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[jason @jxnlco]

top 5 advice from a mentor:

"never let school get in the way of my education"

now that i'm 32 I find that, more and more, as I talk to people who have been insanely busy with AI, I have a new line:

"Never let your work get in the way of doing your job."

[roon @tszzl]

hypothesis:

the writing styles of language models are basically fine, they weren’t better in some halcyon before times. we just use them so much that we get annoyed by their mannerisms. they need to have a superhumanly diverse idiolect to not become grating

[arp @arpansplaining]

funds can def build a defensible moat around being capable of backing ideas tacky enough to scare away the grifters that wanna LARP as 'tasteful'

[arp @arpansplaining]

there needs to be an anti-taste venture thesis

the world needs -

more AI-generated UGC ads, more AI girlfriend products, dating apps for adulterers, SaaS companies that print obscene amounts of ARR that use the default Claude Design colors and fonts

more vertical SaaS for pawn shops, bail bonds, towing companies, funeral homes, debt collectors, used car dealers

more products that monetize loneliness, lust, status anxiety

massive rounds raised off decks that use a ton of em dashes

i could go on

[arp @arpansplaining]

taste discourse is exhausting

it is literally not fucking real

legit sounds like everyone is in a weird cult that
- forces you to internalize the aesthetic anxieties of normies
- stifles any thought that is remotely clever or interesting, out of fear that it might result in something remotely 'tacky'

everything remotely good in society resulted from weirdos smarter than all of you trying out 'tasteless' stuff

what a bizarre subject to even bring up. anyone who even tangentially cares about 'taste' doesn't belong in any serious field of work

[arp @arpansplaining]

it's crazier than it sounds cuz when you actually ask for any empirical reason to care about this non-existent thing, 80% of the responses literally use the word 'soul' lmaoooo.

every definition is circular and boils down to 'things that cater to my aesthetic sensibilities are virtuous'.

i guess aesthetics itself is also a weird cult everyone seems to be bought into

like obviously we're evolutionarily wired to believe beautiful people and things are more virtuous or whatever the fuck but the vast majority of humans invest zero thinking tokens bypassing this suboptimal circuitry. idiots.

[arp @arpansplaining]

taste discourse is exhausting

it is literally not fucking real

legit sounds like everyone is in a weird cult that
- forces you to internalize the aesthetic anxieties of normies
- stifles any thought that is remotely clever or interesting, out of fear that it might result in something remotely 'tacky'

everything remotely good in society resulted from weirdos smarter than all of you trying out 'tasteless' stuff

what a bizarre subject to even bring up. anyone who even tangentially cares about 'taste' doesn't belong in any serious field of work

[arp @arpansplaining]

i refuse to inherit y'all's social anxieties ⚠️

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“the us dollar isn’t even backed by anything”

what the us dollar is backed by:

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

I fucking love America because it's a place that encourages you to fail. Blow up your life. Fall without a safety net. Start 7 businesses and go bankrupt. Join a cult. Get divorced 6 times. Make a ton of money in a ridiculous scheme and then blow it all on bad investments. Build a hydroponic shrimp tank business in your basement. Enroll your kids in a school where they practice telepathy. Have a secret family. Shoot your foot off with a gun. Buy drugs that make you go insane. Drive your RV off a cliff. Crash your own private plane off the coast during a storm. In America, you can fail so fast, and so hard, and so beautifully—every one of us has the opportunity to blow our wings off flying toward a crazy dream.

[arp @arpansplaining]

i already believed there’s nothing sacred or magical about humans way before i witnessed humanlike technology

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

there’s this common type of person that works in tech but also acts as if they are somehow above it all culturally. they are never high performers and should probably leave.

[arp @arpansplaining]

@MaxBrodeurUrbas @mil000 genuinely the most miserable person on the internet

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

I don't understand why someone doesn't just come out with a message along the lines of:

"People on rent control are stealing from people who aren't on rent control."

And

"People with older rent controlled apartments are stealing from those with newer rent controlled leases."

"Your apartment costs $4k a month because Susan down the hall is paying $1k a month. Did you want to pay Susan's rent? Because you are."

[arp @arpansplaining]

oh T20 cricket is practically a new sport and it was introduced in 2003

[arp @arpansplaining]

Interesting, basketball and (American) football were both late 19th century inventions.

Does this mean the sports our grandchildren play are yet to have been invented? Will they involve humanoids or other robots?

Who is designing new (physical) games from scratch?

Or I guess, what are some recent examples of newly invented sports that got meaningful traction? I guess pickleball?

[roon @tszzl]

a lot of these people think quantum and ai are roughly the same thing on the same order of importance. just shooting darts in scifi semantic space

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

Extraordinary people will often vanish from everyday life when a hard problem emerges.

Across thousands of meetings, we found that geniuses have periods of normality where meetings are attended and emails are answered, but when a big challenge appears the person goes totally dark.

Andrew Wiles disappeared into his attic for seven years to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and Newton went home to a Linconshire farm during the plague, saw nobody for 18 months and came back with the foundations of gravity.

Breakthroughs need a level of isolation you only get when everything else is shut out, and most bosses/managers today make this impossible with the expectation that you'll respond to any email by EoD.

[arp @arpansplaining]

engaging in PDA (public display of autism) rn