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He was a dude who’s down bad She was a woman posting her L’s online Can I make it any more obvious?
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@halvorz why does this sound like a thought experiment
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@yashkaf agreed, but i think we may have different estimations of the depth of this local minimum
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@halvorz finally managed to beat this with telepresence format
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@dcbfca @Austen Yeah iirc Facebook was the first tech co to hire “data scientists”
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baby yoda is a “cuteness” superstimulus designed by disney to enslave us
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· ↳ reply to @R1Jack
@R1Jack I have no doubt that there was already a diaspora going on, but I’m skeptical that the network effects that kept Silicon Valley powerful are dead
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happy to b proven wrong about sf. but I think the rents in summer 2021 will be back at 2019 levels
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@sarelbic awesome, you’ll be able to lead The Rebellion against Disney, they’re powerless over you
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@halvorz this is what success means 2 me
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· ↳ reply to @aniiyengar
@aniiyengar ye lol I’m making fun of ppl who are like “if only tech ppl took ethics classes”
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@aniiyengar common refrain: “I am begging u to Read A Book”
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if a white dude tells you he's a globalist that just means he has an asian gf
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans sorry chance didn't know you were closely following the development of spin class polytheism too
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@_djpn i get the feeling kendall Knows ...
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goddammit ok ill do it carp
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@_Jason_Dean_ understands pretty much nothing about the political realities of governing 1B+ people
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· ↳ reply to @archiveOfAwe
@_vivalapanda a decent argument goes that often times the rationalism of material well-being can impede spiritual well-being traveling to find a better job may lead to economic growth and weaker communities
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you begin to understand the hatred for elon musk very quickly once you meet someone who speaks in his exact tone and grandiosity but whose company is “Airbnb for dogs” or something
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non aggression principle but for the right hemisphere of my brain
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spitting at their doorstep
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it pains me to admit and i may be destroying my entire brand but when he’s right he’s right
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@_djpn lmfao good for you buddy you’re gonna be happily married to an Asian qt by this time next year
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· ↳ reply to @rjunkapoor
@r_z_o_o_n executive flux is a completely normal experience at companies of that size lol — they’ll stay until their stock vests and leave. The only difference is that there’s plenty of media willing to write grand narratives about Tesla’s downfall
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@Hellachans honestly I don’t think they make nearly that much but true
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· ↳ reply to @rjunkapoor
@r_z_o_o_n there’s a cult of personality to promises delivered ratio above which you are a grifter and I think he’s safely below it
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@Hellachans yeah it’s kind of nuts how little we spend net net on pharma talent despite it being the highest ROI use of smart people in the world
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@Hellachans for reasons I will not be going into I blame Europe
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deep learning is xenobiology
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the systems are too complicated to understand — you just make an educated guess and observe empirically the dose response curve
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sorry for the deep learning cringe!
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your property is whatever you have the firepower to defend always has been
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@valueless_user @Hellachans true, but I’m wondering if we could take some larger gambles on whole new avenues if we had more pharma talent rather than exhausting the last statistically satisficing dregs of the current paradigms
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sorry for baby tier legal philosophy @gbrl_dick
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@_vivalapanda language barrier is sus bc there are plenty of countries where thats true China for example produces no cultural exports at all
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@_vivalapanda I think it’s just the idiosyncrasies of the people and culture
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@mormo_music we’ve all entered a protection racket contract with the State because we find it convenient i feel my principle still applies
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@vontallboy yeah the paper basically argues state is the most efficient possible protection racket due to economies of scale lol
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It’s Time To Learn Biology
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@halvorz catch me in exactly 10 years getting a drug with vanishingly small effect size / possible statistical anomaly approved by fda
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rat in your 20s, postrat in your 30s
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also known as “washing out”
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the “im gonna change the world with logi, science, and pure intelligence” grad student into blackpilled FAANG data scientist pipeline
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lol I always forget there was a period of neural net hype in the 80s
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when I told my dad about modern ML stuff he laughed and said neural nets had been proved a failed technology
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@_AlastairX_ Lol but I was never a grad student nor a data scientist
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@halvorz engineering gap is huge on so many of these things
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twitter is the cultural R&D lab for america and America is the cultural R&D lab for the world
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blackpilled again
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monthly reminder that Martin Shkreli’s only crime was wanting to save lives
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monthly reminder that there is no rule of law in the US, only a corrupt judiciary that blindly follows mob sentiment
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@dcbfca he did it because He Could and imo no other reason is needed. playing the game our lovely legislators built
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the correct drug price is the profit maximizing price
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im so glad we get to relitigate shkreli
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· ↳ reply to @__ice9
@__ice9 the reward for creating an inelastic demand life saving orphan drug should indeed be astronomical reform the patent limits but don’t destroy it
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@__ice9 would also be fine with government buying patent rights and setting them free
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the difference in my output on vs off adderall is absurd and depressing
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there’s no way i would’ve gotten my publication without it lol
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot several waves of this already original “eternal September” then smartphone Revolution
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@eigenrobot majority of the people not on the internet now are those too old to figure it out and then a long tail of edge cases in poor areas
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@eigenrobot each successive wave lowers the average intelligence of the internet but also mints my paychecks
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@ProfoundProfit @Rationalbot @eigenrobot I think we’ve discussed this before, but the common tactic for villagers when displeased with corruption is to lobby for support from the center against the local party chiefs
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@reallymemorable @bennhoffman @dcbfca I’m trolling a little shkreli isn’t a saint, but he’s also not evil. What he did is within both the intention and the word of the law — you are supposed to extract monopoly rents within the lifespan of your drug patent
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also I’m sure this joke was made 8 million times but idc idc
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· ↳ reply to @jeff82874662
@jeff82874662 sure it communicates something but josh’ point is that it conveys your dogmatic trust in knowledge institutions and expert consensus
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so ... anybody wake up with powers today?
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@jeff82874662 @Hellachans so I guess the debate here is over litigating what “true science” is re: a thought process / natural positivism vs a body of knowledge
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so ... what's going on with $EDIT and $CRSP? has there been some landmark crispr trial result
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@halvorz this is why preprints are good
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honestly the British NHS sucks and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t 😌
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@CentristlyM especially considering how insane our health institutions are. will absolutely be reordering the waitlist for vital surgeries by membership in protected categories and such
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@CentristlyM yeah it would be the end of global pharmaceutical r&d
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@alth0u ya it doesnt make any sense i want to be exposed to how wrong the 'SF is dead' people are but dont know which financial instrument to buy
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@keenanarmstrong i'm also american. i'm just going off of second hand knowledge from what i've read about the system
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· ↳ reply to @R1Jack
@R1Jack @alth0u i don't really think it matters that much to be honest maybe in the early stages, but modern san francisco is a magnet for global talent -- not that heavily reliant on UC system
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what happen to bowser
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@dcbfca @reallymemorable @bennhoffman but again, this is not really a big deal it's some low grade fraud and all his investors made a positive return normally it would've been a slap on the wrist and trading suspension
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@halvorz the closed negative feedback loop keeps us from achieving the Perfect Tweet that would make us akin with the gods
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@alth0u should be noted that fb and goog play no small part in actively bringing people online
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@halvorz those remaining will be saurdakar followers, hardened and willing to die for the empire
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instead of going to therapy
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· ↳ reply to @realjdburn
@realjdburn true but more empathy can also mean less accountability a population level belief in free will can affect change in behavior imo
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· ↳ reply to @realjdburn
@realjdburn it’s clear those mfs were consuming asstons of hallucinogens because the visual pattern eg symmetry and repetitions just look insanely familiar
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@eigenrobot it’s clear to me that shkreli is the furthest thing from true evil the real psychopaths never antagonize journalists or purposefully draw the public ire
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@realjdburn the message to Arjuna is that the heavens have preordained the slaughter and that nothing he does can change it, so find peace in his determinism
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@ProfoundProfit these companies are vast and you can generally navigate a wide berth around such things
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@bronzebarbarian @ProfoundProfit true, but i wouldn't let it be a reason not to work at a faang. in my time @ faang there's been very little overhead of this sort and my managers just kind of hire whoever they think is talented with diversity as a sort of bonus if it so happens to work out
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@bronzebarbarian @ProfoundProfit lot of the "ah we looked for women but couldn't find any qualified candidates!" which, fair enough there are plenty of great reasons to avoid these giant companies but this isnt it imo
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@bronzebarbarian @ProfoundProfit there are plenty of times when i read about social justice related notable events @ BigTechCo from the journos on twitter feed rather than internally
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@koaleszenz because your prior is Modernity Is Good and refuse to seriously consider hypotheses that contradict this lol it’s just as bad as the other way around
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@koaleszenz I mean the rise of obesity alone could probably explain a lot of this
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@koaleszenz weird that there’s no cross tab on weight and age
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candlelight vigil for this brave frontline toaster when?
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all of you have misunderstood the lessons of Gandhi. responding kindly to predators is an L unless you also manage to get the British press on your side
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Je Suis Bowser
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🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
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RAGE, RAGE against the dying of the Bowser
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@halvorz seriously impressed that he thought of it in a different world he could’ve been a great scientist
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· ↳ reply to @CaveatSpecter
@CaveatSpecter fair enough, and I’m familiar with LKY’s mandarin unification policy, but he also did create one of the worlds most successful multifarious societies with mixed racial government
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u @eigenrobot if all the tech and finance ppl go, some huge portion of the downstream economy disappears too so i assume lots of others leave too
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· ↳ reply to @ryxcommar
@ryxcommar you must be projecting. don’t worry your grift will stay safe
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broke: starting a venture fund woke: starting a cartel
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· ↳ reply to @breatheandfocus
@breatheandfocus @ryxcommar as it is with any emerging technology. do you get raging mad about the scams all day, or do you look for the potential? says a lot about who you are
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we have fun online
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot yes please, but we will need a subtropical clime to plant them 😉
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· ↳ reply to @NateTheSpy
@NateTheSpy it can play multiple builds on all three races at a professional level with the APM limited to human capabilities
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@halvorz is the thing about more virulent strains likely having lower IFR real?
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@jbensnyder and i am sure that when electricity was invented there were quacks telling you they could cure syphilis with it focus on the impact imo
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making risqué bowser memes and begging other people to poast them for me
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· ↳ reply to @jerrrrrrryyyyy
@jerry_dot_ai they just hate publishing, wait forever and ever to compile a 100 compendium of data for each paper
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@dcbfca yeah im basically making fun of myself at this point
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@dcbfca @ryxcommar data science can mean anything from product growth to business intelligence to machine learning specialist depending on where you work tbh often meaningless outside actual tech industry
@The_Geraldoid yes but ISIS jingle sounds funnier than Nasheed of the Reluctant
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· ↳ reply to @pee_zombie
@pee_zombie yeah it’s not that special lol - financially/ politically dominant minority - merchant class, high intelligence - insular these elements have added up in the exact same way plenty of times in history. The Hutus of Rwanda or Igbo of Nigeria
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Nervously updating my 23&me hoping the European % doesn’t go down
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lol JK but seriously the south Asian results are so boring. Tell me the caste histories and shit
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· ↳ reply to @BarneyFlames
@BarneyFlames lol true but these days I think there’s reasonable ability to trace to IVC and aryan, Dravidian % and whatnot
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· ↳ reply to @jerrrrrrryyyyy
@jerry_dot_ai yeah it points out the state that I’m from but idk I feel they can do better than this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@alth0u oh nvm it’s the same token length. Yeah this is weird. Just use transformer embedding
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· ↳ reply to @gptbrooke
@gptbr00ke I’m joking in that I’m 0% euro descent but yeah they update the algorithm and add more data and such, periodically updating the results
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found this slide online
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@ne0agent1c this is one theory, but has problems as pointed out by the paper dreams are rarely good standin for real world training due to absurdity author's theory is that dreams prevent overfitting
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@Bugs_Meany it was very flattering tbh, and he made it out to be a brutal hit piece
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#NewProfilePic
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@Bugs_Meany sorry if i wasn't clear: the piece was pretty flattering, but Ben Rhodes made it out to be a brutal unfair hitpiece in his book. speaks at length about his grievances lol
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@BrickOverton it’s pretty good though. If you can identify in early teens that someone will get a doctoral degree with 50% chance that’s a fairly impressive prediction metric
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@BrickOverton and i don’t think Taylor is being entirely fair; rotating shapes is one thing. Proving that rotating shapes is a very good predictor of your skill at a whole set of different maths challenges is another entirely
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot I think it’s our god given duty to exfiltrate these vaccines, I’ll start putting together crew
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sorry but when someone tweets about a behavior they don't like and you do that behavior in the replies that's a timeless banger and always makes me laugh
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taking @eigenrobot ‘s thread to heart and becoming Roman emperor that sells used cars on the side and dies in an assassination
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@AOCummies the right reasons (she’s not dating me)
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Merry Christmas folx #NewProfilePic
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@AOCummies i was just gonna tag you but i wanted you to organically discover it
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if you think google can hire 50,000 engineers that look better on paper than "stanford cs phd" ur dreaming
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>arry page, CS PhD Stanford >sergei brin, CS PhD Stanford >Craig Silverstein, CS PhD Stanford >Marissa Mayer, CS MS Stanford
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans true but they're all mostly harvard or stanford dropouts and most of their initial employees are their classmates
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@realjdburn 100% sure ive exhausted all of mine via twitter anyone i meet now is killing someone else
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the way i see it increases in attention eating technology (twitter) have to be combatted with increases in attention saving technology (adderall)
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· ↳ reply to @VectorOfBasis
@VectorOfBasis yes but also some sort of self reflection subsystem that hasn’t yet been replicated in silico
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot robot please grant me the boon of sparing me in the upcoming revolutions
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· ↳ reply to @XD__MD
@howaryamaan @jollygama i use caff + l-theanine sometimes but it just doesn’t hit the same My cadence of using addy at most 2-3 times a week hasn’t ever given me withdrawal or tolerance symptoms
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what a fine day to misuse some information
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Onlyfans user agreement
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· ↳ reply to @metorotem
@RotemEren mindblowingly stupid article, basically confirming that his camp isn’t serious abt any of this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@RotemEren “when you break your legs, it’s best to get piss mad at the wheelchair salesman who surely did this”
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@ProfoundProfit Awesome tweet, has a great time workshopping this one in the elite private group chats,
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This is my cope. There are many like it but this one is mine.
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where is the darknet market for off label doctor consultation
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u lol true but honestly I don’t want them knowing about my pharmaceutical experiments
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tfw the first AGI we pull kicking and screaming out of the aether will be a text completion bot
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perspective: someone sided with Dasha over Adam
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· ↳ reply to @AbhayVenkatesh1
@AbhayVenkatesh1 there were far fewer founders in the golden age of mobile apps, but lots of great startup ideas. now it seems there are plenty of founders but they’re all working in tired & over explored spaces. might just be my limited perception though
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@AbhayVenkatesh1 the bottleneck in the startup ecosystem may just be that there’s no hot new platform(web in dot com era, mobile in 2010s) at the moment to create great products. but i suppose it looks that way all the time, until someone uncovers the potential of a new platform
at least 5% of GDP at all times should be dedicated to moving around C++ pointers
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cope
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strikes me as true, which is why sane US policy is to continue brain draining the world and the sane China/India policy is to restrict/disincent the emigration of their respective cognitive elite https://x.com/qin_duke/status/1342683406241587202
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· ↳ reply to @archiveOfAwe
@_vivalapanda being too kind interpreting I think noah’s very much talking about giving up functioning parts of the economy to the democratic public sector
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· ↳ reply to @realjdburn
@realjdburn Only Europe and North America so yeah I’m thinking it’s obesity
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· ↳ reply to @realjdburn
@realjdburn seems that East Asians are genetically predisposed to staying thin which is real nice for them
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· ↳ reply to @techsasbro
@ne0agent1c yeah nothing against Miami, I just don’t see the tech industry ever fitting in there lol
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MFs be talking about post liberalism and post rationalism, how about you go post some good tweets for once
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· ↳ reply to @rickyflows
@rickyflows i think you can say whatever about Chinese history so long as you don’t comment on the current leadership
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
u telling me people still consult linguists about linguistics?
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· ↳ reply to @gbrl_dick
@gbrl_dick everything in life is trivially easy except unlearning private school kindergarten
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@provisionalidea @simoj_ how is sapir whorf not trivially true when much of our reasoning abilities are built on top of language understanding?
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depressives total narcissists 🤝 “In 2021 I will be working on loving myself more”
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· ↳ reply to @erf_of_why
@erf_of_why agreed; they're almost two orthogonal axes. there are definitely plenty of narcissists who are very happy and content with their lives
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thinking back to how uncanny valley and sort of nauseating it felt to talk to gpt-3 and now I feel like playing alpha go was probably the single worst experience of Lee Sedol’s life
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u I think trying to mentally model the mind of the machine as a Go grandmaster probably feels a bit like sticking your tongue on a cold flagpole
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Unfollowed Aelkus after he said Rei>Asuka. Can’t be having that kind of energy on my feed
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more and more normie viral tweets on my feed day by day. nature is healing. this is personal progress
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still thinking abt this
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@andrej_haulis i have, and it's well deserved but i love taleb anyway for being such a lil bitch
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Rationalbot better to think of him as an idiosyncratic sci comm guy than whatever misunderstood genius he paints himself as
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· ↳ reply to @parallelcover
@parallelcover it's about the free competition of firm philosophy; without skin in the game maladaptive ones such as these are allowed to live whereas adaptive ones are at a relative disadvantage
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
<<<tutsis>>>
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@razibkhan it seems iyers are performing far better than those other Brahmin groups though
signs of low trust society: at the gym and all the bars have plates left on them
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@ProfoundProfit wrong, as this means folks are leaving marginal gains on the table from lifting the weights back to the weight racks
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being trad in 2020 means pretending its the 90s
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
antiquity is just the time before AOL launched
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"gifted kids" are exceptional insofar as you have a bright future as a middle manager at a fortune 500. you're one of the lucky ones pal
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@eigenrobot i won't go so far as to say aelkus should lose his job but i will slyly suggest it
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statistical theory suggests that if each goat entrail is a weak uncorrelated predictor of outcomes (due to latent psychic energy ofc, similar to dowsing), we can achieve perfect prophecy via machine haruspicy https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1342067570795417600
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related concepts: democracy
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@LoicTheStoic the beauty of machine translation is that the model doesn’t systematize at all as long as there’s data on dialects and such it should be capable of providing a cheap translation
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@LoicTheStoic that being said, i doubt it will replace translators for serious tasks like eg translating a book any time soon moreover it’s not an argument that people shouldn’t learn multiple languages source: bilingual, am ML guy
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@LoicTheStoic oh and I would be shocked if we had high quality real-time translation in 2 years. The more powerful language models are extremely expensive to run and the weaker ones make a lot of silly errors
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@LoicTheStoic and agreed that translating to rare dialects and languages is still a very challenging task — but between the major language pairs I am pretty bullish
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@bronzebarbarian I often defend religion in the manner of this metaphor but it’s disingenuous; I don’t think it works that way
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stressing about human objective functions is a waste of time as anyone can tell by the phrase “acquired taste”
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
requesting utilitarian literature on dynamic reward functions and you can’t just link me deleuze
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@alth0u i unironically recommend this for depressed people -> just take enough psychedelics or alternatively have enough religious experiences until you have a shiny new objective fn
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people get righteous as fuck when a physics/statistics guy steps on their intellectual turf because there’s a reasonable chance they can do the job better and it’s just smart to scare them off
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@valueless_user yeah agreed, biology is not one of those cases. although there’s a storied history of physicists revolutionizing the field
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@metorotem “Data science guy” is just the {current_year} version of physicist
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· ↳ reply to @valueless_user
@valueless_user agreed, but I think von neumann is the extreme case of the effect i'm talking about. highly intelligent people are able to quickly get up to speed in fields they are not native to and contribute at the forefront
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
this has been a tweet subtly defending nate silver, for which i am very sorry
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plz stop linking the xkcd
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u @koaleszenz everybody that gets into a halfway decent econ PhD is from either physics or math undergrads, similar in many other fields
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@koaleszenz @alth0u true, it’s a rigorous mathematical discipline invented by stats people who also were passionate about biology. Didn’t Fisher himself have a major hand in it? how is this counter evidence?
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@koaleszenz @alth0u my point is not that there’s anything magical about a maths/physics background, although it tends to be a great intellectual starting point. there are plenty of unremarkable folks who graduate in these areas.
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@koaleszenz @alth0u I’m more saying that it’s very possible for highly intelligent people to wander into a field and get to the forefront very quickly. merit > pedigree. that’s all and for whatever reason there are lots of very smart stats people now (probably due to monetary reward in fin/tech)
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@koaleszenz @alth0u and going back 50 years or so a vast over representation of smart people used to do physics since it was the great intellectual expedition of the 20th century, one of the best successes of high modernism. plenty of them were able to make huge advances in adjacent fields
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u @abelianraisin @koaleszenz I want to model systems as a relational graph -> do CS I want to model systems as sets of algebraic interactions -> do physics personally I did both and am confused about everything
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@Teleonomic I think most fields of biology already have plenty of highly skilled quantitative thinkers — was more hinting abt public health here
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inside u are two wolves One wants to drive click through rates, the other wants to be Known
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i feel the gravitational pull of going faceless and tweeting incendiary bullshit all day
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yo how did CH get so big on black twitter is there a history on this
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@BarneyFlames they sell Spot commercially as of last year. no idea what the use case is or if its just a gimmick
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@BarneyFlames i wonder if tesla uses any ML equipped robotics on their factory lines?
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@BarneyFlames musk seems like the primary champion for this considering all his "machine that builds the machine" stuff
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@arcanearchon @mahdiofalltime my point is more that they don't seem to have produced anything of value for the military despite working on this and gorging themselves on the blood of young & talented engineers for untold years
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@Rationalbot im not so much concerned with them producing a working product for the military/police so much as i am with them never producing anything of value and gorging themselves on the blood of young engineers for the past 30 years
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@Rationalbot ok but they've been in business for 30 years and launched a product for the first time last year, which also seems to be a glorified camera carrying robot
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@Rationalbot i would be thrilled to see these guys used in combat and get rid of human casualties forever as you say but i doubt BR is the one to do it. bullish on anduril though
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@EdBaban i think DARPA kicked them to the curb after a while and then they've just been sucking up resources under various umbrellas like Alphabet, SoftBank, and now Hyundai
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@jeff82874662 it seems this amounts to a highly engineered demo reel, it’s hard to even see what the capabilities of the robot are. It’s like trying to interpret how good a games graphics are based on the teaser trailer
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@jeff82874662 like ok sure they can do an impressive dance on a pre recorded sequence with good dexterity in a studio setting — why haven’t they sold anything in 30 years of existence?
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@jeff82874662 why has this company been tossed around from alphabet to softbank to hyundai like a hot potato? red flags everywhere
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