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I sold a small import export business I stood up during Covid and after living in NYC for 13 years, decided to get a “fancy instagram bus” after a voice in my head told me to do so.

The next day a friend called, who I hadn’t seen since we got shipwrecked in the gulf of Panama, and told me he had been building out a “fancy instagram School bus” for the last year and between his wife and his pot farm in CA he realized he’d have no time for it.

“I figure you were the guy to buy it from me.”

I said yes and bought a 1 way ticket to Santa Cruz.

I sublet my place in park slope for $3,600 a month furnished which was $1k more a month than the base rent.

I thought I’d spend a few months driving around, go on Phish Tour, and flip the bus for $50k.

That was about 4 years ago.

The bus cost me $36k and within 10 months paid for itself.

I let the place in nyc go entirely after that and for one months rent could drive back and forth across the US.

A $89 parks pass gets me into all the national parks and I can stay on BLM land in the most beautiful places for free.

I soon realized many people have at least 1 home and love having a self contained guest for a week or two. I visited friends, family and clients (I still maintain a high end high performance coaching business working with founders of companies like Asana, Bombas and other interesting folks).

I also run a remote AI research lab for the last 4 years.

I shop at farmers markets or wholefoods.

I love ultimate frisbee and am pretty good, having been a former world games invitee, and any city usually has a game and within an afternoon I can make a dozen or so new friends and be invited to all sorts of things. (pickupultimate.com).

Last year on the eclipse I met a woman in hot springs, Arkansas and fell in love - and she lives in Kansas City so I’ve spent a lot of time here with her the last year.

The creative freedom of having a bus and living in beautiful spaces is unmatched. And knowing if I lose all money, I can buy a 50lb bag of rice and beans, fill up on water, and use my cell phone and solar for a month to figure out the next move, is very comforting.

Of course there have been problems like breakdowns, a friend filling my diesel tank with reg gas, a break in in nyc, and getting hassled for parking legally by house dwellers in Santa Monica, but it’s been a great investment.

So much of “middle class lifestyle” is a trap marketed to you people by the upper classes to get you to opt in to being a modern day share cropper. Taking a couple vacations a year, retiring out of shape and unable to really enjoy life and nature, and coping with pills and drugs and tv and consumption that are primarily part of the problem.

Ps we host an ai / philosophy / founder meetup every Wednesday, come as my vip! Http://earthpilot.ai/play

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For the last few years, I've been "seeing maps" whenever I think about LLMs. It's always felt like the most natural way to understand what is going on.

It's also for this reason that I think new knowledge is discoverable from with in LLMs.

I imagine having a topographic map of some island that has only been explored partially by humans. But if I know the surrounding topography, I can make pretty accurate guesses about the areas I haven't been. And I think the same thing can be applied to certain areas of human knowledge, especially when represented as text or symbolically.

Thanks for this.

Yes in modern times there is no need to consume animals for b12, you simply need to eat b12 fortified foods.

I’m not arguing to go back in time, or shaming our ancestors.

I’m saying that in modern times, there is no reason to consume animals, and the B12 from eating dead animals is most often via supplementation anyway.

So it’s just giving a supplement to an animal and then killing and eating the animal when you could just take the same supplement.

I’ve been vegan 25+ years, am in the top 1% of physical health, have a biological age of 32 (I’m 44), regularly compete as an athlete in national level competitions, can hike hundreds of Km in the mountains at a single clip; and rarely ever get sick.

Vegan 25 years. If you "crave" animal products, it's simply that you have a nutrient you need that your body only associates with an animal product. But you can just figure out what it actually is you need and then add that in other ways.

I don't think anyone needs to eat animal products to be at optimum health, I've just never seen it.

Also, the idea veganism is extreme is wild. Eating plants and fruit vs. paying someone to essentially torture animals that you'd keep as pets and love in a different context... that is extreme.

Incorrect. Less cancer and heart disease when eating plant based diets. But the marketing is powerful!

If it's not plant based it is.

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# Open Letter to Michael Easter, Author of "The Comfort Crisis"

Dear Mr. Easter,

I hope this letter finds you well. I'm just getting started with "The Comfort Crisis" as part of the 75 Hard program. The book was recommended by several men in my group who spoke highly of it. However, I've only begun reading and already a significant historical claim jumped out at me that I feel compelled to address. This has unfortunately led me to the uncomfortable task of more rigorously fact-checking the book as I continue reading.

As a humorous aside, I'm writing this letter on Easter Sunday – an ironic coincidence given your surname! Perhaps there's something fitting about addressing historical accuracy on a holiday that itself dates back to pre-historical spring equinox celebrations (occurring on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox). Even our most ancient ancestors marked these celestial events, showing how deeply connected we are to those who came before us.

While I appreciate the overall message about reconnecting with discomfort as a path to growth, I feel compelled to address a claim in your book that historical evidence contradicts. Specifically, your assertion that "evidence suggests that suicide didn't happen throughout nearly all of human history" (citing Waters' 2013 study on the Mla Bri hunter-gatherers) represents an overgeneralization that doesn't align with the historical record.

The Mla Bri study is valuable but limited to one small population in Northern Thailand. Extrapolating from this single case study to all of human history creates a misleading narrative. The historical and archaeological evidence demonstrates that suicide has been a consistent aspect of human experience throughout recorded history:

*Biblical Examples (2000-3000 years old):* * King Saul fell on his own sword after being wounded in battle (1 Samuel 31:3-4)[^1] * Saul's armor-bearer also took his own life after seeing Saul was dead (1 Samuel 31:5) * Ahithophel hanged himself after his advice was rejected (2 Samuel 17:23) * Zimri set fire to the palace with himself inside when his city was captured (1 Kings 16:18) * Samson knowingly caused his own death by pulling down the temple (Judges 16:29-30) * Judas Iscariot hanged himself after betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:3-5)

*Ancient Greece (2400-2800 years ago):* * Empedocles (c. 434 BCE) ended his life by jumping into Mount Etna's volcano[^2] * Democritus reportedly starved himself to avoid the debilities of old age[^3] * Ancient Greek physicians extensively studied suicide as a medical phenomenon, categorizing it primarily as a result of mental disorders like melancholia and mania[^4] * Ajax killed himself during the Trojan War after experiencing shame and dishonor[^5] * Socrates' death by hemlock, while technically an execution, involved his choosing to drink the poison rather than escape[^6]

*Ancient Rome (2000-2500 years ago):* * Lucretia's suicide (c. 510 BCE) after being sexually assaulted was considered "a socially acceptable and honourable way to deal with shame in Roman society" and initiated the revolt that replaced the Roman Kingdom with the Republic[^7] * Cato the Younger's suicide after defeat at the Battle of Thapsus was considered a "virtuous death" guided by reason and conscience[^8] * Seneca, on orders from Emperor Nero, opened his veins and took poison[^9] * Emperor Nero himself committed suicide when declared a public enemy by the Senate[^10] * Roman society classified suicides into distinct moral categories, considering some forms honorable and others shameful[^11]

... continued in article... [https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonydavidadams/p/open-lette...]

I’m sure there are people who consume child pornography with the same stance.

One sentient being paying another stronger sentient being to exploit a weaker non consenting sentient being for “pleasure” the first sentient being with no concern for the experience of the exploited.

Could be an honest effort to get in the good graces of AI. Not a bad strategy if so.

Similar to Trump cabinet meetings where they all take turns praising him.

What is the actual annual budget?

This is because we import most of our lumber, which is not going to happen any more.

We can wipe all of that out and then wait 20 years.

It's really wild. I'm not sure if people have just reached a level of fatigue with the lies -- they say after so many lies peoples brains just shut down discernment of truth.. He leverages this very well.

In absence of truth, its just trolling and abuse. I think for some of the followers, this is what they really want. They have lives devoid of meaning and subjectivity as they are long numb, and so watching someone troll / hurt others (including them at times) helps them feel anything.

I mean, I don't understand how you could care about the environment and vote for Trump.

He's actively unwinding decades of environmental policy and protections, destaffing and defunding national parks, and opening up logging 100MM acres which will be gone in no time at all.

He's the kind of guy that says "we are going to have the cleanest air and water" and then literally does the opposite policy wise.

Sure it is.

Burin' Karma to speak the truth here.

Yes. How much did they pay you for this discovery?

The reason for this is simply to avoid discovery / FOIA requests, since messages delete.

Of courses it’s illegal, but the entire administration is operating as a criminal enterprise / an extension of all previous administrations, but in a way the most impressive disregard for rule of law we’ve seen.

Thanks! I’m going to show the folks what you built. We have VCs, founders, and all Sorts of folks who join us every week.

This is great. Want to come demo it in the weekly EarthPilot.ai AI Playground tomorrow at 11est?

Http://earthpilot.com/play and then join at AnthonyDavidAdams.com/zoom at 11 for show and tell.

I’m making a non-fiction book writing agent and I’d love to better understand how you used function calling to navigate the website!

Interesting. Yes could we put power into a similar system and accelerate the rotation?

220, 221, whatever it takes.

You could find their ad server and just do a rewrite in your router for that ip address.

Money from the Chinese defense budget?

Everyone using these models undercuts US companies.

Eventually China wins.

>> and building my own AI-assisted mental health tools (ChatGPT literally saved me) <<

Come anytime to our AI Workshop & Playground as my VIP (you'll need to join via Zoom) and share your tools & journey. We have founders, developers, etc.

http://earthpilot.ai/play

Package up your mental health tools and start teaching folks how to do the same as you did.

If you can get yourself a tow behind RV, you can drop it on Federal Land and only need to goto a new spot every 2-3 weeks.

Luckily you are in a beautiful place for car camping.

Also, can you work from a library?

Because it refused to become the 51st state.

Then what’s the jive about needing to drill around the old bits?

Why don’t they just retract the bits and change them like I would on a regular drill that needs a new bit?

Is the failure mode they always or often fall off the shank into the hole and they can’t be extracted?