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I have read enough on Munger and Buffet that I don't think it was quite theater. I think they really believe/believed their own bullshit. Like the way Munger would promote reading …

It is actually the opposite. The less things you have, the less things you will want. I even experience this with food. If I am on a strict diet for 2 weeks and then have a "cheat"…

I just got back from the gym and it was surprisingly empty. Actually, more empty than normal. My experience from lifting now for 30+ years and seeing thousands of people lift is it…

I was pretty much told this in the 90s that I would have no real stability in life like my parents did and my life would be constant reinvention. That has been spot on. It is the y…

I would agree with this from subjective experience. My non-IT based career has been highly volatile with unintended unemployment, companies going out of business, changing entire s…

The best example is that even ATM machines didn't reduce bank teller jobs. Why? Because even the bank teller is doing more than taking and depositing money. IMO there is an ontolog…

Because at that scale, the tail is wagging the dog and it is not even close.

This is not "Claude Sonnet"'s summary. This is the response you steered Claude Sonnet into producing by the way your formed the prompt. This is the parlor trick of LLMs, confusing …

I have and to quote Wittgenstein all this is like saying the machine has a toothache. It is just complete nonsense. No one believes a pocket calculator is thinking just because it …

I worry that it is not a valid perspective and that the bubble dynamics are being driven exactly by this sentiment. We are pricing in the hollywood version of AI we don't have as i…

No, you are simply wrong but ignorance of scaling properties is the spirit of the day. I suspect in the future a word will evolve for the stupidity of believing if a person can wal…

I have listened to a ton of Bach but still have only listened to less than 20% of his works. This is like listening to the outtakes and demos of a band instead of the actual albums…

Bach's catalog would be like if Tolstoy wrote maybe 100 novels on the level of War and Peace. It has nothing to do with subjective taste. The immensity of Bach's work is almost inh…

I am not even the biggest Bach fan but it is hard to think of a more towering figure in any artistic medium. I suspect you don't understand music enough to understand the immensity…

I think Bach's lute music is the most approachable because it sounds the most modern like guitar music. Even though the baroque lute is an alien instrument visually to the average …

I haven't used social media in over a decade and I change my mind all the time. Changing your mind is a good thing for a thinking being. Social media figures aren't changing their …

Christopher Hitchens gives the best argument for a historical Jesus in this clip https://youtu.be/vMo5R5pLPBE?t=168

I absolute love KDE Plasma but I finally gave up for Mint Cinnamon LTS. It has just been rock solid on any machine I have tried. KDE I was just always running into some kind of min…

This to me is the whole bubble. The problem of dotcom is we needed a cultural shift. I had my first internet date during the dot com bubble and I remember we would lie to people ab…