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I tend to write code in layers. I get an end-to-end system working as a base layer and then I go back over the whole system and fill in the gaps with subsequent layers. I find that this is cumulatively faster than building each component piece by piece and…
LAYERING USAGE

Notice how in my DEEPTOOLS Video 3 (https://t.me/deepthrill/433) I used this layering approach from my post about layering here https://t.me/deepthrill/402 to:

first just stack the images;
then use XOR;
then a neural network;
then a webapp;
and then using famous artwork from the web.

I did it layer by layer and made sure each layer was solid before moving on to the next.

That video shows me enacting a real life example of what I wrote about here.

An alternative approach that is also aligned with the principle of layering would have been to build the entire webapp with a mere XOR blending, and move the “use a neural network” step to the end of the list.
If you lose your job to AI that’s your fault for letting your skills atrophy.

If your labor can be replaced by a machine, how useful were you really?

If your contributions to society can be better served by a robot, what value did you really provide?

I want machines picking fruit, no need for illegal immigration slave labor.

I want machines automating the ports and truck driving, no need for unions to hinder efficiency.

I want machines rendering video game worlds.

I want machines manufacturing widgets.

Forcing humans in jobs for the sake of labor and fears of unemployment slows down progress as a society.

Every single one of these examples have roles for people being creative, for handling operations, for organizing high level logistics.

And claims that AI will eventually replace even those jobs are silly because there will always be a need for human labor, if only to provide more training data for AI.

You fall behind you get left behind. Keep your skills sharp.
Under-charge and over-deliver.
But can the robots do my laundry yet?
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Help, I’ve fallen into the void and can’t tell which direction is up!
Fat is just leftovers you haven’t finished eating yet.
In a meritocracy, the diversity of the engineering team doesn’t matter; all that matters is catching the fooking rocket with the fooking chopsticks.
One step closer today.
By just observing, instead of reacting, your consciousness collapses deeper layers of the quantum reality.
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Heart cells grown in a Petri dish will start to self-organize and form chambers and start beating.

What is the relationship between life and self-organization?

Did molecules self-organize into amino acids which self-organized into DNA which self-organized into organs and organisms and societies etc?

What programming deep in the structure of the cells directs it to self-organize instinctively?
It’s honestly abhorrent how billionaires exploit loopholes to avoid taxes.

Also, taxation is theft so paying taxes is abhorrent as well.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 4:

In this 30 minute video, I use cursor to summarize today's political news with Perplexity's and ChatGPT's APIs.

While all my code worked, one issue is that the API's would randomly refuse requests to summarize paragraphs that have political content.

This focus on "safety" holds back tech development.

Regardless, it was meant to show you how to use Cursor AI to develop whatever is in your imagination.

Link to previous video: https://t.me/deepthrill/433
“What will benefit my future self the most?”
“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning ‘That path leads ever down into stagnation.’”
~Frank Herbert, Dune
I voted for Trump in:
- 2016 Republican primaries
- 2016 General election
- 2020 General election
- 2024 General election (already voted early)
Mushroom Slicing Musings on AI:

So I’m preparing food for dinner, chopping baby bella mushrooms, and reflecting on my own thought process versus AI.

When I choose where to cut the mushroom, firstly I don’t want to cut at the very edge of the stem, because I can rationally think about it and envision the slice falling apart.

I’m forming images in my imagination of how the final dish might look, feel, taste, if the mushroom slices are various thicknesses.

I’m considering that I’ll be using a cast iron pan when cooking it, when deciding how thick or thin to make the mushroom.

I’m using my imagination to play out various simulated scenarios in my head, using my reason and logic to try to make the best decision I can.

This information is being computed by my neurons in half a second, and the answer communicated to my nerves, which in turn direct the muscles in my hands and arms and move the knife.

All for a single simple cut of a mushroom.

And then I compare that to how modern AI simulates reasoning.

The key, to me, is that we humans use our imaginations to envision different scenarios in our heads. This is fuzzy, full of bias, but guided by our best attempt at logic and reason.

Now maybe AI can be programmed to do all that, but the idea of considering all that should arise naturally from an artificial intelligence.

If we humans have to program it in, then it didn’t learn to do that.

But perhaps it’s okay we didn’t learn to do that either and it’s baked into our DNA 🧬 by our maker?
Go to San Francisco just to experience Waymos.

No more Uber or Lyft human drivers, just pay the same price for a robot to pick you up and drop you off.

No judgement, take a 3 minute ride to skip over the drug addict streets, it’s just a robot who cares.

Making the pilgrimage to San Francisco just to experience thousands of self-driving taxis as you hop around the city is a worthwhile endeavor, despite having to use those robot taxis to quickly drive you away from the parts of the city (the “Tenderloin District”) with the junkies and homeless shooting up and mugging.