honestly this rewired my fucking brain

This 2008 paper answers: why anything is beautiful why science exists why jokes land why you get bored why art moves you why babies explore why music has hooks It boils down to a single, cold mathematical principle. Jürgen Schmidhuber is one of the founding fathers of modern AI. But this paper wasn't about building a better machine. It was about proving that human curiosity is just an algorithm. It’s called "Compression Progress." Your brain is a prediction engine. Its only goal is to take the overwhelming chaos of the world and compress it into simple, predictable patterns. If something is completely predictable, like a ticking clock or a blank wall, your brain compresses it instantly. Zero effort. You experience this as boredom. If something is completely random, like TV static or white noise, your brain can’t compress it at all. You experience this as frustration. But what happens when you look at something complex, and suddenly discover a hidden rule that makes it make sense? The exact second you get the punchline of a joke. The moment a chaotic melody resolves into a perfect hook. A baby realizing that dropping a cup always makes a sound. In that split second, your brain successfully compresses the data. And to reinforce this behavior, your brain floods your system with an intrinsic reward. A hit of dopamine. We gave that chemical hit a lot of romantic names. We call it "beauty." We call it "wonder." We call it "art." Scientists like Einstein aren't doing magic. They are just hunting for equations that compress the maximum amount of universe into the smallest amount of text. Composers like Beethoven weren't channeling the divine. They were engineering optimal compression puzzles for the human auditory cortex. We like to believe our sense of wonder makes us fundamentally different from machines. But this paper proved that wonder is just a mathematical reward function for efficient data sorting.

The nerdiest people I know are extremely excited about Jev.

A new sentence is born

Heard this the other day and man, it hit hard… When God wanted to make David king, he didn’t send him a crown. He sent him Goliath.

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound. An American immediately said, "I got a guy." He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage. I asked who the guy was. He said, "Just a guy." He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage." That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family. I asked how he found this guy. "My brother-in-law used him." I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied. He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing." The house is still standing. That is the entire review. Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES. I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four. Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment. He came at 1:40. He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of. Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go." I asked when. "Couple years." I asked what I should do. He said, "I'll give you a guy." He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy. Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION. I have been given four guys since. I have a guy for trees. I did not know I needed a guy for trees. I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

Permanent Underclass Meetup at the Amex Centurion Lounge

Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.

If you don't have a goal so meaningful it makes other people's opinions irrelevant, you will lose control of your life. You will adopt the goals assigned to you by your parents, peers, or society.

We used to go to a special website, ask strangers for help with programming, and get humiliated in return

Exactly the reason why we ditched WordPress clickminded.com/we-ditched-w…

24 years old. Fully paid off Costco hotdog. It's not "parents money". It's not luck. It's consistency. It's discipline. I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

Me to Claude: "Make no errors. DO NOT HALLUCINATE. YOU ARE AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER "

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

RT @nic_carter: It should be pretty obvious at this point that AI is a "force multiplier" not a "labor substitute". It helps experts be b…

In the age of Claude Code, a CMS is starting to make less sense as time goes on. After more than 12 years, we finally ditched WordPress for an AI-native site on ClickMinded. Here's how:

Please keep Japanese twitter on my timeline

set your wifi password to 24446666688888888 so that when someone asks for your password you can tell them it's 12345678

I sent this to my normie friends this weekend. You should too. After reading what @nateliason has been doing with @FelixCraftAI and @lkr's post on getting claudepilled, I realized most people have no idea what's possible (and what's coming.) The permanent underclass is already here. Most people just can't see it yet.

SF guy eating a delicious blueberry: in 18 months everything will be blueberries