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2014-02-01 → 2019-03-07 · posts 1–500 of 51,350
· ↳ reply to @jay_shah23
@jay_shah23 but how else are they going to figure out if you want to watch for forest fires or not
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Today I payed money to go and have Comerica Park rob me for food 10/10 would do again
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8 hours til #GAMEOFTHRONESSEASON4 premiere
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· ↳ reply to @brohamed_
@brohamed_ When the sun rises in the West and sets in the East, when the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind, book 6 comes out
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senioritis got me like
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@shreyolas ur the top supplier of beef nationwide
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If the next Ice Age started, TSD would still drag your ass to school
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Is anything ever going to live up to Avatar the last airbender?
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If you put Drake in a sealed box with a randomly activated cyanide capsule, is he a legend or nah?
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#science
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water tribe?
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@MariaRizvi2015 It's probably because of Lawrence of Arabia which is like the first English movie ever about the Middle East
good times
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IN TRUMP WE TRUST
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Fuck Adam Sandler
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· ↳ reply to @JustinWolfers
@JustinWolfers Why do the world's wealthiest continue to invest in hedge funds when those funds continually underperform market indices?
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· ↳ reply to @nmeier21
@NickMeier21 you're talking about the tv show right? Lol, its from a different era, back when people were inspired by politicians
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@t00funny yeah that must be the main appeal but such a shallow comparison lol
wouldn't mind a third obama term right about now
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long live house bolton
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I can't feel my face when I'm EU
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· ↳ reply to @poojasubb
@poojasubb tales of ba sing se is literally heartbreaking when iroh lights a candle for his dead son
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· ↳ reply to @poojasubb
@poojasubb I honestly don't know how to describe how good that series is lol. Adventure, heart, humor, it has it all
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@kanye_wesh thanks bruh. when are you visiting your homeland again?
· ↳ reply to @_debarshi
@_Debarshi you see, obama's hands are tied in this matter. Michelle stole them for """healthy""" school lunch programs
Harambe is my muse
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For anyone who spends a lot of time worrying about our "crushing debt"
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An alliance of American and European sharks: SharkNATO.
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The questions that keep me up at night
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What a time to be a umich student #dicksout #RIPHarambe
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It's 2016 and registering to vote is still hard as balls. Not anymore though: http://voteplz.org
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· ↳ reply to @kumar_riya
@kumar_riya that's not true. Entire last decade of nutrition research dispels old thinking that sat fat is worse than sugar
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@kumar_riya basically, it turns out there's no correlation between cholesterol in diet and cholesterol in blood (the actual scary stuff)
· ↳ reply to @kumar_riya
@kumar_riya and yeah there's no reason to be "afraid" of complex carbs but the only fat loss diet supported by chemistry and evidence
· ↳ reply to @kumar_riya
@kumar_riya but but your sentiment is right though "Red and processed meat intakes were associated with modest increases in total mortality"
· ↳ reply to @kumar_riya
@kumar_riya I don't disagree but I think it's probably due to all the refined and added sugar we eat. Soda, whatever else.
@t00funny goodreads has some user reviews that are better than the actual book 😅
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https://www.voteplz.org if you have any questions on where to vote, what time you need to get there, what you bring. Works in 50 states
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our planet is fucked
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@kanye_wesh can't believe michigan destroyed the world like this
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Don't believe for a second that trump voters are poor people who've gotten screwed by the world. higher avg incomes than clinton voters
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· ↳ reply to @MinuteEarth
@MinuteEarth Hey! Let's make one ourselves. Doesn't exist yet as far as I know. Willing to collab with you on this
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· ↳ reply to @elonmusk
@elonmusk Elon, have you ever read Ringworld? What's the ETA on building a Ringworld :)
This is a smiling Ashwin, it only appears once every 20,000 Ashwin pics, very rare. Smash that like button for good luck
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· ↳ reply to @JDVance
@JDVance1 @JYSexton nevertheless I found it very strange that you never mentioned any form of racism if even to dispel claims of it.
send help my roof is legitimately leaking BEER
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· ↳ reply to @chrislhayes
@chrislhayes Their leadership is stale and old and they've forgotten how to invest money in grand R&D projects. They don't know what to do with the cash
Best headline of all time
"In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere." https://x.com/captainsafia/status/969254666134589440
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The real national championship is the friends we made along the way
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.@OpenAI Release your dota bot architecture, u wont u hypocrite @elonmusk Not very "open" after all
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· ↳ reply to @vexmark
@vexmark Why frame it like this when he clearly isn't talking about index funds as an escape from poverty? He mentions index funds as a solid investment compared to other riskier & less reputable things that people bet their money on.
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@vexmark You've made a nice person who's donated billions to shatter disease and human suffering seem like a villain by taking this headline out of context
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· ↳ reply to @OpenAI
@OpenAI I don't know a lot about RL but shouldn't agents transfer learn or meta-learn between games? The way to solve games designed by humans is often to move coherently in a direction until you can't anymore. The P(get key) drops dramatically if the agent knows this.
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· ↳ reply to @sophiebits
@sophiebits This only works if you're accurately able to assess what will take <15 minutes :(
· ↳ reply to @starsandrobots
@starsandrobots This shouldn't happen unless you're logging out and logging back in literally every time you use the app
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja And would it even be an Elon Musk tweet without the bitcoin scammers
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The difference between downsampling fake news in the news feed by 95% and banning it outright is not that zuck thinks the last 5% revenue is precious. It's a matter of respect for the enlightenment values of freedom of speech & expression (recognized universal human rights) https://x.com/antoniogm/status/1020021071506898944
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@cyreejarelle Isn't there a way to do this without the "replacement" talk? There should be a single *free* repository of all the world's digitized books. No single public library can do something like that.
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· ↳ reply to @marathiMaharaja
@marathiMaharaja Take a stance my dude. Don't want to speak for you, but I feel what you truly believe is that killing animals for food is immoral, consistency be damned
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja Consistency of moral logic is a fever dream imo. It's not right to kill a neighbour's dog but it's ok to slaughter and eat an equally intelligent pig?
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja I don't think we're even close to consistency. Personally I've concluded that it's pretty immoral to eat meat but still do it anyways without feeling any guilt. probably bc like most people I take my moral cues from what society frowns upon instead of what's logical
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· ↳ reply to @marathiMaharaja
@marathiMaharaja Of course I wouldn't begrudge a homeless person their hamburger (or a hunter-gatherer their wild game), but like you're saying by and large the consumption of meat is for pleasure and not necessity. So wouldn't you say that that's immoral?
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja I see what you're saying about ppl being omnivorous by design, but that's not enough imo -- something like 40% of hunter-gatherer males died from violence. murder, rape, cruelty, genocide, disease are all part of our origins, but we don't have to surrender to these things
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja so when we slowly and continually deprogram ourselves from violence against one another (the most natural thing on earth) by culturally insisting on the immorality of violence, shouldn't we do the same for cruelty against animals for personal pleasure?
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· ↳ reply to @marathiMaharaja
@marathiMaharaja that's a good argument, but i'd say that a lot of people have thought about it and then choose to ignore the issue (such as myself :) ; this is mostly an internal debate).
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja I'd also like to imagine there is an objective morality outside of just intent that we can strive for -- a utilitarian/scientific way to judge how much actions affect the net well-being of humans and other life. could be wrong tho
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· ↳ reply to @benedictevans
@BenedictEvans You're just scrambling words here. You could easily make the argument Tesla is competing with car companies on software and the point is lost.
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· ↳ reply to @benedictevans
@BenedictEvans But there is increasingly a software element to cars (outside of autonomy). Tesla is building not just an EV, but the car of the future. It updates in real time, it's a whole car operating system.
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@BenedictEvans I guess my real confusion is why you didn't say Apple competes with Samsung on hardware and Google on software, because that seems more accurate. I think about the apple vs Google ecosystem choice when buying and the build/look of the phone other co. vs. Apple.
· ↳ reply to @MelMitchell1
@MelMitchell1 And what might those domains be? Only games provide the capability for self-play & scalability to generate the data volumes needed for RL.
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm Isn't it possible that everyone has always been hyperfocused on the present (i.e. recency bias, availability heuristic) and this is just a rosy view of the past? we now stand in the middle of an information torrent, but I doubt the avg person has ever been deeply contextualizing
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm Were those long-spanning projects started due to incredible forethought or just mundane necessity? People inherently want to dramatize the events of their own lives (part of why I enjoyed your book so much).
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm In my own lifetime, I've seen Nobel prizes awarded for century long confirmation quests (LIGO, higgs). I've seen companies landing rockets so that one day there may be a human colony on Mars. Cathedrals are not always in the shape of buildings
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· ↳ reply to @marathiMaharaja
@marathiMaharaja I would add astronomy/big bang cosmology onto the list of absolutely necessary science classes but this is a slippery slope :(
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tech reporters disregard some reality that every1 knows about. weeks/months/years later they realize and write some new story about it, without realizing that it completely negates their earlier talking points. then when ppl comment on it you come out with a sanctimonious take https://x.com/lorenzofb/status/1033047965101903872
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
"this isn't surprising!" comments happen because it's truly alarming that you find certain things newsworthy and were previously reporting without knowing about them
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· ↳ reply to @Austen
@AustenAllred Genuine question: Without accreditation how can someone judge the difference between a Phoenix University vs a Lambda School
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· ↳ reply to @ah_knih
@slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @yungmasala_ @pastorbrad_ Do you remember the basic premise of the Ramayana, one of the most foundational holy Histories of Hinduism, when Lord Rama (seen by many Hindus as the ideal man) banishes his wife Sita into the woods for just the allegation of adultery?
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @yungmasala_ @pastorbrad_ There is no need to sugarcoat the fact that ancient religious scriptures are deeply patriarchal and toxic, written by old men who propped up an institution of passing women from father to husband as property
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· ↳ reply to @ah_knih
@slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @yungmasala_ @pastorbrad_ you're not wrong ofc, but you missed the point. Sita is kidnapped and held captive for 12 years by Ravana, and the Ramayana marks her greatest accomplishment as "remaining chaste" during that time. Rama makes her take a test of purity ('agnipariksha'), then abandons her anyway
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @yungmasala_ @pastorbrad_ Or the strict implementation of classism through the Hindu caste system, explicity mentioned in Bagavad Ghita. Buddhist scriptures pretty straightforwardly say that men with bad karma may be reborn in a "lower form" -- as a woman, or an animal.
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @yungmasala_ @pastorbrad_ Hinduism is classist, sexist, and I'd wager racist too, and is probably not the progressive faith that the op makes it out to be. Denying this willfully ignores all religious suffering throughout the history of South Asia
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· ↳ reply to @abbygov
@yungmasala_ @slumdogbilli @RishiAsija @pastorbrad_ Yeah, definitely possible. Personally i'm not religious but i'm sure lots of people extract philosophies they find useful from Hinduism without the harmful stuff -- I only want people to keep in mind it's not without its problems and it's not perfect
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More cynically: elon projects a self-image of sci-fi child hero prodigy because it's useful to fundraise and hire when investors, journalists, and employees alike deify you. He fills a cultural void left by Steve Jobs https://x.com/z3nblack/status/1038307978770821120
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja Idk shit about USTA rules but I can't see why such a low fidelity suggestion "move up" would constitute cheating. I'd bet every coach is doing stuff like this just out of distress
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· ↳ reply to @nntaleb
@nntaleb books all suck because their main subject matter is not about statistics or long tails or fragility or anything relevant but instead about how much smarter @nntaleb is than everybody else. You could reduce all of his work into like 10 pages without the bragging and noise https://t.co/kintgFg4gY
Would the polis use that money better than his philanthropy fund? Would the government have removed polio from the face of the earth with an extra $100b like Bill Gates did? there's a place for both philanthropy and tax revenue https://x.com/lydiadepillis/status/1040258557973880832
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"The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge."
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· ↳ reply to @fchollet
@fchollet It's not hard to imagine that preprocessing into some representation can make better use of the same bandwidth
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@fchollet Not to mention augmenting working memory. Why is it so hard to multiply n-digit numbers in my head when each intermediate step is trivial
· ↳ reply to @fchollet
@fchollet Without neural interface (or similarly advanced optical interface) there is no way for any application to perform rich realtime pre processing
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@fchollet No computer has access to all your sensory input, nor do most people carry around hard keyboards capable of delivering 300 apm
· ↳ reply to @ShaneAParrish
@farnamstreet this is how you end up alone, likely depressed, incredibly annoying & entitled, and secluded to a small ideological bubble
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· ↳ reply to @jason_pontin
@jason_pontin Lots of problems can be solved by allocating capital correctly and do not require fundamental advances in science. batteries/rockets some of them.
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· ↳ reply to @fchollet
@fchollet It's more than natural to want to take down Goliath. TensorFlow is decadent and its best ideas now are just stolen
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
I'm extremely hopeful for the policy future because all the smart money is realizing that without carbon tax their businesses are screwed long term
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none of those corporations would exist without the purchasing power of individuals who desire things that require pollution to make -- less pollution means less nice things. the idea that there's any moral separation between corporation and consumer is ridiculous https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1049519866154242048
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· ↳ reply to @fchollet
@fchollet People who want (3) almost always want (1) and (2) also. Seeking answers is just another kind of conquest
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm If money could buy immortality, it would not be long before it was affordable to the masses (so it goes with smartphones, vaccines, electric cars etc)
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@antoniogm Once the billions in fixed costs are paid for by a Paul Allen, everything else is just riding down the economies of scale curve
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@antoniogm This isn't to say there wouldn't be social upheaval anyway. What happens when the family wealth is never passed down? I'm not liking the sound of immortal capital owners
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@sophiebits @RobinhoodApp but also the app looks sleek, modern, and extremely approachable (the no fee thing helps with this) compared to all other trading platforms
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm @benedictevans the labor force population of all wealthy countries is *shrinking* over time as healthy, wealthy people choose to have less kids & all people are getting healthier and wealthier. It's hard to say that huge populations of unemployed is an inevitability
· ↳ reply to @fchollet
@fchollet ML undergrad course at @UMich used TF until recently TensorFlow Delenda Est
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got my Myers-Briggs test results back and it turns out I’m a PBNJ Full results below:
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
Most kids growing up will deal with awful toxic people and might even convince themselves that they're friends w them -- tv imitates real life, and South Park definitely didn't teach a generation anything
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
That being said South Park still sucks bc it serves as a political soap box for two rich apathetic white dudes who have a bare minimum understanding of anything they comment on
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· ↳ reply to @gdb
@gdb When will you roll this out into OpenAI 5 🤔
· ↳ reply to @oneunderscore__
@oneunderscore__ Bc vine doesn't allow any sort of real information flow? This seems like quite a bad take: "If everyone only watched 6 second video clips they wouldn't get brainwashed"
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@antoniogm deleting your tweet when repliers clearly refute it and framing it as 'People are just too dumb and angry to follow my big brain takes' is a coward's respite
hot take: overly optimistic election polling and forecasting made democrats complacent in 2016 and lost the election. burn @NateSilver538 @Nate_Cohn and all other Nates at the stake
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It's very strange that the same economists who argue that stock market trends don't reflect the true value of the economy will also turn around and claim that election betting market shifts somehow reveal secret truths about the state of the world (subtweeting @JustinWolfers)
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What Buddha didn't realize is that true happiness can be found birding across the diag screaming incoherently about Beto
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· ↳ reply to @marathiMaharaja
@marathiMaharaja The idea that all white women hold a compact and decide who to vote on is really dumb and counterproductive
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This is dishonest as hell; he called the idea of online fake news influencing elections "a pretty crazy" idea. Despite the unfounded media consensus, there's still no real evidence he was wrong https://x.com/can/status/1063979067597250561
Every naval engineering class lowkey called 'boats'
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· ↳ reply to @clairlemon
@clairlemon @farnamstreet This is nonsense and not at all what the scientific consensus on IQ and g factor is. Pretty bad take from a supposed heterodox free thinker sounding more like a poorly researched vox explainer
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· ↳ reply to @Austen
@AustenAllred How much of that time do you spend dicking around on Twitter(e.g.) unfocusedly? Genuinely curious how people stay productive for 12 hours at a stretch
· ↳ reply to @Tim_Stevens
@Tim_Stevens Einstein had long stopped changing the world by the time he got to Princeton. In his early 20s uncovering special relativity, he worked 16 hour days
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@marathiMaharaja the advice of the successful may not mean much if everyone who failed also followed the same principles (some platitude like "take risks and work really hard")
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm your life cutting wood and playing at being Walden is just as boring and meaningless
· ↳ reply to @asteroid_saku
@sknthla I would argue that there's plenty of computer technologies that affect living things directly. Just have to look around in a public place to get a feel for how much human lifespan is placed in the care of people manipulating bits and bits
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@sknthla Also, you could argue the inverse. since gene engineering technologies affects living things directly, it's imperative that it moves as fast as possible to reduce all the unneeded suffering caused by Huntington's, cystic fibrosis, etc
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Almost every study on meditation is of very poor research quality and the evidence for health benefits is extremely slippery https://t.co/tb770UiFZY
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
"only around 9% of research into mindfulness-based interventions has been tested in clinical trials that included a control group."
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
Just go for a run my dudes
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· ↳ reply to @s8mb
@s8mb This isn't underreported -- it's very much the status quo thinking of social media companies and tech reporters
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· ↳ reply to @ilyasut
@ilyasut Very hard to believe this -- The use of math many abstraction layers inside some crusty algorithm isn't nearly as inspiring as its direct use in predicting physical phenomena
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ilyasut The dance of celestial bodies or 2.4% top 5 error on ImageNet?
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· ↳ reply to @julesgm4
@Make3333 @ilyasut Being a football player isn't exactly the ripest job market but that's what gets the kids going -- what people want to learn doesn't correlate with which industry is hiring
· ↳ reply to @MikeIsaac
@MikeIsaac Your open web is still there if you want to go to it -- everybody left because Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit do it better
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@MikeIsaac You're gonna blame everything from puberty to natural disasters on Facebook because that's what's easy and that's what gets the clicks
@ryanaboyd Thoreau and Emerson are cowards and hacks; the genre of uninteresting plodding men they've generated who think they have a special grasp on the meaning of life are unbearable
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ryanaboyd And Lord of the Rings is an uninteresting love letter to nativism and has nothing on a song of ice and fire (if it ever gets finished)
@ryanaboyd Fahrenheit 451 is masturbatory garbage from a writer proclaiming bravely that books are good and TV is bad. None of the characters or events in the book are even slightly memorable. The entire thing reads as a soapbox for the author's sense of superiority
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@ryanaboyd 1984 and brave new world are often compared side by side but the first has nothing on the second. 1984 basically boils down to a very obvious "freedom is good, Soviet Union is bad" message
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· ↳ reply to @jonniecharles
@jonniecharles @ryanaboyd BNW predicted the future much better than 1984, and it's unsettling to this day because you can't quite put your finger on what's wrong with their world
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"A $480,350 donation by the Musk Foundation announced in October is now being used to pay for water filtration systems in all 12 Flint school buildings and the administration building." You would rather be outraged than ever actually see things get better https://x.com/kendrawcandraw/status/1075866763852681217
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· ↳ reply to @CNLiberalism
@ne0liberal Weird fallacy reminiscent of people complaining that money spent on the space program is not spent on domestic aid. Why not both? There's enough transport that needs to happen that multiple solutions can be tried
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@JenandZen Who is out here claiming that life is simple
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad Tf are you on about? The plan has always been to live in enclosed biospheres that aren't directly open to the Martian atmosphere. You didn't really think the plan required people to somehow live exposed to the elements right?
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad Why do you need one? Mars' 0.4g should be plenty. I would weigh ~70 pounds there and it would probably be exhilarating. It's possible that children born and raised in low grav would develop differently, but there's no evidence that it's unmanageable
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad Loss of muscle tone, space-induced osteoporosis are on the top of the list of complaints when astronauts live in ISS. Loss of muscle tone isn't a huge deal but Bone loss is scarier as the calcium dissolves into the bloodstream and causes problems
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@neoliberal_dad Neither are immitigable -- as I'm sure you already know astronauts manage these issues via an exercise regimen and osteoporosis drugs. other space related issues are due to fluids freely floating around the body (problems not seen in low gravity vs micrograv environments)
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@neoliberal_dad The body settles into new equilibria and if return to Earth gravity is not a concern, then some of this is a non-issue. Regardless, it's clear that Elon Musk is hell-bent on Mars colonies -- everything else is a side hustle. I'm sure there's SpaceX cmttees devoted to these issues
· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad there's a first time for everything -- when has medical risk stopped people from trying something exciting and necessary? hiring a hundred biologists now vs in a few years will not make any fundamental difference to attacking these issues
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@neoliberal_dad My firm belief is that these problems are hugely overstated. At any rate, you don't have to take my word for it. We'll see in 10 years. 🖖
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad I'm suggesting that the proper precautions must be taken -- animal trials, etc (there has already been work on this). I'm also saying that you will never have a guarantee that low grav human births will be safe until it's attempted.
· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad Why must the very first round of passengers to go to Mars be women planning on giving birth or children? In fact, it's insane to think that that would be the plan. Insofar as we know spaceflight is safe, we know that Mars will be safe outside of the realm of child dvlpment.
· ↳ reply to @quantian1
@quantian1 @neoliberal_dad put your money where your mouth is man, you don't need to tell me. Go out there and make a killing if you know something the market (i.e. Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, etc.) don't know. It's ok to think I'm some easily grifted kid, but:
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad What's your proposal then? Let the species end on Earth as we can never ask the baby for permission? What's your critical level of confidence to say go on the mission, other than "it's not now"?
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· ↳ reply to @neoliberal_dad
@neoliberal_dad Keyword eventually. It's not implausible that you could have a generation of people living on Mars who don't have kids before there's a preponderance of evidence that live birth is safe.
@antifasenpai @neoliberal_dad my claim isn't that there's evidence of perfect safety -- obviously not. There is literally no way to acquire that info. My claim is that the current evidence from astronauts in micrograv contains enough positive markers that the future looks bright.
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@antifasenpai @neoliberal_dad further experimentation into low grav biology is warranted, but you guys are way overselling it. It's not for no reason that old people spend so much time doing aquatic therapy! Low gravity is great for taking pressure of ailing joints, muscles, and bones.
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@antifasenpai @neoliberal_dad Osteoporotic fractures wouldn't be so common if you only weigh 40% of what you do on Earth. This is why kids can tumble around and do relatively little damage to themselves -- the energy transfer of their falls is small. Could be a great retirement destination in the future!
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@antifasenpai @neoliberal_dad I'm not claiming that I know what extended stays in 0.4g will do. There's just more reason to be optimistic than what you're letting on
mentally steeling myself for neil degrasse tyson tweeting something dumb about new years being astronomically insignificant
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· ↳ reply to @ashwinl
@ashwinl Great thread! Not to belittle the challenge at all, but I see cause for optimism. modern ML seems to be fit for this kind of organic/intuition based traffic flow. If only we had better simulators
· ↳ reply to @JamesADamore
@JamesADamore This is so obviously fabricated it’s ridiculous — you had some credibility, but it’s gone now
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· ↳ reply to @G_S_Bhogal
@G_S_Bhogal Falling into the typical pattern of finding the worst/most fringe take from the “other side” and platforming it as a common opinion
· ↳ reply to @ljcroghan
@ljcroghan @G_S_Bhogal Not much? Do you spend a ton of time browsing nazi twitter also, or the flat earthers, etc? Or just the fringe elements that are on the “other side”?
@Hana_Coon This happened to me once and I was so shook I actually asked the prof after lecture. He told me he looks at the class roster before every sem and tries to memorize the faces and names, so that might be it
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Hana_Coon Doesn't explain why he only knew your name but maybe it's memorable?
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Props to Bernie Sanders for doing progressivism right and embracing carbon taxes from day one
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· ↳ reply to @CNLiberalism
@ne0liberal Black Swans... Bernie was virtually unknown running against a Democrat kingpin and ended scooping up 45% of the primary vote. The tiny chance that you become president is completely worth it for the minimal risk you take on
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· ↳ reply to @RMac18
@RMac18 Soylent diet is more expensive than a lot of simpler choices
· ↳ reply to @devonzuegel
@devonzuegel The data source is piss poor — these conclusions are drawn from one person experimenting on one account
· ↳ reply to @codeclayman
@_claycoleman the longer the night stretches the further you veer from deontology and become a utilitarian
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· ↳ reply to @aedison
@aedison Go look at the dashboards that show waterfalls of people clicking on a shoe on an Instagram ad and buying it moments later, all from the convenience of wherever their fingertips happen to be and tell me ads don’t work
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The color of freedom is green. I will not be taking questions at this time
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Overhearing some Australian guy describing the weather as “fookin disgraceful”, and I have to agree
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· ↳ reply to @MattWalshBlog
@MattWalshBlog I hope you’re equally amenable to teaching entire grade school classes on the Quran, The Prince, Communist Manifesto, or some other influential text
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· ↳ reply to @codeclayman
@_claycoleman There’s nothing fundamentally different about this than the google opinion rewards app, which many I know downloads. Also by default, Apple/google have access to this info and collect it anyways
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@_claycoleman And the $20/month seems far fetched — fb only makes around $27/ quarter on a North American user, so it seems off I’d sign up in a heartbeat if they’d pay me $240 a year for my browsing history
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· ↳ reply to @RMac18
@RMac18 I'm beginning to think customer behavior is and the sanctimonious journalists aren't
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inject this shit straight into my veins
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
he was like a goddamn disney princess
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insta vs twitter
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@tonycamilli @karaswisher Yeah I’m sure the one dude you found on Blind (red flag?) is representative of the population
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@KeeangaYamahtta there is clearly a categorical difference between someone like Donald Trump who was born into a real estate empire vs. someone like Schultz, but you would rather play at making word salad than admit this and move on
@tonycamilli @karaswisher If coverage is unfair or misleading, you should complain. If leakers are threatening the operational integrity of a company that needs to manage a billion person empire, they should be fired.
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@tonycamilli @karaswisher Calling kids (the person in question was 15, not 5) who spend a lot “whales” is not a good look, but not at all something invented by Facebook. Every f2p games company has a concept like this. 5% of users create a majority of transactions in some Pareto like distribution
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@tonycamilli @karaswisher Is this whataboutism? Maybe. Regardless, the hostility against fb is misplaced when the whole games industry is rampant with this stuff And from what I remember, there was a lot of internal screaming and shouting at the executives to do better, even about small missteps.
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
See: Sen. Al Franken The dems have shame
· ↳ reply to @ClaireBerlinski
@ClaireBerlinski The Grim Reaper will probably put in more work in solving this than any book ever can. Coming of age in the era of the internet is not something easily transferred
Hot take: Suite Life >> Drake and Josh
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hmmm
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
"In 2018, the exemption doubled to $11.18 million per taxpayer due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As a result, only approximately 2,000 people (or 0.0006% of the population) in the US are currently liable for estate tax." ridiculous
The $5b Corp welfare stings, but it’s disingenuous to say that amazon hq2 would be anything but a net positive for NYC. Invites a company controlling a trillion dollars of economic activity, and all the tax streams and second order effects that entails https://x.com/ZephyrTeachout/status/1092509930496688130
"Social media, by siphoning off ad dollars, are the biggest threat to newspapers’ revenue since Craigslist, which means that those outlets have much to gain if social media companies are broken up, regulated, or otherwise crippled." https://x.com/voxdotcom/status/1092592406942363648
When supply grows, prices fall. The high rise is much better land use than whatever million dollar single family house was there before. If the replies are true and Landy is sitting half empty, then they’ll lower prices https://x.com/mayorlyon77/status/1092830731326443525
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· ↳ reply to @mmay3r
@mmay3r The amount of freedom & power afforded by the internet really short circuits people’s brains
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· ↳ reply to @quantian1
@quantian1 wait hold on ... what do you do with 6 croissants every single day
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
May the universe bless me with a blue check one day
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· ↳ reply to @nntaleb
@nntaleb Every interesting person chooses to make themselves busy. Not every busy person is interesting
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This guy May be the smartest person at Vox and he’s still a gigantic fucking idiot
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
What kind of person thinks visiting a different world isn’t a worthwhile endeavor?
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P
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
To really stick to this you'd have to claim that America hates white women more than it hates black men (Barry O???) Don't get me wrong -- an HRC presidency would've been The Dream™, but much of the blame for "what happened" is on her own flaws as a campaigner
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· ↳ reply to @joshgans
@joshgans There is no point spending money on AI when there is such a strong market interest in developing it from the world’s most powerful companies (all American). Spend instead on research the market has failed to do (i.e green tech in agribusiness and industry)
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@HolaTCLeague @joshgans True, but it’s not like there’s a shortage of university AI research departments either. It’s a very very heated space and if the theory sucks, it’s only because the problems are hard and not because it’s neglected
regressive AF we are boycotting graduation
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
Amazon was promised roughly $3b in state/city incentives as a one time tax forgiveness. HQ2 was projected to produce $27 billion in tax revenue for NY over ten years.
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· ↳ reply to @ltthompso
@ltthompso This is ridiculously dumb; you’re just capitalizing on your two minutes of fame. Typical journo
my favorite hobby: asking strangers in libraries to defend my stuff from other strangers
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· ↳ reply to @CNLiberalism
@ne0liberal Bad take — that’s just a manifestation of religious violence that pre and postdates the Partition
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· ↳ reply to @tedcruz
@tedcruz Chapo’s drug empire was a more useful investment than the Wall
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· ↳ reply to @CNLiberalism
@ne0liberal you're gonna have to peddle outrage like never seen before. neoliberalism is antithetical to the message of all of these characters: "the world is off the rails shit and only I know how to fix it"
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
girlcotting**
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· ↳ reply to @webdevMason
@webdevMason @primalpoly @EricRWeinstein Evidence is not important here. The statement being made is not scientific in the mind of the claimant, so counter factuals won’t get you far. This is a game of definitions and control over vocabulary.
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“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring”
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Anybody who thinks the most prohibitively expensive portions of GND (job guarantees, M4A) will do anything for climate change are going to be a bit surprised https://t.co/eoqopI7PQr
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
i love twitter
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