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Cake day: August 7th, 2025

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  • I haven’t figured it all out, obviously, and don’t know exactly the right way to talk about this stuff, but I know this framing is wrong, because when viewed from a certain angle, one could look at any medication for chronic illness this way. I think addiction is a symptom of broader systemic illness, in the same way as body weight correlates inversely to elevation (and hence positively with both toxin accumulation and poverty), or how other diseases corelate with the stress we’re put through.







  • “Optimization” isn’t a simple problem an llm could solve, (if llms didn’t create more problems than they solve). What’s the #1 thing making software inefficient today? It’s that we don’t have a good system for creating cross-platform apps except for through the web so half of all desktop and mobile apps just load a chrome window. We already have wildly efficient video compression codecs with hardware acceleration. Idk what you’d even set the “AI” to the task of doing