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The pole at ts8 isn't when machines become superintelligent. It's when humans lose the ability to make coherent collective decisions about machines. The actual capabilities are almost beside the point. The social fabric frays at the seams of attention and institutional response time, not at the frontier of model performance.

Damn, good read.

You’re not allowed to feel things. Emotions make you weak. Just suck it up and power through. Bottle it up.

Yeah, none of that is "real stoicism", but just the hydroponic TikTok version of it, as you say.

This can happen to anything if TikTok is your main source of information; everything becomes life hacks, "tricks", and "did you know that <insert biased misinterpretation of well known thing>" types of knowledge bites. Philosophy is unfortunately not the only victim of short-length "edutainment".

I think that Stoicism might be particularly vulnerable to this because of its built in flexibility, which makes it easy for people to divulge their interpretations of it with little pushback. If you haven't read much of it, and without a clear rirgid "rule set" for what Stoicism is (other than its tenets in the cardinal virtues and dichotomy of control), you might believe me if I tell you that it is a Philosophy that encourages suicide and tells you that being sad because a family member passed is stupid.

I use these at night, sleeping with them on. I experienced this screeching intermittently for like a week, and then it went away almost completely. Now, it only happens if I lay down in a very specific way. It's probably related to the strength of the seal in my case, and maybe at higher altitudes and different pressures the seal is affected in a similar way.

The seal might have improved for me the more I used the same eartips

Vibe engineering 10 months ago

I feel the opposite. I get to sit down and think about problems, expressing them in words as best I can, and then review the code, make sure that I understand it and it works as it should, all in a fraction of the time it used to take me. I like that I don't have to google APIs as much as I did before, and instead I can get a working thing much faster.

I can focus on actually solving problems rather than on writing clever and/or cute-looking code, which ironically also gives me more time later to over-optimize stuff at my leisure.

I know it's not the point, but you can generalize the input handler in the first example by using the name of the input field as a key — in most simple forms, at least:

```

const Form = () => {

  const [formData, setFormData] = useState({ firstName: '', lastName: '' });

  function handleChange(event) {
    const { target } = event;
    const { name, value } = target; // Destructuring in steps to make it easier to figure out where values come from.

    setFormData({
      ...formData,
      [name]: value
    });
  }
  

  return (
    <>
      <input name="firstName" value={formData.firstName} onChange={handleChange} />
      <input name="lastName" value={formData.lastName} onChange={handleChange} />
    </>
  )
}

```

It's the worst for sure. Managed to kick instagram for a month, but ended up going back when I had some down time.

Regarding my question, I was wondering if I was missing something else within the article, which I feel like I do a lot of the time :) Glad to know that I actually got it.

I preceded to tell him that it doesn’t matter if you have a college degree anymore to do today’s jobs and that he was basically bragging about his family’s socioeconomic status, not his son’s actual achievements. I tried to elaborate about the inequalities of higher education and why it’s an outdated metric of future success. I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university.

Massive eye roll. I'm sure everyone clapped after that, and they gave them a free coffee, and hung their portrait on the wall.

Also, it's "proceeded".

I tried upgrading a 2019 iMac with Catalina to BigSur. It failed after the black screen with the apple logo and a count down, by going to a screen I've never seen before that said something like "failed to _apply_ update". If I restarted, then I would land on the same countdown screen until it inevitably failed again.

I ended up deleting the hard drive and reinstalling Catalina, but the weird thing is that now my 2019 iMac with Catalina plays the boot chime, which is the only part of Big Sur that worked for me...

Apple gets shit for building shit to be thin over having good cooling; Sony gets shit for building a chunky, properly cooled device. I think Sony wins here.

Cooking is essential. Jumping into meal prepping for there, is another thing. Meal prepping saves you some time, but if you actually like cooking and enjoy fresh meals, this is not necessarily a good thing.

Meal prepping falls into the productivity porn category for me.