Alejandro

I'm more of a gaiwan half-full kind of shoshin 🍵

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@blockscratch_ @X @Support @elonmusk @nikitabier @x @Support Please look into this.

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@CameronR_Bell @typesfast Mum with an "o"?!

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@JacobColling @signulll @bryan_johnson I'm super curious - in what way?

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@herbiebradley @sporadica In his post-idealist, pragmatist arc.

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@DefenderOfBasic And why so many of us these days lack the conceptualisation needed to embody certain virtues (namely temperance and chastity) because we stopped using these words.

Utilitarian/economic language replaced moral language in pop culture and we need to bring it back.

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Freedom is an ambiguous gift.

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Human existence (evolutionarily) begins when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms.

- Erich Fromm (probably, on why we aren't close to AGI. Or at least not a new form of consciousness).

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@bryan_johnson The forever search of new problems to solve for. Since we don't understand the real mechanisms of creativity in the human mind, I'm unsure if AI can be sufficiently creative to do better at problem discovery than us. Unless it develops that trait on accident. Possibly.

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@DavidSHolz Absolutely. Every dream we analyse is a ghost we give life to, and get blessed by.

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@levelsio No innovation + scope screep = Yahoo comparisons.

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@IterIntellectus X actually feels 10x more fulfilling when you close the app if you read each word of each post of your feed, in order with no skips.

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@BasedNorthmathr And also reminds me a tad of how flat earth conspiracy theorists kind of disappeared when Qanon gained traction.

Seems like a platform change for a different, but fundamentally similar memetic hype train.

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@BasedNorthmathr Honestly so sad. Reminds me of this stat:

45% of people 16-25, in a survey published in The Lancet Planetary Health, said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning.

It's an attempt to control a super abstract, unidentified anxiety.

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@CameronR_Bell ChatGPT: Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the complexion of an Englishman.

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@suntzoogway Uft looks great. Ever organise these in LA? You'd have one attendee minimum in me.

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@tszzl Yeah good point. There are also a few tells that suggest AI generated. I bet admission departments screen for it.

Above all though, they come across as a flight risk. Drop-out rates and employment after 6 months are weighted highly in college rankings. Entrepreneurship is risky.

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@aakashgupta @narendramodi @lexfridman Give him 6 months 😅 With Milei and Modi, he is on a roll.

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@AutismCapital I think it's tied to self-efficacy and having an internal locus of control. We can only strive for what we aim for, and only aim for what we believe we can achieve.

Those who don't visualise a better life prefer to explain success away to greed/luck to relieve mental pressure.

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@nickcammarata The Luke Skywalker / Old Ben dichotomy.

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@hubermanlab Hyperfocused deep work before it was cool.