Yes. I grew up there, went to college there, and stayed there until I moved a few years ago.

Great flash storm in Austin right now. I sometimes say I miss the nature of California but this is one of many things California doesn’t have.

I think Levin might argue (I don't actually know) that a vacuum would score a zero. If he's assigning things like chemical processes an intelligence score, I think he might score an iron atom an intelligence score. He's explicitly pushing around the definition of intelligence though, like light was once meant only visible light.

My hands aren’t a jacuzzi though

Oh I was just being silly about the model's legs.

If they ship the features we need we might use it instead of self-hosting.

We are too forgiving when people lie about the future.

Chonky calfs.

So gooood.

I can't recall anything I purchased with bitcoin this week. I did buy a subscription to Zaprite - but I paid with CC because there was no bitcoin discount and it's easier.

Rosemary. I used to walk by a rosemary bush every morning, pluck a twig and roll it between my fingers and hands.

Recognizing this, I've made my own rosemary cologne using rosemary essential oil and perfumer's alcohol. I haven't made it in awhile.

If the trajectory continues and collaborating with machines requires less and less domain expertise, the orthogonal components will be more important. But which orthogonal components will be more important? Probably things most supplemental to what machines are able to do? At the limit, I imagine articulating personal/human desire is all that's left (if anything is left).

I do not use language like math or as it’s used in law. Feel free to replace “machines” with “tools” and “collaboration” with “using” if it suits your senses better.

Specifically, "the skill of collaboration with machines is the most important skill" seems like timeless advice.

I'm not sure if you intended it, but this advice even back tests well.