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As a kid I had great plans, and decided writing down those plans for a future self to execute would be a great idea! This accidentally made me an obsessive writer for all my childhood. Now for thinking I just write English sentences, and it's kind of worrying to me how dependent I now am on CoT for everything. The plus side is LLMs are probably more useful to me than most people. We're pals. Soul-brothers. Birds of a feather. I write an absurd amount, and very little of that gets published, and the little that gets published goes on random platforms all over the place (on an anonymous alt, LessWrong, Twitter, Substack, and other nooks and crannies of the interwebs). If you want to stalk me I, uh, good luck with that. [3] Standard humanism? I'm pretty chill. The problems we have with tribalism, performative virtue/cruelty, etc. seem solvable with an extremely basic and fairly ancient framework? If you have any worries over what that might imply about my ethics, you can ask me about it a

I am neil Mar 17, 2025 neil warren-bancquart I like: my friends snorting to myself while everyone glares at me and the Thing to be Seen walking along the Seine, watching the City of Enlightenment, ignoring the giant metal tower they TURN OFF AFTER ELEVEN for obscure reasons Balthazar Picsou large language models making my future self grin the high bandwidth feeling of writing when "I" (Claude) can code the MVP in < a day getting a CAPTCHA right in no particular order: a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h , i unseeing things running like mad to catch a train microeconomics grinning at my past self typ

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