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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • It lives and dies by consumer demands? That hasn’t been the case since we started this fucking race. It has pretty much been an Investment run enterprise since the very start. Name a single LLM derived product that is consciously being bought by consumers. It’s all subscription based models that don’t deliver on their promises. Nothing is living up to its promise.

    Where is the AI that I can say: plan an appointment with my dad. And it links our agendas, sets the alarm, orders a bottle of wine, asks me to order an uber because im out of gas, and otherwise i should leave a bit earlier. Where are the actually smart intelligent assistants?




  • Never to look for anything, they might come and talk or wake me up if needed. But they knocked or called before coming in. I never locked my room, so they could have if they wanted to, they simply didn’t want to. They also never checked my bags or pockets. One time my little brother snitched on me smoking, my dad made me grab the cigarettes and dispose of them. He didn’t look for them himself.

    Is this normal? I’m biased. To me it is. I think privacy is an important part of forming your identity. Having a space where you can be yourself and express yourself, and keep your failed attempts at self-expression to yourself. Nobody needs to see your attempts of tying a tie that you discovered was the total opposite of cool and you died of shame getting laughed at at school. Your parents don’t need to know that shit. Their job is to love and support you, not get into the weeds of youth fashion.

    And this is true of many things, but i can imagine that sometimes interventions are needed. When drugs or weapons are involved for example, parents should be parenting. As it’s very difficult as a teenager to understand when self expression crosses into self harm. And in that case supporting your children could mean infringement on their privacy in some occasions.

    I guess in a way my parents trusted me and trusted their formative parenting years enough to give me the privacy i had. And it is very difficult for a child to bot blame themselves for a loss of privacy, even when it’s the parents not trusting their own parenting enough to trust their children with privacy.


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    7 days ago

    Also, but not just, if we consider classical theism (pantheism), then there would be nothing that God isn’t. As God, if we would think of God as the foundation of all being, could not be anything that isn’t. Since what isn’t is without foundation.

    Also, but not just, if we accept panentheism, where God is everything that is and isn’t.

    Not at all in the dualistic theistic view where there is a distinction between what God has put in motion, the physical world, and the heavenly realm where the souls/angels/God resides. In base a distinction between the subjective and the physical.

    Basically the only time that anybody would accept God as ‘made out of atoms’ is if that person accepts the inherently and mostly explicitly atheistic view of metaphysical physicalism. Arguing for God from physicalism is like arguing for social healthcare as a (US) republican. There is an inherent disconnect between the two.


  • I’m very proud of my partner getting a new job and starting her career in earnest. I’m super proud of myself for having been able to support that endeavor. This isn’t something that I did last year obviously, this was a process over multiple years. I’m just very happy to see the results of my life decisions from the previous 5 years culminating in actual tangible outcomes this year. Not just for me, but for the people close to me as well. I have my path for the next 5 years visualized as well, and this type of stuff gives me the confidence to pursue things that i would have previously considered out of reach.








  • I find this the weirdest part of reading old travel accounts, like from the 16th century or something. When travel really was a completely different beast. They never talk about getting lost or language barriers as being the big problems. The biggest problem is always getting sick or accidents.

    And looking at my own life and traveling before smart or even mobile phones existed. I feel exactly the same. I always knew where I had to go, even if I had to search for it. And I was always able to get around and buy things without speaking a word. Just gestures and an attempt at learning a few simple words.

    But I always had something to fall back on. A landline. A travel agency. A random person that shared a language. I always was curious how travel went before those things existed. And now to see a next generation being curious about how travel was before another thing to fall back on.

    The thing to fall back on just gets more and more competent. From having to use a post system that took weeks to get an answer back. To being able to call anyone anywhere anytime. I think every step has made travel easier, less intimidating, and cheaper.