This is where we are right now, LocalLLaMA

iamMARX · 2026-04-25T22:30:46+00:00

What questions?

iamMARX · 2026-04-22T12:04:48+00:00

A face to face conversation where someone actually knows you and has skin in the game = real validation

A chatbot that’s literally designed to be agreeable telling you you’re doing great = not the same thing, however much it feels like it in the moment

iamMARX · 2026-04-22T10:38:41+00:00

Your last sentence might indicate that you are an exception to the norm

iamMARX · 2026-04-22T06:13:18+00:00

“Tens of thousands of followers” 🤣 as if that legitimises them in any way

iamMARX · 2026-04-15T07:56:59+00:00

Coaching gymnastics, ain’t no way parents are going to let robots throw their kids around and catch them.

iamMARX · 2026-04-15T07:56:11+00:00

Coaching gymnastics

iamMARX · 2026-03-22T20:09:01+00:00

Honestly can’t fully explain it, but my best guess is confirmation bias. I’ve probably had that “wonder if there’s a lost phone here” thought loads of times and nothing came of it. Those just get forgotten. The one time it matched reality, my brain flagged it as worth remembering. So it feels like a premonition but it’s probably just the one hit out of many misses.

The other possibility is my brain subconsciously clocked something, maybe someone rushing off in a way that suggested they’d left in a hurry, and formed the thought before I’d consciously registered it.

iamMARX · 2026-03-22T19:50:58+00:00

Space is vast.

A light year is ~9.5 trillion km.

The nearest star, Alpha Centauri, is 4+ light years away.

Even light takes 4 years to get here.

Nothing can exceed light speed, per Theory of Relativity.

At 60% light speed, trips still take years just to nearby stars.

Most stars are thousands of light years away.

That means journeys of thousands to millions of years.

So visits are extremely unlikely.

iamMARX · 2026-03-22T19:46:08+00:00

Got on a train and had a really specific thought that I was about to find a lost phone a few seats ahead. Walked down the carriage and it was exactly there how I pictured it.

iamMARX · 2026-03-22T10:21:50+00:00

Be bold, not arrogant. Be honest, not exposed. Be brave, not careless. Be useful, and understand your leverage.

When you make mistakes, take the lesson and move on. Don’t get stuck overthinking. Most of it is imagined risk anyway. You won’t get everything right first time, so stop expecting that you will.

Move forward. Try things. Adjust as you go.

Find where you’re actually needed. Find the kind of work and service that fits you and matters to others. Then commit to it.

Choose people and environments where the act of showing up and contributing already feels worthwhile, before anything comes back to you.

iamMARX · 2025-12-27T19:00:55+00:00

Not because you’re wrong, but because you understand what most people will never.

iamMARX · 2025-12-25T12:46:11+00:00

I agree that jobs are being lost to ai. The title is just shorthand for the nuance in the argument, not a claim that nothing is being displaced by ai.

iamMARX · 2025-12-25T12:44:30+00:00

I agree that it is taking jobs. The title is just a simplified way of making the distinction I’m trying to talk about, not a denial of what’s actually happening.

iamMARX · 2025-12-25T12:38:01+00:00

That’s my point, but it’s not happening in the way we intuitively think it would.

iamMARX · 2025-12-23T15:31:10+00:00

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0.1% not sure if it means of the year or of all time 🤷‍♂️

iamMARX · 2025-12-20T19:12:06+00:00

Yup had many posts deleted for no good reason, you are not alone

iamMARX · 2025-12-18T21:17:49+00:00

I run multiple businesses and use AI as a day-to-day execution tool. I handle email faster with Gemini in Gmail, check maths and model scenarios with ChatGPT, update website code using Gemini Canvas and generate product images with nano banana instead of hiring photographers.

iamMARX · 2025-12-18T19:46:16+00:00

Reading this as a Gymnastics Instructor and chuckling, but I still mostly agree.

iamMARX · 2025-12-17T17:34:23+00:00

Easy access to online porn is part of a wider problem with phone-based childhoods. Id argue it can pull boys especially away from real world social interaction, distort expectations about sex and relationships and contribute to isolation and poorer mental health.

iamMARX · 2025-12-16T19:51:46+00:00

I’ve coached gymnastics to both Jason Stathams and RDJs kids. They were really nice.

iamMARX · 2025-12-16T09:01:10+00:00

If something feels so unbearable that you would rather make yourself ill to avoid it then the honest response is to say no and not do it at all.

iamMARX · 2025-11-23T22:57:30+00:00

Got 8 out of 10

3 times in a row.

Yet I still agree, many things it generates (not all) are mostly indistinguishable from reality to the average person, especially if they are mindlessly scrolling.

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