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It's more than reading. Peoples' patience for long-form anything is dying, and I'm guilty too. Too often I'm on my phone with a movie playing in the background. When it ends, I can…

You know it never occurred to me I could look things up before. Everything I've ever known I learned orally. Even C. I remember sitting on pappy's lap, watching him wave his hand t…

Acronyms I can handle. What I've always hated is aNz style compressions. a11y, a16z, stuff that you can't even guess at a decoding unless you know it already.

Derrida was worried that people were merely imitating his style of thinking without the substance, but it's fine for AI to do it to humanity-in-general. OK.

Yeah I'm from Kansas and none of these meanings were new to me.

Different models, similar number representations. Different models for different languages, similar concept representations. They have to learn all of this from human text input, s…

This is the Hemingway Editor by another name, and I have the same complaint about it that I have about the Hemingway Editor. See: https://zjpea.substack.com/p/an-llm-will-never-say…

What if we turned the regional love for megaprojects into something actually useful like a canal from the UAE through Oman, to permanently weaken Iran?

At some point you just have to spend spare cycles on ideas you think matter. What's harder than rejecting an idea is rejecting a finished, working product. And if your team says "I…

Just anecdotally, you should always ask things in the third person. I feel like it sidesteps LLM sycophancy somewhat.

Also, nothing has changed! Claude will still yes-and whatever you give it. ChatGPT still has its insufferable personality, where it takes what you said and hands it back to you in …

'Fuck' is every part of speech simultaneously because it doesn't mean anything. I just want it to be clever and load bearing. Back to the food lens: like an ice cream shop called D…

This is clever but it’s self defeating because it’s tasteful. It’s a good joke. I felt like John Waters was saying it to me. And the painful thing to me is the tastelessness.

Firefly, Dr. Who, Sherlock, on repeat. My own personal circle of hell.

They’re exactly as cringy as each other actually, but your self-righteous point is well taken. Sure, agreed. I have class consciousness now. I am awakened. As if I would ever make …

I don’t really think that’s a proportionate solution to a minor annoyance. So far the advice I’ve gotten has been: - restructure my relationships - say something psychotic like “le…

Fucking performative fucking profanity is fucking gratuitous and is fucking clearly only fucking there so you fucking know I fucking smoke fucking Camel Lights. It’s not fucking mu…

Wait no, I see what’s happening. I am sorry. Deeply and I mean it. I was cruel to you. When a person does what you just did it is itself typically a dominance move. Those questions…

As God said to Abraham. What illuminating advice.

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"A little childish"; Bob's your uncle.

No.

I think the cost of having to say something humiliating is at least equal to the cost of the cookie, so I want it for free. Of course I had fun with my sister in law, even if I rol…

Cheems will be to millennials what the Grateful Dead logo was to Boomers.