Do you use your username in IRL? :)

No, IRL I go by "anal_actor", including the underscore lol

Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying

"If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over"

But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thinks we don't have any friends, and that AI will be our friends.

"Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."

This individual (Eric Schmidt) is heavily invested in lots of AI companies, which he will selectively disclose.

His entire 'job' is to go on a world tour in parading his own AI investments and for everyone to admit defeat and replace their own confidence with AI.

> "Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."

Oh dear. He is normalizing AI psychosis.

Coding is a tool for thinking in general.The fact that claude is accomplishing task X does not imply that you should retire you own thinking.

WTF - that wasn't the sequence of his statements. Are you some sort of engagement bot trying to stir up anger?

The boos about AI: https://www.youtube.com/live/b1eM3jv0vWY?si=aouJBuUZxul40LAr...

The "If you'd let me make this point, please", 75 seconds later: https://www.youtube.com/live/b1eM3jv0vWY?si=5sG8c5qEcaXOwmAv...

Naive. Countries are collections of different values. I don't, for example, want to enslave non-believers, nor do I want to own my wife, or have a government take everything I own. I don't want to live in a "theocracy" because those people are crazy. I select where I live based on those values. Thinking, because we all "bleed red" that we're all the same is a recipe for loss.

Nobody selected where they were born. We are all the same.

monad transformer stacks

vim has an encryption feature (:help encryption). With some AutoCommands, keeping your own encrypted password list becomes painless. On other platforms (phone), enter your 12 or so passwords once and let them store them.

Gabriel Lebec's "Flock of Functions" video is a great explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQ382QG-y4

Computers implemented in other computers.

Specifically:

Minecraft running in Minecraft https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I

or

Game of Life running in Game of Life https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

Bonus: Digital clock implemented in Game of Life https://youtu.be/3NDAZ5g4EuU

Surreal because it makes it apparent that our universe could really be emergent behavior from a simple set of rules.

Ernie Zelinski's "Joy of Not Working" book was useful and eye-opening for me at about that age.

These two challenged my beliefs about the state of the environment:

  S4: E18 – Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know | Marian Tupy
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4-e-18-ten-global-trends-marian-tupy/

  S4: E:51 – Apocalypse Never? | Michael Shellenberger
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e51/

This one was riveting, terrifying, and made me realize how important it is to preserve our democracies, if we're lucky enough to live in one:

  S4: E26 – Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e26/

A review of 'Apocalypse Never': https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-scienc...

Thanks for posting