Evgeniy

Looking at life through decision-making lens.
Feeling human through love and freedom.
Staying more or less sane through humor.

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

X tells me I can't change my handle because I am "rate limited". I can't handle my rate, I can't rate my handle... Can someone wake me up from this, please?

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Sometimes it feels like the real purpose of these signposts is public humiliation: "Hey everyone, some really gullible people just moved in - they actually paid more than they were asked to pay! Real dumbasses."

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

@sofia_panasiuk 300 years is a bit too long-term for me. Not that I don't think about this timeframe (and beyond) at all, but it's definitely not internalized in my everyday decision-making process

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

I can be a huge optimist when it comes to long-term view; yet a steady stream of everyday failures can push me into becoming a short-term catastrophist.

In the long run we're all good. But today we're all dead.

"Always look on the bright side of life" (C)

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

If you have a mosquito net on your window and you focus on the net itself, as opposed to the view behind it... well, you can instantly pixelate your world.

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Everything that is important in life is a leap of faith.

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

@sofia_panasiuk Archetypes rule)

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Of course, I can also be tricked into hopelessness using this same technique)

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

The probability of anything bad happening to me the very next moment is so negligible, that it can be considered equal to zero for all practical purposes. Since the next moment this statement will also be true, I can trick my mind into becoming fearless.

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

A friend found a product in a mjor supermarket in Turkey that ChatGPT doesn't know anything about. Take that, AI!

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

From what I read on twitter, it seems like I can outsource running my life to AI already - if I can only find the right tools out of 1000s that come up every day. I guess I'll have to ask AI for recommendations...

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

You'd think investors ask themselves the "why do I want to invest in this" question BEFORE they invest, not a few years down the road... nope, not in real estate, they don't. Meaning is irrelevant, while IRR + FOMO rule!

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Overhead on subway:
"You know what Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones have in common? They are both written by someone whose name has two R's"
And there you have it!

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Aching for simplicity... or at least non-complexity... in at least one part of life. Should be achievable, or am I asking for too much?

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

On one hand, I've survived a few crises. On the other, I had a lot more energy & time and a lot less responsibilities for the previous ones. So this time just "surviving" is not an option - gotta figure out a way to own it.

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

There seems to be an inverse relationship between "number of things to do" and "how well you feel". It is almost never the case that you wake up feeling like crap and there's genuinely nothing to do - so you can go back to sleep guilt-free. Yet the opposite happens regularly

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Investing, like everything else in life, is better done out of love, not fear. Even investing in AI. Perhaps, *especially* investing in AI.

[ivan @IvanVendrov]

observing a very unhealthy dynamic of ai fear driving ai investment. people who don't want to work on / invest in / talk about ai feel like they have to because otherwise maybe they'll lose everything

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

Solving other people's problems is by far the most effective way of avoiding your own

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@robinhanson So if we suppose that there are behaviors that should be banned pre-emptively and those that should be punished "post-mortem"... on what basis would you draw that line? Historically, seems like that basis was "moral" - should we rethink that from economics & probability?

[Evgeniy @4lofre]

#outsiderviews Has anyone recently tried to host a party in SF where mentioning AI or anything related to it was strictly forbidden? Did it work? Did people actually talk?