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I think the difference is everyone knows Anthropic is a high risk/high reward business that is only a few years old.

It is not like Anthropic was once this stable investment grade company that is now shopping around because the debt is being downgraded.

The headline is just click bait.

I really would love a browser plugin that blocks having to read about fucking pelicans on every model release.

It goes both ways.

Guys that do have families are willing to give up a lot too. Things I was never really willing to give up.

I have dated a lot and there is one woman I would have wanted kids with. She wasn't into that with me though.

That is not a problem with the woman, that is a problem with me.

I know a few guys in this same situation. It is not a problem with the dating market, it is a type of narcissism that clouds judgement and sets standards that can't be met.

It is hard to see it in yourself until you get a vasectomy.

We would need a lot of people on the mission for genetic diversity but you couldn't exactly have a hook up culture. We would need a type of multi generational arranged marriage/arranged sexual partners based on genetics. Then what happens when the heart wants what the heart wants? I would have hard time seeing this not turn into Lord of the Flies in Space even if the engineering parts were solved.

Tab for a harmonic table layout instrument would be pretty nice.

I would think the reason for keys on staff notation is to have less accidentals to write by hand so it seems like getting rid of this makes perfect sense in 2026.

This main post though I don't really understand without seeing the keyboard.

Same here. I have found more interesting books to read from Claude in the past year than probably my entire life. Coming up on November, from last year to this November I am just intellectually a different person. I feel like I didn't know anything a year ago. I expect that gap to be even wider a year from now.

Most people I know though are just not interested in learning for the sake of learning. Of course, if you are this is a golden age. For everyone else it is problematic for various reasons.

I am just trying to enjoy this time while it lasts because this whole situation seems rather unstable.

The forklift analogy proves the opposite point.

There is no business model for competing companies to build forklifts that can lift an infinite amount.

That is not to say attempting to do so would not find new use cases for such powerful forklifts. The problem is the cost of building ever increasingly powerful forklifts while the TAM for that power shrinks.

You don't even have to bring in the enormous difference between forklift rusting theta vs gpu theta.

I was hoping you were able to make the numbers work.

I have just not read or listened to much of anything that the numbers work besides some science fiction fantasy on Dwarkesh podcast.

The gpu theta + the frontier model theta + token deflation creates this rolling window that I just don't see how it works given even the most bullish assumptions.

Maybe if the rolling window was expanding a rational argument could be made for the valuation. No one can say with a straight face the rolling window is expanding.

It is like competing biotech firms without patents working on the same drug but with these time decay parameters too.

Obviously.

I know 5 people closely that have had long careers in the trades.

They are all physically damaged in ways I am not from sitting at a desk.

What I notice about the trades is that the conversation from the inside is mostly about retirement because the work is not fun the way I find my white collar work to be fun.

Just swap out LLMs for spiders.

A spider obviously "knows" how to build a spider web.

Does a spider "understand" how to build a spider web?

From a pragmatic theory of truth, a spider obviously "understands" how to build a spider web. A spider understands how to build a spider web much better than a human.

But when it comes to LLMs we start adding all this extra nonsense. As if the spider is blanket "smarter" than me because I can't spin a web. If the spider is "smarter" than me then it must also have this Cartesian theater of the mind like many people think they do.

It is layered philosophical misunderstandings to talk about LLMs in this way.

Sougwen Chung has been doing this for years but most people don't care enough about the art world to know this.

I just don't really agree with the premise.

I think Evening Tide, Barge off the Marsh looks really interesting because there is a jaggedness to the edges that is interesting to my taste.

What is the reason for a Burroughs cutup? One could argue almost the entire 20th century of art was a reaction against the idea of artistic choice you are referring to.

It is very strange to me too because when I actually lived in the 20th century, the idea of algorithmic music composition was considered the outer heights of serious artistic musical expression.

I did not expect the generations 25 years later to have an artistic taste that seems to have regressed to a type of pre-impressionism sensibility. The way Monet's critics considered his art a lesser form of wallpaper compared to the "old masters".

It is really one of the most disappointing developments because it is not like we have this cultural obsession with some neo-Rembrandt movement.

It is the cultural triumph of the art critic who produces nothing beyond critique.

It is interesting.

I live in the future when it comes to my hobby of music making. I make my own little software tools that I did not have the ability to make 2 years ago. Little tools that are too specialized and specific for my obscure taste to have much wider economic value as tools in themselves.

Claude is also the greatest obscure book recommendation engine I have ever found so I have a lot more interesting books to read than in the past.

Outside of this, I basically live in 2019 but everything is more expensive.

I worry this is the future. It doesn't really feel much different other than things getting more and more expensive.