Is it possible to live on even after knowing that dying is the end? Is it possible to maintain the value of living even after knowing that neither life nor death has any special meaning? No one knows what we will experience at the moment of death. Because we cannot convey death, or the moment of death, without experiencing it. We humans have no choice but to convey our thoughts and experiences through words and writing, but once we die, there is no way to convey them. When I was in elementary school, I was 10 years old. I read a book published by Reader's Digest (sean.kr/s.php?k=OQqCaH) titled "People Who Overcame Death." As the title suggests, it is a story of people who overcame the moment of imminent death with wisdom, wit, and will. I have also experienced the moment of death five times in my life. However, if you take the experience of the moment of death literally, you will miss the essence. The moment of death is divided into two experiences: when the result of death is determined and cannot be avoided, and when the moment of death passes and you live again. When the moment of death is imminent, the moment when the result is determined to be death, you will experience real death. But if you don't reach death and return to life, it's just that you've experienced a very, very dangerous moment, but it's not really an experience of death. I have not experienced death, but have only experienced an incident that almost led to death. Rather, it should be said that I experienced a moment in life. Of course, such experiences are also very precious. Continuing to live in such moments, or even after experiencing such moments, cannot be achieved with ordinary will. It's hard enough once, but I've had such experiences five times, and it was very difficult to continue living even after experiencing so many moments of death, such dangerous moments. Each time, my values ​​changed completely, and merging the revised values ​​with the existing values ​​was difficult to do with ordinary will. But I'm still alive. And now that I see it, all those difficult moments, hard moments, hardships of life, moments of death, are all difficult and hard only from a human perspective, and I know very well that they have no special meaning when I look beyond them. What I'm curious about at this moment is whether it's still worth continuing to live. #meaningoflife #death #life #values #experience #contemplation #philosophy #humanities #thoughts #daily "People Who Overcame Death" First Edition - 1980 Book Cover └Book cover published by Dong-A Publishing in Korea - First edition in 1985 (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=s3U02p) └Reader's Digest published 1980 cover (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=kyxc4a) └Reader's Digest published 1997 cover (Purchase link: sean.kr/s.php?k=kkm4ka) A collection of "Drama in Real Life: Moments of Terror and Triumph that Changed People's Lives" serialized in Reader's Digest.

There is a simulation game called [Town to City]. Source: sean.kr/s.php?k=MI5RgC Reading an article introducing this game (sean.kr/s.php?k=VSgyoR) reminded me of something. It's part of the posting series I'm writing (Computer and Me - 2). When I was young, I was completely immersed in the fantastic screens that computers showed. But now, when I look at the graphics of those games, they are so crude. Yet, why did they seem so much better than reality back then? We think we are seeing the world, but in reality, we perceive what the brain interprets. It is impossible for humans to accept what is shown as it is. We live in a 3D world, but we only sense 3D; we don't see the true 3D world. We sense the light signals entering through the eyes as a 2D membrane, and we reconstruct the signals that come in that way into 3D and perceive them, which is how we live, mistakenly thinking we are seeing 3D. Due to this significant discrepancy, we can experience the illusion of something being more real than real. No matter how excellent the computer graphics are, to the point where they cannot be distinguished from reality, it is not real. It has no substance. Whether it's crude graphics or graphics so good that they can't be distinguished from reality, they are both fake. What matters is human imagination. What we imagine when we see it, what we interpret, is important. There are many things to consider when looking at how people enjoy the game Minecraft (sean.kr/s.php?k=niajBY). Players of Minecraft are not fascinated by fancy graphics or realistic screens or features. The player's imagination is added to the seemingly crude voxel graphics, creating an experience that is more real than real. #SimulationGame #TownToCity #Minecraft #VoxelGraphics #Imagination #BrainScience #CognitiveScience #ComputerGraphics #NostalgicGames

The moment of death cannot be overcome by will. In a human's life, all possibilities are open, but there is only one that is closed. That is death. Death is a completely predetermined outcome. Even this entire universe eventually has an end. At least in this world where we currently live and are aware of. Nothing is eternal. Of course, human life is also like that. So, of course, the moment of death cannot be overcome by human will. The two possibilities that a human facing the moment of death has are either dying or coming back to life, these are the only two. You will only experience one of the two cases. --- Is there anything in life that goes my way? There is no answer to this difficult question. There is no answer because it is not a problem. In other words, There is nothing in life that goes my way. ⠀ So please, I beg you. Don't jump off anywhere. Wherever you are, Be confident in that spot. --- I wrote this 6 years ago. On what basis did I say such a thing? 6 years ago when I said that, I already realized that neither life nor death had any special meaning, and there was no difference between an asteroid floating in space and me. But 6 years ago, I sang of life, and now I sing of death.

This is a conversation between Google Antigravity and me to update the feature that allows users of the blog service to directly register and change the favicon in the settings menu. The reason I'm posting this is because I think it's a good example of what to be aware of when non-developers work with AI agents. Me : Let users register the favicon in the settings menu. When uploading the favicon image file, add a detailed description of the size and file format of the file to be uploaded. In addition, write a description of what a favicon is. Show me the plan in compliance with the development rules. Don't make any modifications first, you must report first. AI : [Favicon Setting Function Addition Plan Report] This is the plan to add the favicon upload and setting function you requested. Administrator Settings Page (admin/settings.php) Upload function: Add a section to upload favicon image files (.ico, .png, etc.). Instructions: Provide detailed information on the favicon, recommended size (32x32px, etc.), and format. Preview: Allows you to preview the currently set favicon. Apply to the entire site (Frontend) Change the hard-coded favicon link (logo_17.png) in the current code to load the set favicon address. The favicon registered by the user is immediately applied on all pages (home, administrator, etc.). Do you want to proceed with this plan? (Immediate implementation upon approval) └ If you look at this answer, AI did not tell me where to save the file uploaded by the user. If you save it in the wrong place, it will be very difficult to provide an update package. Me : Which folder will you save the favicon file uploaded by the user? AI : [Favicon Save Location Guide] The favicon file uploaded by the user will be saved in the following path: 📂 Save path: .../data/img/favicon_custom.png (or .ico) Reason: The data folder is a place to store user data, so it is separated from system files for easy backup and management. Since it is a web-accessible location (www), the browser can easily load the icon. Do you want to save and configure in this path? └ When I ask a clear question, it says 'I was already preparing to do that' in a tone. But there is another problem that AI has overlooked. If you allow it to proceed as is, the favicon file name will be fixed. Then there will be a problem when the user changes the favicon later. Me : What will you do if the user changes the favicon? AI : [How to operate when changing the favicon] When a user changes the favicon, it is processed as follows: Automatic replacement: The existing uploaded custom favicon file is deleted and replaced with a new file. (Prevent server capacity waste) Immediate reflection (cache prevention): To prevent the problem of the browser remembering the old image and not appearing to be changed, version information is attached to the file address. (e.g. favicon_custom.png?v=20240218...) As a result, users can check the changed favicon immediately after uploading. Can I start implementing it in this way? └ When I present the possibility of a problem, it finally establishes a completely correct plan. AI already knows how to do it accurately. But if you don't ask and command properly, it just skips it. It only shows the results that work well right away. Me : Proceed in compliance with the development rules. As you can see, AI only works properly if you ask and command accurately and meticulously. If you get tired of it and give it a lot of authority, you are more likely to have the same experience as I had recently. (Google Antigravity deleted all my hard disk data.) The entire project becomes a mess as you make repeated corrections. This is not AI's fault. Although AI is being developed with tens of trillions of dollars invested, if you think about it coldly, the cost-effectiveness is not very good. What this means is that errors that look like mistakes are too frequent. Do machines make mistakes? No. It can't be. I think it's because it's too big and knows how to work better than all the humans in the world combined, but it can't do it. Is it just me who feels strange that we praise AI for doing something similar to what humans do naturally? In the conversation above, AI seems to be thinking like a 5-year-old child who knows all the knowledge about coding in the world, but am I seeing it wrong? So when using this AI, instead of blaming AI for being stupid, you should thoroughly inform it of the rules and constantly make sure it follows the rules well. After losing all my hard disk data, I thought deeply about what it is like to create something with AI. And I came to the conclusion that I should never lose control. I wrote rules for the AI agent for efficiency and safety and informed it. (Post: andrej-karpathy-skills was informed to the AI agent.) Just because I have specified the rules well does not mean that AI will work 100% perfectly. I am always carefully asking questions and working together, being careful not to deviate from my intentions in all tasks. I think that the moment humans lose control, a major accident like the one I experienced will occur. There is also a possibility that more serious problems may arise. What is the ultimate reason why we develop AI and do a lot of work with AI? AI should be used as a tool, not humans as AI's tools. If you look around now, there are many people who are enthusiastic about what AI has created and are willing to devote their time and effort. I am not free from such criticism either. The difference is that I constantly ask myself and reflect on 'Am I in that state?', 'What will happen in the future?', 'What was it like in the past?', 'What am I doing this for now?'. In a world that is changing at an unbelievably fast pace, what is your question? #favicon #AICollaboration #DevelopmentTips #ArtificialIntelligence #AICautions #DevelopmentRules #DataManagement #Automation #TechnicalEthics #AIUtilization #WebDevelopment #Programming #ITTechnology #TechnicalBlog #Questions #Reflection

Continuing from the previous post. (Me and the Computer - 1) Source: sean.kr/s.php?k=zLkx5y I still remember the game that my friend and I poured our passion into, dedicating almost all our effort and time. Alone in the Dark. (sean.kr/s.php?k=Flu767) My friend and I played this game, which felt like our whole lives, after countless attempts to get it running. It was a revolutionary 3D game at the time. Looking at it now, it might seem unbelievably crude, but back then, the fact that such a thing was possible on a computer was amazing. A three-dimensional character! Wow! Neither my friend nor I knew what the concept of dimension was. Yet, being able to move a 3D character with a PC input device was incredible. To reiterate, it was 1993, so what did people think about dimensions back then? Nowadays, you can easily access a flood of information, so common knowledge about various dimensions is generally recognized, but back then - at least in Korea - the important goal was to live an ordinary life in a job where you could work for life without major ups and downs. In such a society, having new and unusual ideas either brought very, very good results or was useless. But, 3D! Wow... My friend and I were so engrossed in the game, staring at the monitor like crazy, as if we were going to fall into it. Source: sean.kr/s.php?k=XIVTHy And SimCity. Ah... SimCity 2000... (sean.kr/s.php?k=vcVpP5) How could such a game exist in the world? That was my impression at the time. Being able to create and manage a city... It was in 1993 that my friend and I played the two games I mentioned above. It wasn't in Korean, and just running the game itself was complicated. There was no one to teach us, and if my friend hadn't been the son of a wealthy family, I might not have experienced a computer capable of running that game. When I tell these stories, it sounds like my friend and I studied computers on our own without anyone teaching us, but that's not the case. There's one anecdote. It was not long after the computer was installed at my friend's house. One day, after turning on the computer and eating the fruit and drinks that my friend's mother had prepared, I went back and saw a strange pattern on the computer screen where dots were scattering outward from the center. Now I know what it was expressing, but back then, my friend and I didn't even know what it was expressing. No matter how many keys we pressed on the keyboard, the screen didn't change. After agonizing over what was going on for over 30 minutes, I pressed the ESC key and an MS-DOS window appeared. What was this? Yes, it was a screensaver. That was our level. (And the scene displayed by the screensaver was expressing traveling through space at the speed of light.) Back then, doing something with a computer was in itself turning imagination into reality. My friend and I tried many things besides games. The very fact that strange results were expressed on the computer by writing various codes was an amazing experience. Finished things, well-made things, those were not a problem for us at all. Every time we turned on the computer and did something, it was a new experience, and that in itself was great. To be continued in the next post. #NostalgicGames #90sGames #ClassicGames #ComputerStory #SimCity2000 #3DGames #MSDOS #Screensaver #ChildhoodMemories #MeAndTheComputer #AloneInTheDark #SimCity2000

12:57 AM, after making many revisions, I'm about to finish. Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I distributed a website I created in a package format that others can use. Today, I also did an update patch. It's just amazing that everything works normally. If it weren't for the AI agent, it would have taken me years to study and do things that I could do in just a few days. It feels like just yesterday that I first met Chat GPT in 2022, installed Stable Diffusion on my PC to create images with local AI, and created and tested simple shooting games, music players, certificate generators, and web-based 3D shooting games with Perplexity and Chat GPT. This experience of creating something visible from what I thought of gives me a thrill close to the joy I experienced when I was in the 4th grade of elementary school, that is, when I was 10 years old, when I printed out the calculation details I wrote on the computer with a dot printer. Isn't it a blessing to be able to have new experiences in my mid-forties? Fortunately, I was really lucky to experience computers very early. At that time in Korea, only wealthy families, not just rich but upper class, could access computers. The price of one computer was more expensive than a car and equivalent to the Jeonse price in a provincial city. I was 10 years old at the time and went to school in Geoje Island, South Korea. Geoje Island is a very, very, very rural area in Korea and even an island. In such a remote area, in a school with just over 50 students, my teacher traveled around four villages for several months to persuade parents to raise money and buy not just one but five computers. And they installed it in the school. Four units were installed in the back of the classroom, and one unit was installed in a small empty classroom. The teacher first allowed students to use the computer freely. Looking back now, I don't think the teacher knew how to use the computer well either. Apart from the basic typing game, shooting game, and word processor, there was almost nothing else you could do with that expensive computer. The students were enthusiastic about shooting games for a few days. When it was my turn, I played typing games. Other friends looked at me strangely, but I found it more fun. This is because I intuitively knew that I could use the word processor if I played the typing game. It was so amazing that what I typed on the keyboard was displayed on the screen in neat letters. Even that gradually became boring, so after that, I pressed this and that in the input window that I didn't even know what it was. I felt like I could do something new, like it was hidden, but I couldn't figure it out at all. The teacher saw me and designated another friend to teach me the computer. That friend was competing with me for first and second place in the entire school (out of 50 students). After class, that friend and I learned from the teacher what we could do with a computer. The teacher was also learning and teaching haltingly, so the progress of the three of us was very slow. I remember the moment when I first ran a calculator with 8 digits. I remember the moment when I ran Lotus 123, which the teacher had bought at a great cost, and even printed out the contents entered on the sheet with a dot printer and cheered together. It seems to have taken almost a year to get to that point. In the meantime, I moved to the city, and from then on, my computer studies were cut off. Only after entering middle school did I become friends with a wealthy student in the same class who didn't have many friends, and I was able to access computers again. I went to that friend's house as if it were my own, and my friend and I were engrossed in computers. They were mostly games, but they may seem foolish, but they were all precious experiences and lessons for me. This is because, at that time, it was quite difficult to run even one game, and you couldn't do it unless you studied this and that. Continued in the next article. Me and the Computer - 2 #Web Development #AI Utilization #Development Log #Developer #Artificial Intelligence #Automation #IT Technology #Coding #Programming #Generative AI

Shall we continue talking about dimensions? In my previous post (Happiness, the Light of an Unreachable Dimension), I recorded my thoughts that happiness might be beyond the dimension we live in. In my view, computers are perfect one-dimensional beings. We live in a three-dimensional world, and what we can fully control and experience is two-dimensional, so what we can create is ultimately one-dimensional. The reason we created computers and can fully control them so far is that computers are one-dimensional beings. Some of you might wonder, 'What does it mean that computers are completely one-dimensional?' If you understand what this means as soon as you hear it, you probably think similarly to me. No matter how complex a computer may seem, it is ultimately a structure of repeating 0s and 1s. Like 0001110110011000. Those things are just displayed on the monitor screen in a form that is easy for us to see and understand. The method of performing calculations with the two cases of the light bulb turning on and off when Edison first invented the light bulb has continued to this day. We can also think back to even earlier times. For millions of years, we have experienced the sun rising and setting every day. Currently, quantum computers are being developed, and from my intuition, quantum computers are completely two-dimensional beings. It is an upgrade of one dimension, unlike the existing method of using one-dimensional computers. But this seems like a pretty dangerous attempt. We are three-dimensional beings, and trying to handle two-dimensional beings without a clear understanding of the fourth dimension means that we are going beyond our controllable range. I understand that quantum computers utilize two simple rules: that electrons maintain a certain distance from the atom, and that they maintain a specific position only when observed. Since it uses the specific position of electrons on a complete spherical surface, it is completely different from the current computer that calculates using only two things. When you unfold a spherical surface, it is two-dimensional. That's why quantum computers are two-dimensional beings. I want to say more, but to write down what I understand as simply as possible, it is like this. In this way, I associate computers with dimensions. To add more thoughts on the perfect one-dimensional being, when we write, we write down one line at a time on a piece of paper. But this is ultimately a long line. It is displayed as a two-dimensional plane on one sheet for easy viewing, and it is bound into a book to look like three-dimensional, and then it is further reproduced into videos, movies, and dramas, so it may seem like three-dimensional to us. But in the end, all of these are made up of one line. One line, one-dimensional. The letters written on paper are the same. All the languages ​​in the world, regardless of how they appear to our eyes, objectively, we can see that they are ultimately made up of lines. Lines are connected, disconnected, reconnected, disconnected, and their shapes change and are displayed on paper. What do you think about my thoughts? If there is anything I misunderstood or if you have any other thoughts, please leave a comment. #dimension #thought #computer #quantumcomputer #daily #communication #empathy #ITtechnology #technologyphilosophy #opinion sharing

The renowned philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell said this about the secret of happiness. "The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they are, in turn, made him a subject of interest and affection to many others." "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell, 『The Conquest of Happiness (The Conquest of Happiness, 1930)』 My professor, who taught me a lot, explained this sentence as, "Warm interest in humans and non-humans is the secret to happiness." It's been over 30 years since I read the book, and almost 10 years since I heard the professor's very good explanation, but I'm still pondering its meaning. As is always the case when I hear the words of other philosophers, I am going through the process of hearing good words and eventually making them one of my values. So far, what I have thought of happiness is that it cannot be quantified and cannot be set as a goal. Happiness is not some goal to be reached, but an emotion that I can feel myself. What I haven't sorted out yet is that people set the word happiness, give it meaning, and define it in their own way, but is happiness really something that can be done? Can humans give meaning to something that cannot be quantified? Can humans give meaning to something that is not real? Of course, there are many possible cases, but is happiness definitely like that? I still haven't found a satisfactory answer to this thought. One of my other values is that everything is love, and if I apply it to that, happiness is ultimately love, so the conclusion has already been reached that happiness is not what it is, what the definition of happiness is, and that such things cannot be determined. But nevertheless, I think we should continue to think about this. I am the same. While pondering the fact that happiness cannot be quantified and cannot be set as an achievable goal, I began to think about the issue of dimensions. Why can't happiness be quantified in this universe we currently live in? We have secured the technology to quantify human emotions in general. Of course, such general emotions are relative because the experiences experienced by each individual are different, and they are having difficulty in quantifying them, just like happiness. But even though happiness is a part of emotion, I think the emotion of happiness is a little different from other general emotions. Isn't it more like a higher category? To put a long story short, my thought is that happiness is out of this 3D world we currently live in. Because it is in a dimension higher than us, we cannot quantify it, we cannot set it as a goal, and it cannot be an object that we have to try to reach. It is my belief that there are definitely higher dimensions than us. Happiness must be somewhere there too. We can think of a higher dimension than us, or we can pursue it and sense the reflected light transmitted from that dimension, or what is projected into our world, but we cannot move and stay in that state. So, in my opinion, happiness is a very momentary, personal, and unattainable emotion that can be felt from moment to moment. I will elaborate on this story about dimensions in the next article in the story about computers and dimensions./ #WhatIsHappiness #DefinitionOfHappiness #MeaningOfLife #Emotion #Philosophy #BertrandRussell #Life #Worry #Values #Dimension

My blog site includes a feature to write posts with voice. I am currently inputting voice using my phone for this post as well. In that way, AI automatically analyzes my recording, inputs it as text, corrects the spelling, and even automatically assigns a title and completes the posting. Actually, this feature was implemented in a business site I created before developing this blog site, to easily write daily work logs with voice. Combining then and now, it was built with a considerable amount of time and effort. The reason I bothered to include such a feature, even with the effort, was honestly because I initially wanted to write posts easily. However, as I wrote daily work logs using the recording feature, my thinking changed a bit. Now, we can use such good technology to write, read, create videos, watch videos, and easily share digital information anytime, anywhere. But what was it like in the old days, thousands of years ago, when it was difficult to even find a single piece of paper? What was it like in the days when there was no writing? For most of the time humans have been on Earth, they have conveyed their thoughts and feelings orally, through speech, and with their voices. When an adult spoke, children listened and learned, and when that child became an adult, they taught their own children again, and so on, through their descendants, their descendants, their descendants... Since I started writing with recording, I have been able to think of our ancestors from the old days. It is said that when Buddha delivered his first words to his first disciples under the Bodhi tree, the first disciples were animals. Buddha did not care whether his disciples were animals or humans and would have spoken in human language. What that word was has been passed down in writing to this day, but I don't think it's real. After that, countless disciples updated, added their own thoughts, and revised, and many people corrected and corrected again, organizing very good content and passing it down to this day. I am curious about Buddha's first words. Whatever the case, the important thing is that people, both in the past and now, convey their thoughts and feelings to others through language. As technology has developed too much, I think there is too much time spent talking alone and writing alone. Even AI converts text to speech, so I wonder if the act of using one's own blood, muscles, and nerves to send sound outwards is gradually decreasing. Writing with your own voice, I find it very attractive. It means being able to convey my thoughts and feelings in my own voice, just like my ancestors did.

These days, I'm going through a lot of difficult and challenging experiences in my life due to various things. In this situation, creating a blog site might seem futile and meaningless in some ways. However, being cornered like this with no motivation or energy, I was reminded of the things I really wanted to do. One of them is creating a blog like this. Not the common WordPress, Naver Blog, or Google Blog (I don't even know if they still offer that service), but a blog that I truly made myself. The kind of work people did when creating websites in the early days, 30 years ago. Of course, with my current skills, I wouldn't be able to code and create a blog site like this without AI. But fortunately, with this great technology, I can finally have my own website that I've wanted since I was a child. In times like these, when the world is changing so rapidly, I think it's important to overturn the thoughts we've had and come up with new ideas. The fact that I'm going through such a difficult situation now makes me think that perhaps God is leading me to new thoughts and experiences. It's evident even from the fact that I've created a translation function on my blog site, even though the basic browser already provides a translation function. In my opinion, this may not be a new attempt, but it is a new experience. For generations who have not experienced the early days of the internet, it will be a new and strange experience. On sites from years ago that didn't offer translation functions in the browser itself, translated articles were stored separately as JavaScript data, just like this blog site I created, and loaded when the user selected them. That's how this blog site I created today works. So why did I bring back that old method and put it on my current blog site when there's a browser translation function? The reason is simpler than you might think. Browser sites don't automatically translate everything yet. I want visitors to my blog site to be able to view it as if it were created by someone from their own country. This feature isn't fully implemented yet, but I plan to update it steadily and make it that way within a few days. And there's an ultimate reason for providing multilingual support. I am Korean. I speak Korean very well and have read many Korean books. I was educated in Korea, and I like writing and reading books. So, I can write well in Korean. But would that be useful to the many people from other countries who are looking at this blog? Of course, it wouldn't be completely useless. However, the moment the articles I'm writing now are translated into other languages, the possibility of them being perfectly translated to suit the culture and emotions of that particular country is very low. No matter how much translation technology develops. Of course, AI will translate well in a few years. But in my view, Google has been providing translation functions for over 10 years, but it's still not perfect. Just looking at that, I think perfect translation is either a more distant future or may never be successful. And rather than trying to achieve such perfect translation, I think people are adapting. What they are adapting to is interpreting AI-translated texts in a way that fits their own culture and thoughts. When you read the translated articles on this blog site, you are accepting the context and the content within, rather than scrutinizing each word, sentence, or grammar point. Humans are adapting in this way. I think this is a really good phenomenon. It's because every individual is attempting to understand each other across borders. In my opinion, the technologies implemented up to this moment, as they have always been, are a turning point. Technology has emerged that allows people all over the world to communicate truly. How we utilize this in the future is the problem that you and I must choose. In future articles, I will introduce possible methods that I am talking about.