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Cake day: October 13th, 2025

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  • What people are trying to warn you about here is the danger of relying too much on an external source to feed you understanding of a thing without showing you how to come to that understanding in your own.

    Consider the “teach a man to fish,” analogy. You use an LLM to spoon-feed you the meaning of a book, well, okay, you now have a greater understanding of that book. The LLM did not teach you how to better understand books in general. That’s going to take much more intellectual effort, which is better done talking to other people with expertise in analyzing literature, and trust me, it’s worth that effort.

    This is what people are getting at when they use terms like “outsourcing your thinking.” We owe it to ourselves to resist that temptation to take the path of least intellectual resistance.







  • The unrelenting dread and fear of something horrifying and terrible happening to the ones I love.

    The lingering resentment and intense loathing towards an ex spouse who abused me daily for almost 15 years.

    Dead Tamagotchi from 1998 to remind myself of my failures as a caregiver.

    The ever-evolving concept for a music album that perfectly encapsulates my life experiences, from the good to the awful, and what they’ve taught me about myself.

    Deadpool keychain charm.