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i have been slowly figuring out how to read again and although it’s been wonderful and something i recommend, there’s an uncomfortable knot of feelings inside of me about all the things that books can’t (and maybe shouldn’t?) be
recently i came across the poem Please Use AI by Shawn Smucker. it starts:
okay so here’s a rant about an opinion on ai i saw the other day and got mad at
the take was basically: the correct, centrist[1], unbiased view on AI requires actually using AI, because a first hand experience is more worthwhile than seeing a bunch of second-hand accounts warped through the lens of social media
my partner can’t have caffeine when he’s had his adhd medication that day (side effects), so the days we remember to and we want coffee, we’ll have a decaf.
sometimes i’ll still want some caffeine, and it’s too much work in the morning to make two separate cups of coffee instead of one double batch. what a conundrum!
i saw this article by jeny on the interlock bind-off and i wanted to really understand how it worked so here’s my own notes
“average person has too many opinions” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has 0 opinions per year. Opinions Georg, who lives in cave & tweets over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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i’m discovering that perhaps i might have lacked the Vitamin. and i think i underestimated the parts of the vitamin fantasy where (a) the deficiency is found because someone else looks after you and (b) people acknowledge your prior suffering
sorta hits different when you have to do those parts yourself. oh well. at least there’s still the part where (c) the issue is relatively[1] easily fixable and available