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Same here for todos (just with pen and paper).

I don’t see why I’d need an admin dashboard and a DBMS to effectively prioritize what I need to accomplish in 16 hours.

Yeah, not sure what label we’d give to a system like this but it works. I basically do the same, but with Raindrop (the bookmark manager). I’ve tried many tools and systems, but what works (for me) is basically a personal data lake where semi-structured/incompletely-labeled stuff can be archived.

For todos and calendars, I’ve found less is more to be particularly true. I don’t see how anyone gets solid ROI for non-collaborative personal projects by using feature-filled systems. I’m quite busy, and the minimal cognitive load of pen and paper is difficult to surpass.

My understanding is that there is something like a Goldilocks part of the curve (e.g. 115-125) where you get above average intelligence and high motivation (‘hard working’).

On average, any random company will be filled with solidly average engineers. Which means, because of how numbers work, most of the engineers are neither good nor bad at engineering. They’re just mediocre.

Companies need to realize this and come to grips with it. Additionally, this holds as well for the following: beyond a certain skill threshold, a company will not really be any less competitive by failing to hire the best or even second best candidate. If you are a regional telecommunications firm, and hire the 3rd best candidate, the 1st and 2nd candidates will likely get hired in unrelated firms or unrelated regions (especially in the remote work era). And even if this isn’t so, because most everyone is mediocre, the competitiveness of your firm won’t drop appreciably.

The Redmond philosophy views running Windows update as basic control flow for any executable whatsoever.

Also, even for relatively simple and beginner things like recursion there are levels of understanding. Some of the anecdotes I see from people using ChatGPT to learn a new technical concept suggest a false sense of deeper levels of understanding. This seems to be a result of beginner naïveté together with the supreme confidence ChatGPT exudes.

The degree of ‘needing’ to explain consciousness is basically the inverse of the degree of ‘needing’ to explain what the last digit of 22/7 is. Hardly anyone talks about or does anything with the latter, whereas the reality of the former pervades - quite literally - nearly everything humans do and think about.

I mean, you experienced the reality of consciousness while talking about the last digit of 22/7.

If there is anything in our world that needs explaining it’s consciousness.

Reality doesn’t owe us an explanation of consciousness (obviously). We owe it to ourselves though.

I’m not an insider, so I wouldn’t know, but there is an alternative take on their motivations for courting the Saudi’s. Namely, they are becoming a bit like SoftBank: they’ve been raising mega funds the past couple years and have started to run out of traditional institutional investors to court.

While this could be an alternative take all its own, it can also be combined with the crypto take (they aren’t mutually exclusive).

I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know.

I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the downside risk on extinction of us as a species. Sure, that’s a risk. You know something else an ASI would likely have the ability to do, (or at least, one of its progeny)? Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why is the downside always focused on paltry, meaningless things (relatively speaking) like extinction of life on earth?

Hell is others’ XML.

Yeah, I wonder sometimes how many people gloss over what it would mean for an “ASI” to exist. We would - if successful - effectively be creating a supernatural being (at least, there wouldn’t be much of a distinction between it and one).

Sure, there’s hype, and FUD, and fatalism, etc. But, if you believe the creation of such a thing is within your lifetime then it would be difficult to find many higher priority issues to prepare for/help solve/vote on/etc.

In reality, we all likely still downplay the risk by assessing the limit on the downside as a relatively quick extinction of life on earth. There are many things one can imagine might be a lot worse than death.

I would love native platform support. I’ll write up some initial thoughts and drop them into the Slack.

My girlfriend works for a large consulting firm. Her mid-to-high-end work laptop runs the standard smattering of PM applications you’d expect (e.g. Teams).

I watch her screen sometimes to see the differences in our workflows. It is incredible the high latencies and low speeds she has come to view as acceptable in application performance. 2-3 seconds to toggle a menu that’s toggled 30 times in a day; 4 seconds for a small file list update that is performed regularly; tabs in Edge frequently hanging; on and on this goes.

Just sad, really, especially when we have a half gig connection going both ways. The work being performed (and the features designed to do it) should not be seen as resource heavy… because it isn’t. It’s the same exact bs that was done on computers in corporate settings 20 years ago. We’ve added collaborative editing and auto save as defaults - that’s the extent of the difference.

How did we get here?

One of my close friends was recently scammed out of $203,324 and the scammer used a text message, from an invalid/unused number, as the entry point. The full scam was quite involved and took a little over a month to run through.

She is an immigrant and her parents cleared out a savings account in the process (the scammer convinced all parties involved my friend would be deported unless…).

By debugging homebrew issues during Moneterey updates.

I didn’t brick the machine, just the ability to setup a typical python venv.