louis lebbos

Draft thought: Over a long enough time horizon a human chatting with an LLM is a gradient descent towards their own areas of least knowledge.

Do or Do not. There is not try.

"... you must have something in order to give it up. You cannot give up anything you have not already gotten. If you give up winning without ever having won, you are where you were in the beginning: a loser. You must forge for yourself an identity before you can give it up. You must develop an ego before you can lose it. This may seem incredibly elementary, but I think it is necessary to say it, since there are many people I know who possess a vision of evolution yet seem to lack the will for it. They want, and believe it is possible, to skip over the discipline, to find an easy shortcut to sainthood. Often they attempt to attain it by simply imitating the superficialities of saints, retiring to the desert or taking up carpentry. Some even believe that by such imitation they have really become saints and prophets, and are unable to acknowledge that they are still children and face the painful fact that they must start at the beginning and go through the middle."

Only re-read books in November and December.

Me: "is Salam here? Passport control guy:" not today, do you need anything? " Me:"No he told me about his olive oil brand last time and I checked it out, it's cool" PC guy:"you need olive oil? I have olive oil too!" 😂 Only in Lebanon

I don't use my iPad much but when I do.... 🐦

Enjoyed Starman on today's flight.

Back in 1996-98 I used to click on a web link and go do some pull-ups, get a snack, do something productive. Finding myself typing enter on a prompt to Claude and doing the same, 30 years later 😂 Plus ça change...

Lazy people think laziness is doing nothing. Laziness is avoiding the hard stuff, giving up too easily on obstacles that need relentless pushing. Laziness is unconsciously waking up and checking off a bunch of trivial tasks. Doing nothing is better than doing the trivial and thinking you're moving mountains.

إذا أنت أكرمت الكريم ملكته وإن أنت أكرمت اللئيم تمردا

...Coordinated PR for the mid-intelligentsia?

I miss this version of DHH Did the crazy woke action cause an equal and opposite reaction pushing reasonable and smart people all the way to the right?

My wife found this book in the hiking backpack this morning and made fun of me. I said it's technically a survival book, back me up @PZalloua please.

You can go through life on Twitter lecturing pineapples about being prickly. Or...

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you”

In February I was in Dubai and forgot to renew my license. My Portugal license process closing on a year with involvement of lawyers, weird rejections, no appointments, etc etc so I needed another active license. On my way to the airport I thought I would at least do the eye test, I stopped at a random optician, as I did the eye test Dubai RTA emailed me the new license ❤️ . The driver then went and picked it up after I went to the airport. If I had 30 more minutes they would have printed it at rta kiosk but I didn't.

More to lose. More affected by social circle. More worried about reputation. More exposed to media/social media. More owned by what they own.