Misanthropic and Open Artificial Ignorance are misleading the public.

They are leeching off the work of mathematicians and pretending that new math was invented.

Misanthropic's entire existence is built around AI misuse.

Some friends I've known for over a decade clearly have ADHD, and I'm not going to tell them unprompted.

I feel like it is very disrespectful, especially when the conversation is about something completely different. Also, I'm not a medical professional, and it is possible that their ADHD-like symptoms are caused by something else.

That being said, if they ask if I think they have ADHD, or any other form of neurodivergence, I will say yes.

Speaking as someone who only got our ADHD diagnosis in our late thirties and our autism spectrum diagnosis at forty fucking two, please consider just telling them. That could be years or decades of social, pharmacological, and even legal assistance that they deserve and need and aren't otherwise getting.

Second this too. I went through live until mid thirties thinking life just was that hard for everyone and I was just bad and shit at things, worse than others - I suffered alone thinking everyone had to be like me, because I'm normal right? It was a huge relief finally being diagnosed because I could finally understand myself better, even found community of sorts.. strategies that worked for others and most of all.. just allowing myself to be KIND to myself, not always beating myself up, being angry at myself for being shit.

Also agree with this, but want to caution: Bring this up as gently as you can

Don't accuse them of being ADHD, or insist too strongly

If you do bring it up, I would say make sure to really emphasize that you don't think they need fixing. It's something that might help them overcome their own struggles, not something to make them a better person for others, you know?

"I have always envied your ADHD hyperfocus superpowers." /h

Everything I am really good at, I am really bad at, depending on context and the wobbly compass that governs my internal motivation.

It is definitely not all bad. Without my hyperfocus, my life would be unrecognizable. I would be unrecognizable. Hyperfocus is core to so many things I am good at, care about, and have achieved.

I agree with this.

My ever optimistic self would fail and fail and fail, create a system, fail, create another system, fail, .... at seemingly easy things.

As soon as I had a rational reason for otherwise inexplicable challenges, enormous amounts of stress evaporated.

Now I know what things are a lost cause: So I get help, delegate, find another way. Being bad at something, and recognizing it, is not the same as failing.

Resonate and agree with this 100%.

Then tell them about ADHD. The main problem is that most people have no idea what it is, or how effective treatment can be. ADHD is one of the most poorly named and broadly misunderstood conditions ever.

Or, when the context is right, just ask, "hey, did you ever get diagnosed as ADD?"

I once had a close friend ask if I had [other syndrome], and my answer was "I have all the symptoms but don't care to seek a diagnosis."

It was a very polite way to inform me, and a polite way for me to say that I was happy living my life the way I want to live it.

Not only that but it's not always clear that friends don't already know! It's entirely possible their friends might have assumed that they already were aware and had been diagnosed.

Sometimes, a little nudge is all it takes. I didn’t get diagnosed until somebody close to me asked if I’d ever been evaluated. Highly recommend finding some way to bring it up.

Is there a way to make this work with a wider variety of tools?

It appears to only be useful for React, and there are many other tools used for frontend development.

Can it use MyselfGPT?

I'm not familiar with MyselfGPT (and didn't see an obvious result in a quick search), so, I guess it probably cannot use MyselfGPT. If you have a link, I'll check it out and then we'll see!

How about putting the brakes on LLMs and prioritizing other types of AI.

When I think of AI, my mind goes towards automated Metro trains that do a great job of driving on fixed routes. On the other hand, it's obvious that the train can't do something like generate dinner recipies.

That would benefit the general public with no hope of high margins. VCs don't care about that stuff.

I'm not a fan of any large projects from Amazon, including data centers, warehouses, and the HQ2 office.

Okay. But there isn’t anywhere near the sort of backlash against those other things as there is against AI data centers.

AI data centers are much larger, much more visible, much more power hungry, consume more water and noisier.

Its just not the same thing.

You are right. Most people are against scale and progress. I don’t think it’s about big tech. I don’t think it’s about data centers. I don’t think it’s about emissions or water. It’s about scale.

The scale of wealth imbalance, the scale of money in politics, the scale of grocer prices, the scale of data collection and abuse of targeted price manipulation, the scale of climate catastrophe, the scale of electric bills, humming noises, draught conditions. It’s about realizing the scales are uneven, and seeing a tangible incarnation of that being built. All those problems are starting to seem awfully close to home. You can’t reach the trillionaire, but maybe you can keep it out of your back yard, so you protest the data center.

People are against progress when they don't see a clear benefit to themselves. Medical progress, for example, is often widely embraced.

The thing about data centers is that some are being built in this gold rush manner and people can't see the through line to how they will benefit from them. Data center infrastructure companies are making deals with town councils in rural areas that include restrictive NDA's so the voters can't inspect what the deal involves. Combine this with AI fatigue where every time you use a website or app and some new AI feature is being pushed on you and a lot of people just feel like completely overwhelmed by the situation.

If the data center companies were smart, they would be open and cooperative with the communities they are trying to build in. But they are impatient and think they can just throw more money at the problem and shove it down the community's throat.

That's a weird way to reason about it.

Data centers polute their air, use up their water, increase their energy cost and make an unbearable noise in their neighborhood. But sure, they are simply anti progress for no reason.

None of those things are inherently true. I know it’s happening with a few DCs in the US operated by scrupulous people, but it’s far from the normal.

Datacenters don’t need to use much water outside of normal office needs. They don’t need to increase energy costs. They don’t need to pollute or make any noise in normal conditions.

If they do any of those things in normal operations, it’s due to lacking regulations or the lack of enforcement of existing regulations.

Do you think people would still oppose it if hypothetically data centres didn't use that much water? hint: this is not a hypothetical

It's not only about the water, so there is no need to fixate on it.

They are not against "progress" in a vacuum.

Who gives a shit about the average SV sociopath's idea of "progress"? In this context, progress means mass surveillance, infinite AI slop flooding every single facet of our lives and replacing any human job that isn't some sort of C-suite, why on earth would people be championing this type of "progress"?

Cool, this project looks very interesting!

I tried uploading a .tex file created earlier this year and was able to see a PDF preview without any additional configuration.

As someone who has a local TeX setup, I'm a fan of your approach to loading dependencies on demand with a service worker. The installation process on my computer took a while because it was downloading a bunch of dependencies I didn't need.

I do most of my coding with a model called MyselfGPT.

If I ran a business, I would intentionally make it harder for AI search to view my website.