This is incredible.
Watch this young woman realize she is going to change the trajectory of her entire family.
She sits with her parents while she opens her Ivy League application decisions.
Congratulations to their entire family.
A lot of folks talk about "escaping the permanent underclass". If AGI pans out, the future class divide won't be based on wealth, but on cognitive agency. There will be a "focus class" (those who control their attention and actually do things) and a "slop class" (those whose reward loops are fully RL-managed by AI)
I do believe that a large collective of the smartest humans, aided by external tools, sits very close to the optimality bound -- i.e. humans should be able to solve any solvable problem (where the required information is available) if they pay enough attention to it
19yo cs dropout after subscribing to Claude Max: "Well, in order for a career to evolve, I'm gonna have to move on."
42yo b2b staff eng: "That you would even think that only shows me how unprepared you are to ship on your own. I mean, you do know you’re a freak, right? Your '10x' outputs are a gift from H100 farms, or Anthropic's burn rate, or a straight shot of distilled Stack Overflow threads or whoever wrote the weights you're prompting from. A gift. Not earned. You do not know what I know because you have not earned those powers. You’re careless with those powers, you flaunt them, and you throw it around like a brat with his token trust-fund. You haven’t had to climb up all the greasy little rungs. You haven't been bored blind at the standups. You haven't done the time in that first gig maintaining 2008 jQuery spaghetti while the build broke every Tuesday. You think you can leap over all of it in a single bound. You haven't had to grovel through nitpick hell, stroke egos, or wait weeks just to get your PR approved. You don’t know how to assess your competition because you haven’t competed. Don't make me your competition."
Do you believe what you did today was worthwhile. That it transformed you. That it raised you to an elevated way of being. That it awakened within you an astounding possibility.
In what way was today different than all your yesterday's.
In what way was today
Not a wasted life.
Speak with complete disregard for rules
Respect neither brashness nor humility
Speaking without self-consciousness is a rare Freedom
Being unattached to your words is a different Freedom
And not registering any wins or losses in the Mind is a Profound Freedom.