mrmarket

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by mrmarket 9d ago
In spite of it all I do love human obsessives, with all their charming inefficiencies. This made me want to work as hard as I can on something important to me. I’m going to spend the night reading poems. And a great reminder of the value of
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by mrmarket 28d ago
@dang this is both an obviously AI-generated post and also versions of it have been posted ad nauseam over the past few weeks/months. why no flag?
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by mrmarket 1mo ago
If meta’s marketing team had any self awareness about the state of the ‘brand’, they would know the absolute best thing they could do for probably the next year at least would be to de-emphasize and hide zuck as much as possible, shut their
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Defending my own brain against enshittification(mrmarket.lol)
112 points by mrmarket 1mo ago|95 comments
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ChatGPT Has Merch(openai.com)
2 points by mrmarket 2mo ago|3 comments
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by mrmarket 2mo ago
tech bro delusion + influencer culture has reached a new dystopian low.
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by mrmarket 2mo ago
"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys." - this line always makes me settle back in my chair. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', Ray Bradbury. It's mysterious and nostalgic and sets the tone for the bo
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Hard Questions(anthropic.com)
2 points by mrmarket 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
yeah, I noticed this too and thought it was interesting. Scott has always been prone to a form of what i'd call 'excessive rationality' where his quest for things to be hyper-logical and follow a perfect 'if-then' s
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Fatherhood Is a Psychedelic Experience(mrmarket.lol)
2 points by mrmarket 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
well, this is a first. never seen someone say they prefer AI slop even when they know it's slop. fascinating.
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
why have a blog if you're going to just use AI for everything? at that point, just do twitter threads or something. that way you can tweet out whatever you prompted the model with. if you're not suited for long-form writing that&#
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
how bizarre to read this from the future. also, love your writing style. it's funny that we all keep bumping up against this persistent confrontation with the ego because of AI. i like reading this because it reminds me, when i spiral
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Job application asked for my SAT scores(mrmarket.lol)
4 points by mrmarket 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
hard to be sympathetic here when the candidate experience has been such a mess in tech for years now. i appreciate that remotely and efficiently judging future success based on a resume is now basically a wash, that sucks. but no one seeme
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
intellectual work (or really any discipline with a 'skills tree' that you can progress up or down) degrades over time without practice. same way that, if you don't run for a while, you're not going to be able to hit your
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
Agree - organized religion is a farce. that said, the desire for community/rituals/reflection that religions exploit to get people hooked are basic desires that 'society at large' doesn't really meet any other way.
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Non-Terrifying Spirituality for Children(mrmarket.lol)
3 points by mrmarket 3mo ago|3 comments
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
excellent essay. what a great read. like the author said, so much of 'success' or 'progress' (in research but of course also across disciplines) depends upon temperament. just straight up having a good attitude about thi
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
this is clearly targeting either vibecoders or people with extremely limited experience in software. i feel like it would be obvious to anyone who doesn't fall into those two categories that the 'AI wrapper' product category
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
i do this with some frequency, maybe a few times a month. i'll email bloggers/poets/researchers i like or founders of interesting companies that solve very specific problems in a satisfying way. i've gotten more response
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by mrmarket 3mo ago
completely agree re: the average human, of any time period, with the same options, will make roughly the same choices - especially in the face of powerful incentives. the tl;dr though of my article is that, DESPITE these absurdly attractive
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What the fuck happened to nerds(mrmarket.bearblog.dev)
147 points by mrmarket 3mo ago|110 comments
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Growing Pains of Starting a Secret Society(mrmarket.bearblog.dev)
2 points by mrmarket 3mo ago|0 comments
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Organic Thinking: The Philosopher's Salon(mrmarket.bearblog.dev)
3 points by mrmarket 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mrmarket 4mo ago
important context for me is that layoffs keep eating my company every 6 months or so, meanwhile the due date is fast approaching. treading shark-infested waters
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by mrmarket 4mo ago
I guess it depends on what sacred means to you. i'm not a religious person, so my definition is entirely personal, but i consider honoring yourself even when it looks like a failure to others, or even when it doesnt give you money&#x2F
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by mrmarket 4mo ago
This would be ideal, but practically speaking, it will only become harder to switch careers and make up the income gap as I get older (i'm 30) and more people leave tech for less volatile industries. Plus, I don't think we'll
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by mrmarket 4mo ago
> you're just about to become much more dependent on a stable income would you consider the 2026 SaaS market stable? Very naive take. > These two sentences are completely independent of each other. They are two separate thoughts.
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by mrmarket 4mo ago
thank you for this. what a sacred journey you're embarking on. i hope to follow you - talking with a close friend now about becoming an elevator mechanic. my wife is pregnant so i have to find a profession that comes reasonably close t

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