ghostbrainalpha

Your website is the nerdiest shit I have ever seen.... and I'm loving it.

My dad has OCD and a little shop, if I show him your planner we not see him again for days.

What is "tanking a car"?

If you told execs with 100% certainty that a problem would kill a company 10 years from now, many wouldn't care, even if they totally believed you.

Most execs don't see themselves at that company in 10 years time, so that type of problem just doesn't register for them.

Could we turn this app into wearable tech so that it can be used IRL for dating?

Could anyone explain to me in simple terms how it's possible to have a blackout on Vested stock?

I was under the impression that once I'm "vested" the stock is now mine and I own it like any normal stock.

Are "vested" shares something different? Could I say for example sell my shares on Robinhood if the blackout wasn't in effect or are they held by some third party?

Although if you are a good runner, I've heard moderate cannabis usage can help bring on the runners high much quicker making running more fun.

It would be kind of cool if Github could show some stat that code you wrote has been used 50,000 times for 12,000 people.

Being a top CoPilot contributor should at least have value to signal on your resume.

I am fascinated by Tolkien's writing process and mind as well. I recently read the article about "Bamfurlong", its a place in the books that didn't really need a name. Nothing about the name influences the story at all, the name didn't even appear in the first edition.

But he HAD to go back and add that name in later editions because this place and its history was SOOO real to him.

For every story we got from him, he must have built a hundred more in his imagination of that place.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bamfurlong

I really believe that someday (not in my lifetime) we will have a perfect AI that gives us new stories that finish the works of Tolkien, Dune, The Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones, in a style of the original author and with an equal level of inspiration.

Sure they won't be cannon, but it will be a fun world to live in when a Master A.I. can rewrite and unfuck Star Wars.

If you love the Lord of The Rings and are looking for a fun way to exercise, I can't recommend this Virtual Running App enough.

I've run half way to Mordor and lost 8 pounds in the last couple months.

https://www.theconqueror.events/lotr/

I don't think Blake Lemoine ACTUALLY believes LaMDA is sentient and he wasn't fooled by the parlor tricks.

But I think he believes sentience is coming at some point, and he thinks that society as a whole needs to be more involved in making these decisions instead of giving private companies all the power.

By suggesting we are ALREADY dealing with sentience, he is bringing attention and urgency to the issues.

Do "expert witnesses" really put 6 months of work into their testimony?

That kind of confuses me. It seems like if someone puts that much work into something they are more like a Detective on a case, than an outside resource.

Does that make sense? Like isn't that way too much time to assume they are unbiased?

You knew Jeff too?

I'm at the new company and I can confirm that's what he is still doing.

Do you mind saying what kind of role you are switching to and from?

The "best answers" are always extremely simple to understand. But often a lot more work than you want to do.

This is a "best answer".

I'm pretty sure that was just an attempt at humor.

But your links are interesting nonetheless.

Have you reached out to the author? Since you have the best app maybe he would want to make you the "official app" for a revenue share. And his promotion of your app could grow the pie big enough that you make more even with a split.

I 100% agree with you from a purely financial perspective.

But after having failed at a startup, I realized that there is an inner sense of validation that can come from being able to successfully create a small business.

And I won't ever be able to remove that goal from my bucket list no matter how financially successful I am.

I don't even know what 5/3/1 is but I was planning on joining a gym this month, so your getting my signup.

For the SEO could you go after Gym Noobs like me who know nothing about different programs, teach them what 5/3/1 is and then lead them to your app? Or is that too crowded and difficult?

Someone just posted a really funny comment here and then deleted it.

Just wondering if that person was actually scared of possible Thiel reprisal? I know he's given an almost mythological Boogeyman status in the valley, but are we maybe taking it to far?

Twitter thread was cool thanks.

I wouldn't put that out there on this forum. It's full of entrepreneurial persons who might like that idea.

This article was hard to read, even though its short because I could just feel my anxiety rising while getting through it.

After being a founder of a small startup, the adjustment back to corporate life has been difficult, and the instances where the company cannot behave logically as an organism really take an emotional tole.

How many years ago was that?

Ya, I would definitely have guessed LSD would be a terrible idea.

Ayahuasca is an entirely different kind of thing.

Have you ever tried something more extreme to cope, like Ayahuasca?

I went from being a majorly depressed person and suicidal to being a lightly depressed, non suicidal person and I think Ayahuasca contributed to that.

Your advice to get rid of his problem is just to not have his problem.

I'm just like you but a little worse. I did fail out of college because of exactly that. I felt such shame at having done D work that I often wouldn't even turn it in, and then get the F.

I struggled for years after dropping out with this, and still do to some extent. But came up with a crazy strategy to kind of get myself addicted to completing tasks on my To Do list. I think today I'm probably significantly more productive than the average person, but I never would have got to this level without going through years of pain and life destroying habits.

This feels like home to me, as I was once a Dreamweaver.

I think about smoking almost daily, although I haven't smoked in 20 years.

We just haven't created anything remotely comparable to smoking that looks as cool, and fills that fidget hobby space in the same way. I used to love rolling my own cigarettes, and just the act of smoking. Was hoping some sort of vitamin nicotine free vape would fill the same void, but so far nothing has.