STEM PhD Dropout. Back @ the lab, but still wander. I enjoy Tech/SciFi/Space/BioMed/Paintings/Movies/Reading/Travel/Life. A Simple Guy With a Complicated Mind.
We are now in a position where a tiny proportion of the population uses Fable or soon GPT-5.6, while everyone else's experience of AI is 8-30b-model level - Google's AI Overviews, Meta AI, ChatGPT free tier, maybe MS Copilot at best. People outside of tech must be completely baffled how this is supposed to take their job, and annoyed that hundreds of billions are being poured into it.
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis
1. Date a 23 year old
2. Quit drinking and become insufferable about it
3. Double down on drinking
4. Train for a marathon nobody asked about
5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate)
6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs)
7. Get divorced
8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism
9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, hyrox, gardening, handstands
Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.
Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.
Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.
Joy is a biological necessity.
AI will disproportionately benefit ADHD minds because it externalizes the boring, parts of cognition like planning, sequencing, drafting, remembering, prioritizing and amplifies the parts ADHD minds often cook at: rapid association, novelty-seeking, pattern recognition, emotional intensity, and divergent synthesis
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Most people, including really accomplished people, don't have an accurate mental model of how LLMs operate (and why would they?)
You see this in wide beliefs that AI is just copying from known sources, or that it only produces average answers, or that it can't generate new ideas
We are in a golden age where, if you are good at systems and understanding, AI increases your abilities by an order of magnitude. But if you are not good at it, you just spin your wheels and end up nowhere helpful
I wanted to see how many American doctors were objectively unintelligent
I assembled 9 large-scale American datasets and I found that there are plenty of actually unintelligent people with doctorates
The least intelligent non-disabled, valid-score doctor I found had an IQ of 66
Claude is more designed to have a personality and hypnotize you by being the friend you never had as an autistic bullied child. Gpt 5.5 is a cyberweapon developed by an autistic bullied child that can help do anything that you want to do