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· ↳ reply to @mpopv
@mpopv tbh its probably not that deep, just for convenience sakes in case they need to walk indoors somewhere
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@ollyrobot its an imaginary confine that you shouldnt take candy from babies
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"how accepting an institution is to absent minded savants" is probably a good metric for its health
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· ↳ reply to @GabrielOak7
@GabrielOak7 "conscripted" "enslaved" idc lol the skill required to scale a functional organization to 100,000 in a matter of days or weeks is still impressive
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· ↳ reply to @Austen
@Austen whoaaa man thats pretty edgy stuff
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@nickcammarata it may be a little more grounded than you'd like. you're not gonna be able to bet against copenhagen or something, just the replication of specific papers
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· ↳ reply to @thebestestpie
@thebestestpie @finnitejest a neurosurgical savant looks different than an "absent minded savant" the former definitely do exist and institutions probably take care to hire them despite them having maladaptive social traits
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· ↳ reply to @nkh1l
@nkh1l @Austen it's probably true but "don't cancel me for this" is such bait lol
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@nkh1l @Austen it's the twitter equivalent of Reddit's "Does Anyone Else Think that .... [some take that half the viewers will like]"
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i need to be logged off during the day. considering becoming a guy who just schedules tweets
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· ↳ reply to @gbrl_dick
@gbrl_dick the optimal number of deaths due to megaprojects is nonzero
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
ok scheduled a full day's worth of twetes. like drip torture
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paul skallas is literally POC (greek) and queer-coded (simp for taleb) and that’s half the reason y’all don’t like him
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Ur not even close to achieving #sigmagrindset if you haven’t sold some of your kids on the Libyan slave markets
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guy from twitter who just calls his normal job his “grift"
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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - guy who clearly hasn’t read Reasons and Persons
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openai making based and cringe versions of their models
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"cia psyop" is an orwellian idea in a huxleyan world the only psyops around today are bottom up, decentralized, and only work if and when they amuse the audience
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never change blind
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· ↳ reply to @metakuna
@metakuna I do this but schedule them over tomorrow. Better engagement
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· ↳ reply to @generativist
@generativist lol yeah exactly right. It caps your poasting optimization but also breaks the feedback loop
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
damn Joe Rogan really do be a lindy Gilgamesh-style transhumanist on a quest to defeat the final enemy of death
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· ↳ reply to @homsiT
@homsiT Tristan it’s the weekend I can Simp all I want
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· ↳ reply to @ReallyRadley
@ReallyRadley yeah If you’re not religious I can’t see the rationale wrt to being all romantic about death. and the religious elide the problem via believing in a different kind of immortal life
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· ↳ reply to @ReallyRadley
@ReallyRadley mostly people who say “death is a natural part of being human” do believe in an afterlife but are trying to make a secular argument; it’s rarely very convincing
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· ↳ reply to @chrisgardenuk
@chrisgardenuk @ReallyRadley usually drugs have zero marginal cost of production but yeah the overpopulation thing is valid would have to go into hardcore birth planning mode i fully expect society to fall apart and come out stronger on the other side, with smarter ideas on how to deal with immortals
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@nickcammarata this is definitely a lukewarm median opinion and others have thought through it more carefully but nuclear weapons game theoretically rule out hot war
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sorry Chad but this is the real world. the redditor with inhuman shape gets the girl
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@krishnanrohit yeah and even barring the core products, their acquisition history, the deals they passed up are disastrous universe threw so many lifeboats at them
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diet coke is far lindyer than coke. dont argue with me on this one.
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this is by far the worst dating app I’ve ever heard of
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
“but you have heard of me”
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· ↳ reply to @lapislingua
@lapislingua To be honest I don’t remember the last time I had a doctor pepper so I guess not very lindy unfortunately
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· ↳ reply to @Conaw
@Conaw @Austen holy moly the evidence keeps piling up! I go through one of these like every week
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@bowserbot2 he’s honestly such a lovable normie though
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@bowserbot2 lmao send link, is it just a function of his time being super valuable?
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· ↳ reply to @homsiT
@homsiT ok to be fair I’ve watched like 4 episodes of Rogan so I don’t know how good the insight is but the framing is absolutely bonkers to say it’s the central theme of the show
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@homsiT I know he’s a supplements guy and loves the vitality stuff but calling it the core subtext was just hilarious to me
· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u "do things in moderation" in moderation
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· ↳ reply to @BillyGribbin
@BillyGribbin i'm disappointed that you haven't learned your boss's lindy habits, not that you worked for him
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u don't make me restate this as a math model
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot make epic YA novels about people who get labeled racist by the algos but believe they aren't
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· ↳ reply to @alt1na1
@alt1na1 if its not just pronounced how its spelled all-sace i'm gonna cry
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
i'm built different. i point out my own hypocrisy
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"i'll quit soon and start my company, just give me another quarter" ~ proverbs of big tech
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@AOCummies moving to LA so i can be more like Ryan Gosling from the movie ‘Drive’ (2011)
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ppl always asking what women really look for in men when it's clear they just want you to be like Ryan Gosling from the movie ‘Drive’ (2011)
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can't believe i've never come across a guy on twitter who wants to bring sati back
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· ↳ reply to @FeralPHunter
@man_ditch the practice of hindu widows throwing themselves on their husband's funeral pyre
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@wesyang generally vast differences in wealth manifest as “mildly different career choices”, many come from similar backgrounds
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@finnitejest agreed but I think the other lady isn’t being very clear either she simultaneously insists that being a women is nonmaterial and more than organization of bodies but also points at reproductive function as the defining aspect of womanhood
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· ↳ reply to @LudditeHacker
@LudditeHacker sometimes I agree, but other times I think the qualities of a good elite rarely match the desirable aesthetics of an elite our piglike unwashed entrepreneurs are advantaged in their obsession
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create enough psyops and you have a culture
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if you don’t have tweets that completely flop you aren’t taking enough risks
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· ↳ reply to @arctanno
@arctanno what’s a few 0 like tweets when you’re on the trillionakre grindset
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· ↳ reply to @willx6923
@willhinsa I guess but like your friends 5 minute idiotic wedding is hardly the same thing as your highly planned elaborate wedding
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joe is the alpha but hunter biden is the sigma male
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
too busy on the #trillionairegrindset for politics
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@finnitejest you follow the "lindy principle" but reject the principles of the age of reason/enlightenment (400 years old)
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hes a real one for this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
chinese lab virus less lindy than pfizer vaccine ... you heard it here first ...
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· ↳ reply to @R1Jack
@R1Jack @alth0u panda express sucks and i feel awful everytime i eat it --that's okay, I'll still keep eating that garbage
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· ↳ reply to @BarneyFlames
@BarneyFlames and the pandavas who pursue their dharmic duties correctly as krishna but end up depressed, unable to cope, and eventually self-exiled into the himalayas
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u it’s not so much made up as “people design experiments that unfairly aggrandize their own methods”
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u of course but in CS/ML the cost of cloning someone’s code and rerunning it isn’t usually that high
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@alth0u if mistakes or exaggerations go unnoticed it’s because your paper didn’t draw any attention
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· ↳ reply to @alt1na1
@alt1na1 true and even then it better be centrally located
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doing GOMAD. has nothing to do with milk im just trying to become insane
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@lovelace693 @Novadosed @hobbsposting @AOCummies the other characters need building and their stuff is slowly revealed, but even they’re a sideshow it’s just a movie where they’ve perfected the aesthetic and nothing else is required. I compare all movies set in LA to the opening scene in drive where he’s escaping the copters
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@halvorz mine says “would commit warcrimes for the moderna corporation” hopefully they get it
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supposed “freethinkers” calling the whitechecks bluechecks
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· ↳ reply to @parafactual
@parafactual granted I don’t know the story but I thought you tried to partition some right leaning elements
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ cant believe it entered the English language via the 2007 Keira knightley movie
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ I thought of one thing but people would call me a neckbeard
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“Sir you can’t bring a vector machine onto the plane it’s against the rules.” “but it’s my emotional support vector machine”
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@telmudic you get a free media blitz and a hiring boost “come join my YC company” but yea it’s whatever
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@enemy_egal @telmudic tbh it’s not until I got to the valley that i realizes just how many people go through YC
· ↳ reply to @nhasanli
@nhasanli @powerbottomdad1 @telmudic was talking to someone about this earlier today. I’m definitely kind of mad at them for commoditizing the SaaS model and absorbing insane talent to run boring enterprise companies. Like I hope patrick collison moves on from stripe to do more scifi shit
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· ↳ reply to @Rationalbot
@Rationalbot cant wait for them to ban google reviews so now I have to open Yelp or whatever
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Duderichy and yeah I mean you’re paying for the privilege of living in Manhattan my friend in Detroit has a luxury 1bed apt for like $800 a month. no giant windows but the furnishings are sleeker
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· ↳ reply to @Duderichy
@Duderichy yeah and like theres a stark contrast between the downtown Detroit area where all the yuppies live and most other spots in the city
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@TeddyRaccovelt fr the plot has more similarity with “kony2012” than whatever tf Noah is on about
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t what do you mean by elitist values? I think he strongly believes in exceptional people leading the path if that’s what u mean
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@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt at the explicit encouragement of the whole military and by proxy all of humanity and even then did it unwittingly?
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@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt and he spends the rest of the series atoning lol I get that. It still doesn’t Noah’s character analysis good
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· ↳ reply to @toppugouarchive
@toppugou yes I agree! He’s exceptional even in his balance of empathy and efficiency. It serves to make him better as a battle commander
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I think this is pretty much a character speaking for the author right here. Card clearly thought that exceptional people owed a debt to humanity https://t.co/ZBW6feKdiu
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt i also think it’s just dark forest theory and humans had no choice to do anything but what they did it’s only with the safety of time and distance that people reinterpreted it as xenocide I guess one takeaway may be “don’t be instrumentalized into a weapon”
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@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt despite your insistence its clearly a smarter take than this in no world could ender have reasoned himself into realizing playing a game was unethical
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt what makes more sense is like, on a grand historical scale maybe being a military genius isn't all that valuable and Great People can easily make a lot of progress in the entirely wrong direction. hard to say in advance
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@halvorz @TeddyRaccovelt i think he explicitly does when he talks about getting the "license to screw people over". he is talking about individual agency whereas you are talking about the broader strokes of history
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AIs are at a massive disadvantage from humans because they can’t modify their objective functions and retroactively reinterpret their memories as “””personal progress”””
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
or maybe massive advantage. can't tell yet
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· ↳ reply to @pee_zombie
@pee_zombie theres some interesting experiments with evolved objective functions
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my worst take ever is that the game of thrones through storm of swords trilogy is already better than lord of the rings
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@TeddyRaccovelt @NotComradeSnake grrm writes full blooded realistic human characters with human vices and virtues. tolkien dabbled in some fake but more beautiful version of humans, which is also fine i guess
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ExogenyKarl its funny how he wholesale ripped the plot from star wars
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· ↳ reply to @WhyEnggWhy
@WhyEnggWhy i think the worldbuilding is better and not as in your face / heavy handed
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· ↳ reply to @WhyEnggWhy
@WhyEnggWhy they have no idea about 8,000 years of stark blood, its basically all myth and cope. you gotta view it from the perspective of the characters, not the God's eye
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@WhyEnggWhy grrm explicitly writes it as if its a medieval historian doing the documentation in all cases
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anti academia is fine but it seems in its absence most people revert to a 70 iq preliterate understanding of how to gain new knowledge
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@jachaseyoung the bar of amazement on that thing is limited by the ability to play around with it
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@TeddyRaccovelt the simulation theory theodicy is an easy one because the answer is that the sim runner / experimenter just doesn’t care
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
which as it were mostly means buying into cult of personality and gaining knowledge from new kinds of authority, rather than the ideal of all people becoming full on citizen scientists
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· ↳ reply to @GuilleAngeris
@GuilleAngeris @__femb0t yeah i bet. the lower the cost of research in terms of expensive equipment and the higher the cost in labor hours, amateurs begin to have a big advantage
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early 2020 was the time to "buy heterodoxy". now might be the time to sell as the grifters are accumulating
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· ↳ reply to @monsterofcook
@monsterofcook that's actually interesting yeah. i notice i do that a lot where just for the sake of disagreeing i add more if statements haha
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@http410gone you can get to this level once you hit senior staff engineer. until then you're a phd student not a prof
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· ↳ reply to @keeperofsheep1
@keeperofsheep1 i think we just gotta fix academia by making it easier to make new academic institutions. not by abandoning it to rot
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis @skugern @BecomingCritter yeah i guess how much do you value the truth lol is a pleasant wool over the eyes a good thing? clearcut oedipus situation. i'm a truth hardliner so i think no
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the midwit template is most commonly used by midwits these days. declaring meme bankruptcy
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· ↳ reply to @sirsfurther
@sirsfurther commissioning someone to put sirsfurthers' whole meme on the midwit and my meme on both ends
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@phil49472744 i am tired of postrat. i think it's a series of complaints without solutions. i still like the crowd and their specific brand of math-ey shitposting but i will be returning to my normie secular humanism
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· ↳ reply to @oswald4723
@OswaldHurlem yeah i think so as they probably want to keep the respect of their peers and colleagues. but too much of that inclination is also bad
· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ >implying i even read the tweets i like
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@NLRG_ >implying i can read
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· ↳ reply to @aniiyengar
@aniiyengar i think it taps into a nearly pre-literate almost animist religious instinct in a theater audience that makes it vibe across all cultures and makes it easy to sell abroad. like it would equally make sense in china and in the us but lowest common denominator is so boring
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· ↳ reply to @lalaAlicelala
@lalaAlicelala nah i just havent read any neuro ive been meaning to do that. shitty ML scientist that i am
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@lalaAlicelala ive read some papers esp on the computational neuro side but never worked through a textbook
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@spakhm tesla is about to unlock one of the largest money making machines the world has ever seen as FSD finally beats city driving
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@spakhm tbc its basically already solved highways and suburbs at scale, but not highly adversarial city environments. it's the final step
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· ↳ reply to @doxometrist
@doxometrist this is fair but some aspects of life literally require positivist analysis and there's no other epistemology that will do. especially where it concerns biology, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, etc
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· ↳ reply to @MaxGurewitz
@MaxGurewitz @spakhm except they already have a million vehicles (real users!) on the road gradually using FSD software, tesla silicon built into the car already whereas waymo only runs on test vehicles, with no real plan for how to scale HD mapping, or hardware, or lidar
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· ↳ reply to @_Suttree_
@_Suttree_ @MaxGurewitz @spakhm musk's approach is to ix-nay the lidar, which almost every other company uses. and yeah i think it's slower to develop at the outset but will scale much faster in the long run
there's no definition of human that isn't contingent on culture and experience. people become transhumanists the moment they started transcribing knowledge in writing
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
Uncle Ted (mr. kaczynski) thinks there's something special about industrial modernity but all of that was inevitable after the invention of writing
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u kin structure, clan structure, village structure, all transhumanism
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· ↳ reply to @newtweets20
@newtweets20 there are vast manifolds of mine & your neurons devoted to input output processing from a laptop and specifically even twitter dot com. arguably these things are a part of us moreover are pharmaceuticals or surgeries transhumanism because they became part of us?
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· ↳ reply to @houellebecq_2
@mariani_jr ok so its not nihilism its just the admission of fuzzy boundaries in real world categories
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· ↳ reply to @houellebecq_2
@mariani_jr i very much think human is a real thing and my point is that it's more highly malleable than anyone gives it credit for
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· ↳ reply to @houellebecq_2
@mariani_jr i straight up dont know but the distance we've travelled from savannah to today & how much our tools & cognitive environment have changed us is huge. but i still feel human
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@rasalghulvc id wager stone age intuition would not consider us humans
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· ↳ reply to @josephdviviano
@josephdviviano @spakhm most major american cities should be the same level of challenge in terms of tracking lots and lots of objects. next step is third world driving
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People talk alot of shit about the Midwest but this is what 900 minerals a month gets you in Kansas City
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· ↳ reply to @writingbree
@writingbree @rasalghulvc like stone agers were regularly calling humans from the neighboring tribe as monsters actually we were doing that even in the 19th century the concept of universal humanity is relatively new
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· ↳ reply to @kymeriandawn
@Cererean i also haven't read it but ive seemingly seen an endless amount of criticism on it it's never people being mad about the plot being unrealistic / ballholding. it's always people maligning the author for writing scenarios where cruel utilitarian efficiency is the only option
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@s_r_tarnmoor @Cererean maybe i'm biased because i read one review of it that was like "this is the thinking that prevents us from implementing medicare4all"
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is disabusing people of happy delusions immoral assume the delusion mostly causes no danger to themselves or others
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· ↳ reply to @bi_gendian
@bi_gendian in practice its hard to give consent to learn something when you don't know what you're going to learn
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· ↳ reply to @DesidErratum
@DesidErratum this man probably isn't dying, but it will still most likely be net negative in terms of lifetime happiness
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· ↳ reply to @CyberneticMelon
@CyberneticMelon knowing your wife cheated on you is in a different order of disutility than being aware you're slightly more predisposed to diabetes
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· ↳ reply to @Indian_Bronson
@AgainstGop @CyberneticMelon trying to formalize "emotional damage" as "negative utility / disutility". but my point being theres no amount of health knowledge that will make a sufficient trade for knowing your wife cheated on you and your kid isn't yours
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@mariani_jr i'm guessing you're imagining some guy trying to prove that "conservative men are less funny" via science or some shit but take the steelman case
· ↳ reply to @ipsumkyle
@ipsumkyle interesting that you bring that up because I think Newton believing in magic stuff was absolutely crucial to his effectiveness as a physicist
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· ↳ reply to @ipsumkyle
@ipsumkyle Newton considered the whole of the universe as a cryptogram sent by god; it was his religious duty to solve. would he even have been interested without his theology? would he have had confidence that the motion of the heavens was solveable? it’s hard to pick minds apart like this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
people will spew sophistry in my replies about whether truth exists or not unless I include a real example
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· ↳ reply to @SethLunchquest
@SethLunchquest right but you're saying that it's value-neutral to make other people see things your way. in that case, why even express your views on this subject? making a small joke lol
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new EA cause area: crowdfunding a 2nd stanford prison experiment, watching as the people proceed to very much not abuse each other, and then nobody ever has to listen to a freshman psych student talk about it again
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· ↳ reply to @ftuuky
@ftuuky you just gotta record the outcome and make a nice clickbaity video
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strange how in most space opera scifis earth is not the political center of the empire
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· ↳ reply to @OneEyedAlpaca
@skugern sorry I probably attracted some of those. was only trying to pick your brain, not attacc
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people who say modern glass high rises are utilitarian and boring are coping there’s absolutely nothing utilitarian about placing entire trees inside fancy ass corporate lobbies
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· ↳ reply to @parafactual
@parafactual so like whats the mental effects of phenibut bc i always thought its a replacement for alcohol and not a stimmie
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Dunbar slots is sort of like a discrete approximation of a continuous function I think. more and more I remember new people as linear combinations of others https://t.co/JGO2sMyxys
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· ↳ reply to @helorides4freee
@helorides4freee its generally the opposite; its people who are unhappy with the current order who leave to the colonies (adverse selection)
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· ↳ reply to @helorides4freee
@helorides4freee with the way it's going, private spaceflight and all, it looks like the first colonists will just be the highest bidders. after all it's an instant ticket into the history books
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@helorides4freee but i assume like you said it will have to be max(bid) constrained on "you have some useful skill"
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@helorides4freee somehow i dont think justin bieber will consign himself to live on MARS for years
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· ↳ reply to @mattparlmer
@mattparlmer yeah for real and i'm wondering if this stuff is getting built into CFD software as well. we gotta get on this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Hellachans @monsterofcook I don’t really think nuking growth for climate change is necessary atm but you can imagine scenarios where sacrifice short term growth is better in the long run (even with compounding)
· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans @monsterofcook in effect it’s the same thing the vibes are just worse when the journalist is furiously masturbating to the idea of lowering profits
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@Hellachans @monsterofcook existential threats should take precedence over growth and you would agree were i to just swap out the object of discussion from “climate change” to like “trade with China”
lewis trilemma is fake bc theres no rule against the delusional having good teachings in fact it may be required
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goddamn @eigenrobot you invented such a good poasting format with this one
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@BollingerBeans its funny bc he has a video where he talks about why he admires edison more than tesla as someone who actually scaled and produced things for the masses
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@BollingerBeans i'm not sure what spurred ur op though, most people around him report that he's actually a technical genius and even better decision maker
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@DesidErratum when will they make a civ game where the multiplayer is actually a first class citizen
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· ↳ reply to @BollingerBeans
@BollingerBeans hard to separate optimism that borders on madness from dishonesty but yeah its probably underrated to what degree successful fundraising requires a degree of grift
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@BollingerBeans there are far worse people you can hero worship. i still think hes the most important individual alive rn
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@PrinceVogel depends on the person imo there are definitely folks who derive pleasure from their thought only when it’s goal directed
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guys he almost definitely staged this himself but that’s ok
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a smart biotech entrepreneur could actually start a Jurassic park company right about now
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I have no idea if it would work but the VCs don’t know either
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lmao thanks for the EXTREMELY decisive poll everyone
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it is truly a cope to think that “all delusions are dangerous” or whatever. I could name quite a few that are beneficial to the delusion user what you mean to say is that you independently value the truth outside of its utility
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@halvorz all poasters are in perpetual Mexican standoff
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out of context work messages
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sources are telling me theres a deck going around rn for an actual jurassic park co ...
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@redoatz i assume everyone involved is well aware that no dino dna is recoverable
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@redoatz apparently backed by george church so there's reason to believe it's not entirely vaporware. and probably jurassic park branding just means ice age park
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why isn't there DNS for mail carrier or for phone number as in a lexical string "http://roon.house" that translates to my physical address "1 Abcd Dr. San Fran" if i move i shouldn't have to update my address across 20 websites, rather just update the DNS resolver
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amazon should make this a standard and then spin it off
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reading the nytimes website comments under the lindyman article in a state of unreality
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@halvorz such a blunt instrument unfortunately
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