Schlupfloch
Notes from a 2nd Renaissance Prepper
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Tips for high-abstraction software engineering with Cursor
High abstraction software engineering means attempting to focus almost exclusively on what the code is doing rather than how the code is working. Some will say "This isn't engineering" and I disagree. Just as Python can still be engineering despite being a high-abstraction language, operating
COMP-SEM-LLM{bidirect_lossy_knowledge_compress}
COMP-LLM-INFO{ core: LLM=novel_compress_tool; method=semantic_not_pattern; ex: paper->core_concepts+findings+method; key: bidirect_capability[compress<->expand]; function: token_eff_reason{mental_shorthand+chain_length}; caveat: lossy[like_jpeg]; impact: future_info_manage[edu+research+knowledge]; style: formal_academic; tone: neutral_
Humans will just keep doing what they always have in a post-scarcity AGI-powered future
In the 19th century, work was mostly based around contributing towards the creation of basic necessities - making food, building shelter, etc. In the 20th century, it increasingly moved towards higher abstractions. The farther away from what machines alone could do, the more valuable it was. In the 21st century, machines
You might be able to accelerate the beginning of a '2nd Renaissance'
We’re clearly entering a historically significant era and an interesting question to consider is how this time will be known to future generations. For example, AI will obviously continue to leap forward - will history remember an “Age of AI”? Space travel will also become increasingly accessible
GTPeter training data #1: how to get inspired to start a huge project
One thing I realised is that I'm bad at asking for or taking advice from myself. I've had so many scenarios where, if I wasn't me, I would've told myself to look at things from a different perspective, to not stop
Where the name 'Schlupfloch' came from
I was trying to think of a name for this blog and I was at a dead-end. I only had one thing I knew I wanted to publish but felt like I probably would publish a lot more random things as they came up. This made it hard to
Art is a tool
Art is a tool. It's always created for a particular purpose - with a specific goal in mind. Even if you make art purely for the joy of creation, never even showing what you make to anyone - then it's a tool to help you feel that joy!
Grieving for a dead startup
💡 This is the 2nd part of a 3-part series that I’m writing about the failure of my startup. The first part, which you can see here , was an explanation of where we want wrong and why - from start to finish. While it’s not necessary
I’m shutting my startup down after 4.5 years - here’s where I went wrong & why
tl;dr We're shutting down Advisable. After launching an initially successful but problematic version one, we relaunched with a new approach that we felt had the potential to solve the problems of our first version. However, after 3 relaunch attempts, we haven't been able to get