My boyfriends chest is my charging station

India bypassing industrialisation to become the world's back office, precisely as LLMs learn to do back office work at marginal cost approaching zero, is the kind of tragic irony development economists will write about for decades.

@Kushagr142 like they say - people suffer more often in imagination than in reality. but i don't even blame people for not having industrial grade psych defenses against the psyops and infohazards floating around on instagram et al. not everyone is or can be naval.

To fuck around is human. To find out is divine.

oh i love this like reddit you should be able to vote down content that you think is harmful to the commons

the awareness of my life’s brevity & the speed at which time passes us all by drops onto my skull like an anvil every 4-6 business days

The very long tail of tasks that require some human judgement or taste is often a bottleneck, and many aren't easily specifiable and amenable to automation. You can automate someone's taste in particular, but that remains a snapshot in time whose appeal depletes as preferences

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (2013)

F for scott adams say what you will of the man: he was a poaster

@Feldfrog All life lessons are obvious. You can’t internalize them without the repeated exposure and shame that comes with.

Much of the comfort of getting older is from realizing the specific ways you’re different from others and feeling neither shame nor pride over them, and instead shrugging in a self-accepting humorous way to make decisions that actually suit the creature you are

giving a shit. it was always giving a shit

a delightful serious act. can’t say the same for the substack generation. the references are trendier, the writing however more flowery is markedly shallower. more importantly it’s meek, more acceptable/palatable. no fucking wonder vgr et al left the website.

gwern has read widely and extensively. whatever book i log on goodreads, it’s already been read by him. all the figures semi famous from the blogosphere time had the clear common tendency of reading as intellectual sparring, a feverish daring pursuit of knowledge,

they are really not ready for the hardcore indian parenting style lmao

all this parenting discourse really makes you wonder if it’s a such a pain to raise a kid, why are you having a kid in the first place?

a lot of unhelpful advice takes the form of "did you try turning into the kind of person that would not have that problem" because for many, being the person that they are is more important than solving the problem. ppl want to be themselves more than they want to be happy

flutter flutter flutter like a butterfly

The right man can bring a woman’s average tweets per day down from 30 to around 6 or 7

seeing someone from twitter in real life is such a blast