subjective is a lazy explanation for incomplete

"Oh, before the Enlightenment people lived in an enchanted world of meaning, then science came along and disenchanted everything." What if this is all just a load of shit? What if the Meaning Crisis is just elaborate content marketing?

I had no idea The Pulitzer Prize is named after the guy who invented clickbait but things are more clear now. Manufacture the problem, market yourself as the solution, get rewarded.

Nobody's talking because everyone's too busy reverse-engineering the algorithm for being heard.

Couldn't make it any further than the net worth scene in Mountainhead. As Silicon Valley so brilliantly demonstrated, roast people for how they actually behave. Don't get bitter at tech bros and write about how you secretly wish they'd act.

As a freedom maxi I despise constraints. As an ML practitioner I recognize freedom without constraints results in an unstable and ultimately incoherent model. What are useful or desirable constraints for nostr?

Education needs a radical transformation from “what do you know?” to “what do you care about?” Not in a trite "pursue your passions" or "follow their interests" way either. Students need something to grapple with that’s not contrived or transactional.

embedding space is the real cyberspace. few

A huge UX challenge for hosted models is how to communicate updates when you can’t anticipate what the net effect to the user will be until they start using it. With a traditional app, a developer can change things, and while users will complain, visual updates are more obvious. When using something like Claude, you can wake up one day and it’s like talking to a completely different person. This is frustrating, because similar to talking with another person, you learn to adopt your style. This takes time, and with a model you can’t just scan the settings page on the new version hoping the dev put a toggle button to revert to the old way.