Starting the year, I looked at where my life was and decided work was good enough for now, but I'd been neglecting romantic relationships. A year later, and to my surprise, in my mid-30's, I have my first mid-term girlfriend.
We get along great, have a lot in common, similar values, and FAANG salaries. She's so thoughtful and caring I'm not sure if I deserve this. I'm still working through feelings on the freedom you lose in a relationship, and how this especially hard after 15 years of flying solo. I've also been seeing a sex therapist. Not that anything is wrong, but this is still new to me, and having this outlet is really helpful.
What is top of mind for me currently, based on observations from my experience: Doubt can be strongly embodied. Meaning, it's not as simple as thinking your way out of it.
As much as I've achieved personally and professionally, when I put myself outside of my comfort zone and into the public arena of judging eyes, I still face doubt.
As much as I can steel myself mentally, remind myself of my accomplishments, analyze my situation, etc. there is a part of me, perhaps as a self-protection mechanism, that creates doubt. That doubt colors my entire experience, influencing my thoughts and actions. Overall it acts as a limiter. I can feel the difference in my body.
I can be aware of all of this, and counteract it to some extent, but it has its own gravity. It's all very impressive in the most literal sense of the word.
So I am learning more about how doubt shows up, and how to work with it beyond simple motivational tricks. For example: Letting go of the need to control it, getting very familiar with the nature of it, and reorienting myself even as I fail to accomplish my goals again and again.
Happy New Year HN. May you find the resilience to overcome whatever doubts are holding you back from living the life you want.
- Static site generation is amazing. It produces super fast websites that run forever on simple infrastructure. The data is files that you can view and edit with the software you love.
- Scripts over systems.
- Relationships and mutual support are incredibly valuable in business. Setting up a group chat for my small industry was a brilliant idea. I can't keep working alone in a bubble.
- I should have better awareness of the correlation between my actions and my well-being. It's crazy how much hydration, sleep and other little things affect my mood. Maybe carbs and fat for lunch, or tea after 2PM are a bad idea.
This was the last year before AI, hand in hand with all the other technology of today, turned the modern world upside down. The last year we kinda could trust things we see or hear. I don't want to sound to dystopian but most people don't seem to understand the impact all these technology will and already has on our daily lives.
No, be brave and dystopian :)
Is actually any one working against AI? Are there any protests?
I mean, Isn't that just an expression of how much the progressives have protected themselves against countermeasures?
Apparently the claim "for humanity" is enough to allow yourself to do anything...
> Ai is really neat for summarizing, used it most for pre Dr visit diagnosis - less likely than WebMD to feel like you have a severe disease.
Interesting. Didn't realize people were already using it for previsit diagnosis. Fwiw, it could completely be hallucinating. I wouldn't use it for anything more than entertainment purposes.
the doctor might also be disinterested. Nothing is infallible, but increasing your source count should increase your likelihood of good info.
AI has high source count. I'd trust it, with some grains of salt. It's mostly right, and where it's not, i can pick up the slack. and if i don't, well, it's not like i could trust what's on the internet, or the news, anyway.
i need to live with my own ignorance, ultimately improving that is my responsibility.
you have to make your own judgements. i don't think people should be uncomfortable with that. but it's understandable that after a long era of 'authoritative information programming' people might be. yet, that attitude to me seems decidedly pre-postmodern, anachronistic, tv-era.
not the done thing for the internet age. anywho...merry christmas to you! :)
Cut your list of goals down to 1-2, tops. Focus entirely on those until you achieve them. It's very easy to waste a lot of time doing 10 different things at once, but making real progress on none of them.
I built a shed office in my back garden. My garden is sloped. I was working on the roof trim of the shed up a ladder and it gave way. I hadn't been careful enough that the ground was level. I fell from about shoulder height and landed on my shoulders, from behind.
I don't think hallucinations are necessarily a big deal. A lot of AIs applications can tolerate some inaccuracies. Our world is already full of inaccuracies.
As long as we're aware of the limitations of AI and don't blindly trust it for critical applications, we can benefit greatly from using AI.
A man I disagree with strongly (Donald Rumsfeld) said something wise that very much applies here.
It’s about the pesky Unknown Unknowns and systemic failure.
“ Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.”
"Unknown unknowns" is a bit of a cliche at this point, but people across the political spectrum widely acknowledge it as an insightful aphorism. No need to apologize.
We rely on uncountably more unreliable people, machines, systems, concepts, etc.
Do you really find no value from LLMs? Consider that real people genuinely do. Consider that the people who do extract value from LLMs may beat you to promotions, business ideas, insights, test-passing-code.
Wrapper startups are a rounding error, what's important is that the big players in the field are releasing genuinely useful tools. Which makes it very different from crypto.
If you don't find some parts of crypto impressive then you probably don't understand it. Proof of Work, smart contracts, and zero knowledge blockchains are actually very incredible innovations. It's just all the scam bullshit around that people hate.
> 100 Million refugees heading to Europe is really going to change things there. It's doubtful their societies can withstand it
I don't get where this fear comes from (other than right wing propaganda, not judging). Sure there are, sometimes visible, issues specific to migration but there are also lot of solutions. And in bare numbers europe just got a saver place every year and criminality is not out of control anywhere, in fact getting lower in nearly every category year for year where I live.
Europe always had huge migration waves from many directions, and only those heavily publicised by media appeared to be a issue at all.
Just my 5 cent. However I welcome anyone in search of a better life, even temporarily
That's an actual thing or just some weird idea? And purposeful misunderstanding for propaganda?
However if these are human beings that feel unwelcome enough in their home to take the risk to end up in migration camps I am sure they also deserve a better life they can feel save at.
It’s an actual thing. Finland has closed its border to Russia in response.
These are people that normally Russia would stop from getting into Russia, but they are instead funneling to Finland to create problems. People that are deeply unprepared for the climate there. It’s not a “large” number of people at the moment. But this has been part of Russian hybrid warfare playbook for a while.
What? America hasn't broken any countries. I dont like this negative take on America. America isn't perfect but any countries that it's interfered with were already extremely broken. America isn't going into perfectly functional countries and just destroying them.
we didn't break those countries.... those countries have always been pieces of junk and always will, politically speaking.
As a matter of fact, isn't Iraq somewhat of a democracy at the moment thanks to the United States?
there's a large contingent of leftists in America who love to hate on America
while living in America and enjoying the fruits of what the west has to offer.
I remember my university history courses relentlessly hammered in how terrible the west is so I wonder if it stems from that
We get along great, have a lot in common, similar values, and FAANG salaries. She's so thoughtful and caring I'm not sure if I deserve this. I'm still working through feelings on the freedom you lose in a relationship, and how this especially hard after 15 years of flying solo. I've also been seeing a sex therapist. Not that anything is wrong, but this is still new to me, and having this outlet is really helpful.