 times without changing their core thing.

Fascinating. So Meta is truly the inverse Pequod. Mark Zuckerberg wants to do the noble thing, hunting right whales and creating shareholder value. But to attract the best crew in this day and age, he needs them to think they’re in pursuit of the White Whale.

@GarettJones An economist's call to faith

@ChrisPainterYup But I do see a world where it's more like "steering" and less like explicit feature-building

@ChrisPainterYup respectfully, people have said "good products sell themselves" since products existed.

I find it odd when people describe frontier AI as if it were a typical software product where PMs drive adoption through feature work. AI sells itself. Get out of the way of the underlying capability, and advancing capabilities, and time, will drive adoption themselves.

Feds gotta hike

@TheStalwart Wish you would tell us

Also even if we accept the premise that this is true. There's a totally obvious reason for it, that everyone is missing

I’ve seen this exact question asked a thousand times, and yet I’ve never seen anyone establish that the underlying premise is actually true. Has there been some poll?

@robustus @TheStalwart Look into Mercor and SurgeAI. Some of the fastest growing companies entirely dedicated to this. It’s noisy now, yes, but there’s a real economy behind it.

@TheStalwart This sounds like emotionally driven statistical noise fwiw. Not saying it can't/won't happen at scale that matters, but I am highly suspicious of current claims or insinuation to that effect.

Lawyers and scientists and other people who have lost their jobs have now entered the gig economy, where they get paid to help train AIs to do their old job. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@leebriskcyrano This is what PE management already is

at what point does private equity flip companies by replacing management with greedy AI?