"The hardest truth is that your greatest work may be seen by no one, and yet you must do it anyway for the one who watches is you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
when I have to kill the long running session that has all the good info and a constructive back and forth because claude just starts getting context window dementia
parents: "move out"
girlfriend: “quit being such a loser”
boss: "work harder"
claude: "uber for dogs (the dogs are the drivers) is a great idea, you should absolutely pursue it"
for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down.
It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems.
A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means:
Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad."
Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language.
Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed.
Both walk away frustrated.
Both have wasted each others time.
If you're a millennial it's time to pick your midlife crisis:
1. Quitting alcohol
2. Running 10 miles before work
3. Divorce
4. Panic baby at 35 with wife you hate
5. Pickleball
6. ADHD diagnosis
7. Dressing like you did in 2004
8. Blacking out every weekend like you’re 21
9. Weekly hinge dates
10. Ice baths and saunas
11. Board games and craft beer in the suburbs
12. Getting into tattoos
13. Quitting your job to explore your “passions”
14. Plants and the environment
15. Traveling
“Jeff Bezos”
Jeff Bezos pidió a una sala llena de gente que imaginara retroceder cien años en el tiempo.
La mayoría eran agricultores.
Imaginemos que les decimos a esos campesinos que en 2018 existiría un empleo llamado “masajista”.
Bezos: “No te habrían creído”.
Luego un amigo fue más lejos: “Olvídate del masajista… hay psiquiatras para perros”.
Bezos lo verificó y confirmó: “Es verdad, puedes contratar fácilmente a un psiquiatra para tu perro”.
La sala estalló en risas.
Pero el verdadero mensaje detrás de esa risa no tenía nada de gracioso.
Cada vez que irrumpe un gran cambio tecnológico, repetimos el mismo error: nos enfocamos obsesivamente en los empleos que se van a perder y casi nunca hablamos de los que se van a crear.
No los contamos porque todavía no tienen nombre.
El miedo siempre es concreto, tiene cara y apellido: “La IA va a reemplazar a los contadores. A los radiólogos. A los camioneros”.
Tiene fechas, gráficos y proyecciones.
La oportunidad, en cambio, no tiene nada de eso. No puedes nombrar lo que todavía no existe.
Un agricultor de 1920 podía entender perfectamente que una tractora le quitaría el trabajo.
Lo que jamás habría podido imaginar es que un día su bisnieto ganaría la vida como “estratega de redes sociales”.
No por falta de inteligencia, sino porque entre su mundo y ese nuevo empleo todavía faltaba toda una cadena de inventos: la radio, la televisión, internet, los smartphones, las plataformas digitales, las economías de creadores.
Cada eslabón tenía que aparecer antes de que “estratega de redes sociales” pudiera siquiera sonar como un trabajo real.
Eso es exactamente donde estamos hoy con la inteligencia artificial.
Todos miramos la tractora.
Nadie logra ver la cosa que está siete inventos más adelante y que todavía no tiene nombre.
El miedo es ruidoso porque cabe en el lenguaje que ya conocemos.
La oportunidad es silenciosa porque no cabe.
Cada revolución tecnológica de la historia terminó creando más empleos de los que destruyó.
Todas, sin excepción.
No porque alguien lo hubiera planeado, sino porque las necesidades humanas se expanden mucho más rápido de lo que las máquinas pueden satisfacerlas.
No necesitábamos masajistas cuando nos partíamos la espalda en el campo.
Los necesitábamos después, cuando las máquinas nos liberaron del esfuerzo físico y el estrés ocupó el lugar del trabajo manual.
La demanda no desapareció. Solo migró hacia un lugar donde nadie estaba mirando.
Eso es lo que está ocurriendo ahora mismo.
Los trabajos que creará la IA nos van a sonar tan absurdos como “psiquiatra para perros” le habría sonado a un granjero de 1920…
hasta que alguien cobre 200 dólares la hora con seis meses de lista de espera.
Hoy toda la conversación gira en torno a lo que estamos a punto de perder.
Casi nadie habla de lo que estamos a punto de ganar.
Porque las ganancias todavía no tienen vocabulario.
Dentro de cien años, alguien se parará en un escenario y describirá los trabajos que hoy no podemos ni imaginar.
Y la audiencia se reirá.
Exactamente igual que nosotros acabamos de reírnos.
One of the biggest problems with using LLMs as a google replacement for programming, is that getting zero relevant results on google used to be a signal that you had the wrong idea about the root cause. Whereas LLMs will happily indulge any terrible idea you suggest.
You dont want a yacht. You dont want a big house. You dont want a super car, a $40,000 watch, or shoes you worry about getting dirty. You want free will.
You want to wake up naturally on a Tuesday and you want to go to bed when you’re done having fun. You want to say yes to everything that excites you without having to request time off. You want to go to the the gym at noon, in absolutely no hurry. You want to spend 18 hours a day doing what you love. You want to be exactly where you desire being, always. You want to spend as much time with the people you care about as possible.
You’re saying you wanna be rich? In what?
gonna play the heck out of GTA 6 simply because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs
no-one will ever invest this much in a game again, no software will ever encode this quantity of hands-on human labour again. the last of the great pyramids
Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.
My parents follow a standard procedure anytime they’re driving to unknown territory:
-Dad drives
-Mom pulls up directions on her phone
-Mom calls out turns along the way
This inevitably leads to constant, petty bickering throughout the ride.
“You didn’t tell me where to turn!”
“That’s because you’re driving too fast!”
“I don’t know what 'right there' means! Tell me the name of the street!”
“You keep talking and I can’t pay attention to the map!”
And so on and so on.
(And so on.)
For years, they have done this while��a large, Bluetooth-enabled, navigation-ready screen is positioned inches away, in their nice Lexus SUV, ready at any time to connect to a phone which would then conveniently display the route on screen.
I once offered to set this up for them. They quickly hand-waved the idea and proceeded as usual.
Married 40 years and still going strong.
Marital foundations are built on bizarre customs that outsiders simply cannot understand. Never interrupt a bickering couple while they’re enacting one of the routines that holds it all together.