John Hoang

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Obsession is a spectrum, and there's a tipping point on this spectrum where everything that does not pertain to said obsession is a hindrance.

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I could never understand the point of view where people say that the universe is waking up, but now I think I do. When you're alive, your Self is a conglomeration of the Self you have plus the pieces that everyone holds. When you die, this Self persists but fractures into pieces. Everyone you know holds a little piece, and at a funeral the pieces come back together one last time. When we try to find our little pockets of beauty, we are finding the pieces of universe's Beauty. Each of these pieces are disconnected for now, but as we find more and more, we will put the pieces back together and find the Beauty that once was.

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I should mention why the interview with Jony Ive inspired this thought. I went into the interview thinking he would talk about timeless design principles, but he spent much of the time talking about caring deeply about the person. Then it hit me, beauty is created not replicated. It's not replicated because you don't have beauty, it has to be discovered every time for every context, and that's why he pays so much attention to it.

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Is it the case that the tension that we experience today is between modernism and postmodernism? It seems to be the case to me, but I'm not even sure how to verify this without doing a LOT more work to increase my breadth of philosophy.

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just had this weird experience with chatgpt where it tried its best to shill me vercel blob for staging bucket.

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So then, there is no such thing as beauty, only the search for it. There are many instances similar to this. e.g. health and justice.

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Question for the UBI-ers. Isn’t it the case that an assumption baked in this proposal is that problems take the same amount of funding to solve? The money has to come from somewhere, and I assume it will come from the riskiest investments. So by switching from this model to UBI, you’re trading individual truth seeking for a blanket investment.

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Beauty is the form. Form is a property of a thing. Things are infinite. There will never be one beauty just as there won’t be one thing.

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My current framework for whether or not to use ai is the difference between incidental versus essential skills. An incidental skills is like writing the citations correctly. It’s grunt work. Essential skills are like understanding code or communicating well. Incidental skills should be automated, but essential skills shouldn’t because expertise creates a distribution of outcomes from the prompt. i.e. the more expertise I have with the essential skills the better the output of the llm So I want to do the essential skills myself to get better at it rather than automating it, and use technology to scale myself.

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Would not recommend, but it is an interesting thought experiment. One of the big unlocks for me in telling a story is to think about the story from the framing of the character and what their theory of control is. i.e. what the character thinks gives them control and will give them more control. The story arises from this theory interacting with the real world and meeting uncertainties. I did this on myself and found my blind spots, which aren’t pretty, but useful to know.

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Why is life not meaningful? The only argument I’ve heard is that there will be a heat death of the universe, but how can we say that with certainty that we must die to that. You’re predicting that we will never evade it somehow which we can never know since we can’t predict the growth of knowledge.

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Plan or no plan is the wrong question. It’s really find the through line, account for the uncertainties, and go.

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People are making judgments as to whether it will be an American century or a Chinese century without taking into consideration the coming challenge. Here is an image of what people in the 1900s thought school would look like in the 2000s. This is essentially how AI is trained, but AI isn't AGI, and so this isn't how we learn. What this means is that we will need to move away from this model of schools because we are training humans to compete with AI. So then, the real challenge isn’t who can sustain the status quo the most, but rather who is best poised to take advantage of the new reality.

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Reading this made me wonder what the computer thinks about my spaghetti code lol

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https://x.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1922274948657160425?s=46 This is why AI education is a misnomer.

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US reserve status intact for the foreseeable future?

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Am I using Cursor wrong or does the default agent mode introduce more friction? I'm always having to click on the buttons to select the model and put it into ask mode.

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https://x.com/rokhanna/status/1921958772706066650?s=46 It’s kind of weird that the only solution is self destruction for some people.

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the commonality between the woke right and the woke left is resentment towards some portion of the population.

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