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plusfour··on YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
> would burn £2.5k worth of tokens over the course of a few hours

details please, if it's interesting

plusfour··on Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI
we will continue to move the goalpost. indefinitely .. ?
plusfour··on A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease
great
plusfour··on Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
from the internet
plusfour··on Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting
Treat yourself to this gorgeous podcast episode, "The Woods" from The Memory Palace.

https://thememorypalace.us/the-woods/

The red shock of feathers on the heads of the males,

the bright white that spilled down the sides of the long throat to pool in the center of the wide wings,

hemmed in by borders that looked jet black in pictures,

but in real life were something other.

A glinting thing.

A blue-purple.

A night sky.

On the right night.

plusfour··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
It's one of the craziest, most interesting books i've read on the mind. He makes a much stronger argument than can be summarized in a comment. He takes you on a wild journey you are surprisingly ill-equipped for.

And as this complexity develops, there is the first unsureness, the first need for personal gods to intercede with the higher gods, who seem to be receding into the heavens where in one brief millennium they will have disappeared.

plusfour··on Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
"owes"
plusfour··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
27. it's creating about 20k a day.
plusfour··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
So the body does keep the score?
plusfour··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
160gb for 27m torrents
plusfour··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
Same here, for over a year. how many torrents has yours indexed?
plusfour··on U.S. Rescues Officer from Downed Fighter Jet in Iran
fuck off
plusfour··on Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
i don't care
plusfour··on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?
Is this a case for steel-manning? We know what this is about and what's at stake.
plusfour··on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
have some self respect.
plusfour··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
you're welcome!

>I found it difficult to tell what I really want.

i assume it's almost universally true.

it might be the case that you're already doing what you really want.

and what you think you should do, those thoughts that create the conflict, are most of the time internalized expectations.

only recently i realized that all my adult life i've done pretty much only what was good for me. avoided some major traps of conformity. but constantly felt that anxious pressure from internalized expectations.

now i'm learning to trust my Self - that preconscious source of "wisdom" that i was previously not even aware of.

plusfour··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
> but I just don’t feel the interest to pursuit any intellectual hobbies that I used to pursuit

> Interest

maybe you outgrew them. maybe don't try to pursue something you're not Interested in. let interest be the north star that guides your attention.

that "conflict" you feel between what you Are interested in, and what you Think you should be interested in, is not healthy.

plusfour··on Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
Test results are a measure of how well you can do on tests.
plusfour··on There's not that much wealth in the world
do it anyways.
plusfour··on The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control
Ok, I see your point. Yes, it's a specific flavor of uncertainty. The ones you listed are about outcome uncertainty (anticipation). And uncanniness is about the nature of things.
plusfour··on The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control
> That's not the same thing as a loss of control.

Not a loss, but it is a lack. You can't have perceived autonomy without certainty.

plusfour··on Why you can hear the temperature of water
Most of your knowledge is implicit.
plusfour··on Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account
Useful heuristic, if Microsoft wants you to do something, then you can assume it's against your best interest.
plusfour··on Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020
iGoogle
plusfour··on Can we talk to whales?
Do whales forgive?

The Memory Palace has done a moving episode on sperm whales.

https://thememorypalace.us/keyhole/

If you're not familiar with the podcast, the episodes are incredibly well written and narrated humanity-focused vignettes.

plusfour··on News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)
ok, Captain Planet
plusfour··on Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does
updates it with garbage
plusfour··on Yahoo Pipes
Node-RED?
plusfour··on Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues
pump and dump
plusfour··on The Tunguska Event
The new model is a lot more badass than the old one.
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