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i disagree. i have a unique view of this type of drug use. i was part of a large social circle of psychedelic users, over the course of many years. i very rarely took part. i watched close friends change.

unfortunately, I think repeated psychedlic use has deterministic and predictable changes to peoples personalities. its not some "awakening", its a structural change in the brain. i watched many close friends fade away after too much use

I believe that the drugs cause structural changes to the brain that make it more difficult to function in the reward structure of society. You can claim through a philosophical lens that society is flawed and so this is okay, but ive seen it derail peoples lives, such that they are just living in some rural area with limited participation in real life

ive barely taken them, but i watched many people change over years of use.

anyone i have met that did Psychedelics more than a few times, permanently changed their brain chemistry in a way that was obvious. sure they dissolve some kind of prison, but many people never make it back from that dissolution and end up somewhere worse

Psychedelics arent that far from turning your brain off and then turning it back on again

but anyone i have met that did Psychedelics more than a few times, permanently changed their brain chemistry in a way that was obvious. clearly they are doing some kind of unraveling that doesnt fully bounce back

no these people have families

Yeah, alot of high stress jobs pay enough to live on, but you cant really get ahead. And so whats the point? Probably the CTO had actual equity, by now they consider it a random management role, the actual person working that job can just be swapped as needed

its not that its not enough to live on, its just not worth it for what you give up in life

more and more people are just choosing not to play that game

people that are able to work "good jobs" are choosing not to

Anecdotal evidence, but more than half of my friends that grew up:

1. middle upper class

2. college educated at a top 75 college

3. tall, decent looking

are just not working regular corporate 9 to 5s and get by with consulting, small businesses, living off parents, living off nothing, scammy startups

w2 9-5 is straight up not worth it, even in the 150-300k range

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I've long thought the bootstrap stuff was a partial scam. There is so much information inside people's heads about how to successfully start a business. In some industries, with the right contacts, they can tell you exactly what to build, how to price it, how to do go to market.

Meanwhile, you could spend years grinding for nothing without the above information

Right it’s like venture investing c very hard to evaluate short term

i dont think hating on ivy league types is that common, and 90% of people have no real life experience with this kind of thing, or are even aware of how corporate hiring/funding works at the higher level.

you messed up!

my comments are from living in nyc for 15 years, alot of lived experience and meeting people behind closed doors

yeah just sit there, keep a steady hand, and project confidence

the world doesnt work like an efficient machine, and capital is far more of a moat than people want to admit. these "founders" are more like professional managers from the same backgrounds as the investors

there is alot of beta involved, i.e. put 10M into payroll startup xyz, expect some rate of return.

no its not like that, these people get plopped into positions of power, and alot of time theres no good way to assess their performance

No I think for the last 10-15 years, ivy types could legitimately just raise series A type money, run a company like shit, but capital was a moat and so ended up as CEOs.

This is actually how the world works

This hits so close to home im not even sure how to reply. The horror of these people needing to actually have an indepth discussion about low level details of their business

Not a joke, living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs". Read their profile, see them in an all hands meeting, they look incredible. Spend any lengthy unscripted time with them behind closed doors, they are absolutely clueless. The trick is true access to these people is so limited, and usually guarded.

With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

Kimi k3 is noticeably less censored than anthropic models

noice

you can just give claude code access to ffmpeg

I stopped buying from amazon unless its a known brand, anything random I am just buying from costco instead. Had enough of the trash, or used product i keep getting from amazon

The country is still trucking on and doing great!

Do you understand reinforcement learning environments? This already a solved problem

I think it’s 24 to 36 until businesses really trust an autonomous developer. But I agree otherwise

There are infinite examples.

Right now I am in an overlanding vehicle, but I'm not an expert in offroading. I drove down a 5 mile trail that was very technical. The car can handle it, but it needs caution and the way back is much harder. I was extremely hesitant about going back up that way. If I get stuck, I am solo and I am hours from town via driving. So I just pulled out starlink, and with a combination of claude, off roading websites, and google maps, found an easier, roundabout, and more off the grid way back.

At every step I can use available information to put myself onto safer routes, I can research every decision before I make it. Where is the safest place to sleep, etc.

Pre internet people are out there just winging it in the back country