Don’t ever forget where the value truly comes from
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Fluid intelligence is pretty damn important though, if not the most important component of your output per unit time. It’s like saying the amount of memory or CPU cores a computer has doesn’t matter and it’s all about the storage.
And I don’t think there is a misconception about a scaling quantity. Also, if you claimed to have done research on this as the length of your post suggests, how in the world did you not come across the predictive power of IQ in career and life outcomes? Very silly.
Glad I’m not the only one vibe coding 😂
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
Excellent article, which most likely triggered the mass selling of NVDA. A rare combination of financial and technological expertise, Jeff gives clarity to the previous week’s world of NVDA GPU hype and overvaluation. Totally worth the read!
You can read it here— let me know what you think:
youtubetranscriptoptimizer.c…
An excellent low hanging fruit for AI is live translation of broadcasts and TV. There is so much we don’t know about the international community simply because we cannot understand what they are saying, such as with Viktor Orban right now during the European Councils speeches
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💥💥 EU Inc goes to Brussels!
We sent the petition with your 13k signatures to the EU Commission.
We managed to make this an urgent matter in Brussels. Now we need to make sure the implementation is right.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Contribute to the open-sourced proposal below ⬇️
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19 powerful sentences by Friedrich Nietzsche that will change how you view the world:
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.”
~Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Let’s get the EU economic engine started!!
This is a real possibility, but unlikely. Corporations might just push their workers to the next level of productivity.
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Happiness (if you want it):*
1. Meet basic needs
2. Avoid cheap dopamine
3. Leave the past alone
4. Limit desires to ones achievable at the edge of your capability
5. Find something beyond yourself (mission, children, God)
*Most people want something else.
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”
~Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Economic freedom leads to societal prosperity! But the battle against the useless bureaucratic thieves must be waged on the cultural front too
Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruptio... youtu.be/8NLzc9kobDk?si=lGA-… via @YouTube
Age of robotics coming soon! The next Industrial Revolution is about to start. Where will you position yourself?
It is already the case that chatGPT is our personal companion. It essentially answers all of our questions about science, engineering, code, history, politics, psychology, personal problems, etc. It’s capabilities to integrate into your particular lifestyle will only get better through time.
“It turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience”
-Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin on the power of creating something truly for yourself
Elon Musk has said that Rick Rubin’s philosophy of creating something truly for yourself is how Tesla creates products.
Rick elaborates on this philosophy in the clip below:
“My only goal is to make something that I like, and I know that I can keep working on it until I like it. So in some ways there’s no pressure.”
Rick doesn’t consider the audience at all:
“The audience comes last… I’m not making it for them. I’m making it for me. And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience.”
He argues that this is why there are so many bad movies today:
“So many big movies are just not good. It’s because they’re are not being made by a person who cares about it. They’re being made by people who are trying to make something they think someone else will like. And that’s not how art works.”
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues a similar point:
"If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them.”
Uber started out as a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends. Microsoft started when Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a Basic interpreter for the Altair so they didn’t have to write machine language to program it. Drew Houston built Dropbox to make his files live online after forgetting his USB stick. Larry Page and Sergey Brin built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves—with the first server in Larry’s dorm room.
Video source: @LewisHowes (2023)