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It probably depends though how much Coil a person listened to. I just don't think the music is powerful or weird enough if you are going to call the band "How to Destroy Angels".
It is a really catchy song, really cool video that got a ton of MTV air time, really interesting electronic music and he found a way to say “fuck you like an animal”.
I was never a big NIN fan but I remember instantly loving that music video the first time I seen it on MTV.
I have found youtube videos this month that I don't know how I would have found otherwise that were just part of the sources for what deep research came back with.
It has really created the opposite problem for me is I have so much good information I don't even know what to do with it right now. I am probably taking a month off to just sort through what I found this past month.
The models aren't what worry me anyway. China is going to kick our ass when it comes to AI integration into society and the economy.
Imagine the difficulties faced by America vs China in integrating AI into healthcare.
We are just too worried about winning this AI model sporting event even though the entire concept is flawed and doomed to failure. We actually have to figure out how to use these models for more than how many Rs are in strawberry. That appears to be the actual hard part.
Of course, none of this is helped by having wasted an entire generation of some of America's best minds on javascript programming for obscene profit.
If I had been born a day earlier or later I would have a completely different life because of initial conditions and randomness but life doesn't feel that way even though I think this is obviously true.
The way people that don't cook talk about cooking you would think it is on the level of work involved in roofing or pouring cement blocks.
I am literally cooking a Thai dish right now. I could have went to the Thai restaurant but tinkering with this dish is actually more fun.
Low and behold it is actually fun to cook. It is actually more fun to be able to make a new dish yourself than to try a new restaurant. It is amusing how everything DIY is cool in hacker culture besides cooking. For no reason besides custom, people pretend they just don't have time to cook or that learning to cook isn't worth it. It is an obviously thoughtless idea.
Having less time to doom scroll your phone is a feature and not a bug.
The reality is our system is not compatible with the internet. Our system is made for a network with much lower density and clustering coefficient. When you crank these up with the internet, it creates power law distributions everywhere.
Complaining a few people have all the wealth when we have created a society with this massive power law distribution of wealth is just pointlessly stupid. Of course they do.
There is nothing really to figure out. The system isn't going to work long term. I think most people are just in denial of this because they think there is a solution. No, what we are doing right now, communicating like this, is the problem itself.
Of course, if we stopped using the internet society would collapse too.
There is no solution.
The art has to be printed out and that is the art. Anyone can get an image of Salvator Mundi for free too. That is not the art, that is an image. The art is the physical object that is the painting Salvator Mundi.
It is no different than traditional art really, just at a different scale. You can buy really nice Picasso knock offs on ebay right now. Picasso himself could have made 10 copies of the Weeping Woman to sell without that much effort either. The "real" Weeping Woman is the physical painting that Picasso did not make a copy of. The others are just knock off images.
But the main problem remains. Selling art is really hard. AI art is already completely passé anyway. If anything the technology is regressing visually.
Music was in a several decades long bull market in physical media sales that crashed and burned. Now we have gone back to the pre-music media bubble days but with much better distribution and marketing channels.
Not a lot of people making a living playing ragtime piano or hoofers making a living tap dancing either.
The real amusing thing to me is you never hear scultpure artist complain that they are in the training data sets. Probably because they know it is literally just free advertising for their real art.
The internet gave people hope about the future in 1999 but now with the internet our desires can never match the reality that follows.
Instead people live in either a post-bubble crash that is about to crash further or if things are going well that just means we are in a super bubble that will have a historic crash. Repeat.
You have to be delusional to believe this would be so easy though a 1000 years ago when not only everyone would be saying you are wrong but completely insane, maybe even such a heretic to be worthy of being burned at the stake. Certainly worthy of house arrest for such ungodly thoughts when everyone knows man is the center of the universe and naturally the sun revolves around the earth.
"Create high-quality presentations for communicating OpenAI’s financial performance"
https://openai.com/careers/strategic-finance-generalist/
What is interesting is there is no mention of agents on any job I clicked on. You would think "orchestrating a team of agents to leverage blah blah blah" would be something internally if talking about these absurd price points.
Sometimes you will get better or worse answers completely by chance.
I think Claude is pretty good if you have it write a function and give it the inputs, output and a data example. You can also put to ask clarifying questions as needed because there is a good chance there are aspects of the prompt that are ambiguous.
My prompts are always better if I write them in a separate text file and then paste them in too. I think I just take my time and think things out more that way instead of trying to get to the answer as fast.
The non-blood test way would be to take magnesium until you get diarrhea and then take less but that is obviously not a pleasant experience.
I take magnesium because it is really obvious when I track micro nutrients that I don't get enough in my diet. It mostly depends though on how much spinach I am eating.
My non-US positions have done shockingly nothing the past few years.
Chinese equities were practically being given away a year ago.
At some point there was going to be rotation but believe what you want. Of course, news headlines about the market are never wrong!
I am someone who would probably not own a smart phone if it wasn't such a pain to not have one.
I can see with the kids in my extended family how even by 12, not having a smart phone is going to damage your social life. It was awkward enough for me at that age with rotary phones. I couldn't do that to my kid if I had one.
We have put ourselves in a really bad spot. Even if a parent wants to do what is best for the kid, I have no idea what that is. To pretend there is some simple and obvious answer here is completely divorced from reality.
As a Gen X American, what a miracle to have that unipolar moment that we could appreciate the Russian mind.
It wasn't that long ago I thought we would just all watch Ghostmane videos and rule the world together.
What worries me is if what if in 20 years of use, something with insulin gets blown out?
There is a chance it could be a drug for life like testosterone. We know though how devastating obesity is on health so it is really going to be up to the individual to take the risk. Not really my business at that level.
High school wrestling though might push things too far.Many of those guys under heavyweight do not have the bodyfat % to be restricting so much so are actually losing muscle mass.
I know Jordan Burroughs diet that I have seen seemed like maximum micro nutrients for the calorie because how else can you eat to be a 4 time world champion at 74kg?
I am probably half an inch taller than Burroughs and 163lbs is impossible. It is too far. Way too far.
I would have said just eat protein and work out when I was in my teens, 20s and early 30s too.
I am 48 and not on testosterone, yet. I actually can't recover at this point from workouts that burn enough calories vs working out less but more calorie restriction in terms of fat loss. Even 60 minute walks cause me to be more hungry to be able to recover from than what I can restrict without walking.
I am at the final death throws of natural and not being on TRT basically. I have been pushing TRT out since my late 30s but have gone way too far.
I think the TRT threshold probably be when you can't outrun calorie restriction by working out. For me, that has probably been since 43 or 44. By 46 for sure.
Personally, I don't need GLP-1s. So many people though do.
I can't find any evidence that GLP-1 are catabolic to muscle mass. There is no evidence I can find that GLP-1s do anything above what calorie restriction does.
There is a linear relationship between calorie restriction and fat loss down to under 10% body fat. There is so much wrong information on calorie restriction from studies done on people who were literally starving with already very low body fat %. Then apply that to people with 25% body fat is just wrong.
Westerners trying to lose weight don't have this problem. I think part of the obesity epidemic is this insane idea that calorie restriction is bad. Everyone kind of understands the thermodynamics of calories in / calories out. Everyone even kind of understands the benefits of fasting. At the same time though there is this nonsense that if you restrict calories too much you start burning all this muscle mass. It is patently absurd.
Add up the calories of what a 250lb bodybuilder is eating for contest prep to lose fat and you will see they are "starving" too.
At least physical cash though put a constraint on the scale of the mafia.
A global, secret, digital currency will inevitably lead to organized crime on the scale of the currency. It is just an absolutely terrible idea.
The appeal is in the abstract because it is easy to ignore the downside risks in the abstract.
Personally, I am completely in favor of all these policies. We are basically going to go through a period of austerity.
It is really what makes this system so incredible. Such a dynamic system to go from sending people checks in the mail to a few short years later, austerity. People get much too involved though with the personalities as opposed to what the system is doing as a whole.
At the most macro level, I think there is a tremendous amount of denial that the unipolar moment is over. The arguments against austerity here are just clinging to a time that has come and gone. It is like wishing I could stay in my 30s forever.
AI is also incredibly deflationary long term. The path we were on would have devalued the currency long term. If we get control of the debt and re-shore manufacturing, I can't imagine that not being good for the currency. I think the easiest way to get a non-distorted view is by flipping things around from the perspective of China.
All of this would seem bad from the Chinese perspective.
I feel like we are also doing a type of Yuan gambit to the world long term here.
Sick of the US? Well the Yuan is right there for you to take. We are betting on the gambit being refused.
If we could just turn the temperature down on the political personality bullshit there is so much interesting discussion to be had but it is almost impossible that it currently doesn't turn into a pointless food fight.
I took that he said that others have caught up and he is just not motivated to do the type of studying to improve even further at this point.
There is a process we don't really have a name for that was best summed up by the boxer Marvin Hagler:
“It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas”
The demotivation of success. Of course, that is also going to correlate with age and be very hard to disentangle. At the same time testosterone levels will be past peak, adding another variable in the mix. Plus actual mental acuity past peak.
In other words, as someone pushing 50. Getting old kind of sucks systemically.
What more do you want? People just like to complain about political issues as a type of entertainment.
What was good enough yesterday is expected today and won't be good enough tomorrow.
That is practically what makes us human.
Whatever you get today with no effort won't be enough tomorrow.
The ideal modern life is really one that is challenging enough that you don't get everything at once but not too hard that you can't make progress.
If all the banks failed we would certainly have a more equal society in 2025.
It is really hard to say though if spending my 30s and 40s largely in a depression would have been worth it just from a personal standpoint.
Imagine instead of the boom of 2010s we had a depression.
Rather intellectually dishonest for a technologist to complain about this really.
Most business tasks and problems you certainly don't need a PhD to solve. Even if you could hire human PhDs at min wage I don't see how most businesses can even leverage that.
If all bank tellers had PhDs in quant finance it would change basically nothing.