spectralista

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by spectralista 9mo ago
I have read enough on Munger and Buffet that I don't think it was quite theater. I think they really believe/believed their own bullshit. Like the way Munger would promote reading but Andrew Carnegie built 2500 libraries. They wou
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by spectralista 9mo ago
It is actually the opposite. The less things you have, the less things you will want. I even experience this with food. If I am on a strict diet for 2 weeks and then have a "cheat" meal, a previously normal meal feels like a satis
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by spectralista 9mo ago
I just got back from the gym and it was surprisingly empty. Actually, more empty than normal. My experience from lifting now for 30+ years and seeing thousands of people lift is it is: 1. Genetics. Everything else is a distant second or thi
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by spectralista 9mo ago
I was pretty much told this in the 90s that I would have no real stability in life like my parents did and my life would be constant reinvention. That has been spot on. It is the younger people who started their career after the financial c
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by spectralista 9mo ago
I would agree with this from subjective experience. My non-IT based career has been highly volatile with unintended unemployment, companies going out of business, changing entire sectors and roles many times. Huge volatility in relationship
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by spectralista 9mo ago
The best example is that even ATM machines didn't reduce bank teller jobs. Why? Because even the bank teller is doing more than taking and depositing money. IMO there is an ontological bias that pervades our modern society that confuse
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by spectralista 9mo ago
Because at that scale, the tail is wagging the dog and it is not even close.
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by spectralista 10mo ago
This is not "Claude Sonnet"'s summary. This is the response you steered Claude Sonnet into producing by the way your formed the prompt. This is the parlor trick of LLMs, confusing the latter with the former.
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I have and to quote Wittgenstein all this is like saying the machine has a toothache. It is just complete nonsense. No one believes a pocket calculator is thinking just because it produces the correct output. To believe the LLM is thinking
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I worry that it is not a valid perspective and that the bubble dynamics are being driven exactly by this sentiment. We are pricing in the hollywood version of AI we don't have as if it is the internet. I communicated with people exactl
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by spectralista 10mo ago
No, you are simply wrong but ignorance of scaling properties is the spirit of the day. I suspect in the future a word will evolve for the stupidity of believing if a person can walk 3 miles in an hour then that scales to walking 500 miles i
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I have listened to a ton of Bach but still have only listened to less than 20% of his works. This is like listening to the outtakes and demos of a band instead of the actual albums. Pointless when it takes a lifetime to get through the actu
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by spectralista 10mo ago
Bach's catalog would be like if Tolstoy wrote maybe 100 novels on the level of War and Peace. It has nothing to do with subjective taste. The immensity of Bach's work is almost inhuman. That still wouldn't capture Bach's
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I am not even the biggest Bach fan but it is hard to think of a more towering figure in any artistic medium. I suspect you don't understand music enough to understand the immensity of Bach's work and influence. Maybe if Picasso ha
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I think Bach's lute music is the most approachable because it sounds the most modern like guitar music. Even though the baroque lute is an alien instrument visually to the average person today, the sound is closer to what people have g
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I haven't used social media in over a decade and I change my mind all the time. Changing your mind is a good thing for a thinking being. Social media figures aren't changing their mind in the same way, they are changing and optimi
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by spectralista 10mo ago
Christopher Hitchens gives the best argument for a historical Jesus in this clip https://youtu.be/vMo5R5pLPBE?t=168
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by spectralista 10mo ago
I absolute love KDE Plasma but I finally gave up for Mint Cinnamon LTS. It has just been rock solid on any machine I have tried. KDE I was just always running into some kind of minor problem or something wouldn't work. I have dolphin a
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by spectralista 10mo ago
This to me is the whole bubble. The problem of dotcom is we needed a cultural shift. I had my first internet date during the dot com bubble and I remember we would lie to people about how we met because the idea sounded so insane at the tim