@swapp19902 poetry at its best is like pebbles skipping across the semantic pond, it's written in like cryptograms. takes real concentration to put it together. i love it
@chrisgardenuk that’s a complicated subject with insane second order consequences. im not at all willing to throw that theory out of hand wo thinking about it more
WAY different than this tweet
@alth0u honestly i don't think twitter can make any simple changes and bootstrap to $100b
heavily text based, hyper-verbal social media that's mostly detached from real world identity
the first bit limits the TAM and the last bit limits ad targeting CPMs
NFTs are honestly a slam dunk of a product and if opensea had like 20% more talent total normies with no prior exposure to crypto would be buying and selling memes on their phone
there is a correct way to do this
eminent domain the property for like double the market value and then give the patent(s) to the commons https://x.com/CNBC/status/1390025466539614212
some of the most prodigious NPCs in the world are the ppl who are like international medalists in math competitions and their greatest aspiration is to climb up the IC ladder at jane street lol
@RespecterTomboy i mean yeah its me as well to some degree but i feel more strongly about folks who have proven themselves to be literally the best in the world at mathematical reasoning
@mechanical_monk I think when you’re doing some hard research stuff the raw talent beats people skills / planning most of the time
may not be enough for making lots of money definitely
@lalaAlicelala@daan_vandenham@myceliummage wait but nobody would think of themselves as an NPC
it’s just an insult for other ppl
If someone’s predictable or boring they’re npc
@DoctorBillz i mean yeah agreed but so what? apply a consistent law to all such cases rather than making excuses for the vicissitudes of the specific technology
on some level I find arguments about food supply being tainted unconvincing because me, my sister, and my cousins are all taller and healthier than our parents who grew up eating much less synthetics
@lonemapleleaf@leepavelich My dad grew up eating meat but my mom didn’t
the food they ate comes mostly from farmers very close to where they lived etc. they probably had more exposure to industrial toxins, pesticides than me tho
not using any particular metric for health, just holistic
@bowserbot2 Interesting
yeah I’ve found that it works like shit when I don’t sleep “enough” (which can mean anything depending on the day)
let’s you go a long time without eating tho
@parafactual when you stop playing chess you get worse at it
when you stop hanging out with a group of friends you become less close with them
etc etc
is this a cynical twitter feedback loop or just a fact of life
some guy today: yeah i got a B in my AP Physics class and was literally traumatized for life by grades
Hong Xiuquan failing the imperial exams: hold my fucking beer
@lisatomic5 yeah true which makes me think it's probably not academic philosophy in the traditional sense
probably a journal that accepts without reviewing or something like that
@abuutyshake haven't read that one but i feel like he described the ennui and existential dread of american yuppies drowning in an endless sea of entertainment but no meaning better than anyone else
@Disputationist lol
don't tell the timeline but i always go to south indian restaurants and get dosas and biryani
but if you have to go to a normie indian restaurant the chicken tikka is the way to go
@rasalghulvc right wouldn't you agree there are levels of intelligence below sentience
the average software program is less complicated than the hindbrain of a mammal and the game NPCs have less responsiveness than a fruitfly
@rasalghulvc right all/most category spaces are vague with adversarial examples testing our understanding. do intersex ppl negate the categories of male of female?
i will defer to what the courts say about porn: "i'll know it when i see it"
@woke8yearold bespoke: both cell lines would have resulted from the same genesis event (panspermia) so it shouldn’t update the probability of future great filter
@ResonantPyre Einstein was an S tier philosopher, he believed that what separates a great scientist from a common one was strong philosophical underpinnings
@ctjlewis@powerbottomdad1@nickcammarata he was saying that my experience was uniquely friendly because I went to good schools. I’m saying it’s the ppl at good schools who stress enough about grades to kill themselves lol
@ctjlewis@powerbottomdad1@nickcammarata Obviously poor folks have their own set of concerns, probably objectively worse than the PMC striver, but doesn’t manifest as performance anxiety
@powerbottomdad1@bowserbot2@nickcammarata yeah agreed, I only had to deal with violence like very few times, not something I thought about much
I’m only making a comment on kids being too fragile for grades or w.e. Not that they should go get beat up every day
@ctjlewis@powerbottomdad1@nickcammarata relatively high. objectively still low. I don’t know what kind of society can just remove performance anxiety - everyone’s competing over something
@bowserbot2@leepavelich@powerbottomdad1@nickcammarata ya I don’t buy it
am I traumatized about my teeth falling out or is it just some LCD of the human experience
also I reject the idea that causing stress is Bad
it’s always amazing to consider what the conversion rates of street proselytizers and door to door pamphleteers are. several orders of magnitude lower than political canvassing
@The_Geraldoid@arivers3296 just wondering isn’t that dangerous can’t you extrapolate that logic to like every prophet
is it more about whether their revelations feel Truthful
as the price breaks $100 alien civilizations begin mining interstellar dogecoin with their self replicating computers. As all energy is depleted from the observable universe, there is a broadcast into the decaying cosmos: “live from New York its Saturday night!”
11 pm
elon goes on air and whispers just one word into the mic: “doge”
audience starts laughing raucously
the price instantly starts climbing to $1, $2, $5. At $10 the audience is astral projected to a realm where they witness the ghosts of all blockchains that couldve been
@visakanv@nickcammarata you seem to believe that the acid was revealing some higher truths, which may be true, or it may just be a random walk through meaning space. subtly tweaking objective functions in random directions by chemically emulating a religious experience
@visakanv@nickcammarata people wake up from acid convinced they’ve wasted their whole lives and the real meaning of life is xyz — one interpretation is that they’re uncovering their true purpose in life
@visakanv@nickcammarata another is that the chemical moved your objective in xyz direction and you’re now horrified at your previous decisions made under a different reward framework. in my view it’s hard to argue this is productive
@visakanv@nickcammarata when you discuss grief and healing these sound like “productive” outcomes. in other words, what people call “personal progress”
@visakanv@nickcammarata productivity doesn’t have to be a bad word. generally it refers to value provided to the technocapital economy but I don’t see why it can’t mean value provided to the self or to the community or something
@lalaAlicelala I just mean that I’m ambivalent about experiences that sell themselves as “changing my life”
yeah they absolutely might work but I’m kind of neutral about that goal. probably a great thing to pursue when you’re feeling really stuck
@lalaAlicelala was more thinking abt some argument I was having with a dude about acid last night but yeah applies to travel as well. I agree wandering is awesome, seeing all the cool shit ppl have built is awesome
@alth0u agreed but I have some feeling that there’s a bottom limit on this thing
miserable people can’t get that much more miserable
but yeah only those with big + will report
@apertator@visakanv@nickcammarata doesn’t really make sense — minima implies that meaning is somehow a scalar field on some objective metric. two people derive meaning from different things, how can you say which one is “better”
@Joshua_Z_Miller@BrickOverton anybody who's pro-technology and doesn't believe this to be true is an extreme ideological zombie whose other opinions are not to be trusted
@The_Geraldoid its awesome and i read way more books after i initially lost my aversion to doing this. now i barely read because my neurons are on fire
@JackMastrangelo@kyzcralotSxaM i think a lot about renown / desire to be remembered / legacy. this is relevant to somatic reproduction and improving the status of one's dynasty and children but not directly related to sex imo
@sashachapin agreed tbh
everyones always on about expanding the role of nurses to increase supply of medical labor but the real redpill is expanding the power of pharmacists
@pee_zombie@orthonormalist yeah i think they're a non-obvious but very successful pairing
the whole thing with the xenocide is just amazing because it turns the entire first book on its head
nobody gets to be raised as a hero of humanity and gets to eat their cake too
@jeffpicard yeah i thought the same thing honestly, wasn't very scared. especially because that location was swarming with like 10 different NYPD units after it happened
"they should teach [practical skill] at school" no they really shouldnt pls have your mother or father teach you that why would you want to cede more things to their domain
@_rajkhare elides the fact that microprocessor progress is a compounding series of hundreds of smaller sigmoid curves creating the impression of continued exponential growth
maybe we can keep finding such miracles
@Renew_Release its so much more satisfying debugging with others. theres both camaraderie and competition. whereas alone it's just beating your head against the substrate