nico kokonas
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nico kokonas
All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
Maybe it’s a vague sense of anxiety, low self-esteem, fear, or a general discontentment that seems to bleed out onto everything else.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
There have been a number of studies that survey overdose deaths across the country, but in particular, a study from NYU which compared Oregon's rates of overdose fatalities to data from states that didn't have decriminalization initiatives. What they found is that there was not any statistically meaningful difference between deaths in Oregon and de... See more
Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis
My biggest issue with tools like Delphi that promise to help creators scale their time infinitely is that most people aren’t lacking information or insight. They are lacking the peer support, accountability, and belief capital needed to put the knowledge into action.
Like Om said: "Bumper sticker" gurus being automated means even more performative v
... See moreAll across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working fr... See more
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we don’... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we don’... See more