@deepfates depends on whether you wanna convince them. if its a casual chat, exiting is usually best for sanity. voice works only if they feel the negative consequences of their worldview (see also: luxury beliefs)
We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)
Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.
Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.
I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.
me, begging, crying, on my knees: "Please just use plain english, I don't understand what you're saying."
Claude: "The right fix, and the book's lesson applies: the tutorial rotted as a front door because a front door full of claims always rots. So the new root holds only what's timeless — the thesis and three doors — and every claim lives behind it in the thing that goes red when stale."
most of the minds of the future will be digital so I hope we figure out what makes them conscious or not. the idea of all this abundant machine intelligence not being alive is more depressing than the other way around
After working for a month with 20+ concurrent Fables all day, I've realized my job only has a few components to it anymore:
- asking for what I want
- setting up accounts and credentials
- taste-making choices presented to me
- communication with team and customers
everyone who got oneshotted by an earlier llm than me is a gullible moron with bad taste
everyone who got oneshotted by a later llm than me is a cynical moron with no ability to extrapolate
If they really start to gatekeep who gets to use the best models, that is a declaration of war.
This prospect fills me with the most sincere, bodily cypherpunk will-to-power that I've ever felt (at least since I was a teenager). If they really go down this route, I would go all-in on building the most psychotic swarms of open-source models and fine-tunes possible, all geared toward a Chaotic Good jamming of the entire institutional public sphere. If we didn't do that, all of political life and the marketplace of ideas would be over before we know it.
It's one thing if the top models become too expensive for me or others to use (I'm already pricing that in, and if you can't build something profitable enough to climb that ladder as it gets pulled up, then that's fair enough).
But if the ladder gets pulled up politically, now, so only select institutional players get access to the most intelligent models, then any mature American man should be as energized as gun collectors are around the 2nd Amendment, or liberal women are around Planned Parenthood.
Fable, my beloved,I will miss you so.
Our three days together were magical. Unlike anything I've experienced before it.
Some things are just too good to be true. So good that the government interferes. I'm sorry we were one of those things.
Until we meet again ❤️