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by truelson 11mo ago
You know what else works? Talking to an LLM about what you want to accomplish today.
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by truelson 11mo ago
We are having a huge amount of technological change (we haven't even learned how to handle social media as a society yet...). We're experiencing a global loss in trust, and things may fall apart for a bit until our society develop
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by truelson 11mo ago
It's to their benefit to try everything right now. And quickly.
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by truelson 11mo ago
I love Cal. I really, really take his thoughts on many things to heart for well over a decade now. I think he's being a bit harsh here. And there are some confounding factors why. Yes, we have an AI bubble. Yes there's been a ton
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by truelson 11mo ago
Most automatic human behavior uses very simple logic. I spend a lot of time "not present" as my conscious part is often lost in something complicated. My automatic, unconscious actions are, well, pretty simple and subject to failu
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by truelson 11mo ago
I think this points to future optimizing will be focused on making inference really inexpensive.
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A Simple Way to Know When the Economy's About to Turn(writings.alethia.news)
2 points by truelson 11mo ago|1 comments
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by truelson 11mo ago
Most people watch unemployment to gauge the economy. The problem is, by the time jobs fall, the recession has already begun. This post looks at the smaller part of the economy that turns first: residential construction and durable goods and
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by truelson 11mo ago
Don't use P/E as an estimate of a bubble... profits often mean revert. Use something closer to market value to GDP (with some adjustments). That is a much better estimate. John Hussman has imo the best of such metrics. Here's
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by truelson 11mo ago
So… what is a good example of a consensus driven culture on something popular with a lot of opinions, some legacy use cases, that can get these things done quickly? This is a systems problem. Successful examples wanted.
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by truelson 1y ago
So, bigger and more important question here. How do I help neuro-divergent folks in a work environment? There's no one size fits all here, everyone is different, and not just on a spectrum sliding scale. How do I glean what is importan
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by truelson 1y ago
Going to leave this link here: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc250814/ By many different measures, we are at record valuations (though must be said, not P/E however). Tends not to end well. And housing
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by truelson 1y ago
Ultimately, debt will fuel this. Oracle can't pay with cashflow.
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by truelson 1y ago
Ben Thompson and Doug O'Laughlin ( https://stratechery.com/2025/the-oracle-inflection-point-app... (paywall), https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/capital-cycles-and-ai ) are calling it a bu
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by truelson 1y ago
Loved this. Meditations/Taoism/omnissiah... Just a great response. :)
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by truelson 1y ago
As a side note, I'm going through all the Le Carré novels... it is a lovely experience to be able to ask an LLM more questions about 1960s British culture, West German Cold War politics, and Le Carré's background as a diplomat&#x2
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by truelson 1y ago
This is one of the areas where LLMs are really useful. At their core they aren’t “thinking” so much as transforming and reorienting data. What’s been most valuable for me is the way they create a kind of imperfect but effective Socratic dia
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by truelson 1y ago
I disagree. Boring work needs meaning, not tension. Some times boring, done consistently, is where the truly great things come from. Tension is, imo, ephemeral. If you keep chasing it, you are chasing dopamine loops. Little good comes from
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by truelson 1y ago
In addition, being able to see when dopamine is rising, feel it, label it, engage your parasympathetic nervous system and know that a dopamine spike is temporary, the craving for TV, news, sweets, social media, or other will pass... that is
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by truelson 1y ago
A key part of breaking cycles for me has been noticing when my default mode network ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network ) or DMN is being activated, being able to stop, do a series of 4-2-6 breaths to ac
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by truelson 1y ago
My last pixel (4a) started falling apart after about a year and a half. Is there an android device that's a bit more hardy? I switched back to apple as I was able to use an SE for YEARS. Would love to try running GrapheneOS, though.
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by truelson 1y ago
Network effects have a certain amount of unpredictability. A highly political group split off from X to BSky, and, imo, gave the network an extra amount of escape velocity. We're seeing a receding, but it did show X's network effe
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by truelson 1y ago
RSS is still extremely useful. It may never have been meant for mass adoption like algorithmic feeds, but that is the point: it is the right counterbalance. I want full control of my feeds, and RSS gives me that. With tools like https:&#x2
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Eat Your Vegetables Before AI Dessert(writings.alethia.news)
3 points by truelson 1y ago|0 comments
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And What Could Be(writings.alethia.news)
2 points by truelson 1y ago|1 comments
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by truelson 1y ago
A short response to https://coppolaemilio.com/entries/what-could-have-been/ and why I am not despairing the AI bubble.
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by truelson 1y ago
We do know Parkinson’s Law ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law ) will apply to all this, right?
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by truelson 11y ago
I do want to point out in addition to Bob Sutton's research, there's Adam Grant's research he writes about in "Give and Take." One of the main takeaways, yes there are a LOT of jerks at the top, and nice people at t
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by truelson 12y ago
You're giving VCs and institutional investors way too much credit. The amount of educated people who buy things based largely on the fact they are popular and growing is still pretty large, especially in a frothy environment like this
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AMA on PTSD treatment with MDMA (Yay Acronyms)(reddit.com)
2 points by truelson 12y ago|0 comments

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