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@NicholasElodeon chinua achebe

@NicholasElodeon idk if yall read this but i will never forget the yams

@NicholasElodeon imho dont try to force yourself to read a book you arent interested in, you'll end up not reading that book nor any other book due to guilt. start with something fun and easy and work your way back in

@NicholasElodeon truuu

@CumfortablySmug @neolibreplygirl @jaspergregory something about tearing off my flesh and feeding it to me, it was lit

@lpolovets Feature extraction is just a stage in the pattern recognition pipeline

the world if the Obamacare UX was like 20% better

Defund the police EXCEPT for thicc Latina cops

There is nothing magical about the Swedish school system. Any system they use would produce eye popping results, because schooling is not panacea

@jdcmedlock That’s interesting, have the standardized test scores climbed back up?

@NeoLibBen Do whatever Singapore does

vote for my man @AOCummies https://t.co/xsBnBTiQ7b

Vote for my man @Brrrrrpp https://x.com/TerryUnbred/status/1270145212128604161?s=20

becoming antifragile by making myself read terrible poasts all day all night

@razibkhan i cant betray my ancestors, gotta be hinduism

@aquariusacquah ive been saying this

@AOCummies @inspireprag california combines a terrible culture and government with god tier economy, weather and landscape so i think it just evens out to somewhere in the middle

@inspireprag based

@sonyasupposedly you can get absolution by tweeting "im so tired" every now and again

this video hits so so different. i felt genuine happiness for the first time in months https://x.com/steppebuddha/status/1269353077296914433

@neolibureaucrat this is what the industrial revolution stole from us

@JacksonKernion it's very fun and good as a total work of fiction, it's got literally nothing to do with the actual origin story of facebook

the subtle tell that this guy doesn't have a finger on the pulse is that reactionaries mostly hate cato institute https://t.co/xXez4GxLD0

@krrishd true

@Randylad On some axes they probably have more in common with BAP than Cato lol

@vgr Being gloriously wrong in a big history way is almost preferable to being right in a “little history” sense. Being able to place yourself and others in a grand narrative is eschatology

@NicholasElodeon :)

🇨🇳 is not universalist and doesn't really offer anything to people who aren't Han and ☪️ is all earth and no sky no, it all leads back to Thunbergian ecofascism https://x.com/HbdNrx/status/1270420523038605312

@_vivalapanda yeah; but Christianity survived and evolved with the printing press to become stronger than ever. although people with more nuanced ideas than me on christian theology may disagree with this

@Teleonomic this is an appealing ideology to the technobrahmin caste but not to anybody else

@ahardtospell this happens to me all the time. i have perpetual phantom limb syndrome but for tweets

@aquariusacquah We are rapidly building on prem just to get rid of him

@Teleonomic you need something that's able to capture the imagination of the masses to really become powerful

@HenryPorters i rt'd bc im amused by the chicago government cursing at each other -- dont know anything about the scenario

u aint ready for GPT-4 filing articles of incorporation on itself to achieve legal personhood

@jdcmedlock now that you support means testing, we should also do targeted healthcare subsidies

tbh i was skeptical that there would be long term changes to the education system, but: http://fisherp.scripts.mit.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020-2021.pdf mit wants to do freshman year online and funnel top performers to "real school" sophomore year

they plan on accepting 20 thousand freshman into such a program and then selecting the top 5%. those freshman are going to be working insanely hard lmao. i wonder what happens to the other 95 if MIT does this and continues, expect others to follow suit.

@aquariusacquah the main issue i see is, what happens to the 95% of people who dont make the cut after their freshman years. do they have to do a tedious transfer process to somewhere else? theyd have to start applying in the middle of the school year as a contingency

@alth0u MIT certainly seems more adventurous than most schools

@AOCummies yeah it really depends what your options are after 'failing out of mit' lol

@katmhuang you're right, i didn't understand the context of these slides at first. definitely propositional

@aquariusacquah at the least i hope u could transfer credit easily. id like to think most ppl "failing out" of mit would still be top recruits for other colleges

@eigenrobot i watched NGE for the first time in the late 2010s and the dead link labyrinth was an absolute nightmare. so sad about all the lost content

@krrishd wtf the Seattle AZ has 20 minute delivery drones

@jwetzelburg @HbdNrx the reproductive constant is not enough to change the story -- you have to think of the net outconversion rate

just realized this is a great way to make the MIT class like 90% asian lol there won't be any "personality score reweighting" if its based on first year academic perf

@jdcmedlock What makes means testing a fine easier than means testing welfare?

Comrades, we fought bravely at Safeway’s Last Stand but the territory could not be held https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/1270584720221515776

@efficient_tax Proof by casework

@too_online_zach rly wish I was there to see this

@replicaofself its apparently a business district full of bars

@__ice9 SAME

@DukakisDude Nostalgia

@AOCummies that’s right

@sonyasupposedly i think its specifically to increase frictions on processes they don't want to be sped up; e.g. comcast will offer chat support for almost every issue *except* cancelling subscription.

@OldDreyfusard what is repulsive about it? simply that it's a secular vision?

@sonyasupposedly i'm hoping they increasingly replace their call centers with chat bots and customers increasingly have chat bots that represent their own interests / time

@OldDreyfusard whether or not space colonies would be democratic seems like a tangential issue -- they would likely experiment with many forms of governance just like real life colonies have, many of them democratic

@OldDreyfusard in the past, religious minority groups have been the most eager to leave their countries and form new protectorates elsewhere, so i don't see how the vision is incompatible with religion either. in Scott Card's novels, there's often entire planets that are catholic/mormon/etc

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard the earth is what engineers would call a single point of failure. if something happens to it (some cataclysmic geological event, gamma ray burst, sun gets too hot in ~500 million years) then the human race ends

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard and yes it's obvious there is no planet that can support us like mother Earth but the herculean task of terraforming is necessary in the long run

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard We could probably support a million people on mars without any lofty planetary engineering whatsoever. And if you think terraforming is impossible, look at what we’re doing right now to the Earth

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard Few hundred years ago, it would’ve been impossible to support a permanent encampment in the Antarctic. Look at us now. I only wonder if we have the interest in doing a mars colony, not if we’ll be able to achieve it technologically

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard antarctic* and there is no point in living there outside of scientific research. it's uninteresting. there are people who would pay an arm and a leg to go live on mars. the point here is that we became capable of living there, even if we don't have a strong reason to do it

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard there are a couple million people who live in the arctic circle, so lol

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard lol and im sure people thought it was hilarious and dumb to try and go to the moon

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard the arctic circle is literally the arctic, you don't know what you're talking about. of the land area that extends inside the arctic circle, there are 4.5 million inhabitants. the rest of it is arctic ocean

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard i mean, you're kind of proving my point. the technology is there if you can find the right cause. propaganda is just one of the possible reasons. but we're really on different wavelengths if you don't think the moon landing had value -- it's probably not worth talking about this

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard apollo program is one of the greatest things humans have ever done, rivalling the internet, printing press, nuclear bomb, etc. the pictures of the earth from the moon affected the culture of a whole generation

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard and i have to take that as a matter of faith lol? do you think the rocket technology to reach the moon was "there" before the mercury and apollo programs? i'm saying there's a clear path to get there, not that we could do it today

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard you seem cynical and angry that people can even hope for glory lol, don't take it out on me

@Imperial_Eagle2 @OldDreyfusard my last word on this: you've asserted this quite a few times, without providing much evidence. i'm supposed to take you on your authority. frankly, i don't think you know what any of the grand challenges from here to mars base are or have any interest in them, so bye

get in here boys we're creating the data models of the future https://docs.google.com/document/d/13RdzrgGWLu21BfCVKf5BBSJgpk2cvhixYOZnRv1bITM/edit?usp=sharing

Oh, the leader of the CHAZ is an 18 year old anarchist LARPer you say. Let me pill you on another 18 year old LARPer that collapsed multiple empires .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip

@aquariusacquah CHAZ haters are coping so hard that they dont have the balls to declare sovereignty of their own country

@wannabegroncho afaict

@similaralterity WHAT

@AOCummies nah man you get to meet so many people and learn new things

someone better be filming every second of the CHAZ phenomenon, its going to make an excellent netflix miniseries one day

@AOCummies @WarKettle WTF im antifa now

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies @WarKettle damn i hope shes not 15 or some shit

dang im so glad this economics expert is here to tell us this harmless opinion is a bad take

@aquariusacquah Ya that’s what I was thinking. Some Econ grad student who thinks he’s hot shit

@DukakisDude It’s not toxic, I’m just sad it’s declined from pointing out actually useful things

@bhboehlert I see, yeah that ain’t good. More of a pattern with this account

@nikillinit the proper pronunciation of 'nih kill' places stress on neither syllable; short english words usually come with one fast and one slow syllable

you're going to wake up tomorrow morning and CHAZ will contain most of Seattle

the warlord/airbnb superhost Raz will have worked out a deal with Amazon and raised a legion of fighting age men via mechanical turk

@mgo11mgo granted, i didn't realize this quoted dude is some sort of personal finance guru. if so, this is probably not very good advice to give people.

@mgo11mgo but on another level i respect the entrepreneurial/self sufficiency mindset of americans and I think it's a net good sentiment

@NamithVorakkara software is lame

@NamithVorakkara that's true but i think physics/"science" in the abstract has a much more mainstream IFLS appeal

ITS HAPPENING https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1270914092295950337

@disconcerta i want a photo op of them shaking hands, nothing would make me happier

@samgraver what did he do?

@aquariusacquah exactly my point. at some stage between the warlords, the protection rackets, the president calling them out, it stopped being a larp

@aquariusacquah this is now a CHAZ stan account

@AOCummies damn howd u know

@AOCummies im actually joking, im clean rn. had a lot of coffee though

@aquariusacquah In the Middle East, whoever controls the OIL controls the country. There’s a similar principle here for the Enterprise Cloud

@_Jason_Dean_ I was an early investor, this shit is amazing

it's spreading. by the end of the week all the granola leftie cities will be Autonomous. by the end of the month, most of the West Coast https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1270967403464126467

@aquariusacquah Dave Perell grift is great

@eigenrobot i feel bad for u Seattleites but i would be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying the hell out of this

@Randylad funniest shit ive seen all year

@Randylad :) wait who is rbot

@Rationalbot @Randylad Oh right 🔥

@jcrolon909 greatest click of my life

@eigenrobot lmao

@pupperio I’m more on the side of “praying for this” rather than “concerned”

@erich_luepke @AOCummies of course

@peaktransit Uh ✍️Oh✍️Emily

@swapp19902 @balaji Gavin Newsom planted the seeds for this with his #NationState talk

@samgraver not really

@DukakisDude 'capitalists' is used interchangeably with 'rent seekers' on the left so yeah the concern is reasonable

@DukakisDude tbqh it seems to me hard leftism is a countervailing force for when rent seeking becomes a large enough portion of the market economy. their ideas are simplistic, but true in some directional sense

@NicholasElodeon my bar for following is extremely low

@aquariusacquah watching all the 30+ year old PMs at instagram concern themselves with what the teens are up to 50 hours a week makes me queasy lmao

@AOCummies you'll pay for this

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah boy you're not gonna like the presentation abt the taxonomy of different kinds of finstas i had to watch

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah astounded when the internationalization PMs take a trip to france to 'understand why the teenagers are using snapchat' and spend the whole time partying and touristing

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah :__)

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah btw this was a real thing lmao ... it had like profiles like "oversharing amy ... sports enthusiast charlie ..."

@AOCummies Can we talk about how low them incest statistics are ... doesn’t add up

@stanGorbachev2 give ppl a reason to live ... the only thing neoliberalism cant do ...

Building new statues of Christopher Columbus rn faster than they can topple them

I’ve completely swapped out my January beliefset for the New Era https://x.com/wesyang/status/1271224165845131264

@LeftistNeoCon I can’t even imagine a mindstate where i was interested in democratic primaries, I just don’t get it

@aquariusacquah @similaralterity Yeah it’s very clearly because of various internet sub communities. People can’t really contextualize how much impact tumblr had

@aquariusacquah @similaralterity It’s a multiplier effect based on Taleb’s minority rule

born in 1997, i am an Elder Zoomer. All other zoomers look up to me

@AnikVJoshi lol do i seem much older?

@BarryYourFriend fellow man of culture, i see

@AnikVJoshi UCB rn

@kpopobama retweet both brother

@covfefe_slonker @BarryYourFriend @GlobalistBoi nah they say the last year of millennial is '96, so '97 is the first zoomers https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/generations-and-age/

@powerbottomdad1 @DaanVanDenHam2 tbh was real scared tweeting this

@__ice9 @selentelechia still cool tho

@browserdotsys @moodprobiotic ffs if only apollo thought of this

@shaielb im an degenerate whose virtual work starts 3 hours behind where i live and no

@pelotom riskiest tweet

@neolibureaucrat Any field that has to rely on gatekeepers and peer reviewers will eventually have some top N info aggregators

@neolibureaucrat similar problem in credentialing

unpopular RL opinion: with the advent of sim2real domain randomization, deep RL can most likely solve most real world robotics problems if you are willing to throw enough VC money at compute https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/05/05/domain-randomization.html

not just robotics problems, but nearly any real world optimization challenge which you can build a crude simulator for

@rejuvyesh Budget of a couple million, and dev budget for some good simulators/randomizers. Do you disagree? Most robotics tasks are much simpler than eg Starcraft

@rejuvyesh Yeah I meant robotic arms in factory and such that may need a small bit of intelligence to account for paneling gaps etc. kitchen is doable too, but would probably require intense Industrial lab scale investment

@pm commercial space is actually a smaller market than most people think imo, but the hunger for publicly funded space missions is potentially unbounded

@pm asteroid mining is a pipe dream and the demand for satellite launches is not infinite

@canyonliveoak @socialistrash @probablymagic @stanGorbachev2 folks have never in history had better material conditions than today ... they're not having kids because they're all blackpilled about the virtue of even having them

"paul krugman is smart, but has he accepted the Word of our Lord Eliezer Yudkowsky" https://theumlaut.com/paul-krugman-is-brilliant-but-is-he-meta-rational-497db0db931

no ive never read the article, the title is too cringe

@probablymagic @canyonliveoak @socialistrash @stanGorbachev2 maybe they want them, but they clear want other things more i.e. good career, high status

@jamescartermin1 @pm rn they're fronting the cost to put their own cubesats up there, and imho will only be valuable if they have a monopoly on that kind of technology.

@sidkap_ @anniefryman I thought of this day 1 of the chaz phenomenon but was too lazy to make it 😭

accept the inevitable folks. be on the Right Side of History https://x.com/badtradmom/status/1271599728556376069

@Randylad please god no

my opsec is nonexistent this should’ve been an anon account

@Randylad @browserdotsys make it stop

either that or i have to commit to putting my full name and job history in my bio and include an "opinions do not represent my employers XD"

@aquariusacquah true i'll probably do that for now then, once i start my career as budding VC associate twitter influencer I'll spell it out more explicitly

@powerbottomdad1 @aquariusacquah yeah but the concept is to raise the mental effort cost of "doxxing" you or DMing ur employer's hr department or something

@aquariusacquah @powerbottomdad1 we non anons will always be at a disadvantage in the Discourse, cowering before the take capacity of accts like @powerbottomdad1 and @eigenrobot

@similaralterity @powerbottomdad1 @aquariusacquah brb deleting my http://chess.com profile and shit

@DaanVanDenHam2 bold move

@powerbottomdad1 @similaralterity @aquariusacquah same thing happened to me except was trash talking a dude in starcraft lol

@NeoLibBen @accountable_gov this is the major hole in leftist logic tbqh

@eigenrobot What’s your sunburn timer

i get absolutely infuriated when people talk about their brain in the third person pls accept your agency man

"my brain is so weird, it always ----" PLEASE GOD NO

@alth0u ya was cringing at this ... so performative ...

@alth0u honestly i dont like chollet at all, dont know why people take his ideas on ML seriously -- the dude wrote a very thin API over tensorflow, doesn't qualify him for much

@Randylad NOOOO

@Randylad gen z has also been ruined by the common knowledge of the existence of dopamine and serotonin talking about your dopamine levels should be a crime

@devarbol Wtf I love it now

@generativist @vsync 3 I believe

@LittleKeegs0 @daokedao1234 @chathamharrison @jdcmedlock @ryxcommar Neoliberal on this hell site literally means “centrist democrat” so lol

@jdcmedlock Effectively the same thing, except with more paperwork

what kind of work is being done re: using NNs to intermediate between real neurons and prosthetic hands https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1271834720041611265

@arnoblalam neural networks

@RIPAOCummies @Brrrrrpp @TerryUnbred based

@aquariusacquah im an angel investor in up and coming kpop groups

the Mars dream would be toast if we didn't have these convenient frozen water lakes lying around the surface

you can melt it and drink it, hydrolize it and breathe it, turn it into fuel via Sabatier reaction, farm crops on the regolith

any martian economy would really center around heavy industry processing frozen water into other things

@RIPAOCummies yeah, seems harder to extract tho

@RIPAOCummies i haven't, will look into it

@RIPAOCummies ah so this would be pre discovery of martian water right?

@jomgy kinda strange but I stopped moving a lot on this dimension after age 20~ ish. i'm just in a permanent state of mild discontent, just enough where i want to strive for more power/status/wealth but not enough to do it with any conviction

@DaanVanDenHam2 Yeah always seemed sus to me

@GilgameshNusku accept that whatever aspect of your brain you control via medication is an aspect of the self that you are medically changing; it’s always a Faustian bargain

@GilgameshNusku you become a different person on adderall or alcohol or lsd

@generativist Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

@chriscardinal yes i'll allow it

@Brrrrrpp delete the RStudio bookmark rn

@zck ipod touch

@GilgameshNusku culture and experience are all patterns encoded in the brain, and i'm not sure what you mean by noise. at least in the materialist perspective, you are your brain and nothing more

day 1 without @AOCummies, might end it all

@aquariusacquah @AOCummies i think hes just blackpilled rn, he deleted all his accounts

@pantone161329 @aquariusacquah @AOCummies you can reasonably assume that every heavy twitter user has an alt

@aquariusacquah @hobbsure1 @AOCummies nah he seemed pretty sad when he left

@eigenrobot truly changing your mind is equivalent to dying prove me wrong

@eigenrobot if the mind is a fire, a dynamic process spreading over stimuli like kindling, then can there be discontinuities that can End one mind and birth another? What if I install a dmod that makes me believe a new ideology, or forget a crucial relationship in my life, etc

@eigenrobot ideological/religious fanatics have described the process of deconversion as akin to death

@The_Geraldoid @eigenrobot debate is murder

@eigenrobot when im changing my mind on something big, I enter a period where i willfully LARP as someone who's convinced of the new idea, and then remain there if it feels nice. kind of like how you have to pretend to be sleeping to fall asleep

"state capacity" is an intangible quantity that's only tested in times of war

which means that war is really the only evolutionary selection mechanism for governance

while the other win conds exist in Civ, we all know that domination victory is the only that ever really happens

@_AlastairX_ space race was an extension of ideological war, and I'm not sure how much I believe in the efficacy of industrial policy

the Decline of Scientism is best seen in the transition from Carl Sagan to NDT

@RIPAOCummies look i'm not implying that the US would still be in good shape if Carl Sagan were living but,,

@arnoblalam @RIPAOCummies the biggest tell about Neil's books is that he consistently launders entire sections from one book into the next -- he's been writing the same book forever, which is not true of Sagan's books at all

@RIPAOCummies @arnoblalam i haven't seen the original cosmos either haha, and i couldn't make it through the reboot series either. but i've read a few sagan books Sagan was a philosopher with a great flourish for language; NDT is a very good showman, but he never quite reached those heights

you're a low caste cunsoomer if you learned about time dilation from Interstellar instead of Ender's Game

@discourseloverr insane lol we're going the way of the britbongs

@AlanMCole necessity is the mother of invention, and the wizards have never wanted for anything

"It’s impossible to make good food out of nothing! You can Summon it if you know where it is, you can transform it, you can increase the quantity if you’ve already got some..." ~HP7 ok we all agree this is ridiculous right

you're telling me Hermione could've put some food in a refrigerated pocket dimension and just cloned it whenever they wanted, but instead they were scrounging for food all book long?

have wizards heard of Soylent??

@aquariusacquah like bruh cmon you couldve invented any manner of hardships for them but it had to be ... material scarcity??

@Willyintheworld if you imply that magic is bound by certain immutable laws "5 exceptions to Gamp's Law of Universal Transfiguration??" then you should actually stick to the logic system your own books describe lol e.g. LotR has no formal magic system at all, and therefore avoids logical holes

@aquariusacquah i dont necessarily have an opinion on her TERFism but its great to make fun of harry potter and own 25 yr old vox liberals

@Willyintheworld https://x.com/tszzl/status/1272397872697352192?s=20

@powerbottomdad1 @aquariusacquah lot of kids books have great lasting power honestly. there are a handful that i reread every now and then HP is notable for not having that lasting power. doesnt even make me nostalgic

@jdcmedlock at the very least, they'd have to be cheap as hell, to beat the marginal cost of expending effort on some duplication spells

@jdcmedlock @ChrisCroy the wizard economy is all fucked why can't you just duplicate currency??

dudes on this site will drop the "sexually identify as an attack helicopter" joke for the millionth time and then turn around and unironically say some shit like "I identify as a Hoppean monarchist"

@NicholasElodeon @fedtanyl david is chaotic good, hes been a lil wild on the TL

the virgin Polling vs the chad Sticking a Wet Finger in the Air and Intuiting Who's Going to Win

just found out "neoliberal" just means "Vox reader"

tell me who is LARPing harder, the teenagers with some street art and a communal garden, or people like this? https://x.com/mitchellvii/status/1272701801209479169

can't wait for yet another botched military intervention 😌

@ne0agent1c only if i also get an intelligence upgrade :)

@Hellachans like the hydra, columbus grows 3 new statues for every one taken down

neomercantilist hypothesis: globalism is a supplement rather than complement for technological growth

@Teleonomic if labor is cheap, nobody invests in automation if all manufacturing is offshored, nobody innovates in hardware

@similaralterity @powerbottomdad1 very difficult in my experience to develop a dependence on melatonin supp -- for me even 500 mcg is enough to do the trick also, you could argue that there's all sorts of things we do that interfere with natural melatonin production

@jamescartermin1 yeah that's what i meant, my b

@eigenrobot for what reason(s)? if it's political, it seems like there's as much rigamarole in industry

@KarlMaeser @eigenrobot idk man i've seen some shit -- it's the same class of woke elites running the HR departments of all these companies. it's easier to find one with than without a 'Chief Diversity Officer'

@KarlMaeser @eigenrobot and I'm sure you heard of the James Damore situation, among others

@KarlMaeser @eigenrobot seems to me that getting a phd and using it to gain institutional access as a research scientist in an industry lab is still a good career path

@eigenrobot @KarlMaeser you could read this situation in one of two ways: - that fb stepped up to stop this kind of strange bullying - that this culture is pervasive inside of companies like fb https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/tech/facebook-employee-fired-inaction-black-lives-matter-tweet/index.html

@eigenrobot @KarlMaeser the truth only comes out on Blind :(

@similaralterity @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser random sample

@JacksonKernion @KarlMaeser @eigenrobot dont know what this means

@similaralterity @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser i would poast blind more but i dont want to advertise where i work, it can only lead to bad things

@eigenrobot @similaralterity @KarlMaeser have to confirm account with company email

@JacksonKernion @KarlMaeser @eigenrobot yep

@JacksonKernion @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser the science is hardly relevant imho, it's more like, what he said was in the realm of reasonable discourse. not sure if the question is 'did he fail to deescalate' so much as 'did google have to ass-cover once the memo leaked'

@similaralterity @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser yeah, there's a general "tech" discussion tab, but it's pretty uninteresting. the company specific one is where the magic happens

@similaralterity @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser the exclusivity allows folks to discuss material secrets and nonpublic info without too much concern

@eigenrobot @similaralterity @KarlMaeser they'll know you have a Blind account if they search your email, but they won't know your handle or if you've ever used the app at all. the bigger risk is probably a breach on Blind's database, which would probably link your email back to your handle and comments

@eigenrobot @similaralterity @KarlMaeser same tbh, im a cunsoomer

@KarlMaeser @JacksonKernion @eigenrobot yeah my motte and bailey is that i think he shouldn't have been fired even if he was wrong, but also that he was directionally correct

so ur telling me the country that built the world's most sophisticated computer virus to slowly explode an enemy's nuclear reactors has been brought to its knees by a strong flu

@luke_metro it was a collaboration between NSA, CIA, and Mossad i believe. but yeah probably mostly Mossad lol

@marathiMaharaja yeah im surprised too, i've never noticed this. but it seems somewhat true that there are probably more indian american top level executives and politicians than chinese

@import_jerbear yeah, this is normal among all races tho lol

@cdw870 @marathiMaharaja english at this point is the common language of the indian elite, so it's unsurprising that indian immigrants may be better at speaking it. can thank our colonial masters for that haha

@Pvelkovsky tru, was trying to be dramatic

@similaralterity IM CUNSOOMING

@krrishd u tellin me u dont want to see my sick JS art

@ne0agent1c you can get away with it but you out yourself as low status

@averykimball please i need it

the friends who will stick with you for the longest are the ones truly addicted to Online

robin hanson, my sweet boy,,,, what have you done https://x.com/robinhanson/status/1273321238249852931

forget "generation ships", the point of the game is to accelerate to relativistic speeds and make the trip feel nearly instantaneous

@AOCummies he always returns

@The_Geraldoid from the earth perspective, it would seem the trip took 4 years. From the starflight perspective, it could be weeks, days, hours, depending on how close to c you get

@The_Geraldoid there's probably no way to stably orbit at 0.95c, but this hypothetical could work if you went to travel among the stars. 0.95c only reveals time dilation factor of around 3x, so if you leave for 10 years, you'll find that Earth civilization has aged 32 years

@The_Geraldoid but, if you achieve like 99.99999% the speed of light, you can achieve a time dilation factor of 1000x -- you could leave for a year and come back to find that a completely new civilization rules on earth

@jamescartermin1 accelerate in one direction, then cruise for some distance, then just spin the ship around and accelerate in the other. of course, it would require tremendous amounts of energy and reaction propellant for either burn, but it's not a separate problem

@RIPAOCummies @The_Geraldoid true, that would do the trick

@The_Geraldoid @RIPAOCummies dont know too much about this but the effects of special and general relativity stack to make a lot more time dilation. however it costs a lot of energy to get into a close orbit with a black hole, possibly much more than just accelerating

@browserdotsys if a tweet is liked in a forest, and nobody is there to see it, has it been liked?

@powerbottomdad1 put that tweet back up coward

@powerbottomdad1 yeah its an open secret that these woke trainings are like religious rituals, it's a core part of the ideology that you change people with Conversations

@powerbottomdad1 anyway consider this a response to the deleted tweet https://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00147784.html

@powerbottomdad1 LMAO its already in the playbook

@browserdotsys @eigenrobot why are yall private again?

@eigenrobot @browserdotsys the only winning move is to become Uncancellable https://x.com/robinhanson/status/1273321238249852931?s=20

<3 Big Gretch http://covidactnow.org/us/mi?s=51764

@thee_snek i will get enough circumcisions to make up for both of you

@NeoLibBen the managerial class in general is whack, you can blame them for most of our problems

@DaanVanDenHam2 you mean you haven't wtf?

@mattparlmer literally just goad the supervolcano into erupting

@KarlMaeser @besttrousers @JacksonKernion @eigenrobot The internal statistics that are meant to signify discrimination are usually little more than final percentages of workforce

@blamelessjay @besttrousers @JacksonKernion @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser i was in a B-school class that discussed the Damore memo at the time and the way it was presented was ... "google employee says women are stupider than men, gets fired"

@besttrousers @blamelessjay @JacksonKernion @eigenrobot @KarlMaeser TBH all results in economics I take with a grain of salt, but I will gladly read the review you linked later tonight

@NKel26 @nntaleb

@Rushil_Kaul1 @NKel26 @nntaleb nope, me and taleb are on GOOD terms

an NYTimes hit piece on SSC will be excellent for Scott Alexander tbqh. free advertising

@yannick___m a few ppl on here have said that there's a journo snooping around. not even one of the sociopathic ones

@browserdotsys that would be the maximum opportunism but there are ways to benefit without going full Dave Rubin

@jomgy exQuse me it would be Tejas Gabbard

@SirajAHashmi @hard2ern ✍️✍️✍️

I just want to understand why noted venture capitalist Marc Andreessen follows my boy @AOCummies

@AOCummies what's the point of a billion dollars if you can't simp egirls with em

my powers grow every day

@krrishd Being a Cloud Solutions Specialist would make me suicidal

@StuartdeStael @browserdotsys @phil49472744 Yeah that’s fair. I suppose I don’t yet know what negative attention on the internet looks like

@jachaseyoung @AOCummies True

@TheNLRGreplyguy at best he's the "King consort" which is something I guess

@eigenrobot let's say you were hypothetically doxxed. have you really said anything here that would lead to real world consequences e.g. being fired, etc? feel like the answer is no, you seem to scrupulously not have Opinions

@browserdotsys @eigenrobot lol, DM me the tweet plz

@browserdotsys @eigenrobot can confirm it was SCALDING

@antirobust Nate Pyrite

@stefan_arrr I’m serious, it looks like the celebrity heft of people uncancelling him is much higher than the people cancelling him

@stefan_arrr Yeah that’s fair

i had to stare at this for 10 minutes before i understood he wasn't talking about Slate Star Codex lmao https://t.co/LZJcP5JgWr

@powerbottomdad1 that's right

@browserdotsys The Dark Forest Problem

being screwed out of a first authorship 🥲

@aquariusacquah apple is rlly playing with fire if they have me sympathizing with DHH

@apoorvasriniva1 have been for a few weeks. i thought i won for a while, but i lost

i have learned to never work with people who write journal manuscripts in word documents and email them around as DRAFT_v7_new_Latest.docx

(psst you actually cant) i don't understand this guy's bit at all. he was very publicly unemployed for like a year in the most booming data science market of all time, and then goes on to imply getting hired as a DS is incredibly trivial and easy

@_vivalapanda yeah i guess you're right. the DS folks at {insert BigN} are some of the most talented analytical minds i've ever met. they do better statistics than most actual scientists

@similaralterity his blog seems much less unhinged than his twitter persona

@aquariusacquah its always the GD econ phds theres a dude on my team who came out of a phd in computational physics and he's excellent to work with

- Roko's Basilisk is essentially an injoke - Moloch is a metaphor at best but I will start unironically believing in these things just to own Noah Smith https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1274053397721669632

@aquariusacquah tech companies hire tons of economists & ex traders, so i don't even get the validity of the complaint plus it seems like you'd want folks with a strong statistical + computational background rather than someone who has memorized a few specific stats tests from econometrics

@Noahpinion you haven't Meditated enough on Moloch

@jamescartermin1 by believing these things i prove that i am impervious to his disapproval

@koaleszenz id believe that if he wasnt constantly shitting on the tech industry

@_Jason_Dean_ yeah i'm not trying to be a dick about him being unemployed; i'm just saying, his advice is clearly wrong based on his own experience and you shouldn't set up the expectation that you're going to easily march in and make 6 figures by knowing what a neural net is

flinging shit at bluechecks is fine, because you are a lowly peasant and they won't even bother to retaliate starting drama w similar sized accounts to urs is fine because it's a fair conflict but picking a fight with someone with 5-10x as many followers as you is a losing game

they're going to be sensitive enough to respond to you and you'll only make them more powerful

@eigenrobot Yes, I’ve been saying this

@eigenrobot Humanity must atone for the true original sin: the xenocide of the Neanderthals

@Rationalbot @eigenrobot Despite consisting of only 15% of all hominids —

@KaelClugston @eigenrobot Genghis Khan fucked a lot of Chinese

love 2 be Google Brain or Facebook AI Research and publish papers that are trivial reskins of old works and totally irreproducible unless u have access to 100 trillion GPUs

why hasn't someone done a bit yet where they let people TwitchPlaysPokemon their whole life

I'm always surprised reading about Orson Scott Card's political views. Card said without any irony that a government that allows gay marriage should be *overthrown*

@nectarina12 this is the reality tv that america wants

also skeptical of Card's conviction that present day religions will live long into the space age and find entire colonies of adherents on other worlds -- at the very least they will need some revamping

@ChrisCroy @powerbottomdad1 this man turned himself into a cryptocoin

excited for the Space Vatican though

@alth0u looks like they finally caught onto his grift

@alth0u i think he did teach but he made a lot of shit up he basically claimed to have taught like 20 different classes lol

@AlexGodofsky @alth0u do you have a link?

@AlexGodofsky @RotemEren @alth0u yeah i rmbr the Daan thread litgenstein was gaslighting him for like a week, implying he was unhinged and possibly dangerous

Law #22 of Hammurabi's Code: "If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death." https://x.com/ACLU/status/1273087217913618433

@Aelkus pen pen is an eva unit

@BlmProfessor Cope

@powerbottomdad1 Your powers are frightening

@latenitenoah @olivertraldi the “marketplace of ideas” exerts evolutionary pressure in a direction we call “progress”, but you have to ask what it’s optimizing for

@swapp19902 You’re right, it’s called the h index

@swapp19902 I agree but in a system like this, all the profits go to the last person in the development chain who makes a ready for market product

@swapp19902 Is it recursive? Will each cited author pay tribute to their cited authors? Will we end up paying massive tributes to the Estate of Isaac Newton

the common belief seems to be that ancient peoples were existentially content but I seriously doubt this Contendedness is maladaptive

@drossos18 Could emulate a similar experience today

@aquariusacquah If signal has a growth org, nothing is sacred

@powerbottomdad1 this man does NOT miss

@NicholasElodeon @powerbottomdad1 powerbottomdad is a Philosopher of Common Sense

@apoorvasriniva1 true i choose to believe that Helen of Troy was divinely beautiful and Achilles rly sprang into timeless monologues every time he got off a chariot

@NicholasElodeon petra's broad shoulders making me nervous

@jdcmedlock “According to his needs” Marx was very clearly a fan of means testing, Medlock owned ✅

@AOCummies there’s no way this is real right

apparently this is a Lone Ranger reference so now I don't know what to think

the core of Ender's Game is pretty jingoistic; it's about the noble Call Of Duty and godlike saviors of mankind

Card flips most of that around on its head in Speaker for the Dead

I’m amazed that image upsampling is a big deal? We’ve had that tech for years

@alth0u Regardless of the improvement of society, most people have avenues to improve their own lives somewhat — gain higher status, more wealth, better mates

the kindle as a device is far inferior to a kindle app available on any smartphone

@mihaiyoulow the reading experience is slightly better and the UX is much worse

@wesyang simple, due to obesity

@AOCummies @NeoLibBen there was literally one semester where i remember working, and everything else is a drug induced haze

@selentelechia blackpilled again the cunnilingus one hits hard

@similaralterity this but unironically

"there are no authorities in science. do not be impressed by what you don't understand"

in some ways i respect the chutzpah of antivaxxers

@AOCummies @powerbottomdad1 u right :(

@AOCummies @powerbottomdad1 when you pass 100 tabs on chrome it just shows up as smiley face lol. Btw I have another hundred tabs on my laptop lmao

@AOCummies When I followed you, it caused you to become cringe

@MiloJKing @AOCummies I miss NeolibDrew 😔

@Noahpinion My god

online strategy games are a mass arbitrage on trading young boys' instinct for intense competition and warfare for microtransactions

im just coping bc i was never good at any of them 🥲

terms that twitter has overused and killed: state capacity schelling point institutions lindy

@powerbottomdad1 >1915 Elo holy shit

@vgr and it seems to extract people from across the world with the same puritanical urge

@vgr i'm not sure if it was traditionally a high status thing in india to appear to be working all the time but my parents seem to think it is

@nair_rohit98 on the contrary, I’d like it to be easier for reading to distract me from social media

@similaralterity Gonna express approval at meetings only by saying “poggers”

@alth0u in a good world, games can be battle training for warriors, tycoon simulators for businessmen, puzzles for scientists, etc etc. imho we have a lot further to go with utilizing games for pro social ends

@AOCummies block list prlly

@aquariusacquah extraordinary

@aquariusacquah this is supposed to be coming from the brightest Data Journalist of our time, Destroyer of Pundits, Distiller of Signal from Noise

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah its probably real, but this is not the way to demonstrate it lol

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah like, starting from an extremely basic premise, you might expect fking "cooling days" to be linearly related to R_0 but not to total infections

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah actually yeah idk may be less stupid than my first glance judgement, i'm not familiar with stata syntax

honestly ive been seething and coping my whole life bc i wasnt magically talented at online games 🥲

@similaralterity @aquariusacquah even if r0 is time varying, it seems like nate is regressing against a time avg? which would make sense -- more AC days should mean higher avg r0. still don't get why he included total_infected as an independent, that doesn't make sense to me. w.e ill leave the stats to ken

@powerbottomdad1 thats the way the news goes

what is the cognitive skill that's most important for excelling in school? what about chess? starcraft? business?

@ne0agent1c complexifications; but not fundamentally different. I agree this is also why I think the current neural network Ml models can lead all the way to general intelligence given enough firepower

@ne0agent1c this may be the concept behind residual layers

@ne0agent1c i keep thinking of the phenomenon of saccadic masking -- I wonder, is this effect accomplished by a high level cognition algorithm, or is it directly embedded in the low level neural networks of the eye circuitry? my guess is the latter

@ne0agent1c notable because saccadic masking seems like a very basic form of cognition, in that the brain is editing the inputs to create a cohesive narrative, which is what we might call cognition

@marthsshinedair could probably chalk a vast chunk of human cognition up to "pattern recognition" so hmm

@AOCummies feel like the lifetimes of slang terms are growing shorter and shorter

@AOCummies cope and seethe are on their way out I think based and redpilled half some juice left

@AOCummies this tweet single handedly killed cope

@powerbottomdad1 step 1) wake up 2) scroll twitter in bed for no less than 1 hour 3) by this time, the sleepiness has subsided, so get out of bed and slink over to my laptop where I get on desktop twitter. scroll for no less than an hour

@halvorz I choose to eat the world

@AOCummies people who liked this movie are subhuman

@powerbottomdad1 You gotta give us a fan base name. Like “power bottom gang” or some shit

@powerbottomdad1 u right, this is embarrassing sorry BottomGang

@ne0liberal I seriously doubt this premise — young people want to live close to their jobs and consume the interestingness of cities for a while. But they happily move on when they hit age 30. Nothing new

@ne0liberal Nobody likes density in the long run — they tolerate as much of it as they have to

@latticepolys @ne0liberal And what’s wrong with that? The banks can’t hold housing on the books forever

@oldvillagesage is learning to learn roughly the same thing as IQ or no? e.g. smart people are most often understood as those who learn faster

@eigenrobot @selentelechia hmm bad for my stonks in the short run lit for my long term if this holds super bad for america in the very long run

@eigenrobot @selentelechia honestly probably a huge blessing for countries like India if we stop brain draining them

@similaralterity i think its different if you have a company sponsoring you or something

@hyonschu I can program a spell checker can’t I

@hyonschu As far as I’m concerned, I’m a machine. A connectome running on neural wetware.

@AOCummies wtd link plz

@Noahpinion @latenitenoah My god

@jachaseyoung @averykimball Just incredible

grifter overton window bad faith argument

@jdcmedlock my god

@Noahpinion @jdcmedlock pls respond

@The_Geraldoid the praetorian guard are assholes, they assassinated half the emperors themselves

@nectarina12 @man_ditch yes

@man_ditch that's right

well, i'll admit I was wrong https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/

NYTimes is always the enemy

@browserdotsys @powerbottomdad1 @nytimes i don't know how i lived before i met power bottom dad

@powerbottomdad1 yeah, i was expecting a benevolent article that respects scott's wishes to stay pseudonymous. clearly *actively* going against his wishes

@powerbottomdad1 so all the people who were worried this was a cancellation in the works were probably right

last time rat twitter was this riled up was when Yud poasted physique. twas equally tragic in its own way

turns out @powerbottomdad1 and i lived in the exact same apartment complex rofl

@powerbottomdad1 somethin in the water

@powerbottomdad1 @RealSexyCyborg Lmaoo wild

congress rly picks out a banger acronym for a new law and then makes up the rest of it as they go along huh

@AGlspy truly disgusting

@jdcmedlock incredible

@powerbottomdad1 thanks dad

@NicholasElodeon that's just facts

Google Scholar should start indexing publications from screen names and pseudonyms

@aquariusacquah It’s crazy how bad the tech industry is wrt to media, versus Wall Street who has the journos eating out of their hand

@oldvillagesage Cite them as exactly that — “reddit user deepfakes”

@eigenrobot @dcexaminer @RT_com sometimes you gotta leverage the culture war for some easy wins

@gbrl_dick @aquariusacquah yea and it’s a fair shift honestly — somewhere around that time the big 4 tech companies became the most valuable corporations in the world. their size demands new skepticism. but tech CEOs seem totally unable to handle media relations at all, aside from maybe Elon

@aquariusacquah yea where r all the west coast rags @

NYTimes would've doxxed Locke and Demosthenes :(

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies @browserdotsys let it be known that i was an early investor

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies @browserdotsys i give seed capital in the form of retweets

@eigenrobot i can't explain my reasoning, it just Felt right

@CarmagueUSA @deadabovethelip @eigenrobot there was the infamous "secret whitehouse insider" post

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies you're making the rest of the #bottomgang look bad we can't keep up with this cadence of 12 bangers a day

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies "i'm only using 1% of my power level ..."

@powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies they cancelled performance review this cycle so i might as well be unemployed

@secretmoderator @sonyasupposedly @powerbottomdad1 we couldve been the best of friends but now we will be the worst of enemies

@eigenrobot MEME Magic is real

@eigenrobot trump has lost his meme magic & I don’t know who has it now

@eigenrobot who will next harness these Eldritch powers?

@sivuloko @eigenrobot let’s just say you don’t want to know what they were posting on /pol/ during the rule of Wu Zetian

@browserdotsys @powerbottomdad1 @AOCummies I give seed to a powerful bottom

@sonyasupposedly @Rationalbot you should not venerate that which you do not understand "there are no authorities in science"

@sonyasupposedly @Rationalbot to borrow a Yudkowsky-ism intellectual humility is the willingness to double check your math in deep space to safeguard your survival even if no one else will know of it, not bowing to authority

@Rationalbot @sonyasupposedly the point is not to be callously disrespectful of a theorem stated in a paper b/c you haven't examined the proof yourself but rather to not be unduly impressed by it. i've written a few papers.

@Rationalbot @sonyasupposedly you can also hear rich sutton say it better than I can right here and I assure you he's no first year grad student https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-voHb22io

@nntaleb impossible

Roast me frens. What’s my problem https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274251274238611457

inb4 “terminally online” I already know that one my guy ☺️

@Teleonomic science benefits from decentralization. best not to put it all in the hands of too few decision makers. if anything i would like fewer veto powers on science funding

@wannabegroncho that's just true

@Noahpinion Noah only my mutuals are allowed to reply, you can remedy this by following me :)

@Noahpinion it would seem you end up reading them anyways :)

@JacksonKernion @Noahpinion @Roon I know degenerates like Noah smith aren’t allowed in the much vaunted no children feed

@AOCummies Bruh this is when the lockdowns started ... coincidence? I think not

@wowholyfucking @powerbottomdad1 dw we workshopped this tweet together

@Altimor we have a moral obligation to stay under the billing limits

@Altimor quick, destroy all the von Neumann probes

@jachaseyoung lack of imagination :( i would fund so many such monstrosities

@jomgy has nothing to do with joe biden

@neolibureaucrat buddy i've only just grown into my libertarian stage

@eigenrobot science man bad

the only way to counter an AI with bad incentives is an AI with good incentives

There is lot of thankless but important work to be done in building ML models that fight for the consumer/citizen against corporate & government AIs

While the Uber app squeezes both passenger and driver algorithmically and takes home all the money, what if drivers had their own AI negotiating for them?

Or personal agents that come up with adversarial inputs on the fly to fool facial detection algos, or fight legal battles for you

None of this stuff is likely to be very profitable but it’s gotta be done

@AOCummies lol, USSR wasn’t democratically controlled and therefore not socialist

@neolibreplygirl @AOCummies

@AOCummies http://OnlyAllies.com

incredible. read the last paragraph https://x.com/CHOPOfficialSEA/status/1275852376423960581

ya i'll believe biden's in the lead right at the point where he successfully finishes taking his oath and not one moment before

someone's gotta form an Uber labor union and write their own recommender system for which routes to decline, etc. active switching between lyft and uber

@man_ditch @nectarina12 true, this photo could be anybody

@hamandcheese @trumwill based on a ranking of civic outputs conditioned on inputs we'd be doing pretty poorly