@__femb0t@nomanautomata rotation v wordcel also became a standin for pragmatist vs theorist, continuous vs discrete, etc
also remember that all of this is nonsense and i take nothing seriously
@dystopiabreaker of course i get this, it’s the wordcels that don’t. very common complaint i see on here “intelligence can’t just be matmults”. sad way of thinking
vibecamp was unironically incredibly well produced. i didn’t put any thought into it and showed up at the last minute because i assumed it would be a disaster but i was super wrong lmao. maybe cringe or strange at times, but packed full of “content” and events
in retrospect this should’ve been obvious. of course when you’re running an event for a community of highly online somewhat rich ppl random folks will bubble up to offer incredible resources and run a great event
complete with giant Airbnb afterparties and stuff
vibecamp is maybe not my vibe but super bullish for internet communities
tbh i should’ve showed up with an actual nametag and ran some wordcel workshop or some shit lol
was in consumer mode (this might not be fun) instead of producer mode (let’s make this fun)
seems exactly right
also reminds me of the Culture scifi series
The Culture is a postscarcity pangalactic liberal society whose existential boredom is basically only sated by influencing other civilizations to join the Culture https://x.com/antoniogm/status/1499474081279721485
@BarneyFlames this pattern doesn’t describe the decline of the US but rather the ascent of rising powers
but it’s less clear to me that rising powers keep rising than that US keeps chugging on. middle income trap is pretty strong and china has a hundred idiosyncratic problems
@MikeSeldenFF meaning at the end of history people need to larp as though there are existential threats to American hegemony
my concl is america is not an underdog and global liberal culture is the only thing worth criticizing
sorry its covered under like 4 layers of references to past posts
@Noahpinion honestly i don’t find the books that interesting or well written but the world building is good and it’s a good meditation on end stage civilization
@liminal_warmth it’s true but it’s just a trade off I’m willing to make
if I was a nobody with no reputation there’d be no pressure
you were a great teacher btw
@liminal_warmth its tru tho the whole thing was p high pressure for me
felt like a performance. was thinking about my wardrobe way more than i want to + pretty much spent the whole weekend drunk so i could be more entertaining
the christian doctrine of infinite forgiveness or Buddha’s path to samadhi (or others) are all divinely powerful psychological miracles because they actually work to solve existential angst and very little else does
@visakanv I see some nice modernist churches around sometimes that are both tasteful and austere but are imposing in a way that competes with other giant buildings
muhammad bin salman. crown prince of an ancient empire. supreme ruler over the greatest resource monopoly of all time. and yet he has to constantly pretend he's yet another venture capitalist sucking up to tech moguls. tells you where the real power lies
@powerbottomdad1 >mfw he fact checks my schizo theories
anyway you're wrong he pictures himself a modernizer and a futurist with technology as the avenue to saudi's post-oil future
there is no good world in which private companies don’t have to make unilateral decisions about foreign and domestic policy. you don’t want a world where the us gov has absolute power over what facebook prints. you don’t want a world where facebook prints russian agitprop
the combination of low brow and high brow is the spice of life. this is Tyler cowen. this is cyberpunk. This is the venture funded app based amphetamine pill mill
@powerbottomdad1@farawayhedera nah some girls are impressed by bottle service or like gold chains. both low-mid brow. highbrow is “will Jeff or finn be impressed”
@man_ditch@powerbottomdad1@farawayhedera it’s a set Union rather than intersection. New York high class + euro high class. We need to throw in an Sv elite as well to complete it
@deepfates@pescaincognita letting deepfates have write access to your brain sounds terrifying. you should let some zero agency psychedelic clinic guy do it instead
i worry that i became too good at twitter trolling too quickly. now my dopamine baseline is fuckt and i have to poke the largest bear I see in any direction to feel anything. Oh well i don’t see any way this could go wrong
@ne0liberal I just want to note that when I started on twitter my goal was to get you to follow me. now, two years later I couldn’t give a fuck but you do in fact follow me
@besttrousers@AlecStapp they exist at rates that are far below what’s necessary with dubious plans for increasing the price
I was shocked when I saw how cheap the EU ETS credits go for
@himbonomics@__femb0t@theemilyaccount regardless of what wordcel rotator became in the popular discourse it was always foremost a way to own people lost in the sauce of abstraction and plenty of mathcels are in fact lost in the sauce
@alt1na1 the average kid playing 100 hours of civ5 or eu4 or whatever understands geopolitics better than all your geopolitics explainer videos combined no cap. moreover all those geopolitics explainer videos are produced by nerds who have logged hundred of hours playing war games
@reconfigurthing@nickcammarata it’s also an unstated assumption that somehow purely biological inclinations are real but socially conditioned things are fake when I see no such delineation
@reconfigurthing@nickcammarata idk about this
my personal agency is definitely externally imposed
the thing ive felt most strongly about all my life is the inherent beauty of technological progress — but someone had to teach me to dream those dreams via scifi books, pop culture, etc
@reconfigurthing@nickcammarata is the human the right level of agency? we clearly have different brain regions that want different things all the way down to the cellular level and we clearly have vast memeplexes that act through individuals
@reconfigurthing@nickcammarata none of this is meant as some midwit criticism it’s just that you guys seem to have a level of certainty about this stuff that I’ve never been able to reach
I’m trying to figure out what you know that I don’t
honestly the openai copilot model is kind of magical. it makes incredible leaps in logic. now im wondering what else can be copilot-ed. my command line? my tweet box? evernote?
@0x49fa98@MaryKayUltra reminded of the soy bugman Bezos from your short story
has the test really made him ascend? no longer cares about the disembodied elder god of the Global Consoomer
rarest archetype is a senior eng that hasn’t been completely skullfucked by big tech to the point where they only write project briefs and operate at the highest layer of the company’s own abstractions
@TheCaptain_Nemo tbh eigen has always been a far better poster than me. esoteric, in the weeds, philosophical. im more of an egotist who’s good at memes. only reason his growth fell off is that he’s got his domestic bliss now and only posts abt precisely what he’s curious abt at the moment
at low verbal iq people don’t have strong ideology. it’s uninteresting to them and they’re unbothered by it
at high verbal iq people again don’t have ideology. it’s highly interesting to them so they run through LARPing all of them by age 20 and burn out
@VallesVolcae most rich and smart tech people i talk to think there's no guarantee at all but i kind of feel like we've maybe already hit the singularity
@Mithridates_Six i want to believe zoo hypothesis but i think it's too unlikely
dark forest seems depressing but plausible
however most depressing and most plausible to me is that it's a planet local simulation
@calvary_fisher The Innovators. title sounds cringe but convinced me that computer revolution is a real technological tradition stretching back centuries and the greatest thing that's happening during our time
@danielcjonas i don't read much history but i guess my favorite is probably the history of 20th century physics. so maybe the Isaacson einstein bio? also really like guns germs and steel for the ambition of the project
@seanmcormick if you want to go into something finance adjacent then yeah it works (from a top school). but econ phds tell me that prospective students should do something more quantitative in their undergrad
@RedTailTabby we already have them under some definition of self driving. everywhere outside of the city cores we're basically doing great. and waymo has fully self driving taxis in pheonix city core i believe
@shriekingbrains if you're really good you will make more money work less hard but save less lives so up to you. it's also i think intellectually way more fulfilling than memorizing long laundry lists of items
@hpills01 all time science fiction: speaker for the dead. or maybe dune
recently i really enjoyed this award bait book 'the brief wondrous life of oscar wao'
@kaiteriri every time i go it's a different country. rapidly developing at an obscene pace. hopefully the culture will hit an inflection point out of the local minimum of 'digital sweatshop labor' and talented people will stop leaving the country
@hyperdiscogirl probably around ~10k was super good discussion in my replies. quality was great. ~30k has the perks of true social clout. people recognize me at parties and shit
@valor_zhang lmao this whole social media fame saga has very much felt like living through a shounen anime. you think you've reached the limits and then there's whole new layers of victories
@callmeed hiring is an extremely grueling and time consuming process especially for small companies. if you get to them early enough and show enough interest they may just say fuck it and hire you
@CausabonT climate change is obviously real and obviously man made. solar panels and wind will be a critical part of the energy mix going forward. much of the economy will have to shift towards carbon removal
@adwaits16 nope id rather not tell them. theyre pretty traditional types of people who think twice before making a new user account on some website. they wouldn't be able to comprehend this level of online
@MimiLovelace naming a con after myself is a surefire way to disappoint everyone involved. i'm not that interesting -- we need something to do. it's "vibecamp" not "brookecamp"
@dcwych if it turns out that some future technology will grant a small party infinite power
if it turns out that the human mind is too weak to be exposed to internet scale information and stay thriving