In any group of any size, whether it's 10 people or 10,000 people, much of the energy of the group ends up being wasted rather being directed towards the group's common goal.
@nosilverv highly recommend checking out his talks if you haven’t already, they resonated way more for me than the book
this is my favorite starting point
https://t.co/jvQMdtko3p
have you spent time with the Rob Burbea soulmaking talks?
he became disillusioned with the practical implications of option a, but understood emptiness too deeply to embrace option b, and introduced a third option which is to intentionally experiment and play with fabrication and see what feels best to you (without losing grounding in the ultimate emptiness of all)
https://t.co/qYrtyufhZh
it turns out that internal resistance to doing the thing is both the block against doing the thing and the cause of the suffering mistakenly attributed to the thing that needs doing.
it’s like walking into a closed door and getting mad at the room you’re trying to get to instead of just opening the door.
upon Doing The Thing, you will invariably find two things to be true:
1. Doing The Thing was pretty easy, actually
2. not having Done The Thing was bothering you more than you thought it was
it’s entirely likely now that once ai collapses the cost of the software layer (which is almost there), the creative layer & perhaps differentiators moves down the stack to hardware, & we might see a cambrian explosion of devices because the integration tax that historically gated hardware startups is now much much less.
you’re already seeing this wearables right now. i hope we get a ton of creativity here whether it’s ambient hardware at home or on your desk or on the go.
ai will be able to live on these surfaces in a natural way, as easily as the way your coffee table lives in your living room today.
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the models are already AGI they just need better tools but they're basically building their own harnesses now the capability overhang is massive and the only reason it doesn't look like the singularity to most people is because they’re still using chatbots