goodgoblin

Isn't this exactly what Peter Zeihan said was going to happen? I think it is.

I also appreciate the marvelous rhythm of the modern world, more miracles per square foot than the life of any saint.

I was unpacking and yesterday from a move and saw a copy of his "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" book and remembered he time he answered a fan email I sent to him with the simple reply "It's always nice to receive an email such as yours." - here's to hoping you are wrong about the soul Dan!

this is such a good idea for a movie

I firmly believe the only way to stop our culture from obsessing over the wrong things (politics, climate emergency, vaccines) is to give it something even worse to focus on - enter the War on Plastic! I genuinely hope this catches on and people start putting anti-plastic flags on their lawns.

b/c the 'writing' part is at the end of the process of gathering the news.

I have noticed the same kind of degradation -- pair-programming with GPT4 used to feel like I was working with one of the smartest people in the world, and now it's really uneven.

The spontaneous toxic content stuff is a little alarming, but probably in the future there will be gpt-Ns that have their core training data filtered so all the insane reddit comments aren't part of their makeup.

it just bears remembering that whenever anyone in SV says "government bad!" - the government saved their asses

I used to ride my bike to work in Boston, and one day I ran into the rear fender of a car who had cut me off, basically crashing into the car at pretty high speed, and the car didn't even notice.

I realized that even if I was a master at city biking, through no fault of my own I could easily die or be seriously injured, and I haven't ridden a except for fun now and then since.

Just wanted to say nice job!

and til the difference between (and that there was a difference between) honing and sharpening.

A couple of years ago I realized that the big metal rod inside the box that holds the knives is for sharpening.

you are totally right - I just watched the original Point Break over the weekend and all the surfing scenes obviously have different human beings from the actors they are meant to resemble but your brain still wants to think they are the same.