"Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know —
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook."
Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance https://t.co/yWRuaDJiNC
@reidhoffman Reid, with respect, the founder of the largest masturbatorium for middle managers ever constructed does not need to be coaching the rest of us on conversation.
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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.
There are good reasons for this Jim. It is all Fugazi. How to make tens of $billions worth of $NVDA GPUs disappear from balance sheets in 8-12 byzantine stepspvs.
@mitsuhiko A sad thing to me is that most AI maxximalist don't understand that they are the product. Their prompt chain, attention, feedback is super valuable to clankers and their masters. And it's given for free.
@mitsuhiko Hm, the whole premise of llms post covid is to replace intellectual human labour. Nobody would invest in the hype if it wasn't about it. I think some fears come from the Roko's basilisk argument. Anyway you can call a pinball machine clanker, don't see a problem about it.