When I discovered it, I was a huge fan of https://telehack.com/. While dorking around on it one
day, some kid `talk`ed at me. After our discussion, he said something like "you're so
smart". I responded with "No. I'm just old."
Your postscript (and to some extent Pieter's) brought that memory to mind. And the remembering reminded
me of my surprise when I'd talk to others who don't seem to use the tools that are readily available to
them; and it evokes some sort of preference for Luddite wallowing in tool avoidance ... it's always felt
like the naturalist fallacy. Russ' recent post about the "satiety circuit"
<https://russabbott.substack.com/p/restoring-our-natural-satiety-circuit> also triggered it,
especially the last clause of the video "as nature intended." [ewww] Sure, Soylent and all
supplements are problematic. But so is medicine and Nazi-sympathizing oligarchs who nonetheless help us
put sh¡t into space.
Anyone who *doesn't* do, say, a quick DDG search for whatever Clemens might (not) have
said ... or fails to use LLMs at least enough to understand their behavior ... seems to
me to be incompetent at life. I mean, What is Life if not being an integral part of your
"ecosystem"? ... including whatever tools your fellow organisms use to pick
lice or eat ants?
Is it virtue signalling or an occult handshake to wear a T-shirt with Maxwell's
equations on it? I just don't know anymore.
On 1/30/25 8:13 AM, steve smith wrote:
PS... my rambling here is all mine, but I did (and almost always do) consult
various Internetty sources to try to align my imagination with the facts of
record... e.g. a bit of Palantir, HPV and Sam Clemen's research...
On 1/30/25 6:38 AM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
Note, the message is my own, but since I'm very bad using the English language,
I use AI to assist my writing.
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