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iOS developer here. As long as you make < $1M/year their cut is 15%, which is absolutely worth it considering the quality of the App Store and payment experience and the fact that iOS users actually pay unlike Android. When I hit that 30% fee, however, I’m not going to be so stoked.

When I ask what it knows about me it gives details that I didn’t provide - if it’s not hallucinating then it’s leaking data across chats.

When that edge case makes for an absolutely terrible experience of driving across North Dakota in 0F weather and having to stop every 150 miles then you definitely don’t forget that pain when buying your next car.

This is why I never understood people resigning in protest such as was the case with Google’s military contracts. You simply assure that the culture change happens more swiftly.

Hotel taxes in many cities has become insane. The hidden fees aren’t just coming from the businesses themselves.

What's going on in the streets of Portland isn't happy healthy kids that like to get high.

What is the license on this translation?

Seeking to collapse the unique contexts and interplay between 8 billion individuals is incredibly dangerous, leading to things like command-and-control economies, socialism, and genecide.

The information surface area and processing power of 8 billion people far exceeds the few bits representing your “handful of archetypes and social roles”.

Anyone who believes that Western civilization has been largely functional should soundly reject these ideas and agree that individuation is a fundamentally Good Thing.

Roman monogamy was perhaps largely administrative. When a man eventually became a citizen through his military service he was only allowed to confer that citizenship to one wife and bloodline.

Given how radical their “immigration” system already was it would have been untenable to allow citizenship for multiple wives.

I like this take. Already you see specialization of dating apps toward different relationship styles, with Hinge more focused on Monogamy, Tinder on the casual/singles crowd, and Feeld for the nonmonogamous.

I agree this is decidedly positive for the monogamous folks. There is now less risk of them connecting with and falling in love with someone who isn’t a good match.

Note that these cultural norms evolved prior to modern birth control, STI testing/treatment, and peak population.

Birth control is a radical invention and it is shocking that it hasn’t led to even more rapid cultural change than it has.

One also needs to separate generalized cultural knowledge from individual knowledge. As people mature, they should tend to individuate and discover “what works for them” vs “what works for society”.

That individual knowledge can be bootstrapped on cultural knowledge, but ultimately we may each need to reject aspects of our culture in order to discover our unique path.

I blame “The Ethical Slut” for a lot of the strange ideas people have around non-monogamy.

It gave people a whole bunch of rules and ideals for polyamory to replace their rules and ideals around monogamy. Rather than freedom, it’s just trading one dogma for another.

The Esther Perel approach of couples consciously co-creating their uniquely ideal relationship structure seems much healthier and applicable to broader society.

It seems like the author didn’t actually go to the show and is only providing second hand commentary.

“I Feel Love” was a fantastic book, written in a very professional journalistic tone. It sits well along side Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind”.

Yes, even a small microdose can inhibit recall. That’s not to say it’s not worth the trade off.

It’s not as good as elevenlabs and probably not worth most listeners time. I would wait a year or so for further improvements.

“One does have to wonder why we need to medicate ourselves to cope with reality rather than change reality instead.”

A lot of our problems are due to self deception. One thing psychedelics are good for is being able to see through the lies we tell ourselves and face the facts about our behaviors.

Nah, while it’s good for mental health, it’s not a productivity enhancer. It can be hard to focus on complicated concepts or even recall facts like people’s names.

I’ll push back on this. I think most of us want some external validation that what we’re creating is useful and valuable.

I spent 2 solid years working on https://improve.ai and it’s gotten very little uptake. It’s taken a long time to emotionally get over putting that much blood, sweat, and money into something that almost no one values.

Going forward I will be failing much faster and not giving my life energy to products that aren’t showing traction.

I can’t take this seriously. Why do people give so much weight to the opinions of crackpots?

No curly braces. I’m serious.

Privacy theatre.

What about using ChatGPT’s new function calling mechanism?

What I really want is the FSD class action.

He’s being cheeky

I visited the Vatican just a few months ago and it was wonderful.

I wouldn’t call it a “great” business strategy if your shelf life is limited.

We have a finite amount of life energy to put into our businesses and I’d prefer to give it to something that can generate an annuity.

“the seemingly innocent exponentiator that no one thought capable of such kurtotic barbarities.”

This writing brought a happy tear to my eye.

Getting strong is hard. Staying weak is also hard.

If you feel lonely and disempowered, try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Give it a few weeks and you’ll start to develop both the competence and camaraderie we all crave.