Jota

the world is a playground, life is a game

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

Intuition follows the same principle every other capacity you have does, use it or lose it. Ignore you inner voice long enough and it atrophies, do as it says and you might create something worth remembering.

Here’s a brief piece about the craftsman that taught me this principle

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

People told Haruki Murakami his jazz bar would fail. When it thrived, they told him not to sell it.

He sold it so he can have 2 years free of obligations to try himself as a writer.

Read the full story:

[HANDMADE_INC @h___m___i__]

Arithmetic, written law, theory of gravity, computers. None of it was inevitable. None was destined to exist.

Each one was made because someone had an idea and fought with the limitations of reality to make it happen.

And to make it well.

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

own the thing

[HANDMADE_INC @h___m___i__]

_Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman in November 2023?

On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman with one sentence: he had not been "consistently candid in his communications."

Microsoft found out one minute before the public. Five days later, Altman was back.

That is the story everyone watched.

This film explores the underlying causes of the crisis: a kid fixing a VCR in St. Louis, the dot-com bubble, Paul Graham and Y Combinator, seventy years of AI research, a dinner with Elon Musk, and the 2019 decision to put a for-profit company under the nonprofit.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro
0:57 The dot-com bubble
5:20 Y Combinator
9:08 The big picture
13:50 What can go wrong?
18:07 OpenAI
23:10 ChatGPT
26:31 Five days to decide the future
31:20 Artificial general intelligence

[Nestor Valles @nstrvs]

We made a 30 min doc about exactly this story

https://t.co/Zp4jDdzmY6

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

A pesky fly flies in circles around me as I try to focus.

“Stupid fly,“ I think, “you have wings, your life is short, why don’t you go somewhere else instead of locking yourself inside this stifling room?“

Then it hits me, the question isn’t for the fly.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

If everything is going to waste regardless, why not engage with what gives us meaning and let the rest rot?

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

No amount of effort will save you from oblivion.
Everyone who ever knew you, or your work, will die.
Your notebooks and inventions will rot away.
Even the sun will run out of heat.
And yet you must work.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

If we must do it anyway, let’s do the work that suits our strengths and redeems our weaknesses.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

The French Dispatch, 2021

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@sinwaifai Esta es la productización de cada area de nuestras vidas. Yo creo que es un síntoma de vivir en una sociedad en cuya pirámide de valores, el consumo se sienta en la punta. Nuestro marco de referencia para entender y producir la realidad es el consumo.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@archibaldxiv The algo brought me here for a reason. I'd like to join

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@PaulJun_ Great work, Paul. it's looking great. I'd wish to have some feedback but I don't.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

A bout de souffle, 1960

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@iruletheworldmo Absolutely waiting for this.

Will it have a kindle integration?

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@loved_orleer It looks exactly as what I dreamt last time I got drunk.

Truly amazing onirical(?) work!

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

@bigthink @CosmicSkeptic I have wondered if age has something to do with this. It seems to me that these kind of questions reached the mass media through young people. The older you get, the less you ask yourself about the meaning of life. It's like doing it in your 20s makes more evolutionary sense.

[Jota @lif3isag4me]

"Siempre ha sido así y siempre será igual, que el tiempo y el mundo, el dinero y el poder, pertenece a los mediocres y superficiales,"