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@karpathy New @cognition Devin is pretty close

When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc... I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. This is the actually hard part, not the code itself. Or rather, the better way to think about it is that the entire DevOps lifecycle has to become code, in addition to the necessary sensors/actuators of the CLIs/APIs with agent-native ergonomics. And there should be no need to visit web pages, click buttons, or anything like that for the human. It's easy to state, it's now just barely technically possible and expected to work maybe, but it definitely requires from-scratch re-design, work and thought. Very exciting direction!

@Thzer0r Few

mental how the greatest account on here wasn’t g manifesto, brute etc but a med student who drove a 95 325i

The Fountainhead is a great book despite its many flaws for the character of Peter Keating alone. The best literary portayal of the social climber. Driven not by ruthless calculation but by a desperate eagerness to please and immense capacity for self-deception

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@netcapgirl @eriktorenberg @a16z @eriktorenberg adding another generational poaster

i’ve spent enough time on the internet to know it’s the most important place in the world. it’s not separate from real life anymore. it is real life. i’m joining @eriktorenberg on the @a16z new media team to help shape the narrative arc of the future

Landshark was so real for this one

@maxmarchione How long have you been using it? The upside is immediate and the downside kicks in in the medium-long term

Just about every >150 iq person I know uses nicotine. Nicotine is underrated and misunderstood

@Al_D_Smith Yeah, I wish Caro had been able to write more biographies :( I've read the Grant biography recently by Chernow and it's interesting but really moreso because of the character than of the narration itself

I read Chernow’s Rockefeller biography recently and it lacks both perspectives, ending up in the middle as a kind of family drama. If Caro had done it you would have had both eagle eye view of Standard Oil and a sense of what the man was like to talk to. Though he had the advantage of subjects whose contemporaries were still alive

I've been reading a lot of biographies recently and finally got around to starting the Robert Caro LBJ trilogy. Absolutely insane quality of writing. Gulf between Caro and other high level biographers like Ron Chernow is the same as between those biographers and regular journo

@Al_D_Smith Absolutely, I usually find the early sections of biographies where they dive into protagonist ancestors to be tedious but was totally gripped by the history of Hill Country

@ryiacy I think part of this is the little cinematic excursions and breaks he takes to describe elements like hill farming or senate history or little potted biographies. And conversely the detail - taking the time to find out how lbj used a telephone, or behaved while driving

@riemannzeta @sebkrier Yeah the main anecdote I recall from the book is of him giving a speech at the end of his life where he's portrayed as somewhat self aggrandizing. But I did like PCA.

I have. I do get the sense that the author didn't necessarily care for Munger's approach, but I'm not sure she fully understood it either. I give more credit to Buffet's own accounts. Plus Poor Charlie's Almanack and the many public speeches and interviews of Munger himself paint a different picture.

When I was 20 my greatest fear was the slow atomisation of social relationships as one grew older. Now my greatest fear is calcification of beliefs and laziness/overconfidence taking over truth-seeking and epistemic flexibility. Before, the threat was external: the world thinning out around me, relationships becoming procedural, life becoming more siloed and inert. Now the threat is internal: the mind itself becoming cached, self-protective, and less permeable to reality.

@fogellxy 😂 I find it well suited to my 5 second attention span. I just ultra skim read everything and re-read the good parts

@ryiacy would be a shame if our attention spans were fried

One of the most underrated benefits of modernity is access to unlimited books on demand and it's even better with access to LLMs for recommendation. It the golden age for erudition and becoming insanely well read

@riemannzeta @sebkrier Have you read The Snowball @riemannzeta? It's not explicitly critical of Munger but it seems to portray him as a bit of an abstract ideas guy compared to the more practical Buffett, in particular in his latter years

@sebkrier It seems that we have some comfort in seeing that the folks who seemed to share that fear/embrace the unknown found some source of energy to continue learning and stay flexibility up to the end. Charlie Munger stands out as one example.

for instance, mixing bassline and speed garage youtube.com/watch?v=rasmsB…

Every now and again you'll encounter a Japanese person that has developed some kind of western special interest and mastered it to an extent that absolutely mogs the progenitors to death

@samswoora Let’s go

Recruiter said offer was accepted, getting the details Monday. Now just to see if it’ll work for me and we can come to an agreement. Let’s fucking go

@PosadistPaul God I hated Gavelkind. Brings back fond memories of marrying old ladies as soon as I hit one male heir and or murdering liberally to prevent the others inheriting anything

@ryiacy Gavelkind Tesla when

Ultimately the correct way to think about the value of attractiveness in your partner is as though you’re setting up a marriage in CKII

@fogellxy Real crusader kings would just get the spymaster involved

@ryiacy Babe i thought about our marriage in terms of CKII and im afraid i have to leave you now

IRL examples of this - LKY: married Choo because she was the smartest girl at his school apart from him, produced multiple genius children. Ideal example - Elon: strong genius preference alongside many children, unclear what dynastic succession plan is

Choosing a high attractiveness and or fertility partner with bad character is dynastic suicide. It’s literally never worth marrying the hot inbred countess with Imbecile bro