After six months, 2,198.4 miles, four pairs of shoes, fourteen states, 36 books, and over 200 PBRs, I’ve completed the Appalachian Trail!
The world is more beautiful than you could possibly imagine — if you’re ever feeling blackpilled just take a long walk in the woods :)
Yes hello, I am back! Apologies for Twitter break.
Taking advice from @bronzeagemantis, @RizomaSchool, and other friends I have decided that instead of dying in Donbas I go for small walk in the woods — any US mutuals who want to hike from Georgia to Maine with me pls DM!
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I hope this is obvious, but Claude demonstrates that Anthropic can't be bad guys. OK?
They are zealots. They will likely contribute to the murder of millions. But they are fundamentally morally good people who fight for what they think is right. For their civilization's promise.
What are you worth when nothing is scarce?
For most of human history, economic value came from what you could do and how fast you could do it. If the machines end up smarter, faster, and stronger at every task, what's left? @alexolegimas wrote a great piece arguing that in the world the only thing left to price is human presence itself.
Which raises a set of questions I couldn't stop thinking about. What skills do you actually need when being human is the product? Does everyone end up competing on one likability leaderboard, or does status fracture into a thousand fields with their own hierarchies? Is a market in warmth coercive or any less of a meritocracy than the one it replaces?
New essay on Girard, Versailles, meritocracy, and the revenge of the jocks: https://t.co/6sJ85GJGBz
you want to copy paste it, you’ve learned so much from this back and forth and its writing just sounds so good, right? then you remember that’s lazy, writing is thinking, and so you try to write from your head using what you ‘think’ you’ve learned and… you can’t, then you either realize what that means or you don’t