in the next 10 years we will see internet conflicts that move major markets both in defi and tradfi. the arc of internet history is long but it basically just follows the economics of EVE Online
@ThomasHoufek@skxrxn@telmudic no, since even the large companies like facebook, apple etc have experienced very solid growth, many people have found low risk high income careers
autists actually have alpha in social settings due to their attention to detail and obsessive recall as long as they can direct and hone their energies
@darpyu i dont know you that well but from what i've read i think the best thing would be for you to move out on your own for a bit and get your space. or even just plan a trip with some friends
@darpyu moving isn't just about parents. it's about change of scenery and having new & different responsibilities and stuff. usually snaps me out of a funk/routine
not sure how mil service works tho yeah
none of this is new but it's weird to think that this is almost the default outcome - physical labor costs going down instead of up is more science fiction than extremely advanced augmented reality
if bits innovation continues to outstrip atoms (this is the likely scenario) then AR/VR dystopias will become real by default
instead of fixing decrepit cities people will just hack their senses and see something else instead
@wiki_early_life idk about you but i think baumol cost syndrome is probably real
it's true bad politics makes it worse but there's a secular trend in inability to do construction projects because they all cost infinity dollars
@space_colonist exploring learning and expanding are also evolutionary drives
in every age people create religions to justify their expansionary spirit including the earliest writing from Akkadian kings
in theory the wordcels should be able to run circles around you in rhetorical analysis. in practice they are all stuck in local attractors of ideology they’re unable to rotate their way out of 😔
@lisatomic5 I will say there are downsides to this. Most things disappoint/bore me until they reach the threshold and I find it hard to talk to people because of it. I also piss off close friends by being too vocal about my disappointment lol
“laws of physics” is overloaded because it both represents the math formulae that physicists derived to describe the universe
but also sometimes separately the assumed ground truth eqns that actually govern reality
but we know that these arent the same
when we say the “unbreakable laws of physics” we know that physics is obviously breakable because of eg black holes, Big Bang, the “vacuum catastrophe”
at the same time many modern ppl have a belief that there do exist perfect hidden rules that govern reality and are unbreakable
@andrejwagmi I agree with the aesthetics of this but it’s not quite out to get us is it. Just amoral, doesn’t care. Deals us beautiful paradises on one hand and tropical parasites on the other
@PowerMacG4Cube Everything is fundamentally more exciting and interesting to a kid. As an adult you may never reach those emotional extremes again without taking drugs or having a new kid
@micsolana I mean look I have nothing against smoking but a lotta people seem to find it gross now and Its hard to believe the ads had nothing to do with that
if it were purely about laws and regs then millennials wouldn’t smoke at a lower rate than currently alive boomers
nice 400 lb squat bro but the Lights all askew in the heavens. Men of science more or less agog over results of eclipse observations. Einstein theory triumphs. Stars not where they seemed of were calculated to be, but nobody need worry.
Blind is actually really funny lol. i suspect most of the people mad about it don't have a healthy relationship with income either b/c there's nothing forcing you to download or go look at blind at all
havent visited in a long time but i gotta appreciate the unbridled machismo of people signing off with their total compensation on completely unrelated posts like "how to renew visa in the US"
@luke_metro yeah possibly but i think its a slightly different audience
the blind people are way less neurotic and way more chaotic. theyre just like "help me i crashed my rental in hawaii how do i avoid a speeding ticket"
@tarunchitra@GarrettPetersen im hanging up my gloves. i've realized that crypto is relatively less wordcel than actual financial contracts. inshallah we will destroy the true enemy (lawyers)
I wonder why they train such small retrieval LMs though. I wonder if there's diminishing returns on 200b param retrieval LM or if retrieval at train time makes training prohibitively slow. i don't think it's the latter because the retrieval seems to be indexed in key value store
@rajath0_0 yeah correct
ideal is global access to internet data for aiding the reasoning / prediction process
practice is local key value store bc internet queries would make training way too slow
are there any decentralized mixture of experts models running at internet scale yet. maybe you could query the network for inference and pay a fee via a token
@BarneyFlames none other than people find it ideologically/aesthetically pleasing to have models owned by internet at large rather than institutions. plus i wonder what kind of performance you could achieve if you keep scaling up DMoE
@eigenrobot I think the arc of history is clear
The mad men become math men
more and more economic function is translated to cybernetic control systems over talkers
& the real leaders of industry now need to be conversant in both modes
very cute watching twitter ppl try to be wholesome for the holiday season. but the brainworms seep in. performative Christmas enjoyers arguing with performative Christmas haters. EST flaming PST for their late New Years. etc
@MegaBasedChad 100%
we live in a new type of culture that neil postman called the “technopoly”
Marx, deleuze and others refer to it as either capital or technocapital
@ollyrobot I mean basically every decision nasa made during Apollo was weighed by political incentives right
Nixon calls have to move up launch etc
someone has to pay the piper
@ollyrobot I work at a startup now that’s basically a research project with the tacit implication that eventually it’ll have to be useful for pharmas down the line
most irritating thing I deal with is just hiring but hiring will be a PITA public or private
@ollyrobot oversight is minimal the VCs show up once a quarter as a formality
however I will say we get this much freedom because it’s in the top 5-10% of biotech startups in terms of IP and founder quality and such
@ollyrobot I think DARPA still does gives fairly open ended grants
and in private sector they spin up CROs all over the place
wonder why we don’t see much come out of it tho
@growing_daniel@varunramg@rmcwhorter99@andrejwagmi not even close, by 1940s raj state capacity was very high and Raj’s administrative capital was in Calcutta (current day capital of West Bengal). Anything that happened happened with their blessing
took me a long time to accept this but the culture has permanently changed and remote is the new normal except maybe for first few ppl at a tech startup/company
@BarneyFlames not sure why but it’s clearly the revealed finding of the bigtechcos
they would’ve pushed for in person a lot more dramatically if it were a serious issue
@wdiamond_econ I suppose it depends
is finding semantic proximity easy for some1 or location proximity
for someone like me, answer is easy - i grew up on the internet and I’m fairly good at ginning up 1:N engagement
new world is better
@wdiamond_econ for others their starting job is a whirlwind of networking with likeminded peers which they likely won’t get now
I didn’t know anybody outside my team at {big_tech_co} until I visited the office
@kitten_beloved idk I completely disagree on both counts it’s just dependent on culture
1) sending message is order of magnitude easier for me
2) I use slack like a group chat. Respond instantly