Richard Hwang

@SnowSignalsApp @ReadRostra

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Humans still have better overall context and in particular "compression". We can much more easily translate in X and Y, ie 10k ft view to 1 ft view, or across "modules"; all across a problem tree.

Won't be the case forever though

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

It really is like having a coworker sometimes. Divide and conquer.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

I know I'm lagging the Twitter-sphere, but wow Codex really is so much better.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

What a crime
to leave a good hill
unclimbed.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Increase the enterprise value of the universe.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

We control so little (when and where you were born, worldly happenings), and yet so much (our minds, therefore our lives).

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

I don't think UBI would work because 1/ most people are low agency and 2/ humans are too hackable and systems that exploit this are already well past critical efficacy.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

A human body is 7 octillion atoms.

We're already all astronauts (riding along Earth), but we'll be even more so in the cosmic future.

Some of our atoms will be white dwarf, others expelled into space.

I intend to go to space in my lifetime, but glad there's a fallback.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Or as Jensen said, "if I knew how painful it'd be, I never would've started."

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Impatience (for a better future) is how ideas get started.

Patience (across a painful process) is how ideas become reality.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Wells don't need to fear craters.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Fires need to be put out. But life cannot just be putting out fires.

If it looks like there are never-ending fires to put out, you're likely lighting some kindling yourself.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

I use an ergonomic keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle 2). I had no explicit issues before, but now when I use a normal keyboard, I feel pain.

What else is like this? "Ignorance is bliss." If you only focus on hair-on-fire problems, how much ambient pain do you miss?

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Aging is funny. In my 20s, it was all about constant audial stimulation - music while working, commuting, at home. Now, my ears are still plugged, just with the silent rather than the noise-emitting type.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Conjecture, criticism. Build, refine. Generative, discriminative. Forever, and on repeat.

Creation is fun, optimistic, light-hearted. It's the start, burdenless.

Refinement is grit, work, type 2. Sifting through the muck isn't fun, but the diamond beneath is a great reward.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Just go through the motions. No thinking about it.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Walk, in the quiet of early morning, and the universe speaks.

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

Isn't there like conservation of importance?

Ie, is net importance going down -> more nihilism

Or, is the survey missing pleasure -> more hedonism

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

One of the most important things to understand about the moment we are living in

[Richard Hwang @rhwang201]

@samdblond Delusion is an asset as a founder