the trick is having the courage to live through a chapter you hate without letting it poison your belief in the story. even in the middle of something painful, you can hold onto that deep pull toward what your life could become. so much of life comes down to your ability to keep believing in what you cannot see yet, to keep faith in the story while you’re still living through the parts that make it hard to believe
i think my vocabulary expands at the extremes of my emotions. when i am unbearably sad or hopelessly in love words flow out of me in ways that even surprise me. its like i can only articulate myself when i feel too much, otherwise i am just repeating the same words over and over
Can we pls normalize putting summaries on the back of books again instead of reviews? I just genuinely want to know what the book is all about before picking it up.
government should be boring. roads should work, water should be clean, hospitals should function, public transport should run, and your taxes should quietly pay for all of it. nobody needs their government to be entertaining. they need it to fvcking work.
someday i will find someone i like so much i'll start writing love poems again, and we'd push each other to bring out our best versions, be goofy and nerdy together, play sports together, go to concerts together, be freaks together, make art together and never stop doing all of this together
Let's all take a moment to understand how self-serving it is for OpenAI, Anthropic and other execs of big hyperscalers to talk of slowing things down.
1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down.
2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents.
3. IPOs need hype & puffery; "we are so awesome it could become dangerous" is hype & puffery
4. Cover for real uncontrollable slowing growth as IPOs look to be pushed out