all value of men lies in the tails

optimising your life out of your life

https://x.com/sahilbloom/status/2022364364188066192?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

table selection is important

"From 2003-2023, American adults reduced socializing by 30%. For teens, the decline was nearly 50%. There is no record of any period in history when people spent more time alone."

https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2022860794451394942?s=20

your brain literally holds on to unfinished business. this is called the zeigarnik effect.

https://youtube.com/post/UgkxgeVm1PC8Qfvss7-oflvLUS1jnI4OU4_b?si=vWPftc-Im8sdCfI8

if the world moves towards optimization and people are beginning to ai summarize articles instead of reading through them, then in that case would the effort to result ratio of manually writing articles decrease? in that case would it be better to just generate ai articles? would this simply create a death loop or negative loop in society when it comes to creative writing?

> spend 1 week writing a 2 pager article on a topic
> readers ai summarized it and read them in 10 sec
> affiliate links, ads, expressions, etc. turn redundant
> disincentivised to write
> ai generate future articles
> readers ai summarized ...
repeat loop

i've been noticing articles talking about optimizing for ai agents and not humans anymore, when it comes to websites and anything on the internet.

SEO optimization and appearing on the first page of google used to be the game. creating hooks to capture readers attention in the first paragraph. will all these still matter when people are just summarising with AI? will these still matter when people are no longer manually searching on google, but simply asking their agents?

articles should then optimize to be picked up by AI agents instead of human engagement. being on the first page of google doesn't matter anymore, because agents can scrape thousands in seconds

i wonder how the shift in tonality, writing, and design on the internet will look in the future

my prediction is that it all converges (yes, because of ai)

prompt repetition improves non-reasoning LLMs

this feels like a huge tip #BM

https://x.com/burkov/status/2023822767284490263?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

[cc]

political slants in AI

currently testing out WisprFlow for voice dictation

came across heylemon today that looks pretty cool too, but seems early stage and i won't risk it as of yet

starting to contemplate purchasing a second blank laptop just to try out new tech

study the transition back to dumb devices

https://x.com/politicalmath/status/2023614697061110041?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

the big lie about competition