“You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak.”

If “I get exhausted that I have to check in on my coding agent while it does my job” isn’t weak, what is? This has to be satire.

funnily that sentence is written very AI-ish. It's a really common pattern of "it's not x, it's y" and specifically the phrase "You're not imagining it"

Honestly this sounds like a Luddite mindset (and I mean that descriptively, not to be insulting). This mindset holds us back.

You can imagine the artisans who made shirts saying the exact same thing as the first textile factories became operational.

Humans have been coders in the sense we mean for a matter of decades at most - a blip in our existence. We’re capable of far more, and this is yet another task we should cast into the machine of automation and let physical laws do the work for us.

We’re capable of manipulating the universe into doing our bidding, including making rocks we’ve converted into silicones think on our behalf. Making shirts and making code: we’re capable of so much more.

People are animals like any other. That’s not a slight. Managers respond to incentives much like dogs do too, and so do execs, and board members, and every human.

If your alternative meaning of life is harnessing as many feel good chemicals in your brain as possible, that’s an objectively pointless existence

If we’re all just particles and fields, we might as well be as thermodynamically productive as possible

Who says that burning more fuel is a good goal? Productivity is a tool for people in charge to make you feel like you lack something and you have to burn to be valued. Get some therapy instead: all that stuff is toxic and unneeded. Feel free to burn your lives to capitalism and big tech, for no gain

You have to look a level deeper. Life has always been productive, it’s the only way you maintain negative entropy and thus life itself. If you found a species that stopped being biologically productive, you would recognize that as a maladaptive deviation from the norm (and that species would quickly go extinct).

You should work hard to be productive for humanity, not owners, who themselves are also subject to their own biological drives and pressures that channel them just like these same drives channel others.

If you feel exploited, then be productive in ways that circumvent your exploitation. Working hard and being productive is far older and more fundamental that capitalism though, and for your own sake and humanity’s sake you should embrace it.

Your definition of good doesn't apply to me. The more "productive ways" are to me, actually non-factive. Like, contemplation, art for art sake, playing, meditating. And this comes from reduced time spent on producing material things. So going faster and doing more to me is a dis-value. Life is not measured with negative entropy. Life is not measured, not quantitative.

NFTs from first principles looked like a bad idea even then. They solved 0 problems. When a technology solves 0 problems, it’s doomed to fail.

They solved the money laundering problem pretty well!

Also: democracy, capitalism/the global economy, your HOA, a tribe, etc etc

Even a weather system is a kind of computational process and “intelligent” in a way

In which periods in human history has that been possible? In the parts of the world with the highest birth rates is that possible?

This looks more like a return to form than anything.

The first ventures were funding voyages to a New World thousands of miles away, essentially a different planet as far as the people then were concerned.

Venture capital for a new B2B application is playing it safe as far as risk capital goes