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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was a beautiful game. I'm still listening to the music.
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now adays, the more news I read the more confused I get. It's almost as if that's the goal now.
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they should keep the bold purple.
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would love to hear your thoughts
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casting from farcaster
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There’s the saying that there’s a lot of fish in the sea, but is it just me or do you hit it off with only a hand full of people you meet in life? Give or take 2 dozen.
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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 think of romanticism as the same as modernism because it was the rejection of rationalism and leaned into irrationalism. I think the nihilism you mentioned is the outcome of the postmodernism’s critique of the modernism’s search for ground truth. Is it correct to say that tension I mentioned is because we are caught in between the search for meaning and the denial of its existence.
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say more 👀
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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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https://warpcast.com/jhoang/0x67a386b2
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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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Thought inspired from https://youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE?si=rvgYqYtQDjG9ibzk
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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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