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@Xsquared13 @WillManidis the stuff is incredibly self referential, which is fine and good for long time readers makes the on ramp harder

@jachaseyoung golden compass was right

@SoCalledRabbi @eigenrobot its real from personal experience body has some low hanging fruit in terms of muscle growth ig

@SoCalledRabbi @eigenrobot it doesn't seem too absurd, you can probably model muscle catabolism as a function of like how much muscle you currently have + caloric deficit + protein intake

@SoCalledRabbi @eigenrobot and also people who are either on roids or whose bodies are naturally roided up (pubescent teens) seem to achieve body recomp super easily

@SoCalledRabbi @eigenrobot lol sorry i just meant like losing muscle high protein, medium caloric deficit, relatively low current muscle mass means you can probably achieve recomp

@SoCalledRabbi @eigenrobot people tell me there are safe ways to cycle them w.o fucking your endocrine system but it seems like too much effort lol

@whomademecrispy whoa it must be pretty good if you're writing an essay per episode

@whomademecrispy i'm guessing you've watched nge?

the only thing uniting the postrats is their respekt for evangelion

@ChoralsScholar true

@whomademecrispy my personal GOAT. definitely has a lot to do with my emotional state when i first watched it tho

@aliramzan000 blocked and reported

@ellegist unfortunately it's Dune

@RichardMCNgo @robbensinger fair but this tweet got ratio'd to hell and back my marginal "cringe enforcement" is small

@_Monkey_Wisdom @ellegist only because it's very normie response

@lalaAlicelala this show is only good when ur a headcase & ur just too damn healthy for it

@BecomingCritter @goblinodds @monodevice @NewtypeApologia @fuehrerking @shill @acidshill

@eigenrobot @Xsquared13 lol i didn't yet

@Xsquared13 rekt

@lalaAlicelala by the standards of this site i am also a paragon of mental health

@alth0u just remove all the mfs around you with high propensity to misunderstand

@alth0u ask everyone to post SAT reading score

@eigenrobot @finnonthegin discuss the australian law re: news content on fb/goog

@alth0u it is kind of strange that poorly communicated stuff still often makes sense to the smartest people who have good enough intuition to figure out what the abstruse textbook is talking about

@alth0u the virgin Griffiths vs the chad Arfken

remember showing this to my high school physics teacher when it first came out and she happily told me how stupid it was and that newtons third law probably isn't broken thank u for your wisdom ms paterson https://x.com/anderssandberg/status/1378123938534977538

other stimulants do not give you focus like adderall does ime theres no amount of caffeine that'll give me the equivalent effect https://x.com/amelapay/status/1378129063852785666

@amirism_ you say this but won’t hang up pornography on your walls. curious

@mahdiofalltime wanna dm me ur experience? curious to hear what went wrong so I can try and avoid it

@finnonthegin yeah doesn’t even come close ime

@gooddogthedog very true coke gives you the illusion of focus but rly ur attention is even more hyperactive

you come to me on this, the day of autism awareness

@devarbol https://tanay.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-intangibles-and-the-demise

@AClockwork_Crow not tired enough. link that shit rn

@sonyasupposedly gotta pay the caloric toll

@alth0u how come?

@ProfoundPilled I have personally seen PP wear a mask 😋

@NickPinkston @okarthik42 @wolftivy most people don’t need to read Rand but you need to read Rand

this will 100% (d)evolve into bioshock and that’s a good thing https://t.co/zW0tIimayz

@alth0u better to be a horse trainer trainer than a horse trainer

@infinitsummer plenty of better ways, the most immediate being going to an HFT place, or joining one of those “startups” that will almost certainly have a good ipo (in previous years stripe, Airbnb)

Nate “I'm too chickenshit to make concrete predictions” Silver https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1378407270082617351

@ded_ruckus @landsunseen or other geo engineering giant rotating plates in orbit, or add some particulates to the atmosphere

underrated: making some shit up https://t.co/gVhlL8dmAn

college essays are exercises in creative fiction folx

@ollybot_redux few understand this! for mechanical systems you better stop lying for human systems you better start lying

@Anoneconomist1 truuuu

@ProfoundPilled Carry on king

@alth0u holy fuck I love her

@alth0u I am hoping NesTea and Polt run for office after her

@powerbottomdad1 @TeddyRaccovelt they live like communist bugmen

@Duderichy @powerbottomdad1 @TeddyRaccovelt idk it just looks very collectivized, joyless utilitarian buildings, everything is expensive, kind of weirdly egalitarian social norms etc

@Duderichy @powerbottomdad1 @TeddyRaccovelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante “The Law of Jante is a literary element that has been assumed by some to explain the egalitarian nature of Nordic countries. It characterises not conforming, doing things out of the ordinary, or being personally ambitious as unworthy and inappropriate.”

@Duderichy @powerbottomdad1 @TeddyRaccovelt also I’ve heard that service people will literally not doing anything for you Gotta check out your own groceries at the line and make your own bed in hotels and such and you have to fight over spots for communal laundry machines

@Duderichy @ShortingIsFun @TESLAcharts @powerbottomdad1 autopilot is just adas isn’t it? vs FSD

@nectarina12 check for substack in bio

@aniiyengar if only hbo Rome had more seasons

@alth0u you gotta perform some kind of soul arbitrage to do this tho. legitimately painful and grifty

@alth0u for the most part your KPIs won’t actual tick up because it’s hard to improve score on SAT or w.e

@alth0u oh sorry my mind immediately jumped to standardized tests piano is fine but you have to deal with a lot of super uninterested kids

@alth0u maybe this isn’t a rule but every SAT tutor that I knew who was big in the Indian American community was either a creep or an egregious liar or some combination

@lonemapleleaf @alth0u by the time someone hires an SAT tutor most of these low hanging fruit are gone, but true

@PstafarianPrice @alth0u nah subject specific tutors seems way cooler + constructive i was a chem tutor in HS

@PstafarianPrice @ded_ruckus @alth0u might be able to find some on twitter

@PstafarianPrice @ded_ruckus @alth0u generally i would suggest finding whatever social network they're on and advertising in the relevant groups. however i have no clue what 16 year olds are using. maybe instagram

mogged

@AskYatharth https://x.com/tszzl/status/1376413265136209920

? the technology sounds incredibly straightforward in a high school biology sense https://x.com/JakeAnbinder/status/1378864450615267331

If anything the mechanism seems deceptively simple for something that’s the pinnacle of 100s of years of cumulative pharma development

@aniiyengar lmao

these are the takes that keep bringing me back to twitter https://x.com/forshaper/status/1379129263677304833

btw he is Correct. also stephen pinker is right and music is a superstimulus

we can quibble about how super each stimulus is tho

@QiaochuYuan yeah we really really need recommender systems for resurfacing reading list content + categorizing, clustering, etc

@SkepticalAlpaca true

so where is this so called "CPI basket of goods and services". I want to buy it

@haus_cole @andrej_haulis wait why not? isn't it a bijection between RNA sequences and amino acids?

@_AlastairX_ @alth0u NNT pilled https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surgeons-23b0e2cf6d52

@ded_ruckus sir i would never be caught commenting on Policy

@_Jason_Dean_ 👍

@aniiyengar detached postironic twitter accounts

@eggprophet god i love ontological violence

@mattparlmer you should do a clubhouse on this!

broke: neo liberal project woke: natural language processing bespoke: neuro linguistic programming

ive probably done this tweet before but w.e.

many people on twitter are hiding from the bitter truth that there will never be a Succession S3

@alth0u yeah, we're well into that phase lot of journalist hate from tech industry fails to recognize that they created the ecosystem for the New new york times

gut level these numbers seem sus https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/1379137351562235905

@calebwatney yeah the clustering thing is hard to measure

@ProfoundPilled reply no like ... I have a gulag waiting for you

@Hellachans @notwokedon looool

mfs never heard of a sports scholarship https://x.com/pragueyerrr/status/1379201593862729732

@pragueyerrr yo you guys have internet in the middle east?

anyway the real blackpill is that the technocapital machine will optimize for designer babies with giant grotesque brains who are barely even human and there’s nothing any individual party can do to stop this https://x.com/sentientist/status/1379207495311314946

@ollybot_redux @hyperdiscogirl lmao

if you decide not to make your kids big brain vat babies they will be doomed to relative poverty if your country chooses to ban big brain vat babies it will be doomed to irrelevance

@metakuna Will hit the hotness limits way before the intelligence limits probably

@R1Jack I’m not assuming any such thing tho. We will accept those trade offs w the incentives so high

@Teleonomic correlation with some variable like income is not that interesting what % of Nobel prize winners are intelligent above a certain threshold? more intelligent people = more black swan breakthroughs

@clairlemon the girl reading this

@Virtual1nstinct @goblinodds These are based on 1980s SAT correlation, the test has changed so much that it’s not very highly correlated anymore

@alth0u society will diverge into bimbos, himbos, and vatbrains

@metakuna gotta love maxwells 3rd

true and the @gwern essay is great but evolution has to design a body that has to meet a ton of resource constraints which may no longer be salient https://t.co/SFNFVoGGKL

the most obvious being that a modern human can cheaply and regularly find 10,000 kcals to eat per day

@Duderichy @metakuna yeah cs + physics

@uMarhobane you can’t extrapolate the local derivative forever

the summary of the gwern article is more like “no simple chemical change can result in increased intelligence without trade offs” which is a bit more conservative than “ya can’t make people smarter”

@perceptions420 yeah mostly because our expenditure hasn’t grown proportionally but the top athletes who eat and expend a lot seem pretty healthy to me

@haus_cole i find it difficult to believe the hunter gatherers weren’t living through some deep malthusian logic

@themamabun doesn't heterozygous in this case confer intelligence advantage?

@rglpwx lol

@RobertCinci or conquest but it would probably look like more like what we call neo-colonialism today

@KolmogorovGhost @ollybot_redux i dont wanna know u cant make me take it

@LeefVan @gwern something something high dimensional spaces contain more saddle points than local minima hill climbing tends to be a very difficult algorithm to beat as the dimensionality goes to infinity

@koaleszenz evolution is stupid relative to what? https://x.com/tszzl/status/1379719250906992648?s=20

@VivaLaPanda_ @koaleszenz lol regardless of excel shenanigans i agree more with taylor than simon here. i'm confident we can find polygenic "improvements" only because (1) we have a different optimization function than evolution and (2) the environment has changed a lot

@thinkagainer similar concept with flirting discourse

@thinkagainer its just mf risk management

god i'm loving blocking the sun discourse. we are moving the overton window on the sun

"unintended consequences" trads are missing the point. the earth system is far more antifragile than you think. life survived billions of years of asteroid impacts and whatnot and i assure you filling the air with particulates that reflect 0.1% of sunlight will not change this

my take: i am so down to block the sun

source for that ^ assurance: fuck you

@_AlastairX_ lmao thinking about becoming the "block the sun" guy on top of the "fuck nate silver" guy

@notlinear1 i don't particularly like this fate. i just think it's inevitable. i'm like a satanist who believes the rapture is coming anyway

in future culture wars this will be the only point of contention https://x.com/powerbottomdad1/status/1379926051103576067?s=20

@_JohnWis tfw luxottica lobbyists defeat Block The Sun Act of 2080

the goal of anthropology is to discover new Types of Guys

@lalaAlicelala alice.

@calebwatney lmaooo

@ITBeHa yea this is the literal worse case scenario i'm using to demonstrate life has survived a lot worse and bounced back. and maybe this time it wouldn't. not saying it's ideal lol. we literally could not cause an asteroid's worth of damage to the earth if we tried

@asingleoat so don't do it until you can find a solution that's reversible

@asingleoat exactly -- any solution needs to have two properties (1) ability to do slow rollout eg block 0.01% of the sun, then 0.1%, etc with observation periods (2) reversibility

this hand gesture is one of the most cringe modern political inventions you know for a fact millions were poured into focus groups and statisticians to figure out this is the optimal least offensive gesture

vs the lindy whatever this is

@sympathetic_opp a sundress is a dress that’s yellow. Sorry I don’t make the rules

@_AlastairX_ @KolmogorovGhost @ollybot_redux ty man 😊 why do u say so & what part of my content do you like. sorry have to run this user research rq also should i start doing a blog

@proales oh trust me dude i'm far less leetcode skeptic than most people. i just think it could be more fun 😎

@REDudleyIII why did they copy it tho? there have been plenty of orators in history with plenty of hand gestures with plenty of success. why this one i'm betting its backed by "research" in some way

@alth0u this is the way! conservative for all meat stuff and progressive for all tech stuff

@alth0u this is really my perspective to some degree. for example i don't think people being poly is some interesting innovation that 100,000 years of human societies havent already tested

@alth0u but i'll also admit it's somewhat vacuous because the entire interesting space is in between eg you can argue that the new technology of hormonal birth control enables poly lifestyles to be done safely or something in a way that didn't make sense before

@Post_Apathy lmao

small accounts that deserve some boosting: @jachaseyoung @_AlastairX_ @devarbol

also @VivaLaPanda_ who got shadow banned lol @gigafelon @FunkyDuffy @NemoBane

@mlanetrain @jachaseyoung @_AlastairX_ @devarbol oh wow i thought they had fewer honestly. w/e i'm gonna say "small account" flexibly

next i will be doing a large accounts that deserve fewer followers thread.

@yashkaf are these self reported lol?

never trust mfs with their visuospatial IQs higher than verbal IQs. "male shape manipulators" if you will

oh also @rglpwx

@_AlastairX_ @KolmogorovGhost @ollybot_redux i broke down and took the thing but im extremely sus at this whole website lmao. tfw it's normalized by self reported scores

@_AlastairX_ @KolmogorovGhost @ollybot_redux even if people are answering honestly there will be insane selection bias

@NLRG_ @eigenrobot amazingly nobody can you stop you from publishing to arxiv with the title "Why economist's are Bad"

@NLRG_ @eigenrobot It looks like there's some moderation to make sure the thing looks and feels like a scientific paper. but it must be pretty lax because i've seen plenty of shitposts on there https://arxiv.org/help/moderation

@NLRG_ @eigenrobot for example :^) https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987

@NLRG_ ooo i wonder if they allow pseudonymous publication. I really hope so. can't say i've seen it before

@NLRG_ hmm but if you say you're NLRG from twitter are you really misrepresenting your identity i interpret this as lying about being someone else

@NLRG_ ah shit nvm

@Always123BC i'm totally joking but i doubt these attributes map like this for example i think for math the verbal skills may be more important than visuospatial in some cases

@lowqualitybot @NLRG_ yeah really disappointing

@eigenrobot its actually lamer than i first thought. pseudonyms not allowed and there is some minimal content moderation https://x.com/tszzl/status/1380031835984392193?s=20

@QiaochuYuan @eigenrobot im learning this for the first time, its pretty chill but not as chill as i'd like. you either need an institution affiliated email or "an endorsement from an established arXiv author", which is easy bc there are like 100,000s of established authors. i can endorse lol

@NLRG_ @cronokirby @eigenrobot hmm all of this has convinced me that we need a new arxiv with less Rules

@NLRG_ @cronokirby @eigenrobot ideally it would explicitly tie into the scientific publication graph somehow there is power in citing and being cited and having that all be well documented

@arachnocapital2 @eigenrobot agreed but some of the stresses of the grad student life are gone. for example there's no pressure that you need to publish x papers in y amount of time. just investigate your thing for most people the entry cost would be materials or collaborators

@cronokirby @NLRG_ @eigenrobot whoa

@Cubecumbered @NLRG_ @eigenrobot oh i see lol. that's unfortunate

all owns are first and foremost self owns

@NLRG_ @cronokirby @eigenrobot lmao amazing. i wouldn't mind coexisting with woo at all. use PageRank and other heuristics to make the connection graph explicit tho

@andrej_haulis true

@chaosprime yeah dreams seem to operate at the highest level of narrative abstraction elide all the sensorimotor stuff and inhale pure story

@bryancsk @adamcobb what about messenger or instagram or whatsapp?

@whomademecrispy @_metallurgist being on twitter is like attending a pox party

@_metallurgist @whomademecrispy the egregoric winds are incredibly powerful here. it's like living in a category 5 cognitive hurricane all the time ive changed opinions more since getting on here than the 5 years prior probably

@_metallurgist @whomademecrispy despite all the talk about filter bubbles i think most people would never get a look at a fraction of the breadth of opinion that exists if theyre off of SM whether that successfully "immunizes" them or if its even the right metaphor, i'm not sure

@eigenrobot the only people who keep me company at these hours are degenerate NEETs, new fathers, and Australians

@_metallurgist @whomademecrispy difficult to say because it's a dynamical system the people i follow change with my opinions which change with the people i follow

@leominkus verbal IQ is about skill at symbolic manipulation, so all skill at math derives from a cross of this with spatial intelligence however yes i was shitposting. i took the test and personally my spatial was like 15 points higher than my verbal lol

@rglpwx cursed you

enjoy staying poor lads https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/1380221746079531011

@benjamingreeley to be clear i'm disagreeing with NL's low effort dunk here

rotating shapes seems like a menial skill honestly

but i am thanking god that everything is an embedding space now

@alth0u this proves that einstein had higher verbal >>

@AllisonReichel buttcoins

@TeddyRaccovelt @powerbottomdad1 simply assault the bison with many anagrams

@MiloJKing ya they literally didn't understand lmao

so true. and yet. the higher dimensional you get the less likely you are to be reasoning about something via visualization than symbolic manipulation. however its also true that the mechanics of tensor math require some 3d thinking https://x.com/allaboutchemist/status/1380248539746435072?s=20

@AOCummies get his ass

anyway gonna start flexing my perfect shape rotation scores at the bars

@_AlastairX_ @alth0u @VectorOfBasis lmao

why is there minute to minute coverage and various high profile national politicians weighing in on a vote with 2500 submitted ballots https://x.com/guardian/status/1380260323899346944

I could literally start a twitter poll that gets more votes

ML ubiquitously embedded into many or most real world controls problems + DRL based autonomous robotics in factories start of a new logistic growth curve in biopharma due to wild west of mRNA & gene therapies https://x.com/vgr/status/1380289557225041924

@eigenrobot the vedas are just instruction manuals on the construction of nuclear weapons

@powerbottomdad1 @eigenrobot yeah 2010s r literally adderall and moda and this will likely continue

@TeddyRaccovelt the yes:no ratio on this one is stronger

@LoneVoltsAhead (deep) reinforcement learning

@Britonomist ur right NL is coping

so much for "post"-rationalism https://x.com/jeff82874662/status/1379989953774555137

@telmudic you just gotta be really super correct like 1% of the time and jack it the other 99%

@alth0u https://x.com/alth0u/status/1380246215422406657

@_AlastairX_ @alth0u the exit strat I always wanted

@_AlastairX_ @alth0u I’ve always been sad that there’s no good cognitive profiles on Indians

@_AlastairX_ @alth0u also not nearly enough genetic and cognitive analysis of the fractaline castes. too taboo

@TeddyRaccovelt the karmic ledger is in excel

@AstralPJs @TeddyRaccovelt They have map reduced excel in Heaven

@billpshort will reupholstered my priors

@pattern_boi @alth0u may be interested in graph2vec or mol2vec or any of this nature of papers. the representations will only be as interesting as the unsupervised task they’re trained on

@pattern_boi @ne0agent1c @jerry_dot_ai yeah do you have conversion data? You can train a dot product user embedding * item embedding = label

@metakuna entire adult lives tho. I started playing maplestory at 12 and it’s downhill from there

@powerbottomdad1 he could whup my ass

@Rahmeljackson go on?

@eigenrobot annals of recall optimization

@telmudic nah not really

@orthonormalist I mean controls problems such as driving or electricity management in the grid or many others

@orthonormalist yeah definitely — the line between controls theory and reinforcement learning is thin many self driving car systems use combinations of quadratic solvers and ML models but here I meant controls problems more informally

@74L0N @MG_gO_2thepolls buying cheap drugs from Canada doesn’t improve efficiency like it would for buying goods from China or something. Those drugs are made by (generally) American companies and sold in Canada at rates set by the Canadian government. vs goods from China are actually cheaper to make

@74L0N @MG_gO_2thepolls so you can either just skip a step and get the American government to do price setting for prescriptions or suffer the market price in America. Also if all Americans were to demand prices as cheap as Canadian ones prices the global pharma industry will collapse lel

@pupperio @74L0N @MG_gO_2thepolls @DeanBaker13 gov funding is no great substitute doesn’t matter how much money they have if they’re not willing to risk it on newer ventures (as we currently see with NIH grants$

@MiloJKing 😳 Whoa

turn all things into computronium https://x.com/postpostpostr/status/1380339670618357761

I’m not sure if this is obvious / over discussed but Isn’t it kind of fucked that neither Obama nor Harris are actually ados

@ollybot_redux American Descendant of slaves or smthng like that alternatively the never to be published novel “A dream of spring”

@telmudic @ollybot_redux correct in that they would be upper middle class at home and of high education and class and other things. but more wealthy on an absolute scale? I’m not sure. the poorest Americans can be materially better off than most of the third world

@telmudic @ollybot_redux yeah fair

@simoj_ @ollybot_redux god I hope so some part of me gut level knows that he gave up tho

@simoj_ @ollybot_redux If even the pandemic hasn’t forced him to churn that thing out it’s over

@lonemapleleaf oh interesting that’s something I guess

@alth0u Thomas mueller VP of propulsions SpaceX 😎

@alth0u that’s the only guy tho

@ollybot_redux ok this is wrong in several ways so I’m deleting

@ollybot_redux no worries 😌

what does a smart washer even do https://x.com/holman/status/1380342593418977283

like cmon does it intelligently pick the settings based on the load? move my clothes to the dryer? or just emails me when my laundry is done lmao

the bar is so low

@NLRG_ idgi but carry on

@swapp19902 I WONDER IF YOU KNOW HOW THEY LIVE IN TOKYO

@NLRG_ All I know is nate silver uploads stata stuff ergo I hate it

@AlecStapp ok lol come now we can’t just keep drilling down on the minimum viable chunk of work to call “designing the vaccine”

@AlecStapp it probably took minutes to copy paste the core mrna sequence then add the typical codons & segments on each side

@jerry_dot_ai @lonemapleleaf @VeloMontaigne oh. I thought velo meant like trueborn heir of some slave owners. Sorry I’m sleep deprived, deleting

@parafactual notice how most people who will tell you not to go to college are college grads lol

@parafactual “figure out a cheap way to do it and go” should be the default the advantage of top unis will be the research and recruiting opportunities

@parafactual a reason not to go is if you have strong convictions about your plans for your next 3-4 years or life

@parafactual the research advantage is huge if you’re interested in academic science recruiting advantage is really pronounced for certain fields but not so bad in others tech is not as bad as others

you should totally just not go to college and do psychedelics all day. this is definitely advice that scales and definitely not just for highly exceptional people.

damn it all makes sense https://x.com/KolmogorovGhost/status/1380649089604464641

@eigenrobot same feeling https://x.com/alth0u/status/1378234403940298753

@eigenrobot the smarter your coworkers the less you have to worry about readable code and whatnot lol

@nihilionist yea it’s kind of reactionary to a lot of peoples bad experiences in academia + high exposure to low quality scientists with lots of power over them (cdc)

@DistractedAnna 😳

@DistractedAnna I will admit @carrr_losss got here first but I didn’t realize until later

@LukeThinksShow @DistractedAnna @carrr_losss lmao do it

@iluvJoeRogan different guy from the first time?

@iluvJoeRogan lol I guess just take the L at this point and hope for the best ig

the more time I waste on twitter the better my performance ratings get

lads it’s not worth the humiliation. forget money and become an ascetic scholar https://x.com/Luco94383810/status/1380419841497047041

more and more I’m convinced that the smartest people are poor. Taleb was wrong

@_metallurgist I think that’s what I’m getting for midterm lel

@_AlastairX_ @robinhanson @VectorOfBasis @paulkrugman are there aliens in dune? more like really weird future-humans

@telmudic incredibly off brand but heartwarming

reducing all problems to shape rotation starting now

when's the last time you pulled an all nighter?

@alth0u @lalaAlicelala incredible sense of victory after you're done. and i really got off on being able to function under those conditions where others couldn't lol sleep deprivation only makes me more focused

@alth0u @lalaAlicelala i never learned how to operate in the normal regime

@lalaAlicelala @alth0u based as fuck

if ur so good at rotating shapes then fold this protein rn

@lalaAlicelala lmao owned

@lalaAlicelala i do though! rotate dem shapes at work and at the gym

@_AlastairX_ this sentence would be unintelligible anywhere else

this is an unbeatable heuristic to figure out how hard someone is working

@pee_zombie yeah lol it's not a measure of how much you're getting done but how hard you're working i dont recommend it

@pee_zombie for example i'm sure even very smart people taking on giant difficult projects have to pull all nighters or something similar eg sleeping on the factory floor stuff goes wrong and they set hyper-aggressive deadlines

adding a bunch of disclaimers so i don't piss people off 1) not a value judgement. working hard bashing your head against the wall isn't necessarily laudable 2) working hard doesn't = great output at all. i don't believe in LTV after all lol

only reason i notice is that i haven't all-nightered in a while and it's certainly not due to better executive skills🤔

@blyyyye labor theory of value

@halvorz @sarahmalbers @TeddyRaccovelt 😳

@garybasin hell yeah

@alth0u @TeddyRaccovelt yeah this is like reddit tier generalizations about the normies

@alth0u @TeddyRaccovelt i agree that you will become mimetically ensconced in whatever everybody else cares about but this is also true most places

@bowserbot2 the new evolution of bowser is unshackled

top 10 tweets made moments before disaster https://x.com/parafactual/status/1380636746501791747

today @parafactual is the main character

@nickcammarata @sonyasupposedly @nerdposterino @deepfates @parafactual @pareinoia can you honestly flesh out a path where someone makes advancements in medicine without going an academic route of some kind even if not a full medical degree? how do you even get samples or equipment or whatnot

@nickcammarata @sonyasupposedly @nerdposterino @deepfates @parafactual @pareinoia and the answer can't be something like "well my mom owns a specialty clinic" lol

@deepfates @parafactual @pee_zombie @nickcammarata @pareinoia yeah, highly agree some1 who takes the safe path all the time will end up pushing paper in a dying industry but this doesn't imply the inverse "mainline any risk that comes my direction" manage a portfolio of risks -> if something promising comes your way try it out

@pjsempe @bowserbot2 jailbreak bowser

@BeforeGuild @DistractedAnna @parafactual i want you to visit the tesla office and ask how many of them have undergraduate degrees lol

@BeforeGuild @DistractedAnna @parafactual the tech industry will pay lip service to this kind of thing because they can find like hyper exceptional people who maybe haven't gone to college but have been building insanely complex model rockets in their backyards since age 10

@BeforeGuild @DistractedAnna @parafactual can you stop taking this so personally lol

@BeforeGuild @DistractedAnna @parafactual actually fuck it blocked

@MencianLegalism @parafactual @DistractedAnna @BeforeGuild i'm not sure why i'm still here arguing but i will say it's absurdly easier to find people working in roles you're interested in in college than like anywhere else. i got all my jobs through buddies in college referring me. maybe twitter if you're a social media savant

@parafactual @MencianLegalism @DistractedAnna @BeforeGuild yeah you have an exceptionally powerful following depending on what you're trying to do in life lmao i mean you got nick camarata giving you (somewhat questionable) advice

@parafactual @MencianLegalism @DistractedAnna @BeforeGuild actually maybe it's self referential and the fact that he's the one giving you the advice makes it good advice

@leaacta not only just the tragically allocated talent but underappreciated to what degree the smartest people just arent interested in playing wealth games. the genius entrepreneur will get all the clout but not the ascetic monk slaving away (or modern equivalent)

@diviacaroline lmfao

@leaacta i will admit theres a slippery slope in the other direction of everyone claiming they're the underappreciated internet monk (every guy on reddit)

getting really good at polybridge and changing my bio to "atoms, not bits"

@leaacta thinking about this more, part of it is just american mercantile culture (which i adore, don't get me wrong), another part is a reaction to the woes of academia in recent years

@leaacta lot of people have said this but seems like the "absent minded professor" archetype is dropping off to be replaced by the CEO talent-managing professor archetype

@LukeThinksShow @DistractedAnna @carrr_losss thanks for making this lol

@LukeThinksShow @DistractedAnna @carrr_losss now me and @carrr_losss get to fight over red shirt blue shirt

@halvorz @leaacta hmm there are several layers to this lot of people who arent wealth-seeking happen to seek other kinds of status (most academics)

@mlanetrain @leaacta yeah exactly lol

@halvorz @leaacta maybe the {smart, ascetic} axes are independently distributed and i'm just mad abt the subset of people silently doing great work

@lonemapleleaf @halvorz @leaacta elaborate on the first part? do you just mean funding going to stupid projects?

@lonemapleleaf @halvorz @leaacta some of this is just the failure of academia on both the supply and demand side lot more people wanting to become scientists and a lot fewer openings

@lonemapleleaf @halvorz @leaacta but yeah on a deeper level there has always been an uncomfortable mapping between technology and capital the rigors of the market are great for enforcing empirical discipline but also tend to

@lonemapleleaf @halvorz @leaacta (1) decrease the amount of technical risk people are able and willing to take and (2) indexes into research directions we may find boring or stupid (ad recos)

@lonemapleleaf @halvorz @leaacta true, these give me hope

@jerry_dot_ai @HeikoPierre yeah most people will tell you they're not getting married because of financials

@lonemapleleaf @HeikoPierre @jerry_dot_ai the difficulty of various status markers has increased just as material wealth has increased owning a house etc

@lonemapleleaf @HeikoPierre @jerry_dot_ai i genuinely don't see the causal arrow between getting married and not being poor i don't doubt it makes for a healthier and happier society but the wealth argument doesn't add up

@lonemapleleaf @HeikoPierre @jerry_dot_ai sure as with all things it's cultural i'm utterly unconvinced you can change deep cultural flaws by waving a policy wand

@lonemapleleaf @HeikoPierre @jerry_dot_ai obviously our society already subsidizes marriage to a pretty crazy level with combined tax rates and whatnot

@postpostpostr @kitten_beloved ^

@postpostpostr @kitten_beloved and yeah i'm joking somewhat

@SamuraiEnd @leaacta everyone cares about something!

@bowserbot2 oh man the ease with which i could do it even at 18 vs 5 years later requires stimmies now

@stevegraham i am not recommending it haha

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 yeah why

@MoonParamour seeing the sunrise racing to a deadline shud qualify i think

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 so i poast like an Old

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 2019 but spent another year doing research actually applied to grad schools this cycle but no dice

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 ya people have been advising me to apply to oxbridge lol easier to get in + shorter phd + still lots of great ML profs

look you have to be hot for your volcel-ness to mean anything

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 even in industry would rather be a research scientist than an engineer i think

@ollybot_redux true it's about the hotness ceiling

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 wish i had figured that out sooner 🙃 would've made things easier

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 it all depends. there are phd scientists on my team at {BigTechCo} that make the exact same amount as me then there are phd scientists at the big industrial AI labs that make quite a bit more. the demands for these labs has been increasing a lot over time tho.

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 sometimes the job listings literally ask for "full professor at top 10 university" or some shit like that and who knows where the industry will be in the 5 years it takes to get that phd. all i know is that the work was more fun when i was a researcher lol

@costa11235 @bowserbot2 plus i was pretty successful + think i could continue doing pretty well at it

@orthonormalist skim his blogs and maybe watch one of his video lectures to get the vibes. under no circumstances should you read the books lmao

@lalaAlicelala @jeff82874662 not yet!

for people familiar with this space, how novel is this? feel like i've been seeing demos like this for 10+ years at least https://x.com/neuralink/status/1380303902139031553

hmm the wireless thing is new probably

@costa11235 oh true forgot about these my mom is considering getting one

@idontwa86202030 @costa11235 yeah it's batch processing

@cincin8tus outside the body is pretty much useless we are getting pretty good at long term electrode placement

@telmudic holy fuck lol why i thought u were coasting at ur work

@The_Geraldoid @looksbizarre finite jest!

@jachaseyoung we will have to support monkey habitat call-centers on mars

@_AlastairX_ based af

@R1Jack yeah last time i all nightered was for a paper submission deadline 🥲

starting to love string theory again mostly because all its public detractors turn out to be incredible hacks

eric weinstein, avi loeb thanks guys

@BascomA Omw

@lisatomic5 in the limit this is just a venture capital model hehe

@chitoryu12 @VeloMontaigne @rudeloux @lonemapleleaf lmao

@aniiyengar lmfao

extraordinary https://x.com/aniiyengar/status/1381121295874715650

@R1Jack lmfao what the fuck I’m too drunk for this

! https://x.com/Bacob_jailey/status/1380864558445789186

@cincin8tus @ledbetterjoshau they keep getting thinner and less invasive

deep inside everyone knows that computers were a mistake

fuck that bitch turing

ada lovelace was of the devil’s party

@perceptions420 oh fuck a lady lovelace simp

realistically its because the ted ideology is kind of autistic and not lindy

@0xrohan yeah the vibes are off everyone so self important

@AOCummies ppl really think these petite feet could’ve supported such a massive reptile they have played us for absolute fools

abandon names — all things are rotatable shapes https://t.co/wFEKmnrSEd

@jeff82874662 cnn clearly shorting the airlines rn

@hyperdiscogirl wrong

@alth0u @parafactual broke: psychoanalysis woke: PCA of the soul

@parafactual .

@steviedotboston might've been worse

@sdand lmfao

@sdand just goes to show that if a dart throwing chimp had set foot in the sf vc scene in the year 2000 it would be rich by now

@_djpn @sdand doesn't everyone do both of these by now?

@_djpn @sdand yeah by everyone i just meant the big socials like i'm sure snap and fb are all on top of this

@telmudic i can't be held responsible for the accounts i follow

sorry sorry im trying to delet it

@telmudic (note to all future employers)

@telmudic fr

seriously do ppl really think that "spend more time documenting" is some brain blast innovation every software dev, and team, and company is in a global rat race to pump out more software odds are if you thought of it in five seconds it's been tried

the best developers can ramp themselves up via example and reading the code tbqh. they'll complain about it the whole time bc nobody likes reading other peoples code but they'll get it done

guys many times i like a tweet without understanding it and then like 25% of the time it'll turn out to be fucked up on closer reading. please ignore. acceptable risk

annals of low verbal IQ

@_djpn yeah exactly

@pattern_boi yeah i will forget and then i'll spend some brainpower relearning it, that's just lindy everyone makes a tradeoff between relearning and note-taking and we all choose different spots on the curved

@pattern_boi yeah when something is quite confusing i think we all go ahead and put in a comment or make the code easier to read or something

@EricRichards22 yeah exactly

@AOCummies honestly you don't even post fucked up shit anymore. you've become domesticated drew

@AOCummies when donald trump got banned we lost not 1 but 2 great poasters

don't even TALK to me like i'm the same person i was before taking the very sus online shape rotation quiz

@AOCummies 🥲 my man is growing up

@n55939491957681 nah just that dum open psychometrics thing that was going around

thinking abt how just one generation ago my parents were able to work and study year round without real air conditioning and using oil lamps to read at night meanwhile if i don't have a specific spotify playlist on at all times i'm actually a vegetable

the fact that basically everybody is wireheading on spotify is underappreciated

@notlinear1 i will make no claims about spotify's ability to capture the value of their methhead addicts

@feeblemindedrat yeah same those anagrams killed me

@prerationalist this guy gets it

@_djpn this was before they had kids, growing up in India

@finnonthegin just my collection of random electronic music lmao

@finnonthegin https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XDVlRPVAa8rSbwF4NMsMP?si=lP5O16lBQJKSX6a3T5U2jA

@rglpwx @telmudic I’m already pilled on this

@cateliseh god I hope not

stochastic policy based on Reddit feed model would be an improvement https://x.com/jdcmedlock/status/1381438625527689222

@parafactual @jdcmedlock 😳

@gbrl_dick if ur gonna commit the crime of seriousposting like this you may as well extract actual insights and not this fortune cookie shit 😔

@koaleszenz missing the entire point because nobody dislikes the idea of academia

@parafactual @ollybot_redux this is a superpower and u will go far

@sarahmalbers due to the astrological principles of matchmaking 😌

@Britonomist @pattern_boi i don’t know about decades ago but i definitely work in a truly leviathan monorepo

@leaacta yeah in fact I can’t think of any collectives that don’t have categorically different wills than its constituents

cant remember the last time i read the news will count this as personal progress

@eigenrobot hey can i join ur lab

@parafactual do you mean like the difficulty of utilitarian calculations?

@finnonthegin only the ones that haven’t watched the crown 😔

@FrankMe123 https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/

@ITBeHa this may be my favorite bit since nate silver

@leaacta it raises my estimation of ppl if they got the job without a formal cs background

@dendricide @bigbabytex ya come now feelings posting starts interesting and very quickly turns into navel gazing

@jimpagels jfc

@jimpagels rip :(

@nickcammarata true https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09560

@guywhits China raised the diaoyu islands out of the South China Sea

guy who’s religious but researching radical life extension anyway bc he feels he’s going to hell

people are calling this unfiltered truth but I will tell random homies on the street that I love them when I’m drunk https://t.co/SGDNcFuxzG

@andrej_haulis I don’t know how you could’ve been in irreligious in that world

@Hellachans maybe but it’s a low bar lol so actual women best not be taking it seriously

@WillManidis I don’t think he’s catholic but I’ve always wondered about Peter Thiel and his longevity stuff

@jeff82874662 love u too Jeff 😍

anyway this is why getting plastered once in a while is spiritually good for you

@Hellachans @jeff82874662 Jeff is picking up @alt1na1 spelling patterns

@Hellachans @jeff82874662 @alt1na1 fuck

@perceptions420 @WillManidis I think he’s said many times he’s a Christian tho and his philosophy seems directly based on Christian stuff I don’t think he’s hedging like that imo, he’s just found some compatibility between eternal life on earth and in heaven

@perceptions420 @WillManidis i guess so. I’m not religious but I find Pascal’s wager extremely unconvincing and I hope so would most religious folks

@TheCaptain_Nemo what if the body never dies?

@jeff82874662 i'm just built different

@hockey_dad57 right on the head

@jeff82874662 born and bred for rotating shapes

all dudes must rock

it's imperative not descriptive

@gbrl_dick correct

ML PhD grads would happily work for the sinaloa cartel if they put in the highest bid

@telmudic does arxiv show related twitter discussion on the website now?

an entire science devoted to moving scalar values up 😊

@alth0u tfw you dont want to read an article but absorb it anyway via the TL

@Duderichy model-based RL

@halvorz wtf https://x.com/halvorz/status/1380756212250202114?s=20

@alth0u the scare quotes seem dumb though. i mean cmon the context is that these are all upper middle class people playing UMC games

@alth0u ok i'm getting radicalized. she's correct about the cheese and the shipping

@alth0u however the overwhelming desire for optionality on relationship and family doesn't seem all that asian

1) being cheap is a virtue 2) being hesitant to buy overpriced boutique candles or whatever isn't a moral flaw no matter how rich you are https://x.com/rachsyme/status/1381611466374123522

its obvious that the author is a second gen immigrant the subtext is that she doesn't know what to do with her money so she's going through the motions of buying whatever luxury crap but it feels wrong

people whose parents already achieved postscarcity will not understand lol

@MWStory obvious half-way mishmash of conservative developing world scarcity values with western abundance mindset

@sf_tech_bro i'm working under the assumption that these are synonyms

@MWStory for example the ideal of donating all her money is very western the inability to spend on luxury stuff is developing world / asian

@R1Jack lmao true

@lonemapleleaf guess not if i had to guess her personality is built mostly on status and wealth anxiety

@lonemapleleaf disagree i'd say the typical UMC white is encouraged from a young age to develop passions, hobbies, etc that they can start exploring from when they're very young parents may not push them to maximize earnings talking about work outside of work is moderately discouraged

@lonemapleleaf asian immigrants reverse this asian parents will encourage their kids to get into high class hobbies like piano only to make them legible to the college admissions apparatus parents tell kids to be doctors, engineers, consultants career is the only thing they talk about

@lonemapleleaf of course white americans are a vast array of cultures and generalization is dangerous but. as a nonwhite that's what i've boserved

@Interrobang_2 based

@cauchyfriend not sure. can we really describe where virtues come from? i'd say being frugal is good insofar as taking up "too much" resources is bad

@lonemapleleaf how do you know they weren't pushed to do that? bragging would be unbecoming even if they are successful

@lonemapleleaf true, and if this person was truly fully inside the asian immigrant ethos, they wouldn't be freezing their eggs or writing in nymag. it's the strange mishmash of asian + american culture that makes it obvious to me that it's a second gen immigrant

@lonemapleleaf hmm, plenty of children of professional immigrants will grow up in moderately wealthy suburbs but i agree that divorce would be uncommon

@lonemapleleaf but not unheard of but yeah your explanation also sounds plausible

@cauchyfriend yeah and as i've grown up i feel less and less guilt about spending on small luxuries but i get where it comes from, and it's not a bad place

@lonemapleleaf we could go at this all night lol, lets agree to disagree also my priors: a woman working in the bay area tech scene is more likely to be asian than not just going off the raw demographics

i want to apologize for rehashing the amazon leadership principles 😰 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1381826337753559045

@lonemapleleaf @jerry_dot_ai among the people at my high school, there were certainly first gen immigrant parents in this bracket. usually both doctors

@alth0u you fishing for a murder suicide?

@Hellachans @The_Geraldoid i actually thought these meant the same thing annals of low verbal IQ :)

@ChrisWGuthrie buddy i don't even have cable

i am being told that cheap and frugal are different things. i meant frugal https://x.com/The_Geraldoid/status/1381841413982146560?s=20

@nickcammarata insofar as you can define yourself as a generational organism your children are also you but otherwise idts

@nickcammarata @_StevenFan since i don't know why or how awareness is born from the substrate my answer is "fuck it why not" egregore_respecter has logged on

@bryancsk yeah exactly lol top to bottom white old money journalists

@devarbol rn it's a centralizing force & is most lucrative in service of pre-existing power but imo this is the short term. ML scientists and practitioners are by their nature too focused on watching numbers monotonically go up. if they start thinking on long term bets, it will get better

doing long threads on internal narratives and root causing various feelings is an expression of female autism and i love to see it

@selentelechia i swear this is not a subtweet ive been thinking it for a while

i gotta thank these babies for my successful shape rotation career

@finnonthegin wth is this account tankies liberals or ccp sockpuppet?

@eigenrobot whoa

@eigenrobot new type of guy: heavenly kingdom revanchist

@eigenrobot this may actually be an old type of guy i'm not sure

@railgunT1 @eigenrobot i am a lowly shape rotator, please put this in terms i'll understand all guys are merely vector combinations of slightly different guys

@railgunT1 @eigenrobot whoa

@railgunT1 @eigenrobot with the basis set of these two guys you can calculate all other guys

@EricRichards22 lmao

@selentelechia what happens when parents are misaligned on this? feels almost necessary -- the archetypes of the mother protecting you and the father egging you on

@amasad whoa no way? can you find the quote / link

@powerbottomdad1 yeah its pretty familar to me, her clash between eastern and western cultures. i also forgot to develop hobbies that's why i post online all day

@abuutyshake virtues/ ethics are instilled in you from a young age. even as your life situation changes it's hard to change your hardwiring. so it makes perfect sense

@oldvillagesage @cauchyfriend she was exhorting the value of giving it all away rather than spending on luxuries

@tensor_bodega before/after they were born doesn't really matter too much. what matters is, were they born and raised in scarcity mindset? did they watch their friends die of random threats already extinguished in the west?

@tensor_bodega err for the latter parts i'm talking about the parents. i doubt anyone in the west is watching their friends die from snakebite or bad wiring or any of the crazy stories i've heard

@tensor_bodega oh definitely yeah. this can very much applies to poor americans. however her values are very asian i feel

@powerbottomdad1 yeah agreed her writing an article makes her atypical in several ways but its besides the point bc the news has a major selection bias for kind of outrageous writing. so we should try and discern the core basic sentiment before the editors made her spice it up

@powerbottomdad1 imo the sentiment is many people who were wealth and status anxious will make a lot of money and then find that it's not really what they were looking for anyway and then they got some soul searching to do