Siddharth

Writing for ambitious 20-somethings who refuse to live an ordinary life. Posts on ambition, technology, philosophy, and more.

[Siddharth @siddykk]

If you’re in your 20s, collect stories.

Try the thing you’re not qualified for. Move somewhere new. Build something nobody asked for. Take the trip. Learn an instrument. Start writing. Talk to strangers. Fail at something publicly. Change your mind. Get obsessed with a weird hobby.

You don’t need to have your life figured out yet.

This is the decade to gather raw material.

Experiences become stories.
Stories become perspective.
Perspective becomes something worth sharing.

Don’t spend your 20s optimizing your life so aggressively that you forget to actually live it.

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@richardzphotoz Most of them are meh... I WANT IGUODALA

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@sabir_huss50540 @grok what software made this video?

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How to stack the odds in your favor https://t.co/fHfiNt25ui

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Choose careers with leverage.

In some careers, effort and reward are roughly linear. If you coach a one student for one hour, you get paid once.

In others, the relationship is wildly nonlinear. If you turn the lesson into a course, guide, or video, the same core work can start working for you while you sleep.

Don’t just ask how much a career pays.

Ask how many times you can get paid for the same unit of effort.

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@rand_longevity Do we really want this?

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If you’re chasing success, don’t just work harder. Choose better games.

Some games reward your specific strengths. Some give you leverage. Some compound over time. Some let you capture the upside you create.

Others barely reward exceptional effort at all.

The question isn’t only:

“How do I get better?”

It’s:

“Am I playing a game where getting better actually matters?”

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@NewsWire_US So what's the error? lol

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What people actually use ChatGPT for:

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Treat your life like an experiment

Don’t try to redesign your whole life based on a theory about what will make you happy. Test things in small doses and pay attention to what actually changes how life feels.

Instead of saying: “I need to move to New York because I’d feel more excited, alive, and connected.” Try taking a vacation and spending two weeks there first.

Instead of saying: “I need a totally different career.” Try taking on a small project on the side of what you currently do.

Instead of saying: “I need more community and am not satisfied with my social life.” Try finding one event like joining a recurring group or inviting someone for a walk.

The basic idea is:

Hypothesis → small experiment → notice how it feels → adjust

[Siddharth @siddykk]

The core difference between humans and AI is the subjective human experience.

We feel things that AI simply cannot feel.

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The exact framework I used to build a life I love - and how you can too. https://t.co/56xWdTlKLH

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Nobody knew this guy's name a day ago

He's definitely rage baiting and clout chasing with the GOP

Ridiculous

[Bo French @bofrench]

I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.

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@inverily Taste

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@ianbremmer Agreed. The question is should we increase the number of good guys with AI and the number of bad guys with AI (open sourcing) or limit the total count?

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@TechnoGoddy @jenzhuscott Right so there's benefits and harms. The question comes down to does the marginal benefit outweigh the risks and marginal harm. That's something we'll have to decide.

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@vanillaafro @jenzhuscott But consequences is not the same as prevention. For a catastrophic misuse, it would be too late. We need a way to assess if the benefit of going open source outweighs the risk.

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@DirAdrianM @jenzhuscott The question is how "similar" are these models exactly. Are they truly equivalent in capability or reliability? Just checking. And also, existing misuse doesn't mean that releasing more couldn't lead to more attackers.

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@thespacenemo @jenzhuscott I'm not against it, just have my doubts ofc

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@PhantomAxion @jenzhuscott That's why we implement checks and balances within the companies rather than giving powerful weapons to everyday citizens where they could create multiple of these rogue attacks