yulker

part of the challenge is that like the car, social media has reorganized societal "infrastructure" itself, such that just a reflexive "the old fashion way" leans on a social organization that doesn't exist anymore

i wonder if this appearance of respect via hand written notes will fade with millennials

But is it stopping creative expression?

Nit: Humans are animals, but those animals were not humans

Trading securities is under an incredible amount of regulation, making your point flippant rather than substantive

why should we have financial regulation at all, is that what you're getting at?

Why does one need to be proactively doing anything to justify awareness and holding a point of view?

The whole post has that immediate LLM "mouthfeel"

couldn't you trivially get a kitchen torch or use your oven's broiler

why not both? mark up the book while you're reading, reflect in your notebook on what you read

this is probably sarcasm, but might actually try this. the visceral negative reaction i have to llm writing makes me instantly want to close the tab

How do you justify it against all the other abstractions you've accepted and no longer know how to do (or never learned in the first place). Why are the current set of manual steps the right level to be permanently aware of?

There's something interesting in maintaining items built to last when the objects themselves are maintained and kept for entertainment reasons. (Entertainment in the broad sense for enjoyment first and foremost over utility or practicality). I guess it strikes me like a master of maintaining toy trains or something along those lines, both evoking a sense of respect and sense of humanity for the craft and art of the thing, while paradoxically feeling that this is not "actually important" (whatever that means). Like someone being a great soccer player or michelin star chef -- the seriousness of this kind of endeavor is both inspiring and comical at the same time?

Maybe it should be viewed like the sign of a healthy ecosystem; if it can support "exotic birds" like these, it's stable and healthy.

it's incredible how volatile the product and pricing situation is right now. i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse