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[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

efficiency, productivity, speed

we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for

ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output

but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?

not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue

think

to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all

ai could be a new canvas

a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination

but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories

more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value

you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept

but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?

what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?

what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?

speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster

and where are we running?

toward what?

a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?

the danger is not that ai makes us lazy

the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy

that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still

maybe the real frontier is not more speed

maybe it is discernment

knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves

tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool

if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more

it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free

otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans

[chitwit @Chithra1998]

@kritikakodes It’s often just down to branding.

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@checkvisaslots Help me

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Was craving dessert, had grapes #fruitsforlife

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Nope, do not wash that cast iron pan

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@IndiaCinepolis Are subtitles available for the movie Sthal in Mumbai?

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@thefucksharma Hi Deepak! Are these still available? Please let me know. Very kinda of you btw :)

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@jyotsnam17 Hi Jyostna! Are these still available? Please please let me know. 🙃

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Don’t scare, just care

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Are you a beech or a corner person?

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I wonder what monkeys think of us. Do they have a reverse evolution study of how humans evolved into monkeys? “Oh these primitive human beings with their big heads and weak muscles…”

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Unpopular opinion: Spicy food is overrated. #whythehype #whythetears

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Stain on shirt - Amma will know how to fix
Cooking mistake - Amma will know how to fix
Slight inconvenience - Amma will know how to fix

Grateful :)

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Want someone who looks at me the way Maddy looks at Shalini in Alaipayuthey.

Actually, just want Maddy.

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It’s normal to get lazy and swallow the watermelon seeds, right?

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@gauthamdevadath Shut up.

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Ant trails are amusing and annoying at the same time

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@RahulBh47892790 Would be an interesting way to die, I guess.

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I won’t be surprised if the airplane lavatory sucks me in one day.

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If I focused on work as much as I do eating Hide & Seek line by line, na engayo poirupen.