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Called it:

"Thruster-assisted flight in consumer cars can’t be made safe enough, because the problem isn’t whether a thruster can be made reliable, it’s what happens at scale when one inevitably cuts out. No propulsion system is 100% reliable, and across millions of hops, even rare failures become a daily event. Unlike a helicopter, a cold-gas car can’t glide or autorotate. When thrust stops, it simply drops. A short drop is only survivable if three things all hold: the car stays low, the seat is built to absorb a vertical impact, and the car lands level. Consumer use undermines all three. People will fly higher than they should, skip maintenance, run low on gas, overload the car, and take drops mid-maneuver when the car is tilted. So even if the engineering can make a single hop safe, you can’t make millions of people flying their own cars safe."

For the vast majority, it's coping, fa sho. How happy, easy-going, light-hearted, worry-free, and secure in one's survival is the average AO member? It's probably lower than average. I agree that this flavor of spirituality doesn't really do much to increase those things. Happiness is not to be found here. It's more about addiction to insight, and the effect or the utility of the insight is rarely even considered because the striving for and deriving the insight is the point.

Key takeaways include: Anthropic Public Benefit Fund: The company is committing an initial 5% of its shares to a dedicated fund for public benefit, with the potential to scale up to 20% as the company's valuation increases (0:00 - 0:15). Direct Distribution Potential: Anthropic is exploring ways to use this capital, including potential direct distributions to specific populations or traditional non-profits. The creator speculates on the possibility of using Claude to manage a highly granular, AI-driven Universal Basic Income (UBI) program (0:30 - 0:45, 2:35 - 3:15). Economic Disruption: The creator argues that as AI models become more integrated into the global economy—essentially acting as the "electricity providers" of the next era—the scale of these resources could surpass the GDP of many nations (1:25 - 1:45).

Writing style seems good.

Yep! Depending on the solution, you would likely need the Claude Desktop app instead of the claude.ai web app.

Yeah, this is a good idea. AI Workflow setup and management for specific niches. That's the new model. Retainer fees would be necessary. Basically companies could hire a single digital problem solver for anything they need. One person with AI covering what used to take a small team. Generalists have a huge edge here.

@yetineti Yeah, you're right. I wasn't thinking about it right. Hell yeah, nice! Lock that shit down. Tell Claude "I'm worried someone could steal this. Let's explore security options" I recently setup my own self-hosted password/secrets app with crazy security. It would be hard for me to live without Claude Code at this point, lol.

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Also, we should probably distinguish two types of conformity: 1. Behavioral conformity: Following social norms, customs, or conventions in how you act. 2. Epistemic conformity: Adopting beliefs, judgments, or interpretations because other people believe them.

Just came from a funeral today. So much conformity. For most of us here, we can spot it easily because we're just not very conformist due to our cognitive architecture being different. It's largely dispositional. I always needed logical reasons to act, and anytime I'm expected to take an action that I don't know the reason behind, resistance emerges. I used to despise conformity because I could only see it through the lens of my own cognitive preferences - conformity was at odds with who/what I was. But once I let that go, I could see that a world without conformity would not be so amazing as I once thought. You can dive deep into this to see it for yourselves. Inquire into what a world without conformity would look like. Conformity is a great organizing force, and learning to appreciate that may be the next thing to do after working through disdain of it. At funerals, I used to never bow my head when the preacher man said "now let us pray" But these days, I bow my head and close my eyes along with the rest of the herd. Not out of conformity, and not out of fear that I will be seen as a weirdo, but because I no longer resist conformity just because it's conformity. Don't seek conformity, but also don't blindly resist it. Sometimes the most autonomous thing you can do is refuse to be governed by your own disposition, lol.

That's how you get a mod position. Prediction: Yeti will be a mod within 1-2 months.

@Leo Gura Have you ever considered using examples like this to teach epistemics? Like, people are so quick to believe in a magic pill solution that if they can see hundreds of green little pellets come out of them, that must mean they're getting cleansed. And it seems to rarely occur that the very materials used for the cleanse should be highly suspect for the production of the pellets. And what's more, the placebo effect takes hold and they start to "feel better" and they truly believe they feel better. Rather than just talk about self-deception theory, use real-world examples like this to show how even intelligent people make these mistakes - show them the mechanisms. That's potentially a good avenue. A weekly expose would be interesting.

The Mayo Clinic's conclusion is that there is no reliable evidence these cleanses prevent or treat gallstones, and that the expelled lumps commonly consist of oil and other materials from the cleanse. Mayo Clinic

For my work, I have to pay Adobe $70/mo for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. I've been hoping for good replacements for a few years and finally have found a very promising solution. https://getartcraft.com/ You can set these apps up as portable versions by pointing Claude or ChatGPT at the repo and telling it to set them up: https://github.com/storytold. (If you don't already have Claude/ChatGPT on your system to do stuff for you, time to join the revolution. ) Or you can just download straight from the website. My main concern was that it wouldn't handle PSD files correctly, but it seems to work perfectly so far. Just thought I'd share in case anyone else is wants to stop shelling out to Adobe. $840/yr savings. The creators used Opus 5.5 to recreate all this. The team is constantly adding features that match Adobe's.

lol.

lol. You gotta watch out for those girls just looking for a quick coffee.

It's been so long that I've forgotten. They're all good, but if I had to pick, I'd probably go with Transcending the Levels of Consciousness.

The people who made PhotoCraft didn't use REA, AFAIK. They had AI take screenshots of everything and then used loops to get it right. Understanding the danger being spoke of is more important than "this is the most dangerous thing". When I share a video, it doesn't mean I agree with everything said. I might not agree with any of it but find the perspective interesting and worthwhile.

There's nothing they can say bro. I think they pattern match computer processes to human mind processes and then imagine that scaling up and at some point magic happens and consciousness emerges. Interesting idea, but it's fantasy if you can't provide good reason.

I got a puppy about 2.5 years ago. It's a shit ton of work and very expensive. I love him to death but I'm not happy with the amount of work that comes with it. If you don't have lots of energy to spare, I'd wait.

Filthy pigs. Shitstains. Zombies. Leo's contempt for humanity has rubbed off on you (sort of like groupthink). Most developed spiritual practitioners intuit that contempt for humanity is not compatible with spiritual development. Your post doesn't say "How do I stop seeing people as filthy pigs?" It takes delight in calling them that. Have you ever once wanted to not see it this way and inquired how to stop?