You regard the world as something before you, and yourself as the spectator to whom its meaning must eventually be disclosed. Yet the striving you observe everywhere is known to you most intimately as your own desire. You ask existence to explain itself while continuing to demand more of it.
Each satisfaction briefly silences the question; each disappointment gives it a new urgency. Still you wish to know what tomorrow will bring. The intellect has found no sufficient answer, but the will has never required one.
Todays pondering, inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer.
Roman Sutherland | Nousophy retweeted
Purely as a practical heuristic, I suspect a lot of people would get more out of LLMs if they switched their mental model from “software program” to “weird little guys inside my computer”.
Did you watch the Cartoon Show when you were younger, called "Pinky and the Brain?"
79%Yes
10%No
4%My brother/sister did
8%Never heard of it
52 votes • Final resultsSometimes, because the alternative is difficult to face, we hold onto a belief and mistake the relief it gives us for happiness.



