Mags' thoughts

But inevitability is a myth. [WeWork] mistook momentum for product-market fit and valuation for validation.

From Westenberg

Just read someone say AI makes the humanities more important.
However this raises a question - are we still talking about humanities? Are we all just programmers using a humanities-focused language to direct the models that we run?
No great thoughts were had this tuesday.

The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

from Limits To Growth Was Right

Finally a good comparison of what AI chatbots actually do - make a shared document.
Originally found by SolarShades' Butlerian Jihad who also said:

If the AI industry is really worth $10 trillion like they claim, is it too much to ask that 1% of that be set aside and used as arts grants? $100 billion would feed a lot of starving artists.

Just stumbled over the term reverse centaurs and I think it's the greatest term to come out of today.

If we encounter people at different levels of development/adultness, how do we best foster their transformation? Relates to humility

Recently started thinking about how "culture eats anything for breakfast" is more true than I thought before[1,2].
This spurred two thoughts:
A. In what way can we harness cultural learning in (re)building our society and developing it forward -- how many cultural learnings have we discarded, and how many can we still learn from?
B. Which other expressions like the above are "super-true" - without us/me realizing it?

[1]:Tradition is smarter than you
[2]:SSC: The Secret Of Our Success

If we are worshipping our phones, is this the same as future historians going back and saying everything is religion

when vibe coding commoditising building software
that means DevOps becomes immensely valuable.

never realised that nevermind is only major. fck that's cool.

some organizations are exclusively selective and understaffed.
Others are overly admissive and understaffed.
Guess which ones work better?

There is no speed limit.
Says Derek and Max' Drawing

If it's not worth writing it's not worth reading

Being an adult is hard.
Realizing that other people are not always adults is probably the most difficult part.
This has had me thinking a lot about:
"How do you foster humility in others while remaining humble yourself?"

Sometimes present beats always around

flow is fragile

Turns out consensus is hard.
Also turns out other collective living situations are experiencing the same issues.
Wonder if there is a golden path to more collective living. And if so, what does that look like?

One note on Google’s AI summaries: They’re designed to answer a question, rather than provide a right answer. That’s a distinction that needs to be made, because it speaks to the underlying utility of this product.

Note to self: Make sure any AI summary app is designed to provide an answer, not answer a question. Thanks, Ed

writing comes in handy as a trace of emotional state; sad, excited, motivated, depressed. Corrolary to this, reading it becomes a recall of such states.

"increase in efficiency" and "increased inefficiency" are homophones when speaking fast. Note to self.

Hiring / selection / evaluation is hard because in order to do it well you need to examine and inhibit your own biases.
This is non-trivial and cannot happen on demand, and if it isn't done there's a high probability of misselection.

AI is shifting work patterns but not significantly change time spent in meetings.

Empty time has the potential to be filled with great things.

"No note is in the wrong chord, it just hasn't found where it's going yet."

new beginnings mean new failures. embracing failure to enable growth.

curiousity almost killed the pigeon
imagine going down a grate and falling down a chimney and being stuck for however long, then to be grabbed by some random people and then thrown into the wind
away away away pigeon

to what extent are addictive behaviors hereditary and how can we quantify this?

fast, then slow, then

the blandest porridge provides the most solid nutrition.

confirming biases previously thought disproved is the worst type of cognitive dissonance

Adam and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame.
[Until] they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

If [the] creation is divine, is the reason we don't participate is that we are afraid to be naked?

Is the tech industry's creation of new habits among consumers a increase in addictive behaviors?
Or is it just replacing previous behaviors
Were humans in the past equally addicted, stuck in habit loops, as humans of the 2020s?
Were they just not constantly measured and aware of their addictions?
Were the things they were addicted to less harmful because the harmful things were less available/capitalized/weaponized?
Has the internet's pervasive entry into every day absolved the possibility of societal/taboo-regulation of addictive behaviors?

free trials are for expensive things
pay as you go are for affordable things
so if your work is expensive/high-value you should offer a free trial?

If focusing on others is a good strategy for personal happiness
Is "helping other orgs succeed" the best strategy for professional success?

Is vanlife sustainable?
How do we measure it?
How to show that it is better or worse?

insurance but single payer. how would it work. how would it not?
Naively I think it'd be cheaper.

if taking the holistic view is the way of god
and the god is enlighthened
how much suffering can be avoided by taking a step back

being unhappy is extremely inefficient
if the sick man only wants one thing, and the healthy man wants 10'000 things, should we cultivate sickness? or addiction?
Corrolary: how much stress can be avoided by just executing? Analysis by paralysis begone

Of all the things I know, which do I know-know and which do I think-know?

Friction / Art / Surplus / Time -- FAST
or
Kunst / Overskud / Gnidningsmodstand / Tid -- KOGT

beginnings are only extra important if there is no way back
there is usually a way back

if the optimal amount of fraud is nonzero, does that go for all crime as well?
Is there an economical equilibrium that allows for [some] fraud but not for human trafficking?

i wonder if people are more addicted now than before
did we always exhibit addictive behaviors or did it show as a compulsion
has big tech fucked a whole generation to be more susceptible to addictive substances (opiod crisis)

the economic situation from the last couple of days have made movies like the Matrix and Fight Club seem much more _relatable_. Are we re-experiencing the 2000s?

hva er det som holder folk fra å delta i offentlige samtaler? Hva er det som holder folk fra å poste ting på internett?
er det som stopper oss fra å kaste oss ut i det - er det "bare" janteloven eller er det noe dypere

en blodbank er som en pensjonskasse for blodceller

hosting dinners is the best part of living in a city with friends as an adult

llms change the internet as we know it. but will we be able to augment human cognition with it

why aren't we subsidising collective living more if it is shown to be better for the environment and wellbeing?

Thorstein nevnte i går at han tror
> Læring er lineær
> Forståelse er sirkulær