Ashtear

It’s going to be whatever new technology built on the shoulders of blockchain tech that works for this. Whatever they solve the efficiency problems with. Then it might have a fighting chance at being a currency, being used as provenance, etc.

I think AI’s got a similar issue with the agentic side of it. Still needs another big advance.

Don’t use bloody mary mix. Add tomatoes, whether skinning and cutting them yourself, using a can of diced or crushed tomatoes, or tomato paste. If fresh or paste, add chicken stock. I also always have onion in my chili.

You’ll also want an acid. Can be vinegar, lemon juice, or even mustard.

USA, far worse. The really insane thing is my parents were absolute shit at fiscal planning and overleveraged up to their eyeballs on everything: mortgage, cars, furniture. My mother was even at the bottom of a makeup MLM for gods’ sake. Boomer bougie living at its worst.

And yet? They still owned a home, have retirement savings, and never came close to having anywhere near as bad a debt-to-asset ratio as mine is, all from student loans. Meanwhile I’m better educated, scrimping and saving and not throwing money away on expensive dinners, wine and travel and I will still never be able to afford to have kids, let alone sufficient retirement savings.

No, been debating it. I keep hearing it’s worse.

TRON: Legacy, although “terrible” might be bit harsh on it. I first watched the movie when I had a fever of 103 and it was perfect for that.

All-time great movie soundtrack, though.

“Twelve megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive. Built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 BPS.”

Seconding this on going without sex hormones, from first-hand experience: it’s absolutely not a place for a depressive to be, to the point where I would consider a psychiatrist willing to okay it for a depressive patient to be dangerously ignorant, at best. I urge you to seek out a new mental health team for this and other reasons.

Also, I’m surprised no one’s mentioned this: sex with friends is a thing. I’ve had just as much sex with friends in my life as I have in committed relationships. It just requires good communication and boundaries.

Mass implementation is a mistake, and I suspect implementation in consumer goods is where the bubble’s bursting will be the most devastating. Recent news tells us Dell has figured that out already, and I don’t think it will be long before society decides it can’t tolerate things like AI companions for young children.

Ultimately, I don’t think widespread implementation with any sort of value will be possible unless someone figures out how to make effective prompt creation so easy anyone can do it. Everyone seems to think AI is just a box you press a button on and it’ll spit something out, but getting valuable output isn’t like that. Good prompt engineering and tool selection is hard, and it’ll have to be a trained skill for people working with the systems generative AI does stick around on.

The really unfortunate thing is LLMs are the perfect snake oil for sociopathic executives. They can provide something approximating meaningful human interaction to these lonely, workaholic MBAs, and from there, it wasn’t a hard sell to make them believe they could replace their pesky labor force, too. When you’re that far outside the real world, sycophantic illusions are seductive.

Forbes 2.0

Tokyo Story is really cool from a film-making perspective. After seeing its cinematography, I never looked at The Silence of the Lambs the same way.