You think you're unhappy because life is hard.
Wrong.
You're unhappy because you're still operating at infant-level selfishness with adult-level expectations.
Happiness isn't found in gratitude journals or positive thinking.
It's found in the INVERSE relationship between your talent stack and your need to be selfish.
When you're born, you're 100% selfish, 0% capable. Perfect equilibrium. Society expects nothing from you.
They age chronologically but not competency-wise. They hit 30, 40, 50...still operating from scarcity, still locked in survival mode, still taking more than they give.
The stress you feel?
That's the cognitive dissonance between where you ARE (high selfishness, low talent) and where you SHOULD BE on the developmental curve.
Your path to meaning is mathematical:
Accumulate talents → Eliminate personal scarcity → Reduce selfish need → Turn outward → Experience meaning
Every moment you stay below the curve...high selfishness, low capability....you're in psychological debt. The interest compounds as stress, anxiety, emptiness.
The solution isn't to "be less selfish." That's premature morality.
The solution is to BUILD POWER through talent acquisition until selfishness becomes *optional*, not necessary.
Only then does happiness become accessible. Only then does meaning emerge.
You can't transcend selfishness through willpower.
You transcend it through competence.
Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
@TimothyDSnyder AND systematically and publicly denounce the treacherous schemes of the unfair opponent. Unfortunately that one does not work in the US.
@iruletheworldmo this is the worse sin of the indutry, they committed a crime and I will never trust them again. reliability is number #1 value. Anthropic just proved they're not reliable. Ethical is number #2. They made a severe and unacceptable mistake by confusing this order.
@bcherny@tengyanAI but that's not what actually made me cancel my claude subscription. the trigger was this abrupt cutoff of service when tokens run out. that is a serial traumatic experience i can't afford anymore. codex lets you finish your last prompt at least, and this is a game changer.
@bcherny@tengyanAI na user is right to protest. a severe spike of token consumption that requires downgrading the model thinking is unjustifiable. you decided to downgrade quality to accommodate more users to make more money, this is on you, you are too greedy, you should have ensured enough infra.
@TheCraigHewitt Is it really reliable in tool calling and codebase-aware editing within long sessions that keep memory, autonomous agentic workflows like claude code does? Cause getting a good answer to a specific code problem is one thing, complete working solution for production is another..
@MelkeyDev When it starts slowing down, i ask it to write down all it learned during session and write it down with the context and what remains to get done as prompt, then pass it to new session. Problem solved.
@anneapplebaum Such negative endorsement is good news for Magyar. Vance is so unpopular that his support for Orban will have the opposite effect. Reverse Midas Touch.
@feldman Claude Code VS Code extension doesn't take the settings of auto-edit into account. There's no way to bypass the bash commands permission requests.
@ylecun@elonmusk C'est bien de se moquer des IAs américains mais c'est toi qui leur a donné les clés. Le modèle de perception Tesla est une application directe de tes recherches. Tu aurais pu faire ça en europe, et maintenant c'est ta responsabilité de rattraper le retard.
Polish 26 year old guitar master Marcin Patrzałek respond to those who have made public comments claiming that his music is fake.
He made this video in a tutorial form showing how he manages to play so extraordinarily well in response. And yes, it's all played on one guitar.