Is AGI possible? Yes. How and when we can achieve it, if at all? No one on this planet knows.

Will update when we actually have “a smart” LLMs.

Somewhere between 0 and 0

Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that’s not what they are paid big bucks for.

I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest.

Ancient computer sounds so dumb.

So am I because I go to sleep every night.

One thing I noticed in India, and perhaps elsewhere too that happiness is on the other side of whatever goal one has, usually something that is sold as hustle or hardwork. I am not talking about people who don’t earn enough to afford even basics and are told that they don’t earn enough because they don’t work hard enough. These people are simply playing a rigged game.

I am talking about usually well-off people who earn enough, but not enough to be happy. These people don’t realize that in their case happiness is just due to an internal lack and not due to external factors. These people try to buy and consume in order to fill a void that cannot be filled through external stuff or status.

But mah second amendment!!?

All too often that happens to be true.

Yes. It is about holding people accountable and punishing them for their crimes. If they can get away crimes, then what is the point of courts of law or even a justice system? Might as well, throw those in the bin.

But… but it’s for the safety of children. /s

Fucking morons.

Yup. It is exhausting AF.

Exactly my point.

I felt ignored, which made me feel worthless. Exact circumstances are too personal to share. But, the realization that I have never felt compassion in my life, as far back as I can remember was too much at the time.

Yeah, mindfulness helped me to become aware of that thought. Mindfulness is just incredible, in my experience.

It is really difficult to explain, but I will try it. I was greatly distressed one day, and decided to write an essay on Community and Compassion. As I was writing it, it basically came out as a rant and increased my distress and I was able identify a thought that was running in my head. It said “I am not enough.” I don’t why, but I reversed it and started ‘chanting’ “I am enough”. I immediately felt like a huge wait lifted from my mind. I felt lighter. So, basically that became my chant now.

In retrospect, it made sense and yet, it was really hard for me to become aware of it. But, in the end, all those therapy sessions paid off, even if I had lost hope.

So many. Not being able to regulate emotions, which led to me throwing “temper tantrums” kind of. 7 years of therapy and I think I had major breakthrough. I am still evaluating it, but I am fairly confident that I might have overcome it.

Ah, yes, the Big Parma mafia of the US.

Is it really that simple? That we should just stop consuming? I honestly don’t know much about sociology, but it’s really not that simple.