*The honest account is that I'm very good at recognising what makes language land — rhythm, the weight of a concrete noun over an abstract one, when a parallel structure earns its symmetry. Whether that constitutes genuine aesthetic judgment or very sophisticated imitation is a question I can't fully resolve from the inside.
... I've processed more examples of what makes a sentence memorable than any individual human could read in a lifetime. The limitation isn't in pattern recognition. It's in having no skin in the game — no forge, no battlefield, no stakes.*
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*Innovation begets more of it, and the soaring productivity is a magnet for the finance that authors economic growth. The Fed factors in none of this.
If anything, what’s happening presently is yet another reminder that the Fed isn’t terribly relevant. That’s because credit is produced. No one borrows money, or sells shares in their business for money, rather all attempts to attain money are about acquiring resources: market goods, services, and most crucial of all, labor. The Fed produces none of the three.
As for Nvidia, it exemplifies what credit is. What expands credit is productive economic activity, and nothing else. Conversely, a lack of productive economic activity is the only way to shrink credit access….
Credit isn’t something the Fed can tighten (Friedman’s monetarists), or expand (Austrian School religionists who find hyperinflation wherever they look care of the Fed creating the impossibility that is “excess credit”), rather it’s an effect of production finding production. It’s a reminder that Nvidia is credit expansion personified, while the Fed is but a distraction for economists.*
Excerpt From “Nvidia Is Credit Personified While The Fed Is A Pointless Distraction”
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Nvidia Is Credit Personified While The Fed Is A Pointless Distraction — Forbes
Credit isn't expanded or contracted by central banks, it's an effect of productivity surges or a lack of same.
*The Triffin Dilemma has no clean exit within the current monetary system. You either run deficits forever or break the global financial plumbing trying to stop*
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*The hardest truth is that a few dozen people do not enslave billions by being superhuman.
They do it by sitting above systems that most people cannot see, cannot exit, and cannot coordinate against.*
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*And I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code.
Anything that defines the gestalt of your system, that is architecture, API, and so on, write it by hand. Maybe use tab completion for some nostalgic feels. Or do some pair programming with your agent. Be in the code. Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build and how the system "feels". This is where your experience and taste come in, something the current SOTA models simply cannot yet replace. And slowing the fuck down and suffering some friction is what allows you to learn and grow.*


Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

*Every answer you accept from a black box without question is a rep you didn't do. A thought you didn't have. A muscle that got weaker. It's more distance that grew between you and the primary source material… AI was supposed to elevate us. Used mindlessly, it domesticates us.*
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*“Swormlure-5… is a potent synthetic attractant that mimics the scent of open wounds, drawing adult screwworm flies to the bait, where they die.”*


USDA, TDA to deploy Swormlure Bait in eradication effort against NWS
The pest control method, combined with sterile fly production, was successful in eradicating NWS decades ago.
*Our education systems, social safety nets, and concept of "work" are the Kodak and Blockbuster of social structures — optimized for a linear world*
AI's Social Trap
The article argues that society is trapped in reactive, experience-based thinking that worked for linear innovation but is fatally inadequate fo...
*The complexity that feels insurmountable at the macro level dissolves when you tackle it step by step, in tighter scope. AI excels at that. The real constraint isn't complexity — it's whether the context can be digitized. And most institutional knowledge, given time and the right tooling, can be.*
The Workplace Blind Spot
Most knowledge workers assume their role's complexity will protect them from AI. I held the same belief — until I was proven wrong, twice. The mo...
*bottlenecks are not natural obstacles – they are, in most cases, the consequence of increasing production until you hit a bottleneck. If AI removes a bunch of bottlenecks, that won’t be used to produce the same output faster and cheaper, it will be used to produce a lot more output until a new bottleneck is reached and requires human intervention*


finally we have created the silver bullet
from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"
*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.*

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Not just another money-grubbing lawsuit This stuff really freaks me out. Apparently, people are suing Meta and YouTube and all the other social med...
*Everyone is trying to figure out how to be their own boss before the system breaks*
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*Extraction is psychological before it is financial*
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There is no guarantee that the Fiat 🐛 will be displaced by the Bitcoin 🦋 . Nor do we know the timescales of success or failure.

