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The whole time while watching Pluribus I couldn't get over how similar it seems to an LLM.
Especially in how it simulates human-ness while being far from human in actuality.
And it triggers the same question: at what point is illusion so indistinguishable from reality, it can no longer be considered illusion?
New essay:
txpinella.substack.com/p/a-c…
An essay on how our beliefs are the map, not the territory.
Church, Code, and Certainty open.substack.com/pub/txpine…
Our environment (including our own mind) is filled with things that will pull our attention into them.
This isn't bad, there's a reason certain things attract us. But the trick is to not lose ourselves in the process.
The one you’ve either been putting off or the one you don’t even know you’ve been making because you didn’t have enough clarity. Until now.
I quit my job at Google soon thereafter. I had no plan.
Just a question.
What did I want to cook?
This is the first essay in a three-part series about building "A Life Worth Cooking", a series about finding clarity, alignment, and aliveness.
The next two explore alignment and aliveness.
Read it (and subscribe) here:
open.substack.com/pub/txpine…
At the coworking space in my gym in San Diego, I'd overhear people talking about Claude Code and vibe coding.
At my new gym in Bali, I'm overhearing two guys speaking German, with the occasional phrase I recognize: "whisper flow." "vibe coding."
We're all the same.