maurelian

The underclass will be permanent. The upperclass not so much.

It really speaks to the quality of Apple hardware, that after all these years, my iPhone 12 seems to charge faster than it ever has before.

One of the most powerful examples of obliquity, or perhaps better to say inversion, that I have in my life, is that I find my pessimism to be alleviated somewhat when I face the thing head on. I'm still powerless against it, but I find that when I engage with the topic, when I really read about the scenarios, even though they don't actually change my expectations or worldview all that much, there is still a rather palpable sense of 'pressure release'.

Claude skills are incredible, it's like a near term hack for solving continuous learning. But I think they are also unintentionally end up becoming a new and incredibly valuable source of training data for executing tasks with long time horizons. The current state of AI is such that it incentivizes you to train the future AIs.

Hello restart my old friend

TIL you can (very inefficiently) own a piece of Anthropic:

OK, at this point claude is definitely pandering to me, but damn this is a good answer

Thesis (Thursday): AI psychosis will come for pretty much everyone. The strength of the model that gets you is proportional to your intelligence, inversely proportional to your mental stability.

For a fun time, try asking claude "What happens in fast take off?"

That said, what hasn't changed is that your actions still don't need to be determined by your feelings.

It's OK to be simultaneously excited, sad and scared about AI. Don't be gas lit by the VCs and hypesters into feeling like you're a luddite, simply for using your emotions to process the upheaval. If a SKILL you worked hard to cultivate loses value over the course of a few months, it would be weird not to feel that way.

This still works, you can just win RPS

ElevenReader is a pretty impressive app; you can have Richard Feynman read Dario’s latest essay to you, in a very realistic cadence and intonation

https://x.com/0x49fa98/status/2017344647627255862?s=46 Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe we’ll learn from this before it’s too late.

in other news https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2017313346375004487?s=20

Its a little bit hard for me to feel bad for Mark in this situation. https://x.com/joshycodes/status/2017286608727281691?s=20

How I know that I'm fundamentally irrational: My outlook on the world improves when I lift heavy things.

The current rate of acceleration is pretty overwhelming. I feel like a deer in headlights some days.