Emotionally? It is really hard to top those times in high school.

It was the opposite of a prison for me. Like a garden of adolescent roses that had nothing to do with the real world other than the sweet smell of roses as an adolescent.

It is why I am glad to be child free. Anyone posting here is going to have a child that is better off than almost anyone who has ever lived.

I would suspect the best strategy in 2025 for anyone here is to not crush the creativity of the child. The only thing bad you can really do is to impose yourself too much on the child. The more hands off the better. The lighter the touch the better.

Yours skills are not what your child will need t+50 years.

It is just a fashion choice though with UI.

Personally, I just prefer the chat interface directly with no Cursor UI.

For me, the best way is to write my prompt in a txt file, away from anything to do with LLMs. The bottleneck is not the update of the files like Cursor is good at.

The bottleneck is the clarity of my thoughts.

I looked at your website.

How to get past Barry Schwartz ideas is the main problem that we face in 2025.

The Godel, Escher, Bach stuff to me is just nonsense. As a huge Bach fan boy it is from when Bach was massively overrated in cultural importance.

Hierarchy Theory? How about O-information?

Doesn't seem the O-information wiki entry exists, yet.

Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654

Maybe the analogy is something with gold mining. We could pretend that the machines that mine gold are actually creating gold. Pretending the entire gold mining sector is instead a discovery of alchemy.

Maybe the way alchemy kind of leads to chemistry is the analogy that applies?

I don't even know if that is right though.

The intelligence is in the training data. The model then is extracting the intelligence.

We can't forget Feynman's ideas here that we aren't going to make a robot cheetah that runs fast. We will make a machine that uses wheels. Viewing things through the lense of a cheetah is a category error.

While I agree completely with you we very well both might be completely and utterly wrong. A category error on what intelligence "is".

The biggest variable to me is if you can justify taking money out of the market to pay for college. For me, it is a non-starter. A completely laughable idea.

Pushing 50, I need one more re-invention. Starting over in something like cybersecurity, I would just be getting beat out by the 25 year younger version of myself. I need an AI hedge basically. Something highly creative, non-standard, not something everyone else is already is doing. The process of trying to figure this out is what I think will lead me there.

My AI hedge is that I don't want to start trying to do this if I find myself completely unemployable with my previous experience and skills pushing 60.

It seems like we either get AGI and I am not employable in 10 years or we don't get AGI and we have such massive malinvestment that the job cutbacks also make me unemployable on my current path.

The problem now is the cost of college. I would be working on this same path right now but I can't justify the terrible relative investment that is college in 2025. It is just night and day different compared to the 80s/90s.

The time would be no issue at all for me. I am bored and would love something to do like going to class again.

It is criminal I can't get a psychology degree online for a fraction of a state school price at this point. To have the same degree cost much more than before the internet is just completely insane.

We can figure out as a society how to ban Tiktok but not how to have dirt cheap education like we could. I can't imagine the price we pay in GDP growth for this between the student loan debt and the sub-optimal work force configuration.

I loved cigarettes. I haven't smoked in almost 15 years and I might say I still love cigarettes. There really is no replacement for the feeling of being a smoker, waking up in the morning and drinking coffee with a cigarette as the sun comes up. That is a large part of what makes the addiction so bad.

I say this even with the benefit of knowing how horrible they are for health. It is why I quit eventually.

It is really hard to be objective about your partner when you are in love. A highly abusive partner at that.

I suspect the only thing stronger in humans than love is denial. The combination can be especially deluding.

Julee Cruise/Lynch/Badalamenti - Floating into the Night album is really fitting music for right now.

Into the Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsLJxUEbkG8

The greatest ending ever to a TV show is the end of season 2. Nothing can ever touch that as an ending. Season 3 was not needed but I am just glad I got to watch the show when it aired originally.

That ending in 1991 on prime time network TV next to corny sitcoms is just so out of time. Like a transmission from another dimension.

First two seasons of Twin Peaks are his masterpiece IMO and his most watchable.

Those are some of the best characters of any film/tv show ever.

From there I would go to Lost Highway next for a stronger dose of the more out there stuff.

We have really developed an entire culture in the US around illusory superiority. It seems like the average person in 2025 thinks they are above average in basically everything.

I think this is a big reason why sports betting has taken off the way it has in the US. Every sports fan basically thinks they are way above average in their understanding of sports.

I am sure there are all kinds of social media apps in those other countries no one uses.

I also assume this story has little to do with reality and it is just a nice headline that will get clicks.

I am sure there are all kinds of social media apps in those other countries that no one uses.

I love audiobooks but at this point, most of what I want to listen to is stuff that would not sell enough to bother having someone read.

There are also many voice actors who I simply don't like the way they read.

A future that I can pick a voice that I like for any PDF is a huge upgrade.

I think a problem people have is if on the young side, maybe didn't expect the future to change like this.

No one I knew went on the internet when I graduated high school. Change like this is all par for the course. The only advice I got in high school from a guidance counselor was that I had a nice voice for radio. Books on tape was not exactly a career option at the time. The culture will survive the death of a career path that didn't even really exist when I was a senior in high school.