| ▲ | roughly 4 days ago |
| A friend noted that many people seem to be cosplaying their lives, and it’s hard not to see it once it’s pointed out. |
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| ▲ | rapidfl 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| After reading this comment, I feel leaning into the cosplaying will make me more productive/prolific. Many things I do not push thru on are because they seem superficial or a bit fake. Does not apply to all ppl but maybe there should be phases to cosplay hard. Then reflect and realign. |
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| ▲ | albert_e 4 days ago | parent [-] | | I see your point. I am noticing that I am very quick to get excited about a thing and also very quick to lose motivation to pursue that new thing to a meangful level of understanding and mastery. Yesterday I was excited about something that I wanted to build a proof-of-concept of and blog about proudly. It might take 2-3days of intermittent effort juggling between other things but god was I excited to see it through. I reaped great dopamine learning the first 30% of the stuff by end of day. Today I wake up and am wondering what got me so excited yesterday. Of course I knew the basics of that now, parts of it seem obvious even, would anyone be really interested in me talking about it? If I threw my hat over the fence by cosplaying an active builder and blogger ... maybe I would have seen it through 3 days of commitment? |
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| ▲ | jackyinger 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Great point, this cosplay phenomenon goes far beyond LLM use. |
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| ▲ | yeahforsureman 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Funny, I tend to use larping for similar analogies. Not a huge insight or anything, just crossed my mind... I guess there's also overlap, or at least some kind of similarity with cargo cults, too? :) EDIT: Trying to stay on topic and score some po--, cargo I mean... |
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| ▲ | trashburger 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Call it larping, being performative etc. but it is a concept as old as time. People emulate the interface of successful people without actually having the implementation of successful people. |
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| ▲ | alansaber 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Most people do, some just more blatantly |
