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Stopped mistaking my thoughts and opinions with reality.
Result: 90% reduction of agony.
Meditation method: remembering the sense of “I am-ness” in every waking moment, stop thinking whenever possible, focus on senses whenever I remember. When: always, unless I forget.
1. War is insanity already. Not sure how pointing ways someone is making war more efficient is sanewashing in this context.
2. Assuming every pow gets tortured is an extraordinary statement which as such could use some solid proof.
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One should never write about an idea before implementing it?
People? It’s an increasingly wrote-only medium where the writing is automated.
A nice lottery simulator which had me stop playing the lottery
The incentive to replace employees with ai systems?
VS. the inadequacy of ai systems (nondeterministic output, no reference with reality, unknown signal to noise ratio, low effort etc).
Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible.
A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality.
Idiocracy presents a naively gentle positive version of such future but there are many darker ones possible.
Kali Yuga, indeed.
All about Berlin is a work of love, thank you for creating it.
LLMs stealing content and regurgitating it for money is an illegal extraction of informational value. The fact that our governments have not taken steps to seek balance of rewards for the authors is unforgivable.
Not familiar with the infinite gamut of techniques, and yes sounds right.
It is possible, there are many ways, some people are curious about this state and lean into it, most are not. Who does, or doesn’t, and when, in my experience, is matter of grace. So no need to worry about it.
I see it as something that happens to me rather than caused by willpower. Much like a memory or a flashback that then transports you.
The feeling of gentle content / blissful love emerges automatically as the grip of thinking convulsions releases the body.
It’s direct, effortless, always available, takes no time.
Easily done in any situation of passivity including meetings. Recommended during stand ups ;)
Not sure what the OP or the person in the videos means but a direct, fast way I have found to “drop in” is to stop thinking and intensify my awareness of everything. Takes about 5-10 seconds to transition into a nonthinking timeless presence.
Attention is on the full body, and the field of perception, then field of awareness, all at the same time.
A bit like shavasana practice, but instead of scanning part by part, expand presence to everything.
The thinking analytical mind stops, the nonthinking mind activates and softly intensifies.
AI models are rapidly getting better… at creating an unstoppable tide of hype about AI models rapidly getting better.
Interesting how we’re using passive language here.
LLMs do not replace jobs, managers constantly try to increase profit. Managers and business owners try to replace people’s jobs via automation.
LLM companies actively try to convince managers and business owners that LLMs are capable of replacing humans in white collar jobs.
An LLM/AI will not replace you, or me.
A business owner or manager might. They also might use an LLM to make decisions.
But let’s not use language which anctively obscures the decision makers in this process.
Also, code expresses understanding and intent, quite precisely.
Code generators that do not have understanding or intent are limited in their ability to express them precisely.
It was exactly the depression and confusion in the second part that made me feel her humanity and thus deepened mine.
It is an incredible book and I feel grateful for it.
It’s like a constant game of two truths and a lie.
What if it’s not a lot of RAM?
What if genetic memory, multigenerational conditioning, life-long patterning and conditioning, experienced in a body, combined with forces and processes not yet detected nor explained, cannot quite fit in a sliver of modeling?
I have both the latest Lightroom and Davinci Resolve.
Recently I edited a few images requiring removing extra people from the frame and I was able to do all editing in Lightroom, in seconds.
As much as I dislike Adobe, Lightroom’s shortcuts and flow are now habits.
I will likely continue using both.
Thank you for sharing your our humanity and reminding us of ours.
All the best in your job search. I hope that the industry will come to its senses sooner than later.
When I heard Carl Sagan defining “God” as the sum total of all matter, forces, causality chains, and events in the known and unknown universe. (Paraphrasing).
And when I read about the concept of all matter and all consciousness inhabiting each other just as they did prior and during the big bang.
“ I don't know, but here's my attempt to help.”
“I don’t know” would be so much more productive and respectful than “here, this may be useful or completely useless, figure it out on your own time. Took me 30 seconds to produce…”
A bit asymmetrical by time, signal to noise, and frankly, bs metrics.
You could, with a large enough captive audience.
I sometimes wonder, what does one need a second 500 billion that the first 500 billion is not enough for?
The lesson is that if you’re too big to fail no laws apply to you and there unlimited money to be made.
It has been learned very well.
The brazen violation of intellectual property was a precondition of making this technology useful. Taking the risk of breaking the law at this unprecedented scale was an informed decision made based on this very lesson.
Also the replacement of craftsmanship with mass produced lower quality output possible for workers with less training and partial understanding to produce.
Processes are more efficient, machines are faster, workers are easily replaceable. The quality and complexity of the product is limited by these requirements.
As someone who also designs, the few web page designs I saw produced by LLMs were ugly, generic, not accessible… unusable.
Even after prompting, I had to throw away all. No useful ideas just slop.
I’m sure there’s a lot to philosophize about a distant future when these work, but right now a waste of time.
People continue making amazing art and surely keep writing.
Slop is however flooding the space. I think at this point curation and trusting existing sources is crucial.
Better for privacy? iOS.
Better for voice search/assistant? Probably Android.
Better for voice dictation? Android.
Better keyboard? Android.
Better integration with other same-os devices? iOS.
Better UX? Likely whichever you’re used to.
Better for what?
The equivalent of a student copying their homework.
Schools are not publishing houses for homework assignments. Struggling with the homework is the process training the student.
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