Tamas David-Barrett

oh btw ai can now generate high-quality classical sheet music and it sounds absolutely insanely good

The reason the Elon-Ashley story is so evocative is that it forces people to stare at the state of modern dating. In a monogamous world, there are close to no incels. When 12 baby mamas want to fuck the same guy, that's when 11 incels are created. I can assure you that Ashley has rejected 10/10s, intelligent and dedicated men so she could get that one fatherless baby. I don't blame Elon at all. I have as many baby mamas as he does. As a male, all you can do is play your best game with the cards you're dealt. But I do blame Ashley. The decision between a 10/10 dedicated father that she could have easily had, vs. "No, that's not enough for me. I want Elon Musk at major costs to society and to my future son, who will at best benefit from 1/12th of a father." <- that decision right there is what breaks monogamy, and it's entirely on Ashley. It's this female delusion that there's something to be maxed out in the gene selection phase at the cost of the parenting phase. And what's underneath that delusion is the myth of the disposable father. Down the line, that's the decision that breaks societies. Arguably, that decision alone leads to inconceivable amounts of war and famine, as the incels try to find something to do with their dead-end lives.

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

The United States has confirmed that it intends to impose 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, with 10% tariffs on energy, starting February 4.   I’ve met with the Premiers and our Cabinet today, and I’ll be speaking with President Sheinbaum of Mexico shortly.   We did not want this, but Canada is prepared. I’ll be addressing Canadians later this evening.

Measles is so infectious that kids who aren't vaccinated WILL get it if exposed. Not widely known: measles causes immune amnesia (also termed measles immunosuppression). That is, it erases your immunity to OTHER infectious diseases you obtained via either vaccination or exposure

A journalist just contacted me regarding the White House Executive Order on sex. Here is the email I dashed off: