Once chatGPT and Claude (through MCP) added web search functionality I completely dropped Perplexity. I assume I'm not unique in this regard. Feels like the writing is on the wall for Perplexity.
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That said I can't yet confidently speak to exactly why I prefer Claude. Sometimes I do think the responses are better than any model on ChatGPT. Other times I am very impressed with chatGPT's responses. I haven't done a lot of testing on each with identical prompt sequences.
One thing I can say for certainty is that Claude's UI blows chatGPT's out of the water. Much more pleasant to use and I really like Projects and Artifacts. It might be this alone that has me biased towards Claude. It makes me think that UI and additional functionality is going to play a much larger role in determining the ultimate winner of the LLM wars than current discussions give it credit for.
Even a drunk under a lamp is capable of having a moment of realization that he may want to look in the dark carpark, as he was there earlier. That's within his realm of experience.
But please, tell me how we are to even begin looking for life as we don't know it? What are your suggestions?
You make it sound like they're unimaginative dolts.
It's not simplistic, it's simply practical. Either we search for life as we know it, or we don't search at all.
You can pontificate all you want about how incomprehensible extraterrestrial life could be, but where does that get us?
Further, I find that ant/human trope to be cerebral wankery.
Sure, ants can't comprehend what they've encountered, even as they crawl up our leg. But the gap between our intelligence levels is enormous.
I think it's much more likely that humans fall far enough right on the intelligence spectrum that we would be able to spot and recognize other forms of life in the universe, even if they happen to be 100x more intelligent than us.
Here's an interesting mock-up: https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1650685584132939783?s...
Is aimlessly scrolling my twitter feed a net benefit to my overall mood and well being? I'm 95% sure it's not.
Is spending 20-30 minutes browsing hacker news every morning a net benefit to my overall mood and well being? I'm not sure.
I would wager that the majority of managers will rather reactively jump at the chance to cut an entire salary from their cost structure.
Very low trust for a service like yours.
FWIW the content on it is great. Very concise and to the point. It's just the look and feel I'm referring to.
The scene is exploding on the blockchain right now. Lots of demand for this work.
But for that 10% of the time I'm using it in a hotel, at a coffee shop, at my in-laws, or simply on the couch, nothing comes close to Apples hardware for me and it's worth it for that 10% of usage.
At the end of the day portability is very important for me.
In fact, I have an upstairs workstation (with two monitors, mouse and keyboard) and a downstairs workstation with the same setup. Upstairs is the stereotypical office, where I do my day job. Downstairs is the hobbyist environment/workstation where I have musical equipment, exercise equipment, paint equipment, etc. I simply swap my laptop between these two stations. I find it beneficial to have this workstation available here for aspects of learning related to these hobbies. If money weren't an issue I suppose I could have two dedicated desktops for this setup, but even then, there are space savings with my current setup.
At this scale these types of strategic changes play out on a large time horizon (decades) so from an external perspective it is difficult to know.
If Jobs were still CEO I'd expect him to be continually looking for the next breakthrough in consumer technology. Are the leaders at apple currently doing that? I don't know. I have heard that they may be investing into a self driving car play.
Also if Jobs were still CEO I wouldn't be surprised to have seen Apple behave as they have in the past 15 years (slurping up easy revenue like headphones, recurring revenue services) but as a visionary Jobs would concurrently be intensely focused on the future.
One interesting solution I'm aware of is to utilize blockchain technology for the base social layer (L1). All communications or 'posts' can be minted onto a blockchain. Once minted, they could not be (easily) censored. The token provides proof for who shared the communication (important defense against fakes) and could provide fascinating provenance for the origin of specific ideas.
The token feed would display chronologically and include 100% of minted tokens. At a certain scale this feed would become dizzying and essentially useless. This is where the next layer comes in (L2). Call it the curation layer. This is essentially what twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc are today. The difference is that they are not pulling in their content from a base layer, rather the content needs to be created individually on each of their platforms. On the social blockchain anyone and everyone would be allowed to create a curation platform at L2. These curation hubs could choose to show or not show whatever they want. Some very popular platforms would surely gain favor, but some people may decide to handle curation on their own. Curation on L2 would allow very healthy competition and significantly reduce switching costs. This is because we'd be able to switch curation platforms without having to disturb the network effects as they'll be preserved by L1. It's very hard (though not impossible) to switch from platforms like twitter, facebook, instagram, etc due to the network effects they've built up.
This solution also provides an interesting opportunity for individuals to own their own content online and control aspects of their privacy. As the owner of all social tokens that I mint, I could have the ability to deleted content at L1 and have it disappear across all instances at L2. (though there def still needs to be a lot figured out there).
In addition to the importance of a sense of community and purpose (whether derived from children or not), I'd also like to contribute another lens through which to view anxiety and depression.
Things like lack of exercise, poor sleep, nutrient deficiencies, caffeine/nicotine/alcohol abuse, under-exposure to sunlight and nature can all cause physiological cascades which result in depression and anxiety irrespective of ones life achievements or circumstances.
And yet, at least in my experience, when feelings of depression and anxiety are present, the first thought is of life circumstances. If only I had a better job, better spouse, loving children, fame, fortune, I would not be anxious and depressed.
It's all too easy to latch on to a perceived lack of something in your life and blame it for any and all of your negative emotions and moods.
Like most human beings, I struggle somewhat significantly with a few specific regrets from my past, as well as the anxiety of navigating important life decisions as they come up.
When I'm feeling particularly anxious or depressed my mind is more inclined to ruminate over past regrets, or to dread upcoming life events. If I'm not present, I still often fall into the trap of believing that I'm depressed and anxious BECAUSE of these regrets or upcoming circumstance in my life.
What I've learned though is that at least for me, it's helpful to first attribute feelings of anxiety and depression to core fundamental needs like sleep, exercise, nutrition, sunlight, etc rather than to jump to and ruminate over regrets and fears.
I suppose a way to refer to a framework like this would be something like 'physiological anxiety and depression' vs 'circumstantial anxiety and depression'.
I believe it is totally possible to have anxiety and depression caused by issues to do with sleep, nutrition, substance abuse, and for your brain to trick you into believing that you're unhappy with your life circumstances.
This all being said, I in no way want to downplay circumstantial anxiety and depression and insinuate that they are not real. It's vital to have things like purpose, community, and to be generally satisfied and excited about ones path through life.
That said, I think it's short-sighted to be writing them off altogether at this point in time.
If you're interested in seeing examples of NFTs which may continue to hold and grow in value over time dig into the 1/1 and generative art world and take a look at what is going on there now. It's very different than monkey jpg's and celebrity NFT grifts.