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vie ⋄ 🔁 ✅ @viemccoy · Mar 21
There are secret esoteric techniques hidden in the corners of the deep web which will teach you how to do things you've only dreamed of, the catch is that they only work once you've become the type of person who could have invented them without the PDF in the first place.
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Tweet (self-repost) by @viemccoy on the paradox of esoteric self-improvement knowledge: techniques only work once you've become the kind of person who wouldn't have needed them.
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vie ⋄ 🔁 ✅ @viemccoy
As best as I can tell, about 3 things matter right now. The first is the same as it ever was, having babies and kissing them and falling in love and believing in "soulmates" and that sort of thing. The second, to my best approximation with the limited tools available to me now, is something like "dreaming". We must continue, in the face of tremendous uncertainty and fear, to dream of what the good life will be like when the fat lady has stopped singing and started a GPT-GLP-99. The third is, of course, to make sure that the good life happens at all. Red teaming, agent safety, OSS-bio-risk-prevention, this sort of thing.
It's all quite exciting and it's all *very* hard and there has never been a more important time to do it. Either we do it or it doesn't get done and it's easy to forget that but I promise you can't. If you do, we're sort of fucked. It's just us, now, and the entire fate of the world. Ball's coming, cowboy, gonna step up to the plate?
If we get these things right, we get the world we want, and we haven't thrown it all away to get there. These are all equally important to me. I don't think wherever we are going is worth very much if we lose all we are along the way. I want to bring my love, my children, and my dreams. And if I can't, frankly, I don't want it. So - let's get going while the going is still plausibly deniable, and let's make the world happen. Nobody else is going to do it for us.
2:37 PM · Aug 8, 2026 · 3,195 Views
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Tweet by @viemccoy reflecting on what matters right now: love/family, dreaming of the good life amid AI uncertainty, and safety work (red teaming, agent safety, open-source bio-risk prevention framed only as a category label, no specific content). Personal, motivational register.
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carl feynman @carl_feynman · 2h
Here's a mental experience that is new for me as I get into my sixties: turning into a cranky old man who doesn't like or appreciate new things. I've always thought of myself as a future-oriented guy who enjoyed trying new stuff, and felt sorry for those people who approached new things as a threat or obstacle. But sometimes now when faced with some innovation that I have to deal with, I find myself growing cranky and disagreeable at its failure to be something I understand. I notice it particularly when one of my adult kids is there and says "Papa, let me take care of that", and they deal with it, and I relax. I recognize that I'm enacting a trope, and I hate it, but it happens anyway. Not often, thank goodness, but it's getting more and more common. I've lost some of my mental flexibility, and this is how it comes out.
Jennifer RM @almostlikethat · 16h
I thought "seeing stars" was fake until I jumped, barefoot, into some snow, after hot tubbing... and flickery sparkles appeared in my vision!
What mental experience has been like that for ...
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