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this tweet is my ideology
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if there’s a pump and dump angle I don’t really see it because they didn’t sell anything
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@NLRG_ @0xrohan yeah it doesn’t scale like that I think the transactions per block never increases
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@NLRG_ @0xrohan the mining expenditures mostly scale with the Bitcoin price iirc
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@telmudic cant even handle my right turns with 4 inches leeway
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.@antoniogm is a god tier writer and way too good for Apple
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@Nexuist @antoniogm yeah but it’s like mild securities fraud to correct a circular dependency it’s whatever
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Nexuist @antoniogm he needed to get funded for a law firm to back him but he needed the law firm backing to get funded story as old as time he told each that their precondition had been met
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@gbrl_dick markets are dope because they instrumentalize wide eyed ambitious nerds into solving the worlds most stupid problems and calling it their life’s work
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@gbrl_dick @ryan_landay the only difference is you drag and drop native template elements instead of an actual UI but w.e same shit
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@bowserbot2 I never bought Artemis because I was in line to the cashier and then some random British guy told me it was “marginal” in his authoritative accent
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the thing about AGM is he wrote the kind of book that should absolutely burn all bridges and be a permanent exit from the tech industry
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
he kind of hit the borderline jackpot where it became famous enough to perform the important service of immortalizing a lot of important people not that well known outside the valley, which gave him a second life
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at the same time it’s not the ppl he pissed off cancelling him for any number of prudent business reasons “he repeatedly lied to investors and was bold enough to write it in a book” but absolute morons who fit the exact description of ppl you’d trade away for shotgun shells
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everybody who quits their PhD and posts stuff like “academia is done” invariably comes from econ or polisci lol
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eg the two most politically charged fields that are not at the moment saying what you want them to say
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@polisisti and yet most people believe this in their hearts. And I don’t fault them for it nor would I dream of firing them
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the reply I send when turning down a meeting
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@ToryAmerican the fact that there’s a job market for them is irrelevant to the politicization of their field
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@alth0u true though that there aren’t enough papers purely about reward shaping in RL lots of papers about how you got the computer to shape rewards (usually doesn’t work)
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the greatest gift a mother can give is to have you on American soil
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· ↳ reply to @choosy_mom
@choosy_mom most people in my circles are endorsing all this without the conceptual stringency ... so what tho
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@choosy_mom im glad someone is spelling out this kind of Last Man ideology with clarity. I respect the honesty
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if I had like 25% more autism I’d be unstoppable
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@monodevice yeah this shit sucks and the whole space has been optimized to hell
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hopefully I have some sway in the shape rotation community, I’m thinking this whole “how many cubes can you rotate at once” thing is a psyop. like what does that even mean + how do you verify it.
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verifying that two shapes are homologous after rotation in multiple choice format is the gold standard ty for listening
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@eigenrobot someone help i banned all productive investments and my global economy is dying
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AGM's publishers absolutely dancing this week
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@finnonthegin in breaking bad there’s a meth den called this
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“getting cancelled” aka having your pick of any founders fund portfolio companies
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some of you are alright. don't log onto zoom high school today
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@bowserbot2 i feel at home with academics because they share my degenerate sleep habits
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it is time
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balaji unhinges people by being a True Believer
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"people are too cynical they should stop doing that" well you saw what sincerity looks like and freaked out sorry buddy You Are The Problem
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i have consulted the Oracle at Delphi and i can confirm that the White Boy Summer is upon us
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its like the CDC flipped a switch all the masks are gone everything is open
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@alth0u yeah its not common at all from what i can tell
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@alth0u generally people who werent that good at school were taking it in college
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@Hellachans they fill every single square inch of these buildings with corporate IP lawyers
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people take the fact that being like morbidly unfit will impair mental performance and scale that effect linearly forever but that aint how it works you all have a limited set of fucks to give and hours in the day
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lotta people act like pure test scores are the gold standard for college admissions and everything else is nepotism and cope but imo near perfect test scores are tablestakes for top 50 schools but the top 10-5 schools are also selecting on a trait best described as "high agency"
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i believe thats a real trait that test scores are not very good at communicating but you might be able to get better signal on via extracurriculars
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@JohCassius i actually disagree, i've seen some really strange applicants get in with their own versions of high agency -- such as a kid from a poor farming family at stanford who was growing and understanding some endangered crops at home
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@JohCassius they love to see the strange ad hoc stuff moreso than sports, clubs, volunteering which a huge # of people can bring themselves to trudge through with bare minimum effort as boilerplate for getting into good schools
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ haha i maybe shouldve spent more time explaining but i think most people got the vibes its just like people who have a tendency to go out and do stuff in the world beyond whats required of them, putting in hard work of their own volition
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@parafactual its useful to oversample on the space of ideas that are disliked by media and academia its high variance, but the modal result is wrong in ways that don't matter much, the exceptional result is correct in very important ways
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@parafactual maybe but i don't think it's an unknowable matter of personal ideology to understand which way the institutions lean imo media and academia are very clearly culturally left leaning & in recent times, big business too
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@parafactual the data on who they're donating to / voting for would back this up
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rip to frodo, but if it were me i would've simply resisted the sway of the One Ring
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how or when did "reddit guy" become a ubiquitous insult
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@KurtKendricks nah this meme is ancient and was mostly used by redditors to make fun of a certain type of guy
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@thmstern @Rationalist69 i dont think thats what it means, on twitter it refers to like a specific affiliation with secular center-left politics, love of scientific authority, etc
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@monodevice @abusurdist @lisatomic5 95% sure this is ironic / making fun of people who think women can't be educated he wasn't exactly great to women but he was way too charismatic to say something like this publicly whether he believed it or not lol
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@bowserbot2 chin up king, you're extremely problematic
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@bowserbot2 I remember people in 2016 were like “I can’t deal with the firehose of deep learning papers” lol if only they knew
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@robinhanson music because i think sense of beauty is probably idiosyncratic — I doubt aliens will think the exact same things are beautiful
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@ctjlewis @TeddyRaccovelt it all depends on what level of abstraction you are looking at from strictly materialist premises, you cant draw any conclusions about human rights the constitution invokes God and natural law in a tradition stretching back to Aristotle but imo it scarcely matters
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@ctjlewis @TeddyRaccovelt the declaration itself is a near scriptural text in the tradition of liberalism any analysis that follows is therefore more exegesis than legal science these truths are self evident because the declaration revealed them as Wise and Good. no more needs to be said on it
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@ctjlewis @TeddyRaccovelt if you are a liberal (classical sense) then these truths are self evident. If they are not, you’re not a liberal. That’s my take anyway
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POV: you’re failing zoom middle school and we’re all laughing at you
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sorry I don’t actually have an image to go with this
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too much and then you remember there are more fun things like drunk texting ppl
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Half the people on my team are ex investment bankers who only buy like S&P ETFs and the other half are degenerate ML ppl who yolo all their wealth into whatever cathie wood says
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@nicholatian if you want to be productive and not just pretending to be productive
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@lalaAlicelala they are also handed a helpful handbook of LinkedIn post templates
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@Duderichy i think the platonic form of programming new and interesting software systems is awesome but the everyday drudgery of actually trying to create something that fulfills a purpose is not
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@Duderichy loved my operating systems class, taught it for a while, but in the real world ... well it’s a good thing they lay me so much
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postrat twitter is conspicuous consumption of Bad opinions
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rw accounts in trump years were all Old Testament raining fire and brimstone doing banger analysis owning libs now they’re all like “the oat milk company is poisoning me”
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@eigenrobot obama / drone strikes has been a common meme since at least like 2012
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@lxrjl no its pretty good for building intuition
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i gotta hand it to her, this is kinda metal
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I actually unblocked out of respect
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#JustWerewolfThings
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my followers with no context gonna think I’m deranged
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@cateliseh @hyperdiscogirl yeah mostly ppl just call her whore and move on its tru that she purposefully spreads viral engagement bait (who doesn't on here honestly) but does not deserve the dismissal she gets
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Efficient Market Hypothesis churns out new types of guys every minute
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@Hellachans you know some1 tweeted about the "fleet" concept as a joke and it became real bc a twitter PM saw it
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@Hellachans ever since then i've known anything is possible
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@Hellachans i mean twitter was almost definitely working on a stories feature before they saw the tweet but "fleet" is a good name so they ran with it
@telmudic need to start an alternative arxiv where pseudonyms are allowed.
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@telmudic i mean yeah its technically trivial hard to get buy in
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@jerry_dot_ai @telmudic you need to get an author already on the site to vouch for you, and even then there's a review process. so yeah you can put in some work into making a fake identity but then if the paper picks up any traction it's gonna fall apart
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is information real? are you a materialist?
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the "hating unearned confidence" to "contrarianism" pipeline
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i think as far as products go people mistake plain old copying for "refinement culture" or "convergent evolution" or whatever it is
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hoping that tomorrow as with all days you are able to think about and work on problems of immortal importance rather than whatever is immediately pressing!
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@zcknln @infinitsummer i highly exaggerate my risk profile for the memes haha but imo living frugally and investing aggressively are different things, in fact the first may allow the other. if you live expensively it makes it harder for you to take risks - you have a lifestyle to maintain
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@eigenrobot what if selection pressures on taste are tuned enough for survival but not necessarily flourishing
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sorry 4 the spam I h8 twitter spaces
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@Pavel_Asparagus to a point. if you truly didn’t care about the glamor of your work you’d end up a drone in a giant corporation
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@ctjlewis @Pavel_Asparagus i get where it’s coming from, getting things done in the real world requires a lot more drudgery than anybody could reasonably expect as a student, who mostly learn to solve the most fun/complex/interesting parts of the problem
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@ctjlewis @Pavel_Asparagus but yeah if you don’t care about the glamor of the goal/mission then you will end up working on stupid things
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@ctjlewis @Pavel_Asparagus yep. for example there are early engineers at SpaceX who spend time designing parts that are the equivalent of a garage opener. not exactly awe inspiring, but necessary if you have your eyes on the prize
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@ctjlewis @Pavel_Asparagus at the same time maybe you shouldn’t be designing garage openers if they’re intended for earth use
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@midwit100 the blackpill is that those machines are much more rudimentary than you’d hope
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@MegaBasedChad even in their vehicle manufacturing industry alone, the labor productivity is far lower than United States
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“I ignore everything aella says because it’s a sales funnel for her OF” ok I hope you’re blocking everyone with a substack in bio as well
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every day i have to pick a stupid hill to die on. this is today’s
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@MegaBasedChad how is it any different than the VCs online trying to prove they’re philosophers and not just people who got lucky
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it’s also like ... completely innumerate and kind of self important lol pls try and imagine what the conversion rate to OF subscribers from literal text posts that get 300 likes is vs posting a single nude on Reddit
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@ollybot_redux hmm interesting I still don’t think this format would be worth the ROI at all
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nvm. just got a call from my lawyers. aella sucks
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@ollybot_redux hmm you can’t think of any beliefs that might harm the reader? Mentally, socially, etc doesn’t need to kill them, my bar is low
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@ollybot_redux anything true but politically inconvenient is a great candidate
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@ollybot_redux I don’t want to say anything specific because then we have to argue on the object level abt what’s true and what’s not but every society has things it’s conveniently hides that when discovered will make ur social and political life difficult
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@ollybot_redux something obvious would be the Nazi lie that the Jews were waging a war of extermination against “real Germans”. knowing this was a lie may be directly harmful to your odds of survival
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when Indians explain stuff on YouTube they just emphasize random words and phrases to make them more profound lol
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@notlinear1 I’m not criticizing haha it’s just funny idiosyncrasies
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at a dangerous stage in my life where any mildly inspiring idiot could ask me to join their army / cult and id be down
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@gbrl_dick without a team of ppl whose KPI is like "product satisfaction" instagram would be buried in growth hacky features
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@gbrl_dick that and they need to fill in the awkward silences in engineer led meetings
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@Ravicale are abstractions real is an atom real is a molecule real
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@bowserbot2 reconnecting with my culture by saying "doubt" and "needful"
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my bank account is at -$2,000
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IRS will send thugs after me now
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@BarneyFlames you can’t generally buy shitcoins in the states on approved exchanges, but the DEX allows you to do so anyway
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paging kantbot
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one of the stupidest accolades in the world that rarely goes to anyone that deserves it
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@skugern he had all the things that money can and can’t buy including the world wide adoration of the masses, secular sainthood, “savior of humanity” status
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@guywhits planning and self-control basically
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i am BEGGING for bluetooth headphones that turn themselves off when inactive
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@seconds_0 vibes, constrained by metrics is the way to go on most things
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love how the most powerful companies are never something you'd expect like "weapons producers" or "paramilitary contractors" but rather like "multinational beverage corporation", "website where you post status updates"
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we've hit the top
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last thing you see before me and the boys shoot rockets out of the sky via kabbalistic magic
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the secret behind iron dome ...
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guy who gets a 3080 just to play 8k reskinned Minecraft
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@alth0u hmm idk I do this it doesn’t tire me out that much probably bc of beginner gains tho
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guy who’s been on “beginner gains” for the last 3 years
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its me im guy
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don't log onto palladium tomorrow. some of you are alright
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them: ur a racist me: nuh uh
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“we’re in a total bubble from the real world” - everybody every place on earth
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@lisatomic5 logistics of all kinds one particularly inspiring use case may be the gates foundation targeting aid via satellite analysis
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u conscientiousness minimum more than iq cap filial piety and worship of medicine is enough to get people to do the toil
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@alth0u indians at least care more about the status of doctors than the money
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@alexandrosM you could maybe get somewhere by using DeFi and abstracting it away
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@RealtimeAI twitter ppl overstate their true beliefs in a joking way common tweet mechanism
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· ↳ reply to @alinekaeri
@alinekaeri the pill is that marketing departments exist for a reason and it's not just like "brainwashing"
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· ↳ reply to @ITBeHa
@ITBeHa @ollybot_redux @jamest_lu eh maybe considering the scale needed to make btc mining profitable the dream of individual Antminers making consumption decisions as the $/kwh fluctuates may be a pipe dream add in volatility + speculation, most are not making decisions as a function of the power spot price
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ITBeHa @ollybot_redux @jamest_lu but i'm at least willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt it's true that there are not many activities with excess production capacity sitting around that only become profitable as the spot price moves under a certain $/kwh
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ITBeHa @ollybot_redux @jamest_lu maybe if cloud compute factored in the $/kwh into their ec2 spot prices? then i could start training my models when theres a glut of renewable energy
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walter & jesse get so mad at gus despite getting paid $12m a year off a $100 million revenue operation
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
this dude bought pharmaceutical grade reaction equipment + a secret underground bunker for them and these mfs dont even appreciate the capital investment
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guy who's nominally having fun. side note he has to be intoxicated 100% of the time
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how the fuck is apple intellectual
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how is amazon non-conformist. just fuck my shit up fam
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@cateliseh @Duderichy yeah music helps me work a lot as well, I’m just wondering how I ended up in a place where I just can’t work without something playing
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growing up I was under the impression that gamma ray bursts would play a larger part in my life than they did ...
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should’ve read more virology picture books instead of astronomy
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guy who dual majors physics and business because elon did it
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis there is waste and grift everywhere just watch office space
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@ctjlewis the grift is more profitable in high paying jobs this is true all the way to ceo tier
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found a guy
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former gifted kids are mostly mad because they weren’t gifted enough. many such cases
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
dudes will get an A in 5th grade math and start writing their manifesto
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· ↳ reply to @rey_abreu
@rey_abreu hmm not exactly walt would've been fine with working for gus - shit went wrong for him when he refused to let jesse die
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@rey_abreu what walt did to jane was unforgivable but when he went against gus it was out of love
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“the customer is divinely discontent” explains most of the modern world
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
get Revolt of the Public pilled
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“government is doing alright given its constraints” well shit ppl expect better than that
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“high agency” is such an unnatural trait why would an animal do more work than it has to
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis saw in twitter a long time ago, came back to me recently it means something very specific to me, a trait i commonly notice: someone who tinkers a lot in their free time with potentially productive activities essentially doing lots of open ended hard work
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ctjlewis subtly different from a "striver" who i generally associate with material desires "high agency" would be more like scientist or inventor archetype
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis yeah i think the top schools really do look for this trait, just based on who i know got into the ivy leagues and who didn't. probably more meritocracy-pilled than most i probably do worship hard work because im likely only middle of bell curve in "high agency"
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis indeed i'm well aware that many people slip through the cracks and it sucks but im only privy to the kind of upper middle class games that took place in my school. rarely anything super abnormal, biggest differentiator was doing weird shit on the side vs doing what's prescribed
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@cateliseh i tried to skip the gifted shit as much as possible in elementary school because it interfered with recess ...
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis i think the broader feeling is of being worshipful of the act of creation / production in a way that benefits others have a lot of respect even for the most meagre twitch streamer or tinkerer that produces stuff that other people can enjoy
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ctjlewis part of the mystique is that its outside the demands of the job or work -- imprinting ones own soul into a project means everything
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@007Bistromath @rey_abreu Eh maybe the whole season seemed to be centered around that act, especially considering the foreshadowing to the plane shrapnel
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@powerbottomdad1 yeah that’s not an answer because survival anxiety isn’t what drives people to work after they’ve secured a comfortable life
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@powerbottomdad1 status anxiety makes more sense but still not quite there because tinkering on random shit isn’t very high status
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how many times can I press this before people start noticing
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new Huel patch notes just dropped
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v4.0.3.1 5% increased count of harvested souls
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Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more types of guys,
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this joke is both sacrilegious and also bad
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guy who says tenants instead of tenets
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i hate him
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@Duderichy pretty intuitive yeah? extraordinary claims are more interesting but less likely to be true
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@telmudic it can’t buy one iota of renown 😞
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@selentelechia yeah I’m kind of tired of this stuff ppl extrapolating anti-expert anti-academic sentiment into just getting reflexively mad abt intellectualizing literally anything
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@nickcammarata yeah im open to the idea that this happened but OP may be telling it with the wrong slant / details missing
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@lisatomic5 do you mean to tell me that all of Hollywood conspired to make water breaking a more tense event on the off chance they had to use it as a narrative element incredible
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@andrej_haulis @powerbottomdad1 @telmudic no doubt the money helped but it’s the same concept as Donald Trump - someone who’s famous for embodying “the poor man’s version of rich” with a helping of incredible talent at showmanship
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@powerbottomdad1 @telmudic the best you can do is prlly like donating enough money to some institution so they name a building after you but this is definitely lame and you will be cancelled generations hence by overzealous college students whose culture will have made you into a pariah many such cases
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@powerbottomdad1 @telmudic becomes even more obvious at the high end with how much the billionaires want to be seen as philanthropists and how little control they actually get over their image — that single movie ruined zuck’s brand forever and all his money will never change that
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@Willyintheworld @powerbottomdad1 @telmudic he definitely cares by all accounts he was really scared of the movie and what it would do to his brand. iirc he rented a theater for the whole company to go and watch it together to laugh at it and take the edge off
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@powerbottomdad1 @telmudic honestly the “being a host” thing is entirely a matter of personality and not money. doesn’t take a lot past some minimum threshold to throw a nice party the people in my parents friend group that hosted all the parties were not at all the richest
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@powerbottomdad1 @telmudic anyway ur the type of person who could throw a much more fun party than I can on a shoestring budget, so I doubt
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