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Seeing fireflies for the first time, in my 30s, was (and still is) magical.

I'll take it all a step further: even better if you can find a place to take in some live jazz. Also, on your point about classical: live classical music is also incredibly moving.

While Kansas City isn't necessarily "special" in this regard, it's where I presently call home, and we have an amazing live jazz scene here, and the symphony at Kauffman Center has amazing classical music performances - both of which I cannot stress enough to check out to break apart from the "boring" of the gridified music this essay discussed. Find some live music in whichever locale you're based.

Granted, I'm biased... as I was already jamming out to some jazz when I hit your comment.

It's as bad as Facebook - and even sadder in that you know the folks are truly local, and still just as awful.

Are our only options truly old-school, disconnected approaches versus wading through trolls in a hyper-connected world?

Surely there's something else, and maybe it has nothing to do with tech as we know it.

Less software coupled with operational changes would have helped many organizations I've witnessed across my career, but that's not politically palatable in a lot of places.

We need to experience and see how the world actually works, the pain people are actually experiencing. I deeply believe we build better software that way.

Have a software engineer working for a mining company that's a good candidate to drag out into the field for a bit? Get 'em out there, encourage them to ask tons of questions.

Real example: my wife is a nurse who works for an insurance company to coordinate care for injured workers to help maximize their recoveries. I hear a ton about the stuff she has to do, and just having her tell me about how things work has given me a glut of ideas of how I could help her bypass all the administrivia so she can focus on helping the folks she's really passionate about helping. Wouldn't have had any idea about any of this, otherwise. Unfortunately for her, I don't work for her company so can do nothing about it, but the ideas!

The agent had spun up a backward shell script to watch for the shutdown of another process, but wrote a bug in the script that would have left it running indefinitely until I got home and noticed it.

This was with Fable, no less! And it happened a few more times, though I caught them sooner.

I’m not sure runtime is an important metric at all. Shouldn’t we aim for 0 runtime with maximal results?

I was in Florence, Italy earlier this year and had a few minutes of waiting around when I remembered one of my best friends (who I hadn't spoken with in 15 years because life) had gone to Italy for some artistic endeavors years ago. I couldn't exactly place him, but found some tenuous links to a studio that was only a 5 minute walk from where I was standing, so I took the chance and knocked on a random door on a random street - and voila.

A friendship that started over 30 years ago in California was rekindled, like lighting a dry pine tree on fire. It's been amazing, and we're working on some cool projects together.

Get out there. Take chances. Knock on doors, say hi, introduce yourself. Who knows what could happen.

It’s terrifying to me to think we’d let AI make things for us we never understand. Like livestock not knowing how auto-feeders dispense their daily food were built and appeared, they just gladly eat until…

Can you imagine finding a stack of photos in the basement with timestamps of the Before AI times and wondering whether they are real or just got swapped with generated and printed fakes? Scary!

It’s cool, folks… nothing bad is going to happen. Right? Right?!

> GPT-6 Astra will first be available to a limited set of organizations in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program and will be available "in the coming days" for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise customers and API developers.

It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style.