Why hold music should be illegal in 2025.
I’ve been on hold for 2 hours and 17 minutes with a large organization.
AI can code apps, make movies scenes, even pretend to be your grandma on the phone, yet large institutions still run on vibes and hold music.
At least give me the option to pick my own hold music or better yet, turn it into a podcast I actually like.
To make it even better let AI handle the flood of basic questions and calls. Let humans handle the real chaos. Some sort of tiered AI triage system.
Announcing the launch of Psyche
https://t.co/ltj3hlHwVA
Nous Research is democratizing the development of Artificial Intelligence. Today, we’re embarking on our greatest effort to date to make that mission a reality: The Psyche Network
Psyche is a decentralized training network that makes it possible to bring the world’s compute together to train powerful AI, giving individuals and small communities access to the resources required to create new, interesting, and unique large scale models.
We are launching our testnet today with the pre-training of a 40B parameter LLM, a model powerful enough to serve as a foundation for future pursuits in open science. This run represents the largest pre-training run conducted over the internet to date, surpassing previous iterations that trained smaller models on much fewer data tokens.
IMO the biggest way we're living in an idiocracy is minimizing the importance of community.
We're tribal animals. We're supposed to find purpose and connection from contributing to a community of people we know and love.
Instead the norm is to:
- isolate yourself solo or in a nuclear family unit
- choose where to live based on granite countertops and nice closets
- ignore proximity to friends, family, and community
And then say, "Oh it's fine because I've got ____" then fill in the blank with some last-100-years tech thing that only gives you 1% of the connection you need: phone calls, group texts, video games, internet communities, social media, driving/flying to see people you love 1-2x a year, etc.
So millions of people have no real community.
Then people are lonely, stressed, depressed, and wonder why.
And couples are breaking up and divorcing over the time commitment of raising kids and the monetary cost of $2000/mo/kid for childcare, wondering how it could ever be more efficient.
Even worse, nobody works on relationships.
The "healthy norm" is to cut people out and disappear into the sea of millions.
If you don't love your family, you move away. If you get in a fight with a friend, you never speak again. If you break up with an ex, the expectation is to delete them from your life as if they never existed. Etc. So nobody has relationship skills to work through challenges.
Sadly it's hard to fight against all this, except to be born into a community where these things are not the norm.
Joke tweet you write that goes viral -> millions of junk views; none from people you really want to know
Serious insight/thought piece -> 25 views; all from badasses that build your network
In the end, life is like this:
Quantity < Quality < Chili's