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@jachaseyoung Love Von Neumann

@Teleonomic I can think of quite a few historical polymaths who make vast progress in many subject areas. They’re growing less common these days

@_w0bi yeah obv don’t approve of people making harebrained poorly thought out interjections either. but I don’t like the “stay in your lane” rhetoric

@selentelechia rekt

@anashwt then I’m gonna assume they weren’t making great advances in their own field either

@AOCummies @tszzl = bot

3 body is popcorn scifi

@neolibreplygirl @Teleonomic wary of this style of argument bc everyone in every age seemed to adopt the end of history narrative about science being mostly finished

@RexKwonDo92 look deeper and you’ll realize ndt was never very good at physics either

@flanaganagain_ Tyler Cowen is a master at like ruining the discourse

@neolibreplygirl @Teleonomic Agree with you there. I kind of think that the mad professor archetype is the kind of person who looks at a distant field and makes the conceptual jump needed for a whole new set of low hanging fruits

@Teleonomic @_vivalapanda @neolibreplygirl gone are the days of Hilbert where one man knew the entire volume of mathematics

@ne0liberal yeah I agree with you there

@neolibreplygirl @Teleonomic Von Neumann is my go to, who changed Econ by inventing modern game theory

@LiberHomo1 @RexKwonDo92 these guys are popsci writers, good communicators. not necessarily great scientists

@eigenrobot uhoh

@AOCummies never forget. I will be holding a candlelight vigil tn on the timeline

@aquariusacquah truly cucked

@gladstein @nickgillespie all three

@eigenrobot they approach the right as leaders in business and technology and they approach the left as revolutionaries

@eigenrobot @halvorz https://open.spotify.com/track/4RvWPyQ5RL0ao9LPZeSouE?si=_S_MHG0rS-C-jwlfjJXBoA

rec me a macro textbook

@PrecariousPhoto based

@scum1999 @NicholasElodeon @tradpeach @neekolul

@scum1999 @NicholasElodeon @tradpeach @neekolul damn dude you're right i forgot people can't be held responsible for shit they said *checks notes* 3 years ago?

@2Jeff20 im a novice but have a strong math background

@GerEEEEldo Know Thy Enemy

@khuey_ if he had followed all the rules American astronauts would be earthbound for another decade

lmao 😂 zerohedge was right about everything https://x.com/boes_/status/1260004567883886593

@AOCummies hmm

@inspireprag @AOCummies yeah it shows up when I’m not incognito

@inspireprag @AOCummies which basically means they’ve gotten super good at using browser history to generate results

Everyone take a moment for the remembrance of our fallen comrade @uberfeminist. His/her esoteric Eric Weinstein poasting will never be forgotten

@sebpaoli @NicholasElodeon @inspireprag Veritably frivolous

@aquariusacquah these ppl really think all the VCs and CEOs only read lord of the rings

@aquariusacquah i mean fuck public enemy #1 mark zuckerberg named his daughter after Augustus Caesar

@browserdotsys the market for this sort of hard scifi is pretty narrow (the Japanese and the weabs)

@aquariusacquah yeah and also most undergrad stem programs make students take a bunch of blowoff humanities classes. Greek Myth 300 isnt gonna make everybody ethical my guy

@marathiMaharaja BUT WHAT DOES IT TRANSLATE TO

@marathiMaharaja im blocking you ACAB

@DaanVanDenHam2 lol same

@DaanVanDenHam2 Menlo Park but remote rn

@DaanVanDenHam2 ya down, cougars and all

@selentelechia what is visual snow im spooked

@BennettJonah why? the mind is software

@jachaseyoung @selentelechia ah so that’s what that’s called

@HIGHSHARPE @BennettJonah not quite. The brain is wetware, and the mind runs on top of it. You can replace every individual component of the brain and the mind remains; it is a pattern of information

@phatwheel1 @HIGHSHARPE @BennettJonah wrong — it happens every day. Your body is busy recycling and rebuilding the matter in the brain without harming the mind. Over time every atom has probably been replaced with a different one but you haven’t meaningfully “died”

@HIGHSHARPE @phatwheel1 @BennettJonah what gives you so much conviction that carbon jelly is privileged over Silicon lol? What if there were a process that “ever so slowly” converted Brain cells to silicon? What gives me conviction is that I’ve thought this through

@phatwheel1 @HIGHSHARPE @BennettJonah you seem like an ass so I’m muting you

@HIGHSHARPE @phatwheel1 @BennettJonah I’ve never read either and I research NNs

@HIGHSHARPE @phatwheel1 @BennettJonah you see the OP made a statement with zero argument whatsoever? I did the same thing to invite him to discuss it

@HIGHSHARPE @phatwheel1 @BennettJonah but like I said, you can either believe we’re dying every second as brain matter gets replaced or that the mind is a pattern of information. One or the other, It’s not an “unrelated” abstraction.

@SamGrady4House @AOCummies I really don’t appreciate your name “sam grady”. Please change it

@ryanallred My bet is yes. There is a serious quality difference between the top software engineers here vs elsewhere

@AOCummies can’t wait for these transcendent horrors of our own creation

my dad: smugly tells me in February he only owns healthcare ETFs and that the healthcare sector is recession proof healthcare sector: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/upshot/health-jobs-plummeting-virus.html

@TheMuddySchmuck yeah same i won this round FANG always collecting dividends

@Cullen_OK but it also lets you bet on a specific housing market which can be interesting. afaik there’s no Palo Alto REIT

@Nick_Roberttss who tf dms on Pinterest

@Nick_Roberttss You have it under lawful evil tho

@Cullen_OK That’s pretty cool. Is there a way to trade these without special licenses?

@NicholasElodeon incest is morally neutral

@eigenrobot hopefully soon 😀

@similaralterity @eigenrobot it’s ok im LETTING them dmod me

@InNeedOfPurpose @eigenrobot yeah honestly think this is more accurate. Moves the battle lines / equilibrium in favor of one or more of your warring factions

@eigenrobot in the 40s all the kool kids were working there to make that bomb. Feynman etc. then again in the 60s to put man on the moon. Both times in relation to military conflict. Strongly believe that States are for organized violence first and foremost and decay in peacetime

@eigenrobot darwin's alien god would've killed me

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@billpshort what did he mean by this

@powerbottomdad1 @eigenrobot how’d yours change?

@powerbottomdad1 @eigenrobot yeah i dont use everyday, something like 2-3 times a week

@powerbottomdad1 @eigenrobot havent noticed anything bad at a physiological level but it does feel bad spiritually ... kinda feels sus needing a drug to experience motivation ...

@powerbottomdad1 @eigenrobot RIP Well I’m 22, have a few good binge drinking years left

@caesararum @eigenrobot I love Tilley

@similaralterity @misterzip_ monopoly is heaven

@tim_ber_wind @misterzip_ lot of top tier academics got their phds and immediately left to go work for the government, in some wing of the war effort. i would argue they were cool at the time too

@similaralterity we need to redistribute surplus executive function

@similaralterity we need to find all yelp maximizers and force them to make inane bureaucratic choices about their health insurance and such

@browserdotsys well crafted bait bowser, but you should actually watch it it's good

@browserdotsys i will make the stronger claim that it is in fact much better than the irishman

@mattparlmer VR sexbot cyberpunk dystopia -> Butlerian jihad -> space neofeudalism

@ribaldette I think the gravity would point inward

@NicholasElodeon WET MARKET OF IDEAS

you people are poasting corona https://x.com/NicholasElodeon/status/1260418137738170374

@aquariusacquah South Indian bros are chilling

@IndicAtheist nah lol found this shit on Quora

@lazerwalker this really doesn’t mean what you think it means lol

@jdcmedlock that’s no coincidence......

@AOCummies I still don’t think this is the real Richard

@AOCummies The Richard we all knew and loved would never say something like this

Behavioral Econ is a meme. Your instincts about how to bet, how to consume are often smarter than what the economists consider “rational”

@jcfanacct yeah, with the implication that ppl make irrational choices and can’t be trusted with their own decisions. The truth is that the rational agent concept in Econ is limited

@jcfanacct https://ergodicityeconomics.com/

@AOCummies it’s been at this percent for years

@JacksonKernion @AOCummies I still think about this one from time to time

@darwinning11 @jcfanacct perhaps, although seems untrue in popsci with Richard Thaler popularizing concepts like the “hot hand fallacy”. implies there’s something undesirable about believing it. But I take your point

@DukakisDude Maybe, but it’s to the advantage of each player in the system to offer cheap bribes like this. Prisoners dilemma

@DukakisDude Would be best to have federal law saying that there can be no ad hoc tax holidays for specific companies

@DukakisDude The alternative is basically asking each local politician to lay down arms and stop competing for the interests of their constituents

@AOCummies simply navigate to the CSR division of any Fortune 500

@AOCummies muh voter suppression reeee

@grantadever @mattparlmer some of my GOATs: Dune, Ender's Game, The Culture series, Ringworld, Hyperion, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I Robot

@grantadever @mattparlmer honorable mention: Foundation (a bit dated, its ideas have been thoroughly Seinfelded)

@DaltonKern @darwinning11 @jcfanacct right, so there's 3 claims 1) homo sapiens doesn't behave like homo economicus and this is a bad thing that must be corrected 2) that homo economicus is an incomplete model of the irrational homo sapiens 3) homo sapiens is *more* rational than homo economicus

@DaltonKern @darwinning11 @jcfanacct i am picking 3 and this article demonstrates a good reason why: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0

@osazuwa @mattparlmer people's worldviews are generally ideas about what they want the world to look today. scifi encourages you to dream about what the world should look like in 100 years, 500 years, 10,000 years

@osazuwa @mattparlmer hmmm ... maybe. another thing that's highly prevalent in scifi is pan-humanism. even across vast ideological gaps (starship troopers to, say, the dispossessed) it encourages a human collectivism over tribalism

@NKel26 center lefties are always seething

@import_jerbear i don’t think stance on covid changes ones political ideology lol a lot of people have credibly said we should reopen lockdowns and just have full masking

@AspiringNeolib @behavinbehavin populism is good, actually Obama was a populist

@AspiringNeolib @behavinbehavin notice how he won and got to, you know, make law

@AspiringNeolib @behavinbehavin populism is a force you have to harness to enact your goals. Anyone who ignores it will be destroyed

@AspiringNeolib @behavinbehavin Newsom and the state of California literally gave all clear and his specific county administrator wasn’t budging. As far as I’m concerned, he was just cutting through bureaucracy. Another thing neolibs supposedly love

@AspiringNeolib @behavinbehavin Our fave gov whitmer allowed the auto industry in Detroit to reopen when the case density is like 5x that of Alameda

@aquariusacquah Based, but the definition he gives here is so vague that you could fit any ideology under it

@aquariusacquah Milton friedman called himself a utilitarian

@Scoolean @grantadever @mattparlmer I actually really don’t like this book. Thought it was super preachy without much scifi. But I last read it in middle school so who knows

@grantadever @Scoolean @mattparlmer I don’t think these books are super scifi-ey. More like political fiction with scifi elements. I really like animal farm tho. BNW pretty dope too

feel like I only perform at anywhere close to my best when under overwhelming pressure. As a consequence I never do anything until the very last minute. Seemingly I would benefit from *more* anxiety, which is strange

@nectarina12 leave brutalism to the communists

@AOCummies Yep

@AOCummies yeah I literally continually lie about how much work I’ve done when giving progress reports bc they’d panic lol. They don’t know I’m about to finish the whole thing starting whenever panic sets in

@ne0agent1c it’s why I like him. lots of folks in my circle don’t

@AOCummies I was better at it when I was younger bc my panic felt more real. Now I’m like whatever fuck it I’ll get through this one somehow

@AOCummies basically makes it so that I can never live a healthy life lol, I’m just working on whatever is on fire at the exact moment. I’d fail that marshmallow test instantly

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies yeah fr. maybe it’s time to quit my job and do something risky as fuck

@nseth3 @AOCummies these kinds of things never work for me, but I’m curious how you do it

@hsalje @ScienceMagazine sensitivity?

@discourseloverr I did that, fully regret it lol

@nseth3 @AOCummies feel like amphs are just enabling me lol. I’ll just be like “I’ll take addy tomorrow and get it done, there by giving me free rein to do nothing for now”

Tech Industry Stop Saying You’ll Leave SF and Actually Leave SF Challenge 2020

@marthsshinedair @AOCummies It’s not hard because of the language, it’s hard due to length and dull sections in the middle

@jdcmedlock I mean it’s pretty obvious there right? Manhattan requires different lockdown parameters than rural Michigan. People on the ground may know best how to enforce social distancing while causing minimal disruption

@jdcmedlock I read it as federalism

@jdcmedlock But the federalism principle is basically the same thing as hayekian local knowledge

@jomgy Based

@discourseloverr unironically yes. There’s no culture that loves lawyers as much as ours

@NickMeier21 all👏candidates👏should👏be👏on👏twitter

@eigenrobot google always loves to lead from behind. create the diversity program to appease the dominant cultural force, and then cut it again to appease a new dominant force

@ahardtospell ya but she cute tho

@Teleonomic 👏👏👏

Drinking Caprisun, watching Drake&josh

@carterforva answer the question boss

@peaktransit screenshot this

@peaktransit VAT vs LVT is a tough prediction but my instincts tell me @jdcmedlock and his simps will tip the polls

@peaktransit @jdcmedlock However the carbon tax has mainstream appeal across vast tracts of weird political twitter so I have to give it the dub

@ChuckeEChaves defensive end

I firmly believe that if you POAST well enough you can become president

@AOCummies that’s right

Drinking milk, watching Sesame Street https://x.com/tszzl/status/1260784008948002816

@neolibreplygirl im larping as a software engineer when in reality I’m 16-time WWE champion John Cena

@granderojo Many of them do — gamers can’t handle true random

@browserdotsys dudes every move screams grifter to me

@jdcmedlock @eean @peaktransit simply levy a VAT on land rents

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit carbon tax in practice would just be gas tax + coal tax + natural gas tax

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit and when Americans are ready we add the cow fart tax

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit import/export adjustments and yeah, slowly ease in concrete and steel taxes

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit methane is something like 40-50x more potent GHG. Grass may rot but if the amount of total grass stays constant it’s nbd

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit There are probably 10x more cows than there ever were bison, but more importantly bison fed on grass which led to low methane digestion. Our cattle mostly eat cornfeed, which causes extreme flatulence (like 2 orders of magnitude more methane emission)

@eean @jdcmedlock @peaktransit Actually hang on, it looks like the grass vs corn thing is less clear than I thought nvm

yes, anon. your cool new plan to address the coronavirus situation is going to be considered thoughtfully by the relevant leaders

@powerbottomdad1 ik i'm storing it up for a rainy day

drinking mummy fluid, watching the end of days https://x.com/tszzl/status/1260793148218933248

@mosephos why can’t be normal level of stimulation be optimal 😭

@colinmort @ne0liberal They a/b tested you into Reddit

shockingly accurate https://x.com/DPRK_News/status/1237171528200007681

@Brrrrrpp post link king :)

@jachaseyoung why would aliens with crude crafts choose not to make explicit contact? If we have multiple sightings of them, they don’t care much about infosec.

@cojobrien watch me bud

@s8mb but what are the sensitivities on this? confusing as usual

I believe the alignment problem is likely Easy because there are no universe eating AIs in our cosmic vicinity

@averykimball on the contrary it seems that free markets trend towards very high concentrations of wealth and therefore low entropy states

@visakanv I think it’s just a coordination problem tbh It’s likely unprofitable for any one person or company to move out of SF, but would be massively profitable to transplant the whole tech industry and associated relationships to some other city

@GreySmithereens @Teleonomic As a $tsla bagholder I am deliriously happy with his performance

honestly I want Greta Thunberg to take over Europe in an ecofash wave. Get herself crowned god-empress & Spicen up this boring timeline https://x.com/nypost/status/1260642547564756994

@GavinMacGregor7 @Alexwashere @peaktransit it’s basically impossible to levy a sales tax of more than 10% due to rampant tax avoidance problems. vat makes tax avoidance unprofitable

@ThisBearHugs @dragoneddied imagine thinking Kroger is one of the worlds wealthiest corporations

the Zucc https://x.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1260963392195526658

@eigenrobot @sonyasupposedly His books are 90% airing grievance and 10% content

@eigenrobot @sonyasupposedly ngl though I enjoy dunking on Richard Thaler as much as the next guy, and most of his ideas are good reproductions of social Darwinist styles

@sonyasupposedly @eigenrobot 💯 realized this a few chapters into black swan and just went to find his medium blog

@sonyasupposedly @eigenrobot “Antifragile” is definitely a framing worth keeping

thinking about picking up a fringe ideology. how would y’all feel about me becoming an anarcho monarchist I am shopping in the wet market of ideas

@flevestanagan just small talk tbh seemed much more eloquent than when he’s Hauled before Congress but I guess that’s to be expected

@__goh__ I’ve already stolen it from @NicholasElodeon

Drinking soylent green, watching Hypnotoad https://t.co/CI98GPkqwa

@rage_null honestly I forgot about slurm

@ZeframM I don’t think she has an appreciable ideology to speak of, other than hating the establishment

@JuanDie95776550 With my soy strength

@NickMeier21 It would be a truly great political doc, perhaps on the same tier as Wiener

@aquariusacquah the AI hype has gone too far. no model can accomplish this

@peaktransit hmm it seems i was too hopeful about the popularity of cap gains tax in sock twitter

@peaktransit my good socks don't you want to stick it to the capitalists

@aceckhouse @peaktransit simply levy a VAT on income

@browserdotsys literally everyone on this site is premium mediocre

@GavinMacGregor7 VAT is paid at every layer of the supply chain. For example, say I have an lemonade stand. While it would be simple not to report the sales to the state and simply avoid sales tax, under VAT the lemons would be bought with a VAT tax on them

@GavinMacGregor7 Then, I report my sales to the state and pay a VAT on the final sale price but get refunded for the VAT on the lemons I bought. If I didn’t report the sales, then I’m stuck paying the post VAT price of lemons

Ive essentially moved between 3 rooms for the past few months, getting everything delivered, not going for walks, only seeing people on voice chat and I don’t feel bad at all,,, i am a born NEET

gonna be telling my daughters to delete their insta and start chasing the dragon https://x.com/MentalHealthOII/status/1260869778778075138

@AOCummies Only women watch the office

It’s silly for Jerome to say for certain that AGI doesn’t exist or that it’s far off. Scientific progress happens in leaps and bounds and cognition is not well understood https://x.com/an_open_mind/status/1261235956323168256

You have to hate failure enough to get your basal survival drives to kick in for you, but not so much such that you never risk failure in the first place

@AOCummies wtf

@nectarina12 presumably he’s saying it’s good to report on positive happenings sometimes too

@HenryPorters @nectarina12 All our news is blatantly partisan tho

@HenryPorters @nectarina12 They’re blatantly liberal outlets and even the writers they hire for ideological diversity end up becoming more lefty. This is a recent phenomenon, not a historical one

@HenryPorters @nectarina12 It’s much more blatant on the cable news channels than in the papers

@HenryPorters @nectarina12 I don’t see how being partisan precludes playing Tara reade stories. It’s not like Fox News refused to play the access Hollywood tape

@HenryPorters @nectarina12 Anyway, I’m saying nyt is liberal aligned but not necessarily an arm of the DNC or anything. Otoh msnbc is a literal arm of the DNC

@swapp19902 I can point you to areas in the literature where AI can do reasoning or complex planning but the bigwigs casually sweep it under the rug and move the goalposts

@swapp19902 Yup ... and they don’t want to spook the public and the regulators

@neolibureaucrat see for example Annus Mirabilis

@Imperial_Eagle2 Not to mention creating the American international order

ok is it not obvious to all of you that this is a fake Richard https://x.com/nl_reaganite93/status/1261319239065010177

@DutchHaleyfan Exactly what a fake Richard would say

@NicholasElodeon Interesting. It’s not just the hornyposts but the fact that he doesn’t softblock me every few days

@koaleszenz Libertarians are usually the loudest advocates for zoning reform

@NicholasElodeon lmfao

@similaralterity same on iOS

@similaralterity yeah but it’s probably by design. Everything is sandboxed

would bet there’s a huge gender gap on favorability ratings for nuclear power

@AOCummies Ækschually

@pupperio on aggregate it seems women buy into health-based conspiracy theories (antivaxx, etc.) moreso than men do, probably for obvious reasons. otoh, men seem more likely to buy into political conspiracies (moon landing was faked)

@pupperio since there's a perception of nuclear being potentially injurious to health it makes sense

@ryxcommar kind of a broad claim. while it's true you don't have to understand Turing completeness to write some javascript, it would still probably help for you to understand the event loop model, what parallelism vs concurrency is etc.

@ryxcommar a lot of what backend devs do at big companies is design and iterate on the architecture of complex systems, reason through computational tradeoffs. if it's really only "business logic" you need you can probably get away without writing any code at all

@DutchHaleyfan @NicholasElodeon i'm not commenting on whether your behavior is "ok". i'm saying you seem a bit off from before you deleted your acct

@powerbottomdad1 wtf based

@OldDreyfusard disagree as I think you can classify most of the tech elite into this camp. Maybe numerically small but well represented in wealth

@Brrrrrpp ngl ... kinda based

pouring a 40 for our fallen comrade @neo_globalist

summoning circle, hope this works 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 @neo_globalist 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

@AspiringNeolib @GerEEEEldo @LoicTheStoic @neo_globalist no clue he's just awol he probably just went offline tbqh

@jdcmedlock idts medlock. imho leftists should be more woke on this. the banks take the cheap money and give loans only to giant institutions via corporate bonds due to high trust levels. it would be different if e.g., the Fed bought treasuries and those treasuries became UBI

@AlpacaDeGuerra @jdcmedlock its backed by 100 quintillion hashes per second. monetary competition is good akshually

@ActionDonson @Trunk_Slamchest @jdcmedlock would still be fine. pretty hard to create total network partition

@AlpacaDeGuerra @jdcmedlock I get that but I don’t see the issue. Monetary regimes are always connected by trade balance and capital flows. Chinese policy has effect on USD demand

@Skip_tick @jdcmedlock big companies dying is good actually :D

@Skip_tick @jdcmedlock there can be no creative destruction without destruction

@Tyler_The_Wise @nseth3 @MIC_is_Life solar is def a real threat if only we had more battery capacity

@browserdotsys when i reply you or @eigenrobot and dont get an instant like i go into genuine panic

@browserdotsys @eigenrobot happiness = outcome - expectations

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick you don't think there's a moral hazard involved? rainy day funds etc.?

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick there's no way to predict the nature of each individual freak accident, but you can easily predict unpredictability. the following concept: https://x.com/talebwisdom/status/1172441657834295296

@tiredgenerally @jdcmedlock @Skip_tick the difference between me and austrians is that I think the everyman should always get bailed out via the welfare state. just not the companies. also offering liquidity in a crunch time is a bailout imo

@BigBreakfastLob @jdcmedlock @Skip_tick seriously doubt it b.c. Boeing clearly said they wouldnt want a bailout if it involved an equity trade

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick do we actually know this though? I hear this argument a lot but nobody can tell me what the $$ of the rainy day fund would have to be. it doesn't simply have to be a rainy day fund either -- combine this with some form of insurance policy

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick being a capitalist means exposure to systemic risk. I always use this example and its kind of a meme but the human body has 2 kidneys when they really only need part of one to function. organic systems are so conservative b.c. they've survived all these mass extinctions

@tiredgenerally @jdcmedlock the Fed buys treasuries and the government turns the cash into UBI/unemployment is what i mean. just riffing here, it could come in many forms without systematically benefiting corporations large enough to have risk ratings

@aquariusacquah the roose is loose

@aquariusacquah cant believe this guy still follows me after abusing him for so long

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick yeah i'm more amenable to offering liquidity for equity but I think we're long due lots of destruction and restructuring

@Skip_tick @jdcmedlock distributing the cost of the risk creates moral hazard

@jdcmedlock @Skip_tick i don't think airline companies that can't survive a pandemic should exist -- preserving optionality is important. a guarantee of no bailouts entices companies take lease terms that allow them to stop paying fixed costs on a dime

@RLHotchkiss @jdcmedlock @Skip_tick imo market concentration is a result of governments playing favorites for so long

@Skip_tick @jdcmedlock airlines should structure in a way that can survive pandemics

@_w0bi @jdcmedlock @Skip_tick isn't that the point of an insurance company?

@jdcmedlock you were supposed to defeat the Georgists not join them!

@conorduffy_7 Aldi brought this incredible technology to America

@jomgy a culture should be thought of as a phenomenological entity all on its own, and our ethics should reflect that. The death of a culture is sad. It’s like the dying of a god

@_vivalapanda @jomgy The death of everything is inevitable but that’s different than saying that it’s morally ambivalent for a culture to be wiped out

the single worst tweet on this entire website https://x.com/wizardingworld/status/1081242428105998336

@MinhTost No

@NicholasElodeon was a

@AOCummies @NicholasElodeon great president :)

@BadEconTakes Tfw they fact check a joke this account sucks now

@MaryJackalope yeah I’m gonna be a str8 caveman by the time this is done, thankfully so will everyone else

all my real homies are in the hidden replies

@AOCummies yes

@MrAlAnderson @Sharon_Kuruvila this is an attack

@DaanVanDenHam2 The Reply Guys — An American Sitcom

there are many things I cannot explain but the most pressing item is how The Big Bang Theory became the most successful show on television

runner up https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/1224154674804084736

@PereGrimmer true, and you likely need a search warrant to get into one

@PereGrimmer I meant the pigs :D

@0x49fa98 imo you yourself pointed out a compelling use for psychs and didn’t take it seriously enough; hormesis of the mind. A random walk of the objective function. Revitalizing value drift. This is not as easy to get from other sources as you imply, especially in the modern world

The Zuck still believes in politics, the others don’t https://x.com/LoganDobson/status/1261795601789915137

@powerbottomdad1 There are plenty of dumb shows tho ... I’m tryna understand why this one

not a compliment btw. believing in american politics is morally neutral at best

@AOCummies get a dick and balls cartoon outline and start placing demographics in various regions

@sonyasupposedly honestly doing stuff you want to do is almost just as hard

@blamelessjay @lastplace1414 yes but not all lowbrow sitcoms have viewership of some ~20 million ... Chuck Lorre struck a huge nerve and I don't exactly understand what it is

@blamelessjay @lastplace1414 nerds don't watch it ... and normies don't actually care about nerds ... so what is it

@neolibureaucrat i dunno if bravery that doesn't achieve anything is valuable might be better to be timid sometimes

lifehacks dont work folks. self improvement isnt real. accept your lot in life

@blamelessjay @lastplace1414 damn that shits deep u telling me i'll become extremely famous if i start whipping out some tepid Schrodinger's cat metaphors?

@powerbottomdad1 you can definitely gain more crystallized knowledge by grinding skills but a few caveats ... each of us has a limit to how much we can learn at once and we will likely hit some skill ceiling at our respective skills. i dont believe the 10,000 hours thing

@AOCummies @Brrrrrpp this genre has reached the postmodern deconstruction stage. truly a success

@koaleszenz the reason i've most commonly heard is that it's easy to evade in practice

@discourseloverr “Since the dawn of man we have bla bla ...”

@anusbomber @neolibureaucrat not doing anything is underrated

@FelixKammerlan1 i dont even dislike it it can even be funny sometimes. but not 18 million viewers funny

@CliveDavies98 @JohnCarltonKing @inspireprag Inshallah

@DylMeisner @AOCummies Greenback Boogay

STEM homies rn https://t.co/tg4CXIOMQg

@NKel26 it’s the hardest cope known to man

@hu__cares @Neil_Jetter you could easily get through entire humanities majors without thinking critically once. mostly they seem good at training you to read giant sections of text and write some vaguely “argumentative” essay to drop a bunch of buzzwords to prove you did the reading

Insulting “white women” is the greatest poasting innovation of our time. Flying right under the radar of cancellation

@ZachWeiner wtf? What kind of lame superpower doesn’t break physics

@mattparlmer the difference in demeanor is hilarious

@PereGrimmer @MaryJackalope instinctual decisions are probably most easy to reduce to a list of weights. That’s why the NN models are so good at judging a cat vs a dog but can’t reason for shit

@PereGrimmer @MaryJackalope Im sure there’s quite a few but I found this one: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-attractive-are-you-in-the-eyes-of-deep-neural-network-3d71c0755ccc

@PereGrimmer @MaryJackalope we experience attractiveness as a split second judgement, but we also know that there’s many objective features we’re searching for under the hood: symmetric faces, body shape, signs of youth, etc. we have the equivalent of an fpga in our head calculating all this in an instant

@AOCummies the worst is yet to come

@ne0agent1c making incisive claims is much more fun than demonstrating correctness, which is why i just skip the second part and tweet

@naval @TrevMcKendrick Nearly every anglophone country is like this

@naval @TrevMcKendrick 10 years ago I would say that US had CANZUKAUS beat, but anti immigrant sentiment is on the rise

@dchem @mattparlmer they likely both had training, just different orders on how to deal with confrontation scenarios

@dchem @mattparlmer This is all a bit of a farce anyway. Neither side carries firearms because their respective governments don’t want war under any circumstances

@dchem @mattparlmer lol quite a funny state of affairs for the worlds largest countries

you have to give it to the man, DJT is an early adopter of novel technologies. the best marketing grads from the best B schools only wish they had instincts like this https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1261747580666552320

@pacinocchio dont lie to yourself my dude, all roads lead to Rome :(

nvm i kinda thought this was a deepfaked voice. but the original actor just has a remarkably similar voice to DJT's

@HaroldValentine @naval @TrevMcKendrick @EricRWeinstein nope not really

@jomgy my god

some of you are alright. don't log on to the timeline tonight

i have a couple passwords that I can’t consciously recall but somehow my fingers know them

same thing for a handful of terminal commands

@similaralterity tax software is bad

e.g. the command to exit a hung SSH session. i have no idea what it is but my fingers remember the incantation

@peaktransit @jdcmedlock i'm giving myself the DUB

ok, my bracket wasn't bad. LVT vs VAT was a tough call, and I honestly thought @jdcmedlock would shill hard for the VAT. incredible betrayal https://x.com/tszzl/status/1260787499833724931

@jdcmedlock yeah but i bet your endorsement would've tipped the poll the other way on vat vs lvt, so this prediction isn't so impressive. this is like goldman sachs betting on their own shadow financial products :(

@koaleszenz It’s a shame the showrunners dan and david died right after season 4. I’m sure they would’ve done a great job

@averykimball Yes

@BigBreakfastLob Lol that’s not why

@NicholasElodeon Ur Jeff Bezos and I’m merely an amazon seller

@browserdotsys I wonder if people care about computers in the post apocalypse

@AOCummies @Terry02044 if you were truly blackpilled you would be tho

@andrej_haulis @AOCummies @Terry02044 I don’t know if there are any logically consistent worldviews

all my homies are comedian aligned https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1262476322078629891

your worldview doesn’t matter. most of you could do your jobs equally well and be a great friend and family member while being a flat earther

average people are obscenely good at defending their material interests in meat space while believing absolutely insane things about stuff that doesn’t affect them

@SelinaDavis73 I’ll be sure to read it when you’re done

@philipggarland @sonyasupposedly Hmmm not sure about this. Haven’t you heard the phrase herding cats? Much harder to control a population that’s ruthlessly individualistic

@philipggarland @sonyasupposedly fair enough

@webdevMason she has two modes, which are (1) cosmically aggrieved whining and (2) humorless bullying

@sonyasupposedly I think the big thing is that the consultants themselves might've changed their mind about what the smart amount of political correctness is, but yeah agreed

@sonyasupposedly https://x.com/dril/status/841892608788041732

@WillCJohns0n @AOCummies brutal

@sonyasupposedly ah i see

@AOCummies go public so i can RT this u bitch

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies based

@dhivehiscript @GreySmithereens @sonyasupposedly the zeal of the recent convert

@ask_ourself agreed

@ask_ourself merely commenting on how it might not be so profitable for each of us individually to worry about worldview

@artofhunger75 no clue what that is

can someone please write a bot that just tweets out entire books as a twitter thread, the only format i can understand anymore

despite intel’s ministry of truth’s constant pleas to the contrary, Moore’s Law is not dead. tinier, faster chips will continue to create ever more incredible tech experiences for the foreseeable future

@AOCummies that’s my secret, i always miss

this is a claim that people make every few years but no-PC VR will become legitimately good very soon

@thatcarr @what_ntarnation @mtsw @ariellesallai making money BAD

@AOCummies foodlet confirmed

@samuel_taube yeah honestly. someone should've built the line by line commentary tool for ebooks / ereaders but since it's not a thing we have to resort to this

@AOCummies i will say one thing tho. the noodles at asian restaurants are universally better than the rice at asian restaurants. there's only one good way to make rice and it's my mom's way lol

@inspireprag @AOCummies this tweet achieved the golden ratio. the reply:like parity. they say all great poasts hover at 1:1

@jomgy true, fk brown rice

@AOCummies @neekolul he never misses

@aquariusacquah tbqh i just understood this why she tagged azure. the discourse has gotten too advanced for me

@NickMeier21 shut up, nope, never happened,,

@mattparlmer with any luck the 'rona is gonna do that to the unis

@similaralterity @mattparlmer how elite we talking? the top 100 unis above all others have had a golden age of high paying chinese immigrants and that might be over

will be incredible when Tesla's AVs end the largest source of senseless violence known to man https://x.com/hen_str/status/1262352897813200896

@fchollet @neurobongo 'official MAGA brand' ... what ... Tesla is and always has been the brand of the smug silicon valley environmentalist liberal

@swapp19902 @fchollet @neurobongo dissidents not allowed

@ZeframM Binocular vision is already as good as lidar

@swapp19902 @fchollet @neurobongo He quite vocally voted for Hillary and publically said trump would be a bad president lol idk what these people want

@swapp19902 @fchollet @neurobongo And as for his tweets — why are libs completely humorless?

you can tell how far off a researcher thinks strong AI is by how liberal they are

the liberals are always quick to point out that AGI is a pipe dream and that the real worry is racism or something

wtf I finally respect him https://x.com/mugrimm/status/1262499111410040835

@Ghazzali_Mind ive changed my worldview vastly like 3-4 different times through my life and i dont think it changed me fundamentally

@NeoLibBen @BigBreakfastLob if you agree with this I don’t see how you can defend W in any way. Killing fascists isn’t always better than not killing fascists. The world isn’t a point and shoot game

@BigBreakfastLob @NeoLibBen There are 2 things. (1) Mismanagement is a euphemism for the fact that the bush administration could not give a shit what happened to Iraq after they took saddam down. They went to war without a post war plan

@BigBreakfastLob @NeoLibBen (2) even with the absolute best management the government can employ there was no guarantee of a peaceful and successful reconstruction process. Building states is hard. By the consequentialist view, it’s extremely valid to blame Bush for the subsequent sectarian violence

offer prizes instead of salaries https://x.com/erin_nerung/status/1262585411668512768

@BigBreakfastLob @NeoLibBen of course nobody can take PEPFAR away from him. Bush did a lot of good there. I’m just saying it’s hard to defend W’s war in Iraq, just like its hard to defend Obama’s Syria policy

@eigenrobot https://x.com/tszzl/status/1262624191481856000?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1262624191481856000

inshallah https://x.com/paperdragun/status/1262166314019246080

@NicholasElodeon same

@eigenrobot absolutely ethered by the biker criminals bit

@NicholasElodeon Honestly I hope he goes on

@NicholasElodeon I liked rubin’s interview of thiel a lot, he seems ok with asking personal questions that others might veer away from

give it to me straight folks. does “dopamine fasting” to shore up attention span actually work

@powerbottomdad1 yeah that’s what I mean by dopamine fasting. Quitting internet, etc

@similaralterity It’s like Ninja before Mixer. He was earning record money on twitch, but there’s always a bigger dump truck of cash somewhere

anotha one https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1262790444007796738?s=20

@eigenrobot can’t find any references to China as “pecinum”, where did u get this?

@gigafelon @eigenrobot ah got it pecinum like peking. doubt it’s modern bc when I search it all I get are eigen’s tweets. Probably literally what the romans called it

@_vivalapanda come sweet death

@susanthesquark @valleyhack you know that's not what it was about lol. it's easy to dunk and hard to build

@eigenrobot @gigafelon "Peking" is a spelling created by French missionaries of the 17th and 18th centuries. In De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas (1615), Matteo Ricci calls the city Pechinum.[2]

@susanthesquark @valleyhack if you look at the a16z portfolio, they clearly have a variety of plays in biotech, nuclear, and other non-chat app sectors. they could definitely do better, but at least pmarca's intent is in the right place.

@susanthesquark @valleyhack the tech press usually picks the dumbest investment out of hundreds or thousands and then lords it around as an unimpeachable symbol of the Valley's decadence. but imo that reflects worse on the tech press than the valley

@context_ing @rivatez > denying themselves rich, beautiful, passionate lives i dont know dude, i appreciate the sentiment but im not sure how rich and beautiful spending 8 hours a day on twitter is

@context_ing @rivatez i don't know what the "canon" is, i interpreted it as just quitting electronics

@robanhk @susanthesquark @valleyhack you see what you want to believe

@robanhk @susanthesquark @valleyhack “white guys building spaceships” he says, as Americana regain the ability to put astronauts in orbit for the first time in decades. What have you done recently?

Once you take this concept to its conclusion and let *all* my ancestors vote, including the barely human and nonhuman ones they’ll be thrilled by the life of hedonic decadence and plenty I’m living https://x.com/0x49fa98/status/1262069438645514248

Long before traditions walked the earth my ancestors were duking it out in endless competition for mates and resources, which is really all we do today anyway

@neolibureaucrat Doesn’t this prove my point?

@neolibureaucrat Of course. I’m being slightly ironic to poke fun at the nrx worldview. The original post implies that the ancestral vote brings tradition, a tool of social cohesion. Whereas you’ve just pointed out our ancestors had zero cohesion at all.

@neolibureaucrat The nrx commonly think our society has been reduced to hedonic decadence. I don’t really agree

@neolibureaucrat frankly I think the dead already have a sizable vote, insofar as they’ve created the world we live in. Our piddling changes are nothing compared to the amount of civilization we inherit. They *gave* us the progressive tradition, and the practice of science

@Noahpinion AI/ML has *already* panned out big — for the major tech companies. When data is the key ingredient, only the already successful can compete. Tesla is an AI company that’s succeeding bc it already had 100,000s cars w sensors on the road

@DutchHaleyfan @peachpadme @NicholasElodeon @guywhits Ok it’s the real Richard, I’m finally convinced

@eigenrobot the knowledge of dopamine and serotonin has made our discourse insanely worse

@Sharon_Kuruvila im by no means up to date on modern physics but it seems there’s some giant leaps being made. Tau neutrinos are detected coming out of the earth -> they must be traveling backwards in time -> they must be leaking from a parallel universe ??

@Sharon_Kuruvila Also have to remember that nasa consists of a million different independent research groups, each of whom has a strong incentive to make outlandish claims to get press coverage. I remember a few years ago “nasa” “broke inertia” by harnessing the “zero point energy”

@Nikhil87539319 @ditzkoff Please god no

surely George will finish his book over the quarantine and give us a different ending than this catastrophe amirite 😂😂🥺😭😭😭 https://x.com/ditzkoff/status/1262757062766850051

trying to get to the level where my reply guys have reply guys

@L0m3z i can assure you Friends is not taboo among young people, and kids are making transgressive jokes all the damn time, just log onto tiktok. it's probably just a loud minority

@AOCummies if u get this reference ur a GAWD

@aquariusacquah @AOCummies humor really peaked in the sandbox

@aquariusacquah @AOCummies i still think about when ppl would "Chinese cut" each other in line

@AOCummies sorry for the reddit cringe im bout to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0

i am taking applications for my reply guy accelerator program. 12 week course where i train my reply guys to collect their own reply guys https://x.com/circusforcirce/status/1262953563157864450?s=20

@gigafelon you make your own hours

@eigenrobot everytime i want to become a digital hermit im reminded of this brutal fact

@mattparlmer @_djpn agree in theory, disagree in practice. There’s a reason why people still use Microsoft office when open office is there

@MaryJackalope play stupid games, win stupid prizes lol. he staked his masculinity on being stronger than every single girl and then overreacted when he found out he wasn’t

@MaryJackalope also yeah she was technically eavesdropping but if this dude is anything like I am on voice chat, hes probably pretty loud

@jachaseyoung @averykimball based

I wonder if this is new or everpresent in human history

@averykimball ironic religiosity for the postmodern age

@sonyasupposedly deist? How does this work re: miracles and stuff

@sonyasupposedly @averykimball I think “ironic” here is a turn of phrase meant to encapsulate the dissonance we all feel about our real beliefs these days. You can’t quite admit to yourself or the world that you believe certain things. Like how some people first “ironically” supported trump

@xstntlprvrt69 @sonyasupposedly @averykimball always being brave is overrated, you usually end up dead if you do this

@Noahpinion bc The Discourse is owned by ppl in their 20s and frankly I have no recollection of the 2000s

@jachaseyoung Dance with Dragons is memory hoped for me. But if the miracle of miracles happens, the Sequel that was Promised is delivered, I will reread that gargantuan mess of a novel

@Cullen_OK I blame sapiens, somehow I know Harari is the cause of this. I am triggered every time I hear someone wax poetic about stories now

There are only a handful of people who have seriously committed themselves to the humanist religion (it’s a hard one to buy) and Elon musk is foremost among them. The guy has the fanatic devotion of a high priest wrt to Mars

@_StevenFan @Cullen_OK Unitarian. It’s a formless liberal religion. I would say it’s impossible to build transcendence around such a concept. They tried during the French Revolution and failed.

@BonbonFork I think the neoliberal tradition consists of many irreligious folks who pay homage to the concept of “human progress” and “science” but in reality hold very little sacred other than their own self interest.

@BonbonFork Holding the human race as a worship object doesn’t come naturally to anyone that hasn’t read a shitton of scifi paperbacks, and it’s a hard pill to swallow even for them (us). We become humanist liberals in name but not with the zeal of the Inquisitor.

@visakanv any of my life’s work, which I genuinely enjoy but put off to browse twitter a lil bit more. I reach for it at every small anxiety and realization that x will be harder than I thought

@BonbonFork And musk actually *does* have the zeal of the inquisitor. You can see it in his desperation to shave days and weeks off the time til the mars colony debut date, and hear it in his grandiose evangelism about humanity and it’s destiny in the stars

@visakanv uh oh, time for a visa link labyrinth

@visakanv Broadly agree, and I feel this linked tweet hard but I can’t help but wonder if our modern social media are enabling us to run away from ourselves, deafening the inner voice with the chatter of all humanity https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211466764548096000?s=20

@BonbonFork interestingly I think religious zeal can embolden contrarianism rather than dampen it. One who strongly believes in certain principles will not simply follow the crowd; they’ll go their own way. They look above instead of around them. It’s this devotion I admire

@visakanv It’s a matter of resolve and inner strength, whether you let trivialities distract you from the internal newsfeed. For ones woefully lacking resolve, the best move may be to reduce exposure to those distractions, fight fewer fights. But it’s a tough pill to swallow

@eigenrobot sry what’s this picture from?

@powerbottomdad1 ya fr

@mcunctator @Evollaqi It’s adaptive to believe that you can do anything, but it generally isn’t true

@Cullen_OK @jachiam0 @ceobillionaire The new conception of states as vehicles for market like “free movement” competition is interesting, but imo doesn’t even begin to grapple with the fact that states are for warfare

@gooddogthedog The highest priests are always atheists

@sonyasupposedly be meaner

@NicholasElodeon @AOCummies he says like he's not 1 month over 18

@Halikaarn1an since Robespierre's Cult of Reason in the French Revolution, it has been tried and failed many times

@ne0liberal we would just spend all our days arguing about the parameters of that stabilizer

@Brrrrrpp the dude is permanently full-time angry lmao it's kind of amazing

@Brrrrrpp there's 2 things there tho: (1) his rage is extremely profitable. he gets a ton of attention on here b.c he points out things we're all feeling about the hypocrisy of the left (2) politics is a mind killer that ends up sucking all your time and energy

@Brrrrrpp many of the stuff he points out are valid tho, and he backs up with screenshots. if you think about it, everything he says *has* to be true, because there's always some crazy idiot on this website that fits the profile of the person he's criticizing and really that's the problem

@Brrrrrpp you can always find someone really evil and dumb on the other side whos behavior you can constantly bring to the surface and make everyone on your side angry too, when most of the left are probably not like that

@Brrrrrpp @hu__cares i think there is a world of difference between how the chapo tribe behaves vs how agraybee behaves

sorry but sub 1000 plebs can't be trusted with these godlike powers https://x.com/Brrrrrpp/status/1263236492043968513

.@litgenstein plz explain this popsci nonsense going around https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/nasa-detects-parallel-universe-antarctica-cosmic-ray-shower

@similaralterity love 2 be a generally unlikeable dick and call it master morality

@litgenstein i havent seen a debunking/explanation yet so id love one

went outside for the first time in months today. it is apocalyptic. the sun is rising in the west and setting in the east. the oceans are dry and the mountains are blowing like leaves in the wind

@GreySmithereens the Uber Eats drivers bravely venture out into the Mojave Badlands everyday to collect Nuka Cola caps and sustenance

The WHO funding sources are a major narrative violation

everyone of you will be poasting incredible cringe like this when you’re 70 https://x.com/StephenKing/status/1263130659557646338

.@garymarcus in absolute shambles rn https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbolic-mathematics-finally-yields-to-neural-networks-20200520

@aquariusacquah im choking

@LoicTheStoic By forcing rich countries to spend a lot on costly labor, you improve the incentives for automation and true productivity growth

@AOCummies Every man must reach nirvana in his own way

can't believe they took Virgil Texas out back and shot him dead after the primaries

@teedubya @AOCummies that's right

@artofhunger75 faustian bargain tends to have its telltale signs on the physique

@aquariusacquah feel like r/cth is doing him a trotsky and erasing him from history

@aquariusacquah that has to be incidental at best, i rly doubt it has anything to do with his disappearance. my headcanon is that he probably just thought this gig wouldn't be profitable anymore and went to sign up for lambda school

still think about this from time to time ... the man is walking around to this day thinking he did something here ... https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1036741039220916225

when you train RL agents to naively optimize for novelty, they often get stuck watching static on a TV -- it's impossible to predict the next frame of static on a tv, so it's highly novel but also p uninteresting. I think about this sometimes when i browse twitter 8 hours a day

@mattparlmer tbh i kinda like the valley moniker. it's always been pretty clear that the "valley" represents the seattle based microsoft and amazon too. it's amorphous by nature

@similaralterity i guarantee the portion of facebook's workforce that'll actually be wfh in 5 years will be under 10%

@postidentity so much static. i inject the static right into my veins

@jdcmedlock @MattBruenig gotta respect the oil money 🙃

i've slowly become a tech twitter normie

mfw Gilgamesh was an indian dude https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0073682

biden's win chances won't be affected at all by veep pick, and he'll just look like an idiot if he picks kamala harris who is both (1) hated by the dem base and (2) called joe biden a racist during the debates

stacey abrams is a total nonentity, her stans are dreaming

@aquariusacquah if thats true then kamala harris is an even bigger mistake

@OldDreyfusard lol i think there's no chance bc Massachusetts is a safe blue state and she's also just burned a lot of bridges

@koaleszenz im p sure the portion of them that have an understanding of her track record as AG is negligible; im just going off of her abysmal primary performance. i mean ... to get outperformed by klobuchar and mayor pete ...

@aquariusacquah nate pyrite hasn't predicted one correct thing this entire szn lol

@koaleszenz her campaign was well funded and well run in the early stages when compared to any of her competitors. she was drowning in endorsements too. imo it's as simple as this: she didn't catch on