It’s been a while and I’m back with a message: pseudointellectualism is dying, and thank (AI?) God. But it turned out to be a blocker for my own writing – I would come up with a piece that I was decently happy with only to realize mid-through that AI could have written that and give up.
The answer is clear: I need to give you more deranged takes that AI will never be able to come up with. Unpolished thoughts from Poland. Today, I’m writing about:
- Energy
- AI for kids
- The only architectural book you need
It’s all about energy
When you see successful people, they always have so much going on. They do this, that and the other thing and after all that, come back to the kids and play with them. Where do they get all the energy?
Have a look at this recent video of Alex Karp (CEO of Palantir) squirming like a trapped badger. This is how high energy looks like:
I’m talking about the mental energy – the drive to do things, the “lets do this” aura. When you have more energy, all the other things correct themselves:
When you have high energy,
- You keep Momentum, so all context stays loaded in your brain
- Do the thing quickly
- Jump straight to the next thing,
- Do that quickly
When you have low energy, you:
- Procrastinate before starting the thing
- Do it slowly, half-assedly
- Take a ton of break in the meantime
- You have to remind yourself what were you doing in the first place
Ok, how do I get more energy?
- Move for the love of god, move
- If you are looking for a good free mobility routine, I found these free Youtubue videos by Julia Repel – they are pretty good.
- Produce. Do things that excite you, not the things you are “supposed” to be doing
- Watching Netflix is not a hobby. Choose high-energy hobbies
- Are you watching movies about people doing high energy things or sitting around and moping?
- I am aggresively trying to supplement more Creatine, and it helps
- I am trying to get to a dose of like 20mg, but mu stomach hurts when I drink too much at the same time. Now I get a giant water bottle with creatine to the gym. Does help!
If you are old enough to remember the meme, be the Leeroy Jenkins in your life.
Yes, it is unfair
Some people just have unfair advantages. If you want to get angry:
A natural short sleeper is someone who sleeps a lot less in a 24-hour period than is expected for people of the same age, without being abnormally sleepy. Short sleepers sleep less than 75% of what is normal for their age. (Medline Plus)
This translates on a bigger scale too
Ok, you might have noticed that I think AI is quite useful and will continue to be useful. The limiting factor in AI development is currently energy.
We need to be building any kind of plant that we can imagine. It’s not a tradeoff anymore.
- Solar? Definitely
- Nuclear? In every city
- Coal? Yeah keep that going until the other things catch up.
The demand for energy is infinite, because cheap energy induces more demand – just better things get built when you have more energy.
The environment
Look, this blog claims to be into solarpunk. Solarpunk future is when nature and human coexist. I hope we get there, but we need energy to do that. We need to ramp off coal, but AFTER we build more solar and nuclear plants, not before.
Here is what bodybuilders do:
- First, they bulk
- Then, they cut the fat because they are not in energy scarcity anymore
AI for kids
I am working on a little hardware AI companion for the kids.
- It’s fully Open Source
- No chinese LLMs, does not have strong opinions about Taiwan
- You have full control over the prompt, data retention and capabilities
- The hardware itself is about ~$40
It is meant to give kids place to explore and play with technology, without exposing them to the Internet addiction machine.
The only architecture book you need
I summarized my notes from reading “A Pattern Language” by Christopher Alexander. To give you some taste:
In a society where a man can find his own self, there will be ample variety of character, and character will be strong. In a society where people have trouble finding their own selves, people will seem homogeneous, there will be less variety, and character will be weak.
