Vali2003

I’ve had an insight into how creative processes work. I got it from listening to Leo’s video about why valuable things require investment over time. True creativity has a lot to do with just being willing to accept uncertainty and risk. And just pursue a vision you have. Now, this isn’t really the insight I had. The insight is more, that most of the time, this vision, you may have, will only be a vague feeling. A blurry picture of what could be. A good creative has to have immense courage to believe that it’s possible to turn the vision into reality. Then they need to also have the discipline to invest in it every single day. Edging closer towards the vision. The insight is that the vision is vague, and you have to take a leap of faith in trying to realize it. If it isn’t vague, then there’s no leadership, no real creativity. This also relates to what Seth Godin often says.

There is this formatting task that I have to do for my job. It’s literally just formatting academic texts properly. But the email thread with the guy I do it for is fucking 26 emails long, already. It’s nuts. Every time I thought I did it perfectly but turns out I missed a bunch. However, it’s the first time, I’m doing formatting of this sort and, literally, everything has to be perfect. I have no work processes, no ideal way to do it, no goal even, no guidelines what exactly to format, so it’s all a pretty inefficient work processes. I do it as best I can, send it to him, he sends it back, saying I missed something, and repeat. Next time I’d be a lot quicker. That’s for sure.

I’ve sort of finished up the project I did for my mom today. It took way too long. But now it’s done. And for the first time, I’ll get some real life data from a landing page I made and an email-based course that I’ve ghostwritten for my mom.

I’m working on my business all day pretty much. This opened up some new challenges. For one, I’m completely incapable of shutting off my mind in the evening. This makes it impossible to de-stress and will cause me to burn out with it sooner or later. I implemented a shutdown ritual now, which I’ll do everyday at ~20.15 PM. It consists of three things: 1) Noting all my open tasks 2) having a plan for completion that I trust for each and 3) Saying a sentence that completes the ritual. The concept is from Cal Newport’s Deep Work. I think it definitely helped me today, but I reckon when I do it for a long time, the conditioning will help me to relax even easier. And relaxing is crucial for my longtime success.

This was now the second weekend of my dopamine detox/new strategy. It worked quite well. I feel that now, I didn’t go full into the addiction as I did last week. I stayed pretty even-keeled throughout. It’s gonna be more natural to wake up tomorrow and not use the forum or YT than the week before. Last week, I woke up, opened up YT first thing in the morning. Then realized, it’s Monday and I’m supposed to chill out.

Since I last wrote here all my furniture arrived and I finally have a desk… thank god.

I still don’t have a desk, which sucks. I sit in my bed all day working, which I definitely did not want to do because it teaches me to associate my bed with working, not with sleeping… And I do struggle turning off work-stuff in my mind in the evening. That’s definitely an area I need to improve on…

Also, I’ve noticed, the forum runs smoothly again, which is great. However, what use is my habit of copying my message before sending now, in case the site crashes??

I’ve been slacking off writing here a bit over the last 4-5 days, so I want to catch up a little. On monday, it was super weird to go back to not using YT and this forum again. I almost forgot about the detox. But then I remembered and after, it was relatively easy to go back to staying off (That sounds like I’m detoxing from heroine, lol). I always feel this release when I’m not on social media. Like I can finally breathe again.

Uni started back up today. It will be more challenging to work a lot, but I think it’s gonna go quite well. I’m steadily increasing the time I work, by 5 minutes every second day. This may not sound a lot but it would be 75min in one month and 150 minutes (2,5 hours) in two months. It’s also smart, because it gives me time to adapt to new challenges, since I slowly step into their territory. For example, maybe when working 6 hours per day (+uni) the challenge will be that I don’t have enough time for physical activity and thus feel bad. This will slowly creep up, giving me time to try different things to deal with it, as opposed to being there all of a sudden and overwhelming me.

@Basman It is good at that but it also makes the writing feel so bland. It erases all personality. Not all filler is actually bad.

@AerisVahnEphelia You’re right that if AI is retarded, you’re retarded to a certain extent. There is also a limit to this, though, because you can only prompt an AI with relatively little detail, compared to the input a human can make a decision with. For example, take a writer, who has written millions of words in their career. They’ll probably have learned hundreds of lessons about writing by that point. If they’re a good writer, all these lessons manifest in a sense of intuition, or feeling-sense. This sense then tells them why one sentence may be better than another, for example. Is the writer that’s not able to prompt this level of genius to an AI retarded? No, the AI simple can’t compute this way because it isn’t a mind. This is where the intelligence of AI is strongly limited. And — especially true for text — outputs, therefore, will feel ungrounded and unholistic.

@AION That’s what they always say. My point is that it’s actually false. Everybody just bought into this narrative.

I think the image-generation and audio- generation will continue to develop quite well though. Will be interesting to see how that’s gonna change our society. At the moment, I see a lot of ads that use AI-voice and it’s pretty horrible. Do y’all think with this, the brute force method will be more effective with voice, and image generation, than with creativity/novel insights?

@Leo Gura I’m excited to see at what point they’ll realize, this approach is a dead-end.

@Carl-Richard That’s the thing. It feels so shallow and ungrounded. Like you can tell there’s nothing real intelligent about it as soon as the topic get’s a bit more towards the abstract.

Gym work, PT, chiropractor etc. can also help but will likely not fix the issue 100% and not permanently.

The root solution is likely to work on your fascia. Roll your calves, glutes and feet with a tennis ball and check how painful it is. If it’s very painful, the lower back pain likely stems from fascial adhesions in these areas. Lower back pain often also is the result of asymmetric (left vs. right side) energy distribution that stems from past injuries or something like that. Weight lifting can actually make fascial adhesions — the fascia, aka connective tissue, being sticky and therefore pressing on nerves, which causes pain — worse. Especially if you work out often and don’t have periods of several weeks where your fascia can completely recover. I used to have lower back pain and it has completely resolved now. I’d stop with weightlifting for now, except if you really enjoy it or, in general, you do it for other things than health benefits. Do the first exercise in this video everyday. Start with 2min at a time and build up to 5min at a time. Do the next two exercises two or three times per week and continue doing this for twelve weeks. Sleep well, and potentially supplement vitamin c, to help with collagen production (a main component of fascia). If you do this for twelve weeks straight, your back pain will likely be completely gone. Don’t let yourself be fooled by how easy these exercises look. Make sure to follow his advice on the first exercise accurately.

@AION What does it mean that AI is as intelligent as a college student? In which way can you compare the intelligence of an algorithm that’s based on gathering human-made info and outputting it in text form, with a human mind? Is Google more intelligent than a college student? Genuinely asking how you see this.

I still think AI may cause a pretty big disruption in the job-market. Especially big firms who have enough capital to train large models on very specific tasks.

@Leo Gura Yes… this insight has been building momentum in my mind for the last couple of weeks, like a snowball rolling down a mountain, getting bigger and bigger until I’ve now become pretty disillusioned with AI. As long as a narrative is compelling enough, just realistic enough and novel enough, the mind is a beast at taking the narrative as truth.

@Hojo Supposedly, they fixed this for GPT-5, but it didn’t change at all. You can prompt it with “Answer in 3 sentences,” for example. The outputs are better formatted, and shorter that way, but the content doesn’t change, I think.

@Carl-Richard That‘s certainly a possibility . I can see him very cleary, having consumed a not unsubstantial amount of edible marijuana, not being bothered to do any thinking.

I also painted a wall in my room today. It was quite fun and the color looks nice. I think the room will look pretty good when I’m done with it. I’ll just have to wait until the rest of my furniture arrives. The mattress already came today.

To be honest, I thought it would be possible to do a poll somehow. Apparently not. Just feel free to share your thoughts via reply.