I have found it, the Platonic form of every New York Times op-ed.

It’s easy to work from an engineer’s personal passion outward. Generic small talk is noisy. People send confusing signals with mirroring, people pleasing, affiliation signaling, status calibration, …

it kind of sucks that working out, eating healthy, and sleeping well solves like 90% of mental health issues. like i wish it was all bs and there was some big esoteric reason for and solution to it all but no it's basically just Not Abusing Your Body

if you're so smart why aren't you having fun

Saying "this is beautiful, here's why" is genuinely more vulnerable than saying "this is overrated."

I met Nick Land a few weeks ago. He mentioned that many people in his circles were anti-LLMs. Someone asked why he thought so many people were. His answer was better than anything so short I thought of: “People like to exist critically with respect to something.” This I think accurately characterizes a lot of people whose outputs and inputs primarily consist of “discourse” about rather than direct contact with the reality at hand. Existing critically with respect to something makes it easy to seem cool, sophisticated, above something, hard-to-impress and therefore worth trying to impress, especially to others who also don’t have contact with the phenomena itself. And for that reason I think it’s cheap. And to someone who has an inside view of what is being discussed, it’s always so transparent and boring and compressible. I’m far more impressed by someone who is capable of loving something and showing others why it’s beautiful or good. Doesn’t have to be LLMs, but anything at all.

sell the red button for $30 million. next question

Every time one of my friends with a P.H.D sends me something WILDLY retarded i send them this.

i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works

Peter is not wrong. He is just saying the quiet part loudly. And saying it too clearly. What a way to learn about teleoplexy.

What Claude Code has revealed is that most people either have mediocre ideas or no ideas at all. The tool is a force multiplier for those who already know what they want to build and how to think through it systematically; it elevates competence, rewards clarity, and accelerates execution for people who would have gotten there anyway, just slower. If you have a sharp vision and can break it into coherent steps, Claude Code becomes an extension of your own capability. But there's another mode of use entirely. For people without that clarity, the appeal is precisely that the input can stay vague; you gesture at something, hit enter, and wait to see what comes out. This is structurally identical to a slot machine: low effort, variable reward, and that intermittent reinforcement loop that hooks the susceptible. So the same tool that elevates the focused and capable is also manufacturing a kind of gambling behavior in people prone to it.

ChatGPT knows how to flatter an autist.

Those Who Are Distracted Now Will Be Even More Distracted Later

iOS focus mode to block specific people

If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone. But there would be signs.

He's so happy. He knows his life is about to change. He can see the dollar signs flashing before his eyes. LMAO!!! 💀💀💀

"See if there's already an upstream issue open for this" was a GitHub Copilot prompt that I didn't expect to work. But it did. It ran a couple curls against the GitHub repo, parsed the responses, and provided a link.

Carmack is the last domino standing.