In a modern economy, and beyond a certain fairly trivial IQ and net worth threshold, the cost of indecision quickly exceeds the cost of failure

1. Do this map for the late Ice Age 2. Fund archeologists lavishly 3. Jawdrops assured

That feeling when you’re almost baited into feeling bad for someone’s plight and the unfairness of it all, and then they slip up and reveal they’re definitely the bad guy in the situation and deserve everything that’s happening to them and much worse My typical experience of trying empathy tbh

New iPhone feature request @Apple: Give the flashlight a red mode. I want to use my phone to light the way to the bathroom at night, or quickly look for things in the dark, without nuking myself with sleep disrupting blue light.

Dumb old tech + robot suddenly becomes more viable and much more economical than hi tech solutions This will be a trend

Heard from several “smart” people that humanoid robots are nonsense and specialized machines will always win, but after thinking it through, it’s exactly the opposite. If anything, humanoids will send many kinds of expensive specialized robots to the scrapyard. Economies of scale from universality crush specialization. Imagine you’re a farmer. Do you buy a $15M John Deere robotic tractor, or stick a $20k Optimus in your old Zetor that you already have? Not a hard choice, and many such cases.

OpenAI might be cooked: - Financial situation bad - Multiple profitable, self-funding competitors with comparable models. -If OpenAI collapses, researchers get hired by competitors immediately, no loss of progress, maybe acceleration - So US gov doesn’t need to bail them out to “beat China”. - Nobody, including in the government, trusts Altman anymore. - Finally, never bet against Elon - especially when he has a personal grudge.

This correctly treats the money people and the watches and cars people as non-overlappingand mutually exclusive

“Europe is so overregulated” so far actually seeing much more paranoid low trust legalism and neurotic micromanagey pedantry in the US Different forms of bureaucracy bloat I guess, both ultimately rent seeking strategies by parasitic classes

Doing a bit of business in America Lease contract for a tiny workshop for a couple of weeks: 26 pages These things are maybe 2 pages, in large font, in Europe Is the whole country just a fee plantation for lawyers?

1. Literally nobody has ever actually learned a language from Duolingo, it’s ersatz education / productivity pron 2. General purpose chatbots make a paid specialized product (which doesn’t work) extra superfluous

Awkward phase of AI adoption where many doctors, lawyers and such credentialeds feel compelled to have a chatbot as first point of contact and consultation, but it’s trash free tier obsolete models that remember nothing and hallucinate everything, no doubt sold to them by newly minted AI Implementation Experts who previously sold Wordpress template websites for $5000 Those GPT-2 generation models then create a summary for the human professional, which is full of errors and hallucinations and has negative information value, and you spend first 2 billed hours deboonking

Help my devices are getting radicalized

What’s the air fryer trying to say

What happened to “unvaxed sperm will be worth its weight in gold”?

Of course

The promise of globalization was the firstworldification of the third world Instead we get thirdworldification of the first world

What should we call this strange new animal rampaging through politics? Islamarxism? Communislam?