@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
@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
@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
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
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
@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)
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.
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
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"
@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
@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
yeah, goes without saying, standardized tests are the most powerful tool in the talent sourcing pipeline and we should not be getting rid of them. this is more commentary on why it's not the only thing that matters at the high end
https://x.com/ChewMandelstam/status/1393966756130004993?s=20
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@monodevice@abusurdist@lisatomic5 iirc he tried his damndest to sleep with all his undergrads and his wife said he abused her but i dont remember details
@monodevice@abusurdist@lisatomic5 nothing horrific and certainly no worse than like einstein who was like constantly beating his wive(s) and cheating on them
@abusurdist@monodevice@lisatomic5 yeah understood i'm just pretty sure the guy with an astronomer sister wasnt convinced that women were fundamentally incapable of math or whatever
@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
@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
@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
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
@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
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”
@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
@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
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!
@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
@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
@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
@LeaMaric@cateliseh@hyperdiscogirl I mean yeah I assume her whole twitter persona is a sales funnel but I don’t mind
Does that mean everyone with a substack In bio is compromised?
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
@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
@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
@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
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"
@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
@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
@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
this dude bought pharmaceutical grade reaction equipment + a secret underground bunker for them and these mfs dont even appreciate the capital investment
@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
@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
@ctjlewis subtly different from a "striver" who i generally associate with material desires
"high agency" would be more like scientist or inventor archetype
@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"
@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
@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
@007Bistromath@rey_abreu Eh maybe the whole season seemed to be centered around that act, especially considering the foreshadowing to the plane shrapnel
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,
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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