eucyclos

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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Did the enlightenment not have a taboo around questioning e.g. the fundamental equality of all human beings?
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Not should, can't. The assertion I'm referring to is that once something can be rationally discussed it's no longer a taboo, and once a culture has no taboos it has no real vitality or potential for growth left. Nothing there
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Seeing Elon buy Twitter was like watching a functional alcoholic I admire buy a bar.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
But push them he did until the industry had to get on board. I think people underestimate the impact of a pro-change company culture, even if it does run on a cult of personality that is much less pleasant up close than in the occasional ea
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
This sounds like a refutation of the concept of taboos as a useful category, by the definition I use a taboo is something that may not be discussed openly. There's a theory that a culture without taboos is past it's peak in some i
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
There's also the fact that there's a lot less social pressure for young people not to look stupid. If you're the senior subject matter expert and get a question you can't answer, people still expect you to make an educat
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Someone (supposedly) published da Vinci's to do list a while back, and from the snippets I read he seemed to spend most of his time talking to experts about subjects he didn't know much about. Pretty telling if true.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
That's got to be more about processes around it than the tool itself though, right?
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
It might be more accurate to say humans will only work at the bottlenecks soon, unless I've misunderstood the vector of your commentary.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Very cool! I'm chaperoning a python club for teens these days, I should make use of this concept!
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
A religion you vibe with is probably the one shot for this. In my case that's a flavor of Buddhism with strong deity practices. Atheists home about imaginary friends, but...
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
When I was in corporate I'd talk about cover your ass mode and get'er done mode. And while realistically I know both are necessary, I was always annoyed at the need to have a cya mode. I get a bit of schadenfreude from the thougt
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Maybe not, but you might want to see ads because 1) they fund a huge part of the free internet so you would at least want other people to see them and 2) if they were targeted not at what you're most likely to buy today but at what wou
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Wow, that us useful feedback, thanks! I'll update that this weekend.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I thought tfa would say seeking synergy is a sign one is struggling with ones own deliverables so one tries to add value elsewhere in the organization. Is synergy really such a poorly defined term that it's synonymous with corporate bu
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Would the above explanation be better? The website is there because stripe needs a landing page and the text is there because I'm trying to communicate the aspiration the instantiation I can always explain in detail if someone wants to
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Yeah, I gotta make a video walkthrough. Its basically a goal tracker combined with an ad filter - write what you want out of life and block ads, it replaces them with ads that actually align with your long term goals instead of distracting
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Here's an example: https://eudaimonia-project.netlify.app/ I'm happy to sell it to you, though it is also free. I guided Claude to write this in three weeks, after never having written a line of JavaScript or set
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I had a coworker who became nouveau riche a while back- he made fuck you money day trading during the roaringkitty debacle - and one interesting thing he said about the experience was that he learned certain luxury goods, such as high end w
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
A tool with a mediocre level of skill in everything looks mediocre when the backdrop is our own area of expertise and game changing when the backdrop is an unfamiliar one. But I suspect the real game changer will be that everyone is suddenl
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
The old story of the 'language of the birds' suggests that we can make headway. No one's ever complained of time they wasted listening to birdsong.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Barely pass is still a step change though. Either you can be sure what's on the other end of the line or you can't, and I'd say that, while there are still tests that work sometimes, for a purely text based exchange there are
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I wrote a book a while back where I argued that coding involves choosing what to work on, writing it, and then debugging it, and that we tend to master these steps in reverse chronological order. It's weird to look at something that re
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I enjoy self improvement, but there is something deeply therapeutic about self non - improvement. I don't say 'self acceptance' because that's often described as a necessary precursor to changing whatever we find difficu
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I have a theory that song used to communicate emotional states precedes and probably evolved into language as we think of it.
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
I'm in a pretty similar position. I've been wanting to make something to align incentives between advertisers and the people who see ads for years. Finally sat down with Claude last month and now I have a working prototype. It fee
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Sorry. I'm the weird niche author who puts a copy of his books in these whenever I come across a new one. Author's copies are so bloody cheap and little free libraries are full of weird stuff already, it feels more likely someone
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
Google's support for the open week is a great example because it was obviously a good thing but also obviously built into their business model that they'd take that position. That made them a much more trustworthy company in tho
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
It doesn't take billions to move one's household though. Sure, the billionaires will have advance warning and sweeter welcome packages wherever they end up going, but leaving a country where the tax rate is a poor value propositio
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by eucyclos 7mo ago
On the plus side, llms do everything normies do for pennies on the dollar. We just need to outlast them as they fade into irrelevance.

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