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@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
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@mplewis I very much am not Bladerunner 2049 is boring
· ↳ reply to @PradyuPrasad
@PradyuPrasad id tell myself to get a beard trimmer and also a blow dryer and also start lifting
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we need to go out and celebrate Tesla hitting a trilly
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· ↳ reply to @NormMann3
@NormMann3 1 trillion little copes in this tweet the era of gas is over
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alina chan at the beginning of the lab leak theory was like “i don’t want attention” now she’s got a book and a podcast tour
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there’s no alpha left in being mad about politics
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
If you're 25-30, and your main circle is frequently discussing: ~ Janet yellen ~ hyperinflation ~ masks / vaxx Then it's time to elevate your circle
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· ↳ reply to @jeff82874662
@jeff82874662 yeah im certainly pissed about the mask debate and how you dealt with it and maybe i wanted to poke the bear a bit
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@jeff82874662 it’s lowkey immature as hell and even strangers on this website don’t treat me like that much less my friends
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· ↳ reply to @vrgldh
@vrgldh why did you ask and then answer your own question
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t hmm wait whats the conflict of interest? who runs the oversight committee
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ez parenting guide for raising very smart children: - 8 hours ipad per day - seed oils in every meal - microplastics rich environment - diet coke
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gonna be in miami friday. ignore everything ive ever said about 🅱️rypto lets chill
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· ↳ reply to @vgr
@vgr im amazed that god and tech are tied
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@vgr actually not that amazed
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· ↳ reply to @IvyAstrix
@IvyAstrix that’s why you come to the roon account who only fears being called cringe
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adderall is literally a Blue Pill. much to consider
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· ↳ reply to @GillVerd
@quantumVerd ideally you can spend some days being a genius and some days being a turbo midwit
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@NaamahOrual i mean sure but he’s the representative of a group lol his financial situation is irrelevant
· ↳ reply to @pjsempe
@pjsempe i mean that last sentence invalidates the first part of your tweet lol. you just described the mechanism of action for punching up/down
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· ↳ reply to @pjsempe
@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
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dune having mainstream appeal means the great stagnation is over
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
~2020: science fiction ideology becomes financially dominant 2020~: science fiction ideology becomes culturally dominant
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@TeddyRaccovelt @nwilliams030 the interest rates are negative and these risk averse mfs can’t even take the leap of faith to filming back to back
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u afaik my big_tech_co doesnt even use GPU to run its recsys. slowly starting on the ads side
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot i will never look up the etymology of scotfree because it’s funnier in my head
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you can underpay me by giving me the title scientist
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smart but didn’t go to college -> mystique/volatility -> high priced call option went to a T2/3 college -> no mystique -> low priced call
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· ↳ reply to @nickcammarata
@nickcammarata true ive come full circle first time we interacted on this website was me disagreeing w you on this
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@nickcammarata however most people are not in the call option mindset so it’s also fine to maximize EV
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u @R1Jack yeah i figure it’s mostly controlplane rather than dataplane
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· ↳ reply to @bayes_baes
@bayes_baes there’s more free energy released when someone of low status owns someone of high status tho
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· ↳ reply to @clairlemon
@clairlemon if algorithmic meme feed was the only thing standing between your country and civil war then you had no country
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@clairlemon keep in mind depending on how it suits the liberal order people will also ascribe the overthrow of despots to social media
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· ↳ reply to @OldDreyfusard
@OldDreyfusard but many are not that fragile. they’ve survived the dawn of dozens of new communications technologies
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@OldDreyfusard and per my second tweet most liberals would consider the death and deposement of gaddafi a good thing
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· ↳ reply to @OldDreyfusard
@OldDreyfusard agreed, many survived the printing press, many did not overall im glad the printing press exists aren’t you?
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· ↳ reply to @OldDreyfusard
@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
· ↳ reply to @OldDreyfusard
@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)
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@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
· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot im being hyperbolic of course because I see way too little agency ascribed to the actual people doing the communicating so commonly
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@clairlemon no one should think im punching down on small war torn nations because as you can clearly see the US is borderline unstable now too
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@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
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@hifuncornsyrup @storebrandguy next time you’re with the boys and you’re bored just get up say mercury retrograde is starting. then leave. great bit
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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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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”
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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· ↳ reply to @Andr3jH
@andrej_ngmi my dad might commit sudoku if this happens so they best not
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@andrej_ngmi anyway i think the production process is too different for this to work
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t read somewhere that there’s reason to believe these may be animal seals of major houses signing their official documents
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· ↳ reply to @turrible_tao
@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
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· ↳ reply to @KHicksEfficient
@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
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· ↳ reply to @ByrneHobart
@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
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@halvorz novel ... based on ur research ... wow
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· ↳ reply to @The_Equationist
@The_Equationist i dunno it seems like the british did some pretty thorough archaeology would have to be pretty well hidden
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@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
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· ↳ reply to @moultano
@moultano if anything i think assuming it's not is holding back progress
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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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
if you expect privacy from like a 100 person group signal you're not gonna make it
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· ↳ reply to @moultano
@moultano @neipate96 interesting, i thought the indian government would *want* the narrative that modern indians are direct descendants of IVC
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· ↳ reply to @moultano
@moultano @neipate96 were the aryans really the fall of IVC? i guess horse barbarians laying siege to complex civilizations is lindy
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ollyrobot @eigenrobot although irl my expression remains static as carlos' smug "just told an awful joke" face
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my main hobby since the age of 14 has been studying and documenting the various types of internet schizos
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“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
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· ↳ reply to @Mario_Gibney
@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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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· ↳ reply to @omgjjd
@omgjjd "we'll deal with that problem when we get there"
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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· ↳ reply to @acczibit
@acczibit one must himself become a schizo to truly study the others
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· ↳ reply to @postjawline
@postjawline literally all the time, every single one of the great 20th century masters was a student of natural philosophy
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· ↳ reply to @deepfates
@deepfates by simply using the logical abstraction of humanity and making believe in it it becomes real
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@mahhnav idgaf about his point after hearing this fantasy lol
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my main problem with the Meta logo is that it reminds me too much of the VSCode logo
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you will be trapped in zucc's infinite tsukuyomi and you will like it
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
factorio is some kind of superstimulus for eliciting the feeling of productivity
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@rSanti97 pick top N words based on internet corpus or something
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· ↳ reply to @rSanti97
@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
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· ↳ reply to @marx_knopfler
@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
· ↳ reply to @swapp19902
@swapp19902 what fb does best is getting others to fill its websites with content tho lol
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@BenjaminDanard in the second half you got lil helper robots to do it for you
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which idiot called it Metaverse and not Isekai
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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@__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
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t @mycoliza very true but most “””web3””” stuff already relies on the existence of galaxy brain level incentive alignment schemes
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@JCorvinusVR but wishing that the colony gets hit by an asteroid is some serious demonic energy
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real civilizational decline is that there hasn’t been a good Civilization game since 2010
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@dcwych cringe of sufficient traction becomes based
@dcwych nah not even conviction alone can do it
@dcwych yeah this seems basically cruel but there’s a distinction from this vs like “island boys” where ppl actually enjoy it tho it’s cringe
@dcwych tru but idk you hear people humming along
before $300b: shitpost on twitter after $300b: shitpost on twitter
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
the consumer surplus of this product is in the hundreds of billions
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vigilante that murders someone in ur neighborhood now and then to keep rents low
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just twitter searched the phrase “there’s no alpha left” and there really does seem to be no alpha left in it
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· ↳ reply to @boop
@boop it actually raises prices in the Bay Area as the “authenticity” mfs pile in
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@__frye might start calling things black mirror esque postironically
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
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
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ill believe in metaverse once i see a woman using an oculus
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot this tweet really doing it for me rn The Future Is Autistic
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@VivaLaPanda_ @eigenrobot if anything it’s just the lack of opportunity lol many ppl i know go to LA or NY for a bit and find gf instantly
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the malaria net you funded saved joseph kony’s life
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@AlecStapp usg engineered coronavirus to delay the insolvency of social security
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the great fortunes of today will look like a pittance in 50 years
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· ↳ reply to @thebestestpie
@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
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@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
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my account is just prosperity gospel for autists
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everyone dressed as liz Holmes tonight but who will dress as my guy sunny
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@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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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· ↳ reply to @tautologer
@sinecuris people who are more unhinged will perform better on twitter but you become the circus performer lol what do you get out of it?
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@PowerMacG4Cube freedom always lowers the mean and increases the variance
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@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
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· ↳ reply to @ChrisCroy
@ChrisCroy UU is just the spiritual analogue of secular liberalism nothing new
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@eigenrobot the political dirt these days is insanely boring tbh NPCs commenting on other NPCs
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· ↳ reply to @AlecStapp
@AlecStapp anecdotally lot of new automation business models are becoming possible under the expensive labor regime
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Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
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@AshtearLucca so many things go make the industrial autonomous robots work properly or come help me in computational drug design
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
if they combine their wealth and clout they can maybe compete with elon
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There Is Still Alpha Left In Miami
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mfw solarpunk is real
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my whole career is built on 11:59 submissions
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· ↳ reply to @cauchyfriend
@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
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· ↳ reply to @mimi10v3
@Mimi_Rose_01 agreed but this is an emotional victory that anyone can understand a bluff called out without a retort
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@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 think he’s made it clear over the years that he’s trying to pile his personal wealth into the Mars colony
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@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
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@dcwych but yes agreed there is something of an opportunity cost and im glad the billionaires bully each other into philanthropy
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arriving 30 minutes before flight time is easy mode. next time: 20 minutes
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one of the greatest shows on earth to watch talented leaders wield populist appeal like a knife
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
not having appeal to normies isn’t a badge of honor but a near guarantee of failure on a long time horizon (even outside of politics)
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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
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Apple will continue to strip mine Facebook’s margins with monopoly platform power under some pretense or the other and nobody will come to their aid
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· ↳ reply to @CkLorentzen
@CkLorentzen lol we haven’t developed antibodies since the time of Alcibiades - you can forget about it
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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”
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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”
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
thankfully im not 25
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· ↳ reply to @OpinionsOfJer
@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
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· ↳ reply to @semiDL
@semiDL I’m aware — but we are now in the era of rational drug design
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@semiDL this is like a hundred words in which lowe says the vibes are vaguely optimistic lol
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@NLRG_ even ANNs don’t have easily identifiable representations of complex objects like a dollar bill
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@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
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ yeah all I can tell you is that uniform is entropy minimizing
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· ↳ reply to @NLRG_
@NLRG_ Oh wait lol I literally rotated the direction of entropy in my head NGMI
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@NLRG_ uniform is entropy maximizing**
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i don’t need your help google
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nerds unlearn optoomizing scarcity mindset challenge (impossible)
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@storebrandguy >he charges his phone instead of getting a new one when it runs out
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot I think just put data scientist instead on ur LinkedIn + resume and don’t think about it
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· ↳ reply to @m00npapi
@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
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· ↳ reply to @micsolana
@micsolana yeah it’s a distortion but also the whole headline is factually true
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· ↳ reply to @micsolana
@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
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are you impressed at people who are extremely good at skills you might consider unvirtuous or not all that important
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
fwiw im extremely impressed by skilled grifters, thieves, and spelling bee champions
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· ↳ reply to @btbytes
@btbytes i won the school level one year but quit bc it was lame
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· ↳ reply to @alt1na1
@alt1na1 all of these are alive and well tho lol you probably uber several times a week
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· ↳ reply to @alt1na1
@alt1na1 yeah but Shopify is valued like $200b now and it’s the same thing
the kingmaking power of populist appeal constrains every optimization problem in fun ways that make rationalist types mad
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no job more lucrative than Stanford professor
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
dip your toes in 100 startups that get instantly priced at ridiculous valuations
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you heard it here first
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@TeddyRaccovelt what dune mfs think scarcity will do to the indigenous vs what it actually does
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@lastcontrarian patiently waiting for the dirt on Patrick collison he’s too good and makes me nervous
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@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
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after a haircut i tell my barber “thank you for the alpha ser”
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triangulating a subtweet that doesn’t incidentally offend any of my friends
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
by 2025 management consultants will be talking about putting humanity on a hundred worlds
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@arctanno it’s actually a solid one would recommend retrying
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@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
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@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
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@rerarom hmm but I feel like they turn the Jesus myth on the head, jealous emperor most realistic thing in history etc
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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)
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anyway im free now and doing pure shape rotations
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dems lost virginia due to high gas prices (ethereum)
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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!"
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· ↳ reply to @monsterofcook
@monsterofcook thats fair but i think it takes a fundamentally rationalist/modernist/scientific approach to management of humans with a few correction terms