@The_Equationist to be clear i think its a natural point to leave off
but imo would be unsatisfying as hell for a non-book reader
id probably go look up the rest of the plot lol
@jeff82874662 you called me a douche and a cunt and then said I hate the working class or whatever because I replied to you with an honest counterargument
then i defended myself a bit and you blocked me
@pjsempe i actually agree with this but i think the clear that people are more receptive to punching up humor as you’ve already said
“funny” doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it’s a function of whether the audience is the right level of offended relative to cultural norms
@OldDreyfusard no I disagree
the invention of nuclear weapons directly causally led to 2 atrocities and then decades of relative peace and harmony because war became too scary
it’s never so simple
@OldDreyfusard imo the risks are way overhyped and the benefits understated. technopessimism is the default state of society
Either way I’d rather not engage in a “bravery debate” (eg arguing which side is less popular and therefore more brave)
@OldDreyfusard anyway i don’t believe we’ve reached the best global maximum of peace and prosperity that we’ll ever have, so reorganization isn’t a priori bad
@storebrandguy i have no idea i just know it when I see it
if you’re being Reddit its a certain kind epistemic failure I guess — being too trusting of authorities etc
one common narrative is that the news business had a local monopoly on valuable ad space, so they commanded 30% margins and were able to fund higher ideals like truly investigative local journalism and non clickbait longform
all until big bad Google and FB came along and killed their margins. now they are reduced to pumping out clickbait in a bid for the last dregs of profit
this is a basically Thielian perspective even coming from the center left lol - “only monopolies can afford not to be evil”
they could not do these things were they split into 10 constituent groups (check out for example what % of revenues twitter spends on site integrity vs fb), exactly in line with the news monopolists of old
the argument then goes that we should break up google and facebook because now they’re dangerous monopolies, eliding the fact that they spend vast sums (even if you don’t believe me) on things like Burmese translators and “how good does this post make you feel” datasets
overall im not sure i agree perfectly with the thiel perspective but it seems like strange double dipping to make creative monopolists the hero and the villain all at once
@parafactual of course anything citing environmental effects or failure of masculinity is idiotic since this seems to be really bad only in the post internet age
@turrible_tao yeah and we are slowly transitioning into society granted monopoly for the algorithmic feeds as well eg FB/GOOG being written into law by demanding privacy regulation + direct censorship line from government
@KHicksEfficient imo goog/fb see themselves as global caretakers to the liberal order even if the news doesn't perceive them that way
its true that theres no sense of local responsibility but with the agglomeration of 20th century news media giants i'm not sure they did either
@ByrneHobart yeah makes a bunch of sense - i guess the next question is, was the quality of news higher or lower in the monopoly towns vs the 2 paper towns
@krishnanrohit@parafactual not sure why there would be a secular trend in lying or not answering survey so its only the latter two imo
and frankly the recession ended and unemployment was quite low by 2019
expectation: this signal chat will make it slightly harder for the feds to read our group chat
reality: one of your friends is regularly taking screenshots of funny shit you said and storing it on his company laptop
@monsterofcook@apoorvasriniva good idea but i very much doubt it
codes of arbitrary difficulty can be cracked right
unless they are truly lacking in entropy / information
“Enter Starship. Annual capacity to LEO climbs from its current average of 500 T for the whole of our civilization to perhaps 500 T per week. Eventually, it could exceed 1,000,000 T/year.” https://x.com/patio11/status/1453751275833622528
@Mario_Gibney@patio11@BashCo_ API as an application programming interface - a term of art from tech and computer science. Basically this turn of phrase (“under the API”) means that a thing has become conceptually commoditized enough to be programmatic. no one has to think too hard about launch anymore
a private company that started with $90m managed to lower launch costs by 3 orders of magnitude where NASA and its suppliers for 50 odd years could not
the difference between great engineering orgs and (de facto luddite) commentators like this is having faith that “we’ll cross that bridge when we get there” and not worrying prematurely about the tenth hardest blocker on the roadmap https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1453392905750466572
@rSanti97 possible but like @BarneyFlames said “blog” and “mp3 player” should’ve been in there long ago if so
still possible they have a weird algorithm that i don’t understand
@marx_knopfler i think they’ve done research on this and found that the context loss of switching doctors is more detrimental to patient outcomes than the sleep dep
@PowerMacG4Cube displayed a strange lack of imagination and seeing VR/AR stuff that was first demoed a while back and conceived of in concept form even longer back
but zucc measures his plans in decades and I’m just looking for novelty so who knows
@__femb0t@mycoliza some poasts clearly incur negative effect to the platform and FB et al deal with this by just algorithmic downranking
but the decentralized analogue for AI is market pricing
i will say isomorphic and orthogonal and eigen{ } and all the other shape rotational invocation because I enjoy the language and my ingroup will understand
@thebestestpie@Duderichy@bastard_brian yeah the population of our potential offspring is different than the world population obv
regression is no more likely than increase
not to mention health and brain developmental stuff only gets better as time goes on
@thebestestpie@Duderichy@bastard_brian why assume that two parents can’t produce better genetics than either of them? and therefore a new population mean
@dcwych@Duderichy@bastard_brian i understand this perspective and of course would love my children of any intelligence but
my dynastic goal is to contribute to the technological progress of man and this will be much easier if kids are smart
@dcwych@akbirthko@Duderichy@bastard_brian lol but isn’t affinity also passed down through families? my parents studied various STEM disciplines through some combination of necessity and interest
then both my sister and i were both deeply in love with physics & chemistry stuff since we were children
@dcwych@akbirthko@Duderichy@bastard_brian i ended up resenting my parents somewhat for making me take math classes outside of school but they folded under the slightest pushback from me — if i could go back i actually wish I didn’t quit the classes
@storebrandguy@TheCaptain_Nemo@sinecuris Elon’s twitter acct and direct contact with normies gives him a brand reputation of an honest crazy genius
a big public risky persona makes him both reviled by some and worshipped by others
makes hiring and capital raising and selling cars easy as hell
@cauchyfriend no it’s just funny lmao
this person is eternally losing to 5th grade humor and just spends all day coping and seething about it
truly an excellent world we live in
@dcwych deleting this post bc I was drunk as hell but I don’t see how it’s lame
even if the headline was misleading this a common grandstanding ive@seen on twitter and elsewhere all the time
“You could literally solve world hunger yet choose not to”
@dcwych i genuinely think that the marginal dollar spent on world hunger is incredibly misplaced and many of the NGOs in this space do more harm than good and he’s right to call this out by asking for an accounting
Elon can just point at some barely interesting engineering problem and some of the most talented ppl in the world and giant pools of capital will reorient to make it happen
2020
empiricism: “i can’t wear a mask until i see a randomized control trial that they’re helpful in pandemics”
rationalism: “i reason that masks will likely lower the spread of novel viruses by filtering droplets”
2021
empiricism: “we can’t know if mrna vax are safe until we have a decade of observation”
rationalism: “due the mechanism of mrna vaccines the lack of efficacy due to fast decay is a greater risk than any long term issue”
@OpinionsOfJer tbf if someone wants to inject something into you it might be a valid default assumption
personally my prior is that it’s likely way safer than logically necessary but i have a high faith in technology and high risk tolerance
@NLRG_ i think having an understanding of signal processing and info theory gave us strong abilities to make claims about the brain that were unrivaled in previous metaphors
the author doesn’t get this and his specific examples are garbage
@NLRG_ for example the neuronal firing rate distribution follows a lognormal telling us there’s high nformation entropy in those firing rates
and therefore we can literally think of it as an information processor
@m00npapi he most certainly would if it did anything like “solving world hunger” but it obviously won’t
the marginal dollar sent into this space will line the pockets of some tinpot despot in sub Saharan Africa
@micsolana correct and that’s simply how the news works and there’s not much i can do about that
but love to see my man playing that fiddle as well as the politicians do
@alth0u lol yeah they always seemed very impressed with pretty amateurish methods
but at the same time they invested in the language model paradigm at the right time
@xvrqt@arctanno most scifi feels “male” to me for various reasons but hoping that changes
Hyperion is nowhere near the top of my list but still good - it tries to synthesize too many scifi ideas and does none of them well
@leepavelich@xvrqt@arctanno but it’s moreso the vibe of the books — deeply introspective and psychological, lots of talk about prana-bindu and such, mythological over mechanical, *rejection* of the male Hero archetype, ecological over technological, etc
optoomizing ad yields is even more boring than i thought it would be and i expected it to be quite boring
but even worse than that is it’s demoralizing when the scientists & engineers capture 0.1% of the P&L (which tends to be measured in the $10^8-$10^9 range lol)
every time zuck posts on fb the replies are dozens of americans being like "u r destroying my democracy" and then one million indians saying "happy diwali mark! thanks for making facebook!"
@monsterofcook thats fair but i think it takes a fundamentally rationalist/modernist/scientific approach to management of humans with a few correction terms