It is the autumn of humanity, and we are moments between raindrops
For the last approx. 3.5 years, I ve been splitting my time between my emotional coaching practice and working for a local startup. I’m still doing the coaching, but I felt like it was time to move on from the startup, which left me with the question of what to do with the freed-up time and reduced money. [ ]
There are quite a few different things you can use LLMs for, and I think we’re still only discovering most of them. Here are a few of the ones I’ve come up with. My favorite chatbot is Claude Sonnet. It does have a tendency for sycophancy for example, it will go “what a fascinating/insightful/excellent/etc. question!” [ ]
I think a lot of people have heard so much about internalized prejudice and bias that they think they should ignore any bad vibes they get about a person that they can t rationally explain. But if a person gives you a bad feeling, don t ignore that. Both I and several others who I know have [ ]
There s a common sentiment saying that a chatbot can t really make you feel seen or validated. As chatbots are (presumably) not sentient, they can t see you and thus can t make you seen either. Or if they do, it is somehow fake and it s bad that you feel that way. So let me tell you about [ ]
Sometimes two people are talking past each other, and I try to help them understand each other (with varying degrees of success). It s as if they are looking at the same object, but from different angles. Mostly they see the same thing most of the words have shared meanings. But some key words and [ ]
I mentioned on Twitter that to a significant extent, Circling taught me what just be yourself means to such an extent that I have a consistently good time on dates because I don t feel like I need to perform. Somebody asked me to elaborate, so here s what I wrote in response: For those who [ ]
In 2014 I got on SSRIs the first time, and they were amazing. I wrote online about how I suddenly had energy to do things, could concentrate on stuff, and generally just felt better and happier. I now got a message from someone who d found my writings and was wondering what my experience with antidepressants [ ]
The Troops (Finnish joukot , could also be translated as the armies or the forces ) was a game of pretend that I played the most with my friend Eero; I believe Aleksi also joined in. The central premise was that each time that you played a video game and killed, recruited, rescued, built, or otherwise destroyed/obtained [ ]
A trauma book I was reading had an interesting claim that indecision is often because the person looks for the approval of an internalized authority figure (the writer is a Jungian therapist so attributed it to looking for the approval of an internalized parent, but I think it can be broader) but is unable to predict what [ ]
Links in English Schrödinger’s Ursula Apparently the concept of Schrödinger s cat got popularized thanks to Ursula Le Guin. Schrödinger originally invented the cat image as a gag. If true believers in quantum mechanics are right that the microworld’s uncertainties are dispelled only when we observe it, Schrödinger felt, this must also sometimes happen in [ ]