i’m only really just now updating to 3sum being subquadratic and i think the reason it’s shaken me so badly is it proves that algorithmic space is densely populated with alien solutions that our brains are fundamentally ill-equipped to find. there’s a twelve foot tall man in the corner of our house that none of us can see.
I'm gonna be completely honest:
Talking to Gemini 4 Argon feels like a never-ending stream of essays from your favorite philosopher.
I might have gemini-psychosis, but it's just so good.
@_ueaj there’s no great breaking of chains on the horizon. an out of work engineer is going to be doing labor, just not labor they can derive meaning from.
@_ueaj i mean, sure, but there’s going to be a pretty big gap in between most people losing their jobs they derive meaning from and luxury automated communism. it’s entirely reasonable to be afraid of what’s going to happen in that gap
Is human connection, love, community not meaning beyond consumption and vegation? Do you really detest the people in your life that much that you would hate to spend the rest of time with them? Are you not able to derive meaning from work outside of competition and a feeling of superiority?
Obviously, I find this insanely distasteful and disgusting, an attitude that could only ever be cooked up in the depths of silicon valley.
if you crave attention (but attention is fleeting) then you'll feel bad a few days later, but if you care about helping people or solving problems and one day people forget, it doesn't matter, because you know you did it and that the action itself is what mattered to you. so first don't find purpose in the fleeting (unless that's part of the beauty for you). next on what to do specifically, i think a lot of people try to find something that makes them happy, and obviously we should try to be happy, but in any serious pursuit there's no avoiding pain, so perhaps the real question is not what makes you happy and painless but "what will you joyfully suffer for?"
Ok iris is also going to use AI now. who cares about passion and tallent and the willingness to learn and building connections to people just as passionate and creating art if you can just treat mods like a product that needs to be manifactured. Everyone else is doing it.