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Saving the children with Focus Pets

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I’m revenge-building a successor to my first product. It’s called Focus Pets, it’s an app that lets you grow a virtual pet by spending time unplugged.

I tried to build the first version as a venture-backed startup, this time I’m bootstrapping it. The goal is to earn financial freedom (hopefully pre-AGI). Going to spend a year on it then reassess. Wish me luck!

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@AVatchinsky Congrats! (to you and the clock app)

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@scottastevenson Why does consciousness being fundamental strike you as more plausible than consciousness arising from certain configurations of matter?

“How does consciousness arise from nothing?” seems equally intractable as “how does consciousness arise from matter?” to me.

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@scottastevenson @tszzl Why couldn’t an AI be one of the dissociative identities of the universal mind? Why can they only be animals?

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@scottastevenson @tszzl Essay please

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Refreshingly clear thinking

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

https://t.co/32atCiIMW4

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https://t.co/1SIVBAmmjP

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@scottastevenson @MattZeitlin I tried factor on your recommendation btw. I really like it. Doing 1 a day rn but aspire to be a 2 a day guy.

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@kylebrussell The Acceleration of Addictiveness is my favourite Paul Graham essay

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@kylebrussell @9mmballpoint Is the world ending or have you got swept up into mass hysteria

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@EthanLipnik Validating to hear that you also find LLMs not very useful for UI. Thought it might have been a skill issue on my end..

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@scottastevenson @Okami13_ The thing is they are still so far from photorealistic, the SOTA is its own style (which I really dislike).

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Ender's game

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@scottastevenson Interestingly, didn’t he start blueprint after an ayahuasca (or something) trip?

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@scottastevenson Making the virtual pets in my app 3D is so much work that I often wonder if I’m being crazy. But my bet is that 3D will make a big difference for capturing/holding attention.

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@_jsmth My laptop stands guard while I sleep

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@dankuntz @spottedinprod @family Haha, noted

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@spottedinprod I’m solo building an app and before SIP I wasn’t plugged into the app dev world at all, so felt like I was building blind. Family used to be the only app I knew of that I considered top tier design, now Miles and Sudoku have joined a growing list. Super valuable! Thanks SIP 🙏

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@dankuntz @spottedinprod @family Do you expect SwiftUI will catch up for this stuff eventually, or is there some fundamentally limitation in the architecture?

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@dankuntz @spottedinprod @family Why is that? (Asking as someone who has only built using SwiftUI and often wonders if UIKit would be better)