Excuse me I’m about to sound very dramatic, but. You can’t expedite your own becoming. It starts with outsourcing annoying tasks you don’t want to do but before you know it your life is utterly devoid of the necessary friction of existence. Literally no meaning. This sucks shit
when you scroll your phone: how sad. mindless. no inner life to speak of
when i scroll my phone: haha! i am learning so much at an astonishing speed. these jokes are so unique
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
pretty crazy how five years ago vaccines were the most devastating thing you could ever do to your body but nowadays its fine to inject chinese peptide from Temu because you cant stop snacking after dinner
Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.
Elon Musk, who, before he could make money from it, lamented the dangers of AI constantly, is now in the runnings to sell his AI directly to the pentagon for use in the war machine.
Objectively crazy work, even from the man whose ideology has been bought and sold countless times