Connor O’Leary

A lover of wisdom and a seeker after knowledge.

"...in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

The joy of reading isn't just in following an interesting narrative or collecting useful information. Nor is it just in the technical quality of the writing. It's in the intimacy of entering into a dialogue with another living soul. The twisting and turning of his mind as he works out the details of an argument, the whole constellation of subconscious premises and feelings--built up over the course of a life--that leads to this choice of phrase over that one, the struggle and joy of turning the material of his mind into a coherent assemblage of words--all of that living and breathing humanity is on the page, and that's half the pleasure of it.

So it doesn't matter how well your AI mimics your thought process or style; it's only mimicry, not the real thing. There is a page full of words, maybe good ones, maybe interesting ones! But YOU are not really there.

Do you not care enough about your subject to sit and write about it for a couple hours? Do you not care enough about your readers to sit and talk to them? Do you not care enough about your own soul to sharpen and define it through the act of self-expression?

If your friend purchased a perfect robotic copy of themselves--with the same body, the same mannerisms, way of speaking, habits, etc--and sent it in his stead to have dinner with you, is that friendship? Are you getting to know each other? Learning the art of friendship? Growing through the act of relating to another person?

Of course, maybe you also hire your own robot copy. Now your robot and his robot are having dinner and sending you an AI summary of the conversation. Maybe the author's AI writes the essay, and our AI reads it and give you a summary. Maybe my AI matches with her AI on Hinge and they go on our first date to see if we're a good fit--I wouldn't want to "waste time" on the wrong person, after all. Maybe we'll have a whole world of this sort of thing: AIs living our lives for us and sending a summary for our impoverished souls to consume secondhand. And maybe we'll all be ok with that. More time to bed rot.

Technologists have an obsession with giving us an easier world, a "frictionless" world. And this is certainly all much easier, much more frictionless. But friction is a metaphysical property of life. A perfectly frictionless world is a dead world. And it seems that’s where we’re heading.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

After writing 500 blog posts and 11 books, I discovered I was wasting time on the wrong parts of writing

Now, Claude drafts 90% of my content in my exact voice and style—saving me 4-6 hours per piece

In Part 1 of this new YouTube series, I introduce my AI writing system and show you what's possible:

- Live demonstration: Creating a 3,000-word essay in 15 minutes
- The exact results you can expect (90-95% ready to publish)
- Why 50% of writing doesn't need your direct attention
- 3 powerful use cases for professionals and business owners
- A glimpse at my 21,000-word style guide

Whether you're building thought leadership, creating content marketing, or documenting your expertise...

This system multiplies your intellectual output without sacrificing your unique voice

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

At some point we have to ask: Are Houston and Dallas cities? Or are they freeway-mediated petro-exurban-suburban conurbations.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

Zoomers don’t know this, but coffee that didn’t taste like boiled dirty socks used to be so rare in America that latte was just a slur for liberals.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

No thanks, I want my MD jacked up on steroids. This is RFK Jr.’s America

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

Texas sun

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

It's astonishing how anti-AI the average person is, and it isn't a partisan thing. I know leftists and religious conservatives all repeating the same anti-AI tropes about evil billionaires and the end of humanity. It's as if everyone you knew suddenly thought vaccines were a Bill Gates population control conspiracy.

A major difference is that the people working on AI have played a massive role in stoking this paranoia by spreading visions of paperclip apocalypses and permanent underclasses. It's as if Bill Gates were on Twitter everyday going, "So...there might be microchips in the vaccines and they might...possibly...I don't know...sterilize you. I don't know for sure. It could be really bad honestly. But we have to do it anyway because of my possibly-sort-of-ironic-but-also-sort-of-totally-sincere belief in the vaccine-God."

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

Funny that both Claude and Chat chose characters that represent the authors

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

@HVNYrefugee Wow, I really thought I nailed this

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

For a cynical few, this is a feature, because it makes you the ever-willing victim of their sociopathic manipulation.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

When I was a tradcath, I had friends who used to regularly say, “The only thing we all deserve is hell.”

This is the secular version of that psychology.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

A morality of self-sacrifice is impossible to actually live, which means you either reject it or accept that you are irredeemably evil—and go about striking your breast in perpetual penance, your head hung in perpetual shame.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

@neipate96 @salingergregor Not Austin but definitely an Austin vibe:)

[Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 @StevenGlinert]

“Indians deserve their ethnic cleansing”.

I assume this guy also thinks Jews deserved the holocaust. Vile.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Me: “I live downtown”

Boomers:

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

@bankerboy_ It’s pathetic watching Silicon Valley types try to “understand their pain”. Sheep trying to empathize with wolves.

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

@chribreuer People spend tons of time outdoors in all these areas, in both summer and winter.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

If you haven’t been paying attention to his story, see here. https://t.co/BZNALz5pvY

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

The Waterline at the end of the rainbow

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

Aesthetically, this would be hilarious

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇨🇦 NEW: Alberta will hold a referendum on October 19 to decide whether they want to remain in Canada or start the process towards a binding separation referendum

[@POLITICO]

[Connor O’Leary @Connorpoleary]

“You become an adult when you start to play the hands you are freely dealt.”

“You are rewarded for action, nothing else.”

Another banger from Sarris

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

You will be tempted to think your knowledge of the "broken system" is special and tempted to refuse individual solutions. Maybe you'll imagine the system being "fixed." These are foolish.

You become an adult when you start to play the hand you are dealt.