@tszzl — page 60/103

2021-11-13 → 2021-11-23 · posts 29501–30000 of 51,350
right click saving the toothpastes at walgreens
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ape together strong
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the real alpha was the friends we made along the way
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
you can in fact selectively find and cover the ugliest remotest land
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· ↳ reply to @zetalyrae
@zetalyrae nuclear land use covers a lot more than just reactors - for example you need an exclusion zone for waste
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@zetalyrae I’m as nukepilled as they get but China wouldn’t be building this stuff if solar wasn’t more economical
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· ↳ reply to @ecree429
@ecree429 use long distance extremely high voltage DC transmission, what’s the issue?
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· ↳ reply to @LudditeHacker
@LudditeHacker @zetalyrae yeah they’re trying everything as they should but an efficient capital allocator wouldn’t build any of this if it wasn’t at least a good bet with the current knowledge
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
the clear zone surrounding nuclear plants uses more land per GW than panels
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im also really tired so ignore this
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@digitalgnomead @MegaBasedChad im sure this is several layers below his actual attention but the ppl at stripe have to protect themselves by imagining the worst possible reaction
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bernie sanders lowkey fell off
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@ollyrobot i don’t really know the dynamics of why but the end result is that the giant media machine surrounding him died
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@ollyrobot agreed lol boomer replies but also agree w elon that i forget he exists sometimes
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@VivaLaPanda_ @mattyglesias combination of superior cell chemistry, superior cell layout, extremely high tech battery management system, etc
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@ctjlewis damn that’s fucked. Need to stop elder abusing politicians
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@ctjlewis let Joe and Bernie get some rest for gods sakes best case is to retire them but in third world countries they heavily use surrogates for political candidates including literal impersonators need more of that
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· ↳ reply to @lalaAlicelala
@lalaAlicelala it’s an endless boring suburb, no beach. I suppose it had a few good views but that’s omnipresent in the whole yay area
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@mahhnav @deepfates my brain is too broken to get off twitter completely but gonna try and stay out of the limelight
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· ↳ reply to @deepfates
@deepfates @mahhnav I’ve been wiring my spiciest tweets to various smurfs and friends so im not the center of attn
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t @cpp999x @chc40 i don’t think ive ever said this and even i was being an edgelord i certainly don’t believe it lol anyone can tell following my account that im basically transhumanist and believe society will spend an increasing % of gdp on end of life care & extension (and that’s Good)
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*12 hours gametime later* “maybe we should’ve built a central bus”
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gonna start rajneeshmaxxing, whos in?
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot document this moment in time where we saw the Wired and the overworld merge you'd be good at this due to historical perspective
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@eigenrobot sort of like 'revolt of the public' but not strictly about regime change n shit
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· ↳ reply to @nickcammarata
@nickcammarata self importance / main character syndrome is nearly synonymous with courage i feel so id double or triple it
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· ↳ reply to @RichDecibels
@RichDecibels lmfao this is an academic study now you must find out (and i will fund your experiments)
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· ↳ reply to @MegaBasedChad
@MegaBasedChad do you think mark z will get biographies written about him in the same way as jobs and musk? idts frankly i think even he might become a footnote in history, much less the winklevii
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· ↳ reply to @MegaBasedChad
@MegaBasedChad if you see what normies in the replies say to any facebook related news it's something along the lines of 'this started as a website to rank girls and get laid!' kind of blackpilled on real history ever beating that narrative but who knows
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u pubpol school is a jobs program for ambitious midwits
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· ↳ reply to @yashkaf
@yashkaf it has no value after everyone gets bored No Arbitrage Condition
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u econ grads are of a much higher caliber iirc @eigenrobot said they were just reading blogposts at the Fed to figure out what's going on
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@alth0u @eigenrobot when people say economists have too much say in government that's true but also good
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· ↳ reply to @mollyfmielke
@mollyfmielke there’s no alpha left in dressing well and speaking better that’s how you get Adam Neumann
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· ↳ reply to @varunramg
@varunramg maybe generational entrepreneurs don’t make good employees (and that’s fine)
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in retrospect any crypto project under my name should be on Polygon (for obvious reasons)
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how are there no sleek bugman apps for laundry or maid service yet
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· ↳ reply to @chairsign
@chairsign if the app is nice enough and offers value outside of connecting person A to person B then it’ll maintain
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· ↳ reply to @alt1na1
@alt1na1 I used it several times but it kinda sux and incentivizes them to take as long as possible
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by age 25 you should’ve created and destroyed at least one cult
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@dcwych mr evariste lowkey thought all my aesthetics are juvenile …
· ↳ reply to @NoelSkum1
@NoelSkum1 India it’s a much bigger country where individual units operate more autonomously + lower education can be a long time before you find out some fucked up shit is happening one ashram over
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· ↳ reply to @arctanno
@arctanno @typecfemale @growing_daniel exactly we are able to be funny because we mainline culture 12 hours a day meanwhile elon is watching stephen colbert clips from 10 years ago and dying in his private jet
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EDM enhances one's ability to rotate shapes
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dark and rainy nights enhance one's ability to rotate shapes
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· ↳ reply to @vgr
@vgr the hard problems in robotics are now a subset of ML 👁️
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@jeroenvlek im grouping it all together but i really mean techno
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we complain about the crypto ecosystem a lot and how hard it is to use but even with all this hurdles it's probably easier to work with than drawing up a "real" contract / fund structure to collectively buy a constitution
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@thoughtomata thats interesting id imagine its better than most things for unit econ seems like a straightforward scheduling problem for achieving maximum asset utilization of washers and driers
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· ↳ reply to @ctjlewis
@ctjlewis @bobpoekert can the ConstitutionDAO members take any restitutive action if the LLC doesn’t cooperate? A parallel “crypto court” so to speak
· ↳ reply to @typecfemale
@typecfemale @storebrandguy well the strong abundance argument is that we really will keep getting richer and richer due to tech progress the weak abundance argument is more like ppl are being “penny wise pound foolish” often. wasting valuable time/status/comfort/sanity to save money they don’t need
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@typecfemale @storebrandguy my dad leaves the plastic wrapper on his tv and appliances and whatever else to protect the quality or whatever. but everyone that sees it probably thinks “wow what a poor/cheap fellow” and the cost of that is way higher than scratches on the microwave lol
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@typecfemale @storebrandguy my dad would k*ll himself if he knew about my $60 haircuts but the value of looking good is literally astronomical. that’s really my only gripe with scarcity mfers
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@storebrandguy @typecfemale not cunsooming as a manner of saving resources for the world feels a lot more virtuous to me than being among the richest people who have ever lived and being afraid to take an Uber or whatever
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you should not try to trade on an info advantage against wall street you should not try to trade on a modeling advantage against wall street you SHOULD trade on a high verbal iq narrative driven galaxy brain thesis that you developed after exegesis of twitter timeline for 5 yrs
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
why would you assume that wall street understands the contours of the technological manifold better than you. its literally divination
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@Rationalbot yeah actually the blackpill is that wall street has some of the best shape rotators and we should not compete with them head on
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people really simultaneously believe that - it is impossible to find alpha competing against wall street - all active fund managers underperform the S&P (??)
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· ↳ reply to @semiDL
@semiDL By definition half of dollars invested will beat the market
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
By definition half of dollars invested will beat the market
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some boomer is being censured by congress for posting attack on titan memes
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t ngl I didn’t watch it but I will choose the funniest narrative to believe
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· ↳ reply to @__femb0t
@__femb0t @small_nuts yeah the thing with the AOC titan honestly isn’t bad at all the undertone of the thing seems to be about killing refugees (which is far worse) but I’m not sure
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· ↳ reply to @chairsign
@chairsign lol you’re not gonna believe me but I just searched blank pdf and took the first thing but yeah I was probably subconsciously remembering this
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cyberpunkking rn
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someone invite me to ur group house
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in SF tho or nearby
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@TeddyRaccovelt this is what pure unadulterated cope looks like. cultural defeat
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· ↳ reply to @varunramg
@varunramg @jeff82874662 that means he’s irrelevant people with any power don’t have to pull stunts and demean themselves like that
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@dcwych on some level though it self selects for people who enjoy the attention
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· ↳ reply to @varunramg
@varunramg @jeff82874662 how is that a stunt lol, I get paid in my company’s options and so do you unless this is some galaxy brain joke about Tesla stonks being fake
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· ↳ reply to @varunramg
@varunramg @jeff82874662 ahh I see I guess I’d call it different because he pulls stunts to have fun whereas getting paid in Bitcoin is not very fun
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the difference between “partial ownership” and “governance share” is kind of abstract
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
the way to bridge the gap between DAO world and legal system world in the short term and maybe long term is to have consequences for the intermediaries on both sides of the system if they renege
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eg yeah the DAO is “advisory” as far as the legal system is concerned but maybe you can ban all the principals from all future transactions for ex if they don’t fulfill the DAO’s consensus anyway requires decentralized rep systems and persistent identity tho
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Hunter S Thompson:@antoniogm :: Gonzo Journalism:Gonzo Autism
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(no offense intended this is the highest praise I can give)
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· ↳ reply to @antoniogm
@antoniogm was just saying in a group chat how you’re the hunter s thompson of tech writers (active participant in the madness as a method of documenting it) and someone coined the phrase Gonzo Autism
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· ↳ reply to @ded_ruckus
@ded_ruckus yeah but there’s no way to stake collateral even a small fraction of what they’ve raised or it would be prohibitive for everyone except the richest
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· ↳ reply to @rw_tucker
@rw_tucker @gbrl_dick that's the exact opposite of what he wants it's where we go and replace more and more humans with thinking machines
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· ↳ reply to @babarganesh
@babarganesh impossible i'm simply not built for being a guru because i am quite negative and sardonic
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ConstitutionDAO failed because it simply wasn't ambitious enough. Next time we will do a hostile takeover of Walgreens. BearHugDAO coming soon
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
shoot for the stars and land on the moon (become a minority shareholder of WBA and the CEO has to keep us happy)
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@digitalgnomead i'll only agree with you on most fun but fun has to be underwritten by being productive as hell or the party eventually ends
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@digitalgnomead LA is easily competitive in cultural relevance SF is easily competitive in business relevance
@digitalgnomead if i could plot the total market cap headquarted in each city (adjusted to some time index) ny is headed down and to the right
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@digitalgnomead the tech ethos could never thrive in new york it's almost antithetical. unfortunate because i <3 nyc
the better liked the tech industry is the less powerful it will become at all levels high technology is driven by a near religious fervor to make science fiction real and religious fervor thrives on "knowing secrets". if everyone agrees then theres no secret and no zealotry
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· ↳ reply to @pjsempe
@pjsempe you need some of that influx to temper the most extremist instincts of the zealots like the roman elite tempered christianity by joining and turning it away from 'mob doomsday cult'
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· ↳ reply to @marx_knopfler
@marx_knopfler yeah i mean on the timescale of the evolution of human science and not the evolution of the galaxy
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· ↳ reply to @arctanno
@arctanno hmm yeah school gives you a proximal utility payoff for doing seemingly useless practice
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· ↳ reply to @atroyn
@atroyn rip to other programmers but I’m built different (read one sim2real paper)
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@aniiyengar only city built before labor costs hockey curved
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im not the emperor of @rooncoin. I’m simply the First Citizen
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@ollyrobot it’s just been a few months of rising inflation since then so seems non transitory
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@ollyrobot > U.K. inflation surges to decade-high of 4.2% this seems barely above normal
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@ollyrobot Oh yeah I forgot lol In that case the euro inflation is even lower
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capital punishment for elizabeth holmes 💅
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· ↳ reply to @ad0rnai
@Lan_Dao_ i dont even know who that is but we clearly have a bright future ahead
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· ↳ reply to @Mousr8
@Mousr8 people will take a paycut to work on things that are close to their heart, simple as
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· ↳ reply to @deepfates
@deepfates nah even with the reputation pretty much 90% of applicants can't do the job and there are plenty of false positives that get past the screen and aren't up to caliber too
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@deepfates i do think the component where they make you jump through hoops to see if you're high executive function enough is real tho like you're about to spend a large part of your time wrangling a giant bureaucracy to get what you want; the interview prep is a small sampler of this
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· ↳ reply to @prerationalist
@prerationalist @deepfates fair enough tbh i did grind a bit the first time around (2 weeks ish) but i have no way of knowing the counterfactual whether i would've done fine
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· ↳ reply to @Mousr8
@Mousr8 not a technical challenge but ideological maybe
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· ↳ reply to @Mousr8
@Mousr8 @prerationalist @deepfates the thing is though with the advent of leetcode there has been difficulty creep in the whiteboard problems lot of the classic questions have been phased out so now it's like kind of tablestakes to study up a bit
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@alth0u you can't convince me this guy is not alive
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the definition of the phrase IYI is when i tried to flex my GRE score on here and ended up including my full address and social security number in the score report screenshot🥲
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@mahhnav i'm a bit of a psycho so i'll be happy if randos show up at my house
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· ↳ reply to @THCWaves
@THCWaves its a meme representing visuospatial iq and is a metaphorical standin for all sorts of technical pursuits
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sf should just subsidize walgreens and repair broken car windows. problem solved
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
the gdp lost to retail theft is a small fraction of the gdp lost to the SF gross receipts tax. watch out for the true robbers #staywoke
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the gdp lost to retail theft is lower than that lost to stripe employees saying "delurk" #StayWoke
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what are the odds that humanity dies in an asteroid redirection test rather than a natural asteroid impact
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@ollyrobot the galaxy is a graveyard of civilizations that died for their Integration Tests
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bullish on vibe reels. people need to make more vibe reels for esoteric shit
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
huge failure of the rationalist community that theres no e. yudkowsky fancam
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· ↳ reply to @kymeriandawn
@Cererean nah this basically moves the timeline back a year if even that its possible not every behavior of the natural neuron is vital information
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· ↳ reply to @kymeriandawn
@Cererean @RokoMijic @alth0u how can it be useless when it's already bore so much fruit? we're clearly doing something right already and why do you assume that EM fields would be an unrecoverable error? seems like you want the ai research paradigm to fail and are reasoning backwards from that
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans i really don't think they need to 'annihilate the dollar' to create some value
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Hellachans bitcoin maximalism is basically defunct even among cryptoids
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the mysteries of artificial intelligence are known only the filipino peoples. silicon valley pays them to impart their wisdom in the data labels
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans it will just behave like SPY or anything else in a downturn but thats not important its value as a currency is tangential to its value in organizing an alternative semi-legal economy lol
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powerful type of guy
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“pay me $1000 or I’ll light this piece of coal on fire” that’s carbon offsetting baby
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· ↳ reply to @cxgonzalez
@CXGonzalez_ theres no switching only a slider on how much time you spend doing each
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u - joined early stage startup - maxed out robinhood margin - degenerate LEAP gambling - hold so little cash i probably have overdraft risk - all of these things are cope b/c i didn't just buy a house
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans @sgodofsk there are many kinds of violence incl. for example your digital assets being taken from you by some crypto governance org
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans @woke_alt not sure what you mean because this is just an easily verifiable fact the feds know all about the dark net markets and yet i can still buy cocaine online without too much hassle
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recurring dream where Tyler cowen asks me whether I’m bearish or bullish on various things in front of a live audience
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
many such cases
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entry level take: too many ppl are working computer technology and not enough in the world of atoms, leading to a great stagnation big brain take: miracle of miracles that we discovered computer technology when we did, else there would've been ~zero gdp growth in the last 30 yrs
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@krishnanrohit that makes zero sense lmao bc i believe theres a high nonzero chance of AI foom i should become a doomer and take on lots of debt? you could say this of any potential catastrophe
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@krishnanrohit not really this is a bad defn of alpha there are plenty of cases where people know things but aren’t able to act on it due to market structure
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@krishnanrohit say for example I knew some startup was trash because it’s tech doesn’t work - there is no way for me to act on this info because i can’t short private equities
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@krishnanrohit bottom line “if you aren’t acting you don’t believe” is cope
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@krishnanrohit how are there crazy payoffs? i literally won't be around to enjoy any payoff i guess i could marginally increase my time preference
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· ↳ reply to @Noahpinion
@Noahpinion tfw its shitposts are potent enough to destroy human minds
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· ↳ reply to @krishnanrohit
@krishnanrohit i think for example theres short term threat of total disaster from both AI and climate. im not gonna change my time preference at all. i'm fairly confident humans will overcome both - that doesn't mean the risk doesn't exist
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@gbrl_dick @jeff82874662 real talk homeostatic principle suggests that nothing we do will make people much sadder or happier except maybe some nick C techno buddhist magic shit to
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· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot the greatest effect of this will be that it’s hard to run good talent discovery programs of poor students that being said the well groomed aristocracy will still keep going to the UC schools and many of them are pretty smart
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· ↳ reply to @Hellachans
@Hellachans @woke_alt you prolly don’t know the history of this — they’ve taken down several including the extremely high profile Silk Road & the infamous arrest of its founder Ross Ulbricht but over time the scope and scale of DNM operations has only gone up
· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@Hellachans @woke_alt where the original Silk Road had a few thousand listings at best and was already moving billions in market volume there are now several that post 50k+ listings & likely $10b+ in drug volume cat and mouse game where the feds appear to be losing
· ↳ reply to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot yeah and it’s gonna be awful at the top level for Asian immigrants lel
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@woke_alt @Hellachans and the ones that have lasted are smarter. it’s a fundamentally hard problem to take down decentralized markets
@chimericCreati1 @eigenrobot “not hard to prep for”? it’s just an aptitude test most of the research shows at best a few points of improvement from studying
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u autists rather than grinders used to run the show
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no clue what rust is and ill never learn
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· ↳ reply to @InvictusDude
@InvictusDude adderall 5x a week. it’s possible I’m time shifting energy from the weekends
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· ↳ reply to @alth0u
@alth0u yeah it’s dumb as hell and made dumber by the fact that you can’t buy kindle books at all on the biggest app surface by market volume (iOS)
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me and my cult following except invert the colors
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
1 harmless schizo loitering in the nicest neighborhood in town and a dude filming him
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@halvorz 😂 dudes keeping an Evernote
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· ↳ reply to @vgr
@vgr primary reasons are varied?
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regarding wireheading. it certainly seems like an unexamined assumption that happy people spend all their time doing nothing in a vat. it’s a good first metaphor bc that’s how eg fentanyl works but unclear if there are other viable interventions
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
SSRI’s don’t seem to uniformly decrease activity levels
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· ↳ reply to @ChrisCroy
@ChrisCroy everything about modifying the human brain is spooky. everything about leaving it unmodified is spooky
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· ↳ reply to @reconfigurthing
@reconfigurthing they still have to pay back the debts as best as possible declaring bankruptcy -> business is stripped for parts, sold, and capital reimbursed to lenders
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· ↳ reply to @reconfigurthing
@reconfigurthing true but that’s the whole point of debt right? why should you get a high interest rate if the money is guaranteed to be paid back
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· ↳ reply to @reconfigurthing
@reconfigurthing if someone does something to intentionally damage their capital investments the investors & lenders can sue
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@PowerMacG4Cube conscientiousness is a psyop just develop enough anxiety to get it done last minute
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i hope someone else is sending discriminative price signals to the restaurant markets because i sure as hell am not
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· ↳ reply to @nickcammarata
@nickcammarata i don’t know if they’re happy. they seem energetic, obsessive, sometimes angry but not quite happy opioids feel more like pure bliss
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@lastcontrarian DoD and NASA are the best friends of anduril; SpaceX core consumers and profit centers
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@lastcontrarian the relationship between fda and biotech may be a bit more adversarial
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@lastcontrarian agreed but it’s not adversarial - the point of these orgs has always been to deploy capital to promising private companies to build useful stuff for them difference is how verticalized SpaceX has been
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@lastcontrarian tldr nasa is not sitting around killing young space companies the problem has always been technological - if someone brilliant enough comes along to sell a good product to them they’ll happily buy it
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· ↳ reply to @tszzl
@lastcontrarian feel the same way about FDA as well - they mostly guard dog pharmas from spitting out bottom of the barrel drugs that have an effect size in the fifth decimal place one area where it seems government is truly the enemy is the FAA where it concerns commercial aviation
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