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@mattparlmer Elon Musk the egregore and Elon Musk the man both were vital to his rise

@_AlastairX_ unless the originator country is genuinely oppressive then the new one may find expats who are all kinds of very smart religious nuts and whatnot

if even the great Jeff Dean is a Simp then what hope have we 😞

very much not the welfare state because they’re talking about selective pools what they’ve reinvented is the TRIBE https://x.com/AlexSJacquez/status/1333576601750147075

@MagisterLudi18 true

god I hope so https://x.com/vuluus/status/1333575452347101185

@PereGrimmer lol it’s Anna kachiyan

@AndrewCutler13 @browserdotsys @halvorz tbf the pharma companies are basically also monopolists, they continually support like 20% margins I think they just lack the machine learning expertise

@AndrewCutler13 @browserdotsys @halvorz imo the monopolists live in constant fear that their whole ecological niche will get destroyed by the next big thing, so they try to aggressively preempt it. let’s not give them too much credit though. DeepMind may be the only successful alphabet research venture in a long time

very suspicious of spaced repetition. there’s gotta be a hidden cost somewhere. maybe im giving myself future Alzheimer’s

@powerbottomdad1 gotta pay the neural cost for remembering a thing

@powerbottomdad1 maybe new synapses are paid for by destroyed synapses elsewhere just a vague intuition

@homsiT @updogligma @readwiseio lol i thought of this while using readwise

@homsiT @powerbottomdad1 lmao ive been owned

@jeff82874662 long Fox News

@rickyflows evergreen

"skin in the game" is an intactivist dogwhistle

tipping my autonomous driver

folx, any of the individual faces generated by the AI can’t be de anonymized. but when you post 12 of them ...

@nectarina12 gotta protect my psuedanon mutuals!

@piotr_wasik the thing is that I’m quite confident that you can build new muscle mass by stressing the fibers but there need not be any similar mechanism for the brain it certainly isn’t getting any bigger

Poast your SAT and onlyfans global ranking

@chiefofstuffs @zackkanter i built a training data framework named spice for this reason

@eigenrobot hmmm the graph can be explained by lots of publication bias and no p hacking in that case we've thrown out some quite useful results due to an arbitrary heuristic but doesn't yet turn this all into nonsense

@eigenrobot consequences being that meta reviews or meta papers are more or less useless

met up with @harveykrishna_ today. after getting coffee with him he told me “I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” and took a glowing many armed form. Didn't know what to make of it.

@AnikVJoshi @harveykrishna_ wya?

@_djpn lol, feel like it would be pretty worthwhile investment bc it could de anonymize a whole set of ppl

@eigenrobot production crew showing when Voyager 2 hits the edge of the Vault of Heaven so they can incinerate it

@eigenrobot oh sure we just “lost contact” ok nasa

@updogligma I’m deleting this one soon

@browserdotsys Mob Psycho

@koaleszenz @ProfoundProfit @AOCummies this is a silly strawman bc the comparison is between "reasonable lockdown and paranoia induced social distancing" vs "alien invasion level martial law" theres no reason that the former would allow the rona to reach herd immunity, especially given the vacc timeline

@browserdotsys @oldvillagesage lets get some squid ink pasta

@andrej_haulis @updogligma offcolor racial humor

@browserdotsys this would destroy the larp of internet debate as a productive activity so there is no demand for it but we should make it anyway for the lulz

@halvorz my only friend

cope https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/1334591202168025089

@AbhayVenkatesh1 @OpenAI @DeepMind hilarious bc care workers will probably get the last laugh bedside manner of AIs may not be great

@AnKolTakes this was mostly a joke but i was thinking of @readwiseio Anki is also popular

When vaccinations begin: • Attend all social events you are invited to • At "essential" places like the grocery store, aggressively spit in peoples mouths to spread your newfound immunity • Find indoor bars where you can sit in optimal breath-sharing distance from others

Let’s skip the enduring fundamental questions & move onto witty repartee and position-taking.

they can even shitpost better than our journos its 100% over https://x.com/chenweihua/status/1334567538534084608

A LIFETIME BITCH

@eigenrobot anima is best introduced as the one who got NIPS changed to NeurIPS

@ProfoundProfit @CaesarSalad99 @RotemEren Talebian barbell

@oldvillagesage @eigenrobot thus far I have only listed facts 👶

@discourseloverr pain

finally some good news!

@antoniogm basically every finance junkie spreadsheet pusher on earth is hooked on adderall because these thought cycles are not "natural" at all even for smart people

@baandlibro @antoniogm let me tell you we techies are pounding the adderall too

@AOCummies they are so much better than our journos at poasting the war is already lost

@ProfoundProfit its literally the exact same thing lmfao

@ProfoundProfit just dudes mansplaining to each other

chicomms have already won, start learning mandarin

@WilliamGrobman ive heard pretty convincing bull and bear cases and i fluctuate on this daily

@fuehrerking @bigmastertroll !

@eigenrobot hmm idk we do quite a bit of this on my team only bring a change to experiment review if theres a statsig positive change, otherwise we kill it in the dead of night

@eigenrobot but ranking probably works somewhat different than product growth

@eigenrobot smart

@metametrician @eigenrobot seems reasonable

@eigenrobot makes total sense for projects that are heavy enough investment to require PM support but when i tweak 2 knobs and the metrics change isn’t statsig I probably won’t waste my DS’ time with it

@AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot yes we do this often sometimes shipping something is an engineering necessity but politically difficult if it’s metrics neutral/negative

@R1Jack yep

there have got to be better uses for ML engineers than optimizing recommender systems

@browserdotsys @PereGrimmer is this a bit i can’t tell anymore

@gbrl_dick true they told me I’d be able to predict the future

the unspoken 4th option that systematizing our moral instincts is a cope and all ethical theories are incomplete https://x.com/yhdistyminen/status/1334954951127216130

@ChrisCroy lmao jeezus

@wannabegroncho there are plenty of giant companies with troves of more useful data than this

@jrdnmdhl @Noahpinion it’s not clear what they are modeling

@LittleKeegs0 this is either underspecified or unimportant “Inherent validity” is loaded

@erictrimbs Rationalist cope Modernist cope Logician cope

@updogligma based

@updogligma @harveykrishna_ lmao

@LittleKeegs0 i am not a moral realist

@LittleKeegs0 it’s as good a basis as any

@ne0agent1c ime autists love to systematize morality and kind of freak out when they can’t

@browserdotsys The Silence of The Cicadas

@stevejohnryan @BecomingCritter @browserdotsys it makes me depressed by the memory trigger alone

@updogligma she has ruined stripe for me i will never apply there now

@aquariusacquah Dan Harmon calculated the culture several years in advance

@coinaday1 @updogligma just general isost*ph memes

@dcbfca @aquariusacquah true peak Donnie Glover

@gbrl_dick the VC reading this

@WilliamGrobman @Fullbitchschol1 large pop is not enough to ensure that India will be a successful country India has an insurmountable brain drain problem

@eigenrobot @orthonormalist best we could get is autocompleting a letter probably if the beginning conveys enough style

@eigenrobot Very inefficient as power source But seconded on the weapon

@AOCummies NOOO DONT DO IT

@BrickOverton the only viable outcome is the dual state solution and the settlements are pretty much lighting that possibility on fire

@mechanicalmonk1 @nosilverv is this true? there are plenty of examples in computer history of lone inventors putting something new together

@mechanicalmonk1 @nosilverv maybe it’s harder in the world of atoms since prototyping is far more costly than it used to be

@sonyasupposedly @thesravaka sequel stuff

will never forgive the MF cell that that realized it could partner up with other cells

@sonyasupposedly @thesravaka nah this is introduced in Children of Dune

@BrickOverton to some degree we should expect Israel to act more grown up than hamas

@BrickOverton with Israel’s current aggressive posture there’s absolutely no room for cooler heads to prevail in Palestine I’m not blaming them for the situation, but they are also burning the only way out

@Elarbolpine @The_Geraldoid extend golden gate park

@MrZeusofOlympia @VoteMarsha @KLoeffler @Perduesenate lmao

@sonyasupposedly One Man's View of the World ~ Lee Kuan Yew review: incredibly based

what are the most overrated classics you've read? mine have to be Heart of Darkness and Gatsby

@LeefVan seems to me that english classes use them to examine certain time periods and prevailing sentiments (they serve very well for that purpose) but they are not great works of literature very boring, not super intense as philosophy or fiction

@ChainlinkStake this is just bottom grade YA i'm not sure if its been psyoped into being considered a classic already

@BrickOverton true this tweet was meant as pure bait

@jeff82874662 agree, catcher in the rye is hot trash havent read any dostoyevsky

@alth0u list the kinds rn

@andrej_haulis shakespeare is very very good imo bit abstruse without attached line by line commentary though

@pjsempe @sonyasupposedly compiled book of interviews with him

@discourseloverr she’s completely right

@alth0u unfortunately it seems to manufacture lots of high iq worker bees with huge pain tolerance but not necessarily strong people

Waymo is dead in the water. Long $TSLA https://x.com/binarybits/status/1335996906531676160

@idontwa86202030 tbh I have no disciplined price target either. More of a sentiment than investment advice

@acidshill “Inadequate Equilibria” > “The Sequences”

hmmm

@AOCoomies yeah but manufacturing a dose of vaccine is different than validating it enough to give it to ppl

@jerrrrryyy_ wouldn't rule it out

this article argues that we can compress the vaccine trial timeline for viral pandemics down to 3 months by precomputing the Phase I and Phase II safety trials across the virus spectrum https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

@_djpn yeah i don't think it's just the soldier cannon fodder https://x.com/jerrrrryyy_/status/1336059417607905280?s=20

@R1Jack @AOCoomies yeah lol i think they have to feel reasonably safe about the vaccine before applying it obviously not the ridiculous standards of the west, but some level of safety guarantees

@jerrrrryyy_ looking at it more cynically, leaving the whole west in a handicapped state probably has its advantages

@jerrrrryyy_ what's the mechanism of distribution for this? they vaccinate at home and then send the kids abroad?

so sad to hear when great artists are kicked out of their own projects and their work stolen :(

@dcbfca one of the most transparent examples of our deranged culture wars destroying real world value

@NeoLibBen ?

@_vivalapanda they actually probably keep afloat many of garbage tier legacy businesses in the US

@_vivalapanda general management stuff and yeah beating inertia, restructuring deparments, etc you pay for the instincts of the senior consultant, not the 22 year old's powerpoint

@_vivalapanda the pay is tbh miniscule compared to the value of a good decision

the two richest people in the world own competing space colonization projects 🤔

cyberpunk af

@powerbottomdad1 MFs sue each other all the time, even if one is a way different stage of development than the other

@AOCummies you already have autism bitch

@ProfoundProfit not as flashy AS OF YET

@SilverVVulpes @eigenrobot in fact invalidates the story. i was so ready to believe

@eigenrobot @SilverVVulpes best real estate in the solar system

@browserdotsys if im any example i used to venerate science and was extremely surprised when my garbage paper(s) got published so yeah had to lower my expectations all around

@_AlastairX_ @browserdotsys 80% of my brainpower is going to my tweets

absolutely depressed attending neurips virtually

@rickyflows $100

@rickyflows completely mogged by the academic-industrial complex

@vontallboy @default_friend 😊😊😊

@mattparlmer forget communication, a truly advanced alien race should have a significant physical presence at least across the galaxy

@conorduffy_7 @mattparlmer sure, can't we model what a Dyson sphere might do to light fluctuation of a star?

@edavidds wrong

@conorduffy_7 @mattparlmer even outside the realm of Dyson spheres and such, i would expect whole planets to be littered with alien artifacts self reproducing robot swarms, etc

@bayes_baes and by ppl what we mean is like 2 vocal activists

@conorduffy_7 @mattparlmer agreed, i just dont think the casual dismissals of fermi paradox are convincing ("we don't know what we're looking for!").

@edavidds @wannabegroncho lol >barren rock if you can't convincingly state the bull case for colonizing other worlds, it's hard to take this seriously by the way, the economy is big, has a lot of rich people, and can pursue multiple goals at once

@errk_fu @conorduffy_7 @mattparlmer call that dark matter 😎

@errk_fu @conorduffy_7 @mattparlmer but no realistically a dyson sphere should still be radiating a massive amount of heat

@discourseloverr not a biologist but this doesnt make the slightest sense

@discourseloverr if it were true the immune response to covid would also make women infertile

it seems openAI is 100% badge carrying rationalists who read SSC and yud

@alth0u strange bc i think yud hates openai lol

@alth0u currently listening to the gpt3 guy discuss gwern

@alth0u their opinion is that the BPE (byte pair encoding) problem gwern was pointing out is a non issue

@mattparlmer @conorduffy_7 if someone is messing with energy output of whole stars the mechanism shouldnt matter; we should be able to sense the disturbance not like comms, which can be as covert or esoteric as the aliens desire

@scratchwork @alth0u neurips virtual poster prez its over now

@scratchwork @alth0u learned a lot about scaling laws

@eigenrobot @disconcerta @thinkagainer pls tell story

@eigenrobot elaborate pls

@TwardowskyMA they do good work and continually show incredible results

@james_barton @powerbottomdad1 they will eventually be competitors in reusable orbital launch

@james_barton @powerbottomdad1 to be clear i'm not sure they'll ever get to that point but from elon and bezos' perspective its best to nip the competition in the bud

@james_barton @powerbottomdad1 I think that’s mostly PR stuff They still maintain plenty of highly confidential technologies Ask them to open source their AI inference chip and see what they have to say

@james_barton @powerbottomdad1 if they open sourced any patents it probably means they were either unimportant or unenforceable

@eigenrobot hopefully they can train a model to do the latter

@TwardowskyMA if you do have a grasp, then by all means let’s hear it

@jeff82874662 the question is if they actually have any to sell to us

@dcbfca @vontallboy I don’t think so because it turned into a sermon on monogamy

@andrej_haulis @vontallboy lmao classic

@jeff82874662 @nectarina12 the answer is BDE

@alth0u related: people who become deaf after theyve initially learned to talk kind of degrade in quality of speech maybe speaking requires an active listening and correction loop?

@alth0u lol that’s nuts hmm can we speed up TTS training with this

lol my gather town poster is adjacent to an OpenAI one bout to get all sorts of accidental traffic

nvm this backfired

@SeyoneC thank you :) great to hear

@NicholasElodeon @kbmreporting @ProfoundProfit are you running 32 bit for some reason

@PlzBeSensible yup he gets very pissed at them https://x.com/tszzl/status/1336211491624804352?s=20

@gbrl_dick lol name names

how did good old leonard susskind get roped into this unfortunate group https://x.com/OrgPhysics/status/1336400418755194880

@NeoLibBen every day that a condo remains unrented you pay a vacancy tax of the opportunity cost therefore it's only vacant if it's not worth it to rent out why add these arbitrary inefficiencies except for fearmongering about chinese real estate buyers lol? instead: build housing

@NeoLibBen doesn't add up at all just because you're using the condo as a financial instrument doesn't mean you wouldn't put it up for rent -- i know plenty of real estate speculators who get monthly checks you don't put it up for rent when the cost of renting is higher than the profits

@BrickOverton @NeoLibBen lol vacancy tax lowers the expected returns on future housing development and is antithetical to the goal of construction

@NeoLibBen if your claim is that there are a bunch of irrational real estate speculators making unwise decisions not to rent when they should then they'll probably get a nosebleed at how fast the insanely competitive housing markets destroy them

@NeoLibBen @BrickOverton ?? if buyers are less enthused about construction, then the demand curve goes down and developers produce less quantity at a lower price

@NeoLibBen you have not explained why foreign investors are irrationally less willing to put places up for rent than domestic investors

@big_shrug @NeoLibBen you're simultaneously arguing that they don't care at all about the massive opportunity cost of lost rent (thousands of dollars a month) but will care about the tiny vacancy tax (<5% rent price generally) you're about to slap on -- the logic is very bad

@big_shrug @NeoLibBen not to mention if what you're saying is true about multimillionaire investors, they'll be owning properties en masse and losing $1000s a month on several properties at once. renting out a property takes no time - you give it to a property management company

@NeoLibBen @big_shrug yeah i could see the argument for this

@eigenrobot @halvorz @sgodofsk @cwage ya this is the real issue iirc Chinese hypersonic anti carrier missile range is longer than fuel capacity of F-35 therefore aircraft carrier has to park further from shore than the bombing range of F-35

@eigenrobot @halvorz @sgodofsk @cwage

@sgodofsk @eigenrobot @halvorz @cwage mb i misunderstand here but isn’t the point that the effective range of these aircraft is too small to be useful in certain scenarios?

@sgodofsk @eigenrobot @halvorz @cwage you’re right it’s the ballistic anti carrier missiles

shoutout to http://gather.town tbh excellent telepresence solution

@updogligma these guys seem well connected, ex MIT and stuff. Honestly I had never seen one of these before

@aquariusacquah @michaelssilver Was skeptical at first but I’m sold had some great convos last night w this format

@provinghuman GPT3 pretends to host all possible egregores But really carries none

@provinghuman on some level GPT-3 really is pretending: it’s intelligent, but it’s objective is to autoregress language. It’s not concerned with “true beliefs”. It’s only opinions are on how best to reproduce human written text

@gbrl_dick read IGN Japan for the real reviews

@mechanical_monk uwu

still cackling at Dara renaming Uber's war room to "peace room"

@vontallboy @ProfoundProfit 习大大

@vontallboy @ProfoundProfit “Big daddy Xi” as the state news used to unironically call him

@alth0u @ProfoundProfit @RSandninja point being there’s an idiosyncratic political culture and also successful ruling 20 million says nothing about how it would work for a billion Chinese would you agree?

@NeoLibBen yeah this is pure western Utopianism

@browserdotsys i feel you can basically tell by, when you hit the last rep (eg your final dumbbell row in the final set), could you do one more or not if yes then weight may be too low if not then that's real progress

broke: free trade with china is good as it will democratize them woke: free trade with china is bad bc it empowered a dictatorship bespoke: the US cultivated china as controlled opposition to enforce military discipline in the 2020-30s in order to stave off decadence at home

insane how simple some of these top tier papers will look and then you talk to the authors and they tell you it took 2 years of engineering

@vontallboy deacc

@selentelechia you may like this https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/the-moral-crusade-against-foodies/308370/

@Hellachans thats enough chanso’n

@_vivalapanda the internet in india is often better than sfba

@_vivalapanda but I will say the tech elite make for exceptionally bad caretakers of their surroundings autistically focused on global impact instead of getting on the MET board

@Hellachans hmm seems more commie than fashy

@L0m3z last minute swings in futures markets tend to be questions of liquidity and frenzy rather than integrating all information

the emotional toll of losing/breaking something worth $1000 vs making a bad trade that loses a $1000 are not even comparable

the former would put me in a bad mood for a week and the latter is like "ah well fuck it thats options for you haha"

@apoorvasriniva lol really? if you dropped your iPhone and it broke you wouldn’t be pissed?

@ProfoundProfit instinct > metrics

@NateTheSpy @apoorvasriniva I tend to view breaking/losing shit as a personal failing and the whims of the market as the hand of fate lmao

@mattparlmer in terms of long term rentals, off platform is always king

@mattparlmer Airbnb product is slightly different than info ... a nomadic premium mediocre life I guess? Palatable to PMCs to pay the premium for the vibez

@mattparlmer yeah, more abstractly they’re paying for the Airbnb brand guarantee, which feels better than “I’m staying at a strangers place for a week”

@RokoMijicUK the number of right wing journos graduating top unis is probably tending towards zero

Wall Street Silicon Valley 🤝 building systems that are too complex for them to understand and eventually ruining the economy

Wall Street Silicon Valley 🤝 your dad tells you “people used to build real things in my day”

Wall Street Silicon Valley 🤝 misguidedly putting too much faith in supposedly superhuman oracles such as “AI” or “asset prices”

@vontallboy mine too buddy

@powerbottomdad1 yep

what is going on in India https://x.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1337194116803858435

@jeff82874662 i don’t have enough insight into the motherland tbh they value intelligence extremely highly but so does eg China

@jeff82874662 hindus also have strong feelings about caste level genetic endogamy, and might feel that improving the kin group gene pool is vital also this: https://x.com/techsasbro/status/1337199031114665988

@powerbottomdad1 @jeff82874662 my dad wld absolutely hate gene editing he was up in arms when I did 23&me lol

@vsbobclear Fk yeah love horlicks And Boost

@jeff82874662 more importantly i wanna have a convo with the abstention. wtf is that guy up to. my mans didnt read the report and he's just like "hmm i have no opinion"

@koaleszenz marth

@fuehrerking facts

@reachtarunhere yeah it makes perfect sense actually

@halvorz @eigenrobot @thesravaka

@_AlastairX_ @thesravaka :)

one thing that makes me instantly suspicious of someones whole epistemic model is when they say "oh x person could never have real success in business, discover the truth about Y scientific phenomenon, etc due to their ideology" this is almost never true

in nearly every case there are once in a generation geniuses among your ideological outgroup another cope is narrowly redefining ideology to exclude certain successful individuals

@aquariusacquah lmao

@aquariusacquah muh unmatched dynamism

@eigenrobot @halvorz @goblinodds critical mass of bad biology takes im guessing

@eigenrobot @thesravaka :)

rats, postrats, prostates locked in eternal epistemiological battle

thank u,,, not a moment too late,

@browserdotsys I only wish

@koaleszenz filthy casual scum

reasons you should put your SAT score in bio: a thread https://x.com/shoe0nhead/status/1337489515091521536

@jeff82874662 she’s making fun of this

@jeff82874662 idk shoeonhead is prickly

@MiloJKing low sats calling each other low sat

@blyyyye I honestly don’t remember it and I’m frantically trying to recover my college board password

@powerbottomdad1 pulling half bottle of everclear right to the ER

everyone talking about SECESSION when they should be talking about the tragic delay of SUCCESSION szn 3 https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1337556850481348610

@aquariusacquah 😰

@realjdburn @cogsandspigots @eigenrobot poast both, and GRE

@browserdotsys @replicaofself a powerful artifact, it lets me fly right under the radar of all would be cancellers

@qorprate same feeling w people compulsively putting stuff in anki decks

@1standpunt COUSIN GREG

@luke_metro @aquariusacquah out of the frying pan and into the fire

@luke_metro @aquariusacquah eventually the blackpill will hit, there’s nowhere to go

Pedro Domingos is the fucking MAN

across the ideological spectrum, everyone hates Freud. so I will become a Freud stan

@gbrl_dick yes exactly at least he gave me some interesting shit to read

@gbrl_dick The lady doth protest too much 👀

people who actually work in the protein structure prediction space are calling it solved whereas those adjacent have a problem with the terminology lol https://x.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1336351187369603088

@willow_liana in fact I might say it’s a prerequisite

said the insufficiently Straussian https://x.com/dcurtis/status/1337581591946727424

@DukakisDude @NicholasElodeon @inspireprag yes

@inspireprag ridiculous amounts of space, quiet & comfort, great schools, the ability to own one's own fiefdom, generally high trust neighbors, etc

@DukakisDude @NicholasElodeon @inspireprag i get police notifs all the time for various assaults and stabbings that happen in the safeway parking lot 100 yards from where im staying in sf lol

@maxisawesome538 @inspireprag depends on the neighbors was tight knit with mine growing up, and ppl were very friendly about letting you borrow things, watching your house while you’re away, etc

@Hellachans 750s and above aren't living dangerously enough

@colinaweliver @WokeDon @Hellachans lol i blocked you? how am i seeing this then

blackpilled everytime someone irl asks me who aoc cummies is https://x.com/nextarines/status/1337905733300416512

Starcraft with the boys ... how did he know ... https://x.com/micsolana/status/1337942394931539968

the lex fridman/Joe Rogan problem where they’re uniquely high profile enough to get brilliant and weird guests but too dumb to ask the right questions

@AnonaGotta Tyler Cowen asks the right questions :(

@updogligma lmfao

@valueless_user @bull_leaper yea Rogan is hilarious and a great personality. Unfortunately he doesn’t have the right background to give Sir Roger Penrose a good shakedown

@abelianraisin at least don’t ask it in such a trite and unsubtle way lmao you gotta really dig in if you don’t want the perfunctory sound bite

@alth0u @_AlastairX_ the problem comes when you want lex to really criticize their arguments and steelman the opposing perspective e.g. waymo vs tesla and he's kind of unable to

@amrkaahy yeah you're absolutely right

to b clear they are both 100000x more talented than me at interviewing and their lack of incisive questions will never hamper their commercial success and they're pretty smart. they just can't go toe to toe with the worlds foremost experts and tend to back down easily

@updogligma yin and yang?

“Eric Weinstein just dropped a theory of everything” - lex, completely serious

@aquariusacquah why even live

@browserdotsys hbd!

@R1Jack @browserdotsys lmao accidentally redpilled

@NicholasElodeon Palmer luckey, my one and only billionaire mutual

@DosDosDidIt convo with George Hotz re: simulation theory

@Disputationist possible

@updogligma @jeff82874662 😂

@jachaseyoung nice!

@DistractedAnna it’s also a mistake of rationalist decision theory to think that human desires are fixed rather than dynamic

the best social science research of our time happens inside social media cos and dating apps and such

@MrZeusofOlympia companies

@luke_metro fewer than it takes to work the p-hacking mines

lmao carefully engineered to piss everyone off https://x.com/RepAOC/status/1337171156521148417

kind of based

@eigenrobot lee kuan yew believed it was blindingly obvious that there would not be democracy in china anytime soon due to fundamental differences in political philosophy

@vontallboy whats this about

@aharonfriedman lex is obv smarter and his guests are subsequently world class geniuses

say something nice about him

@aharonfriedman ok but listen for someone who frames himself as an ML/computing podcast host he is woefully under informed even about the basics

@aharonfriedman pros of this: the casual listener gets to listen to George hotz explain what a hypervisor or ethereum gas limit is cons of this: he is not able to really critically analyze any of his guests arguments or poke holes

@alt1na1 “why do the proles deign to talk to me”

@alth0u like telling your recruiter you’re fielding other offers without giving details

@antoniogm definitely not that simple imo makes sense in a perfectly rational market but irl the value of ipo narratives is major

1) second brain stuff is an improvement in technology and may actually augment your cognitive abilities like writing originally did so long ago 2) its not at a point where its going to represent a step change in your capabilities and you can easily compete with a moleskine

its insanely hard to see through the veil of Alphabet pravda propaganda factories. there will be a huge stock price reckoning when the chickens come home to roost and we see how far Tesla is ahead of Waymo

@jeff82874662 pump & dump all day jeffrey. if you know what's smart you'll steer your fund to buy $TSLA

@Human9b6c432f this is one of their major future growth investments and I think failure to deliver after sinking this much cash on it will be very bad PR for them

psyop https://x.com/jillrgunter/status/1338162956333441025

@_vivalapanda SV people tend to be much better versed in classics and philosophy than literally any other line of work due to the intellectualizing of the field “greed is good” is not enough for anyone here

@_vivalapanda Zuck’s two daughters are named Augusta and Maxima lmao

@_vivalapanda yep and to be honest I think the SSC/SV philosophy is very stale and running on its last legs and is still miles ahead of these disaffected polisci major status grifters

@gbrl_dick and this isn’t to say there’s any lack of vacuous pseudo philosophers *cough naval* traipsing about the SF twitter sphere and giving warmed over summaries of the stoics — but the literal only reason there’s even a market for them is the adjacent one for actual tech philosophy

@gbrl_dick lol it may be too late because Peter singer is a repeat guest at {BigTechCo}‘s very large “effective altruism” meetup

@vsbobclear I do have to admit he’s the most interesting public intellectual of the bunch

truly disgusting behavior tbh

look me straight in the eyes and tell me this has ever been about naming conventions rather than power trip

@ne0agent1c there was a drama between her and a UW professor over something pretty silly (NIPS vs NeurIPS). She blocked everyone that liked UW prof’s tweets and is now tweeting her blocklist in a deranged thread

@ne0agent1c yep

@rickyflows she has me blocked on 3 different accounts but none of them ended up on the thread ... strange

the escalation from cringey porn joke to excommunicating dissenters

@R1Jack yeah seriously she has beclowned herself and needs to go down

@InfosecIvy @gigafelon oh guys I just realized that’s part of the UI haha the bar appears at the bottom of the iPhone screen when scrolling

@jerry_dot_ai yeah learn 2 export the blocklist rofl

“everyone I saw is male” even though there are obvious she/her bios

@EliSennesh the clear implication being “here’s a list of people that need to be re-educated”

@jerry_dot_ai yeah and that’s exactly it — her intention is not to create a blocklist as this would be the worst possible way to do it. the point is to raise visibility of ppl to “re-educate”

@EliSennesh it’s a metaphor for the kind of middlebrow premium mediocre authoritarianism we see today

@nectarina12 I’m so sad I didn’t make it

@alth0u @nectarina12 With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies

@dcbfca tag him

@man_ditch lol its not worth understanding this ridiculous drama at this point

@jachaseyoung yeah it definitely seems overoptimized and we're well into diminishing returns territory

@vontallboy based

@hardmaru @wileyinresearch would leaving some groundbreaking work in facial recognition unpublished prevent the use of these technologies? anyone with a gpu can reproduce these results. no -- instead, shine light on the work so folks can get started working on defenses

@hardmaru @wileyinresearch not to mention that the impact section just does not make sense for the vast majority of papers

@eigenrobot "when the mountains are high, the emperor is far away. I am the emperor here"

@alth0u universally true in the east and why Indian serials only feature internecine family squabbles

@sonyasupposedly @browserdotsys delet this

@vontallboy yeah right wing opinions in general

@aquariusacquah @vontallboy yeah it’s very sus to bring this out rn, he is clearly going joker mode & looking for punishment and got what he wanted on some level

everyone, please introduce yourself by telling us your pronouns, your MK ultra trigger, and your position on Israel

@vontallboy @dcbfca @aquariusacquah point being Pedro should be picking his fights. Maybe tweeting this while ppl are weighing which of them to side with is not smart

@vontallboy @dcbfca @aquariusacquah I still think the responses were deranged but idk bad judgement on his part on consideration

imagining my grandparents complaining about newfangled electricity and how gas lanterns don’t just randomly go out https://x.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290

mfs read Seeing Like a State and Consider Phlebas and make that their whole ideology smh

Put away my tiki torch as soon as I saw umich on here https://t.co/baiccfrIri

@powerbottomdad1 @jeff82874662 lmao ppl really believe that there are pieces of metal floating in orbit sending them information ... nuts

agree except for software you know what i will pay the tax to not deal with autistic FOSS design https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1338574092274823168

@jeff82874662 @powerbottomdad1 based PBD

@powerbottomdad1 the lifestyle of frugality is genetic at this point i can’t help it 🥲

@reachtarunhere ya I’m completely spoiled by nice modern editors

@powerbottomdad1 also idk if he’s saying shun nice things so much as “look for the cheaper alternative and don’t get scammed”

@powerbottomdad1 ppl will often buy expensive branded shit that’s no higher quality than fast fashion etc

this is also basically a Conservative virtue train yourself for the production side of the economy don’t make yourself a slave to the demand side

@guywhits will think about it more and get back to you but basically the culture war is highly aligned across the production / demand split

before every market crash in history, going back to the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, a woman has appeared on TikTok explaining options markets to the masses https://x.com/jeff82874662/status/1338605441950081027

making his position clear that the aesthetics of calling a woman crazy are a far bigger concern than actual sociopathy

mask off doomer blackpill joker sicko mode

@postpostpostr @alth0u government bought crops at a fixed price from the landowners who actually reap the benefits of harvest and not the serfs who labor on their fields lol

we should be thanking anima for compiling such a comprehensive list of ML people to follow!

@marx_knopfler ongoing culture war drama between two ML professors

@NLRG_ the framing of loss aversion as a cognitive failure to be rid of is wrong and therefore lots of behavioral economics starts from a bad premise

@NLRG_ behavioral economics: humans are less logical than homo economicus and we are here to study the ways non ergodic decision theory: humans are more logical than homo economicus and we are here to study the ways

@marx_knopfler anima anandakumar

@marx_knopfler I have no knowledge of how he is personally but imo he’s in the right on this one

@marx_knopfler No not whatever he’s tweeting about in blackpill mode rn on the actual matter at hand re: the conference and AI ethics

@marx_knopfler https://x.com/jonst0kes/status/1338207670201970691

@marx_knopfler https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1338512968343048193

@marx_knopfler needless to say they have both beclowned themselves a bit but I gotta side with mr domingos on this one

@NLRG_ coming from an reinforcement learning background with its trajectory optimizations his criticism makes a lot of sense to me

@_vivalapanda @NLRG_ it’s not just about marginal value but the expected outcome after iterated decisions https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03680

@marx_knopfler it is truly a disaster that some of the finest minds of our time are busy debating NIPS vs NeurIPS but hey that’s The Discourse for you

@browserdotsys bowser,, welcome to your struggle session

@eigenrobot lol the clickbaity article doesn’t do ole peters justice he has a simple point and doesn’t attempt to prove that “all economics is wrong”

@vontallboy @felvort lol check if I’m on it

@vontallboy @felvort Fuck. Not an ML bad boy :(

@vontallboy imagine unironically saying “there’s no place for such opinions in ML”

@blamelessjay @vontallboy @felvort :)

@paul_hundred absolute KING 👑

@blamelessjay @paul_hundred @BarneyFlames in fact we haven’t even unraveled it lol

@eigenrobot forbidden knowledge from Japan

@vontallboy @R1Jack @archillect NIPS first responders

@alth0u best argument I’ve seen that the name isn’t inclusive enough

@vontallboy love 2 play word games to destroy illustrative examples

@alth0u lol IIT ppl are considered absurdly arrogant even in India

does anyone not have myopia these days genetic freaks, all of you

@wannabegroncho While I on the other hand ignored my mother and got completely rekt

@justjoshinyou13 insurance policy in case this insurance policy decides incorrectly

@_vivalapanda rip sorry to hear that dude Stargardt?

@jeff82874662 it doesnt impart sufficient suffering on humanity for our sins

@jeff82874662 that's my cynical take. less cynically: it lets major fossil fuel companies stay in business by attaching CCS which may slow down progress even less cynically: its a bad investment for technical reasons, and won't work at scale

@jeff82874662 i also think there may be a degree of capture of progressive groups by solar and wind interests, which is no longer an insignificant industry and relies heavily on subsidy

@jeff82874662 you might be able to argue that it will prolong the death of fossil fuels but the usual argument is that it feels shitty to send government R&D money to Exxon or BP or whoever who got us into this mess

@jeff82874662 agreed i'm just relaying the sentiment i don't think it's at all fair to blame the production side alone for these issues

@Plinz vision, text, and control all at once — that’s the bright future https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12083

@vontallboy two separate measurements

bodied

@roydanroy they’ve revolutionized computational chemistry

@roydanroy also significant use in social network recommendations

@marx_knopfler @roydanroy Yeah great paper. but they’re state of the art in all types of property prediction on molecules I think

@Singularitarian @roydanroy https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01212.pdf https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/me/c9me00039a#!divAbstract

@ornintovitu @marx_knopfler @roydanroy transformer = graph network where all nodes are implicitly connected

@marx_knopfler @ornintovitu @roydanroy in fact I think that's called a graph attention network

@marx_knopfler @ornintovitu @roydanroy 😂

@marx_knopfler @ornintovitu @roydanroy ya lol the space of NNs is barely tapped even now plenty of low hanging fruit in particular one downside of the graph attention approach is that you lose edge information, which can be made up for by the increased parallelism

@ornintovitu @marx_knopfler @roydanroy yeah GAT uses simple attention but not the full transformer encoder layer

common criticism of NLP transformers is that they’re blank slatist and don’t encode chompskian universal grammars but there are in fact papers that do this and don’t perform nearly as well as the naive transformer https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00075

I’ve given it a lot of thought and decided to become a credentialist. https://t.co/9jkEGEigP7

@jerry_dot_ai https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04341

@jerry_dot_ai nice

@3ibar so?

@alth0u yeah they roughly learn the parts of speech and such — don’t know if it can be said that they’re learning Chompsky’s grammar specifically but there’s no real reason to present language in tree syntax https://x.com/tszzl/status/1339036332778143745

@3ibar hmm I mean sure but no model is truly “blank slate” — they all have some kind of inductive bias, as that’s the whole point. The positional tokens enforce linear order, but do not spoon feed any grammar to the model

@IHaveSweaters interesting I have no idea why this works

@MiloJKing Nate silver would be shamed off the site if our brier scores were transparent :(

@MiloJKing Silver would have a lot more gravitas if he lived in Vegas. Or Britain

@MiloJKing can you actually gamble in the Vegas betting markets from other states?

@eigenrobot ur right, regressions are way better than understanding

Ur voice is melodies dear

@BecomingCritter no but he may be talking about the same thing

dr. anima anandkumar was handed a literally unloseable mate-in-two position that she could've easily leveraged to gain more power at NeurIPS and elsewhere but by the grace of god she still fucked it up

and now the man pedro is just shitposting carefree about gamergate and blm

@browserdotsys history is never over dear bowser

@browserdotsys tbh i have no idea what happens next w NeurIPS but since it seems there's no clear public consensus one way or the other on who's in the wrong i am assuming they both get a slap on the wrist and nothing more

@_AlastairX_ @browserdotsys yeah probably true. do we know if neurips has taken action like this before, and if so what did they do?

@_AlastairX_ @browserdotsys reading the reddit r/ml megathread vs reading twitter is like night and day. basically everyone there is on pedro's side

my god ... https://x.com/ghostmthr/status/1339091515436625920

sincerely depressing tbh love 2 watch some of the finest minds of our time tear each other apart in some of the most low stakes internecine squabbles i have ever seen

@eigenrobot pls no

@_AlastairX_ @browserdotsys I guess we have our answer? https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1339112378978295808

i don’t think the ethics section makes sense when the paper will go on arxiv and the code on GitHub regardless of any NeurIPS reviewer’s decision

in the case of the facial recognition paper with suspicious Uyghur targeting — are we really working under the notion that an American publisher rejecting this out of ethical concerns will slow down the use in China?

this is the classic debate over “deplatforming” — I can easily argue that publishing dangerous new discoveries will gain the attention of security researchers who will try to build countermeasures and continue the arms race

Since this is an issue where we may never get an empirical answer re: effects of tampering with the publication ecology, it’s best to follow the scientific virtue: publish if it’s interesting.

@Hellachans real hard hitting stuff

@gbrl_dick public addresses became total PR hedging bullshit as soon as they realized that whatever they say is going to be leaked to the media instantly

@gbrl_dick it used to be possible to know what top brass was thinking during these Q&As bc they were fairly transparent about their various beefs. but they've gotten extremely adept at talking without saying anything

@eigenrobot can someone explain enough econ to me to get the joke

@gbrl_dick bezos doesn't do a Q&A bc he doesnt give the slightest shit about seeming accountable haha the weekly Q&A is a very silicon valley thing

@gbrl_dick zuck and pichai gotta cater to us pampered hippy san francisco brats! it seems like it used to be an excellent tool to keep everyone focused on the vision and keep loyalty high but now the functionality has probably morphed to propaganda session / pseudo press briefing

@marx_knopfler yea I think that’s the unhappy compromise we’ve ended up at: we write an ethics section but it’s not actually counted towards anything so nobody spends more than 5 minutes on it. Not sure if it’s helping anything. Anima et al wanted it to be part of review process

@vontallboy use np instead!

@AOCummies Under 6’ I see 😏

@vontallboy nah

this is a step in the right direction, as it boldly reclaims the Rights of the most underprivileged group of all, the Gamers https://x.com/verge/status/1339321610516508680

@NicholasElodeon yea i freely admit I don’t know what a DSGE model is but I sure as hell will criticize it anyway

catch me active learning at the decision boundary of my based/cringe classifier

@vontallboy fuccc

@marx_knopfler @ornintovitu true you could do this

@jeff82874662 Lamo

@paul_hundred @jeff82874662 lmfao

especially sucks when you find a source and realize you were actually wrong https://t.co/gUbzQ0g7O5

@powerbottomdad1 @bradbelafonte eventually blow it all on end of life care so you can live an extra 4 months

GRRM set out to prove that lord of the rings, while excellent, had an unrealistically happy ending and that he could advance the genre by being more historically realistic & politically gritty and quickly realized that history never ends and therefore neither can his books

tolkien absolutely cackling from beyond the grave rn

@vontallboy @alth0u there is no line when it comes to the tensorflow api

@eigenrobot seems like they hastily rolled it out in a panic during election season

@eigenrobot there may also be more to the decision making than the PR guy is letting on

@jerry_dot_ai @eigenrobot but it's just a simple UI change though?

@alth0u retro is in Mercurograde

@eigenrobot clearly there’s some part of the human soul that yearns for this

@nosilverv @erin_nerung @CundillCapital my dude didn’t even ask an unreasonable question euro guy was clearly just shocked he was being asked meaningful things over email and responded condescendingly “lesson one of dealing in Europe ...”

@RotemEren yeah definitely not @ the current hype level though

@InfosecIvy absolutely true, but how come they only start caring about the tax differential once the offices are closed? seems 2 me many people don’t value it that highly

the american neolib relationship to work ethic remains confusing

they'll never say it out loud but the encyclicals ("Lean In") clearly imply that people who work harder are better

@arnoblalam sure, but having leisure time is one of the highest crimes in neolib culture think of new york -- you gotta at least maintain the appearance of being busy

@jeff82874662 its a Musing jeffrey

@alt1na1 unrealistically happy for Aragorn’s rule

@_Jason_Dean_ yea they will continue growing at a fraction of what they could achieve, but nothing new there

@Hellachans what exactly happened w Miami and LA? Why did people move and why did people stick around

FTR im just as frustrated with sf as everyone else ... I just think a lot of this is marketing for the venture capital complex pumping out remote work companies and shitposting on twitter with the Miami mayor ...

it’s the damn movie and Always has been https://x.com/micsolana/status/1339625048013905920

@nkh1l 😂

@nkh1l the snappy unbeatable Sorkin dialogue too

@eigenrobot taps sign https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225

infosys / lambda school parallels are troubling

@TheDaveMadden Indian talent sourcing & H1B placement company takes extractive rents from these workers who get placed at like Cisco or wherever

@tensegrist https://x.com/tszzl/status/1339677356693225472

@ProfoundProfit https://x.com/tszzl/status/1339677356693225472

@ProfoundProfit it is at this scale — the larger they get the more rent they can extract

@ProfoundProfit possible, just spitballing here

there’s actually nothing more satisfying than watching some tactless half autistic new money idiot own entire industries full of generational aristocrats

Peter Thiel’s public philosophy: humans are too susceptible to groupthink, isolate urself, avoid competition, Peter thiel in practice: most of his wealth can be attributed to investing early in a global scale hivemind https://x.com/gbrl_dick/status/1339536707138404356

@valueless_user yeah