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screenshot this: ryan breslow hires @domm by the end of the month

@houellebecq_2 @domm god of soyjacks

@aniiyengar wait fr? when was this

@powerbottomdad1 20 minutes * 250 million passengers a year = ~100 human lifespans which would be fine except it doesn’t even work

@alth0u their failure to understand is your failure to communicate,

guy who can't focus enough to get through "Deep Work"

@VivaLaPanda_ lol

the angels laugh in paradise waiting to be brought here via nvidia summoning rituals

@malnote you mean worse

every 10th or 20th tiktok video is literally satanic

bullish

“Newton’s annus mirabilis came to him between 1665 and 1666, when Cambridge responded to the Bubonic plague by sending its students home to quarantine. In that time, Newton, aged 22, developed the theory of gravity along with the language of calculus required to express it.”

best I could do during the plague years was mostly abandon my research and become internet famous

@deepfates nope

@uneventomato @telmudic lol i would not endanger my twitter account w bot behavior

the reason that the tesla people never have reasonable timelines is the same reason as why they're successful: they suck at planning

planning it turns out is mostly a waste of time

@atroyn @pmarca problem of scaling or what?

coldness be my god https://x.com/ramez/status/1514355921815748610

TED is just like an march of unimpressive self aggrandizing PMCs who are monetizing their neuroses and then cut to elon musk in the miracle factory

yo Jeff is ingroup now https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/1514689258535145474

@generativist please

imo trump has no chance in 2024 because he's been thoroughly unpersoned by all the major social networks, which were his key source of strength. twitter was his main pulpit. if elon buys twitter and lets him back on i think that changes and the genie is out of the box

the absolute free speech position would be to let him back on. if trump wins ppl will blame elon whether its rational or not and his legacy will be fairly tarnished. he should absolutely buy twitter and let us bully journalists some more but draw the line somewhere

@hoffsbeefs absolutely not lol he made it clear several times

@hoffsbeefs and on top of that theres the basic economics -- the dem party loves private space and ZEV/solar subisides

@vaporous_ford this is just one of my classic negs

@_AlastairX_ @eigenrobot these markets are lunacy lol

@VitalikButerin @Nittyb_xyz this is awesome

@VitalikButerin @Nittyb_xyz completely impossible in the US. i've tried before

@_AlastairX_ @eigenrobot betting on predictit sux i got all my money out of there

@_AlastairX_ @eigenrobot i think basically the math here goes like republicans have some ~high chance of winning * trump is the best known republican rn but obviously this far out tons of new main characters on that side could emerge, impossible to say

@aphysicist @VitalikButerin @Nittyb_xyz in NYC you just take the tram connector to any of the subway stations. which is cool but its not walking

@hoffsbeefs disliking biden != liking trump wtf

@Aella_Girl all 7 days im simply NGMI

@adwaits16 @Aella_Girl definitely

@growing_daniel @peachblvd @elonmusk love how elon is just tagged in this convo

@growing_daniel @peachblvd @elonmusk it's not tenuous it very obviously makes people aware of alt text

@growing_daniel @peachblvd @elonmusk n = 1 i added an alt text for the first time because of twitter giving it first class support

@growing_daniel @peachblvd @elonmusk i was mostly trolling tho lol and never returned to it so n = 0

have a brain disease where when 40 people on the timeline tell me a movie is the best they’ve ever seen i already hate it

new political axis: if democracy can’t survive free speech on social media it’s more of a blackpill on democracy than on free speech

@amirism_ unfortunately it was really good

@Quester1791 there are illiberal democracies and liberal authoritarians

@krishnanrohit Deep learning

@AdamNeumannsCoS On a principled level I agree. On another level i care more about elon, his operations, and his legacy more than I do about giving trump a second chance

@LudditeHacker lmao wym

@powerbottomdad1 wym

@sassprof @krishnanrohit nah it’s more than a tool it’s a discovery about the mathematical structure of intelligence

@powerbottomdad1 i think the reach is maybe 1% when he sends something on his private mailer. it’s also just a more qualitative feeling that he’s not in the arena anymore he’s not doing battle. sending his cute little truthglobal emails like a cuck

@powerbottomdad1 also typically when an incumbent president loses reelection he becomes a political pariah so im not unjustified in saying he has no chance

@acczibit @powerbottomdad1 I think it’s pretty clear you need more than just those people to win an election

@madeofmistak3 @powerbottomdad1 no bc I hate politics and a bet would make me care

@BarneyFlames @powerbottomdad1 all his dumb comments gained him publicity and votes

@MichiFiascozz @dwarkesh_sp oh sorry I copied this on the fly and forgot where it came from

from here btw https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1514276972079292417

@AE_Robbert Good

all of the main characters of this age are able to master a zenlike state of carrying populist 'man of the people' clout despite being among the richest people on earth. very impressive

i guess Caesar also did this

@tehpio @amirism_ What’s that

@wdiamond_econ @iamwhoisme right but my op describes elon and trump and Caesar - people who were already rich

owning a nice car is cool but not as cool as getting driven around by the infinite black car that lives in the cloud

@growing_daniel @AnalystDC couldn’t be me

@extradeadjcb I mean there’s a difference between like huey long wealth and elon wealth

@powerbottomdad1 good news it’s in all the cities

@powerbottomdad1 ive seen a rich mf who did uber from sf to la but im just trolling

@powerbottomdad1 anyway going to tahoe is easy w rental or zipcar or whatever

@LeporidaeHops @powerbottomdad1 why lol? they'll turn up the war evacuation surge pricing to 10x and i'll still make it out on board one of these mad max uber drivers

@rhodes_mzra @extradeadjcb i literally mentioned this yeah https://x.com/tszzl/status/1515049068082343936?s=20&t=KJrYmQS1v5rTvzU1E4NB_Q

@0x49fa98 just gotta go w Lyft VIP or UberBlack or whatever

@LeporidaeHops @powerbottomdad1 well in that case pbd's tesla is also fucked so

@LeporidaeHops @powerbottomdad1 just get solar panels and home batteries

@LeporidaeHops @powerbottomdad1 this why people are always complaining about uber being so expensive in disaster situations. they ratchet up the prices to the market clearing price and then high risk tolerance mfs come save you from the tsunami or subway shooter or whatever. cyberpunk af

@mattroll_ @LeporidaeHops @powerbottomdad1 @monodevice is actively working on this

@pmarca and yet macro funds are notoriously difficult and volatile

the gods in olympus are fighting over control of a continent in the metaverse

seems like there's a once a in a decade opportunity for the literal best operators in the world to take it off the hands of the worst operators (jack, costolo, assorted idiots) and finally tap the gold mine dry. potential serious consequences for the world

according to @antoniogm zuck would tell people often that twitter is like "a clown car that drove into a gold mine". it's well known in the valley as a sleepy dysfunctional place to go retire

@ctbeiser i think twitter is operating at 10% of the power it could be. i mean there are no brainer engineering improvements that can and should be made that won't change the product at all other than making it objectively better

@ctbeiser like why do my DMs drop all the time? why cant you make a group chat that gives you any control over whos in it? why are they running logistic regressions for feed ranking?

@RCAFDM @powerbottomdad1 fwiw every minor city in detroit metro has uber

@pataguccigoon theres no bot im just insane

@joerealboy @prerationalist what on earth

@prerationalist the day i stop liking all my replies is the day i stop being a lowbie

@SatyreContraire like tens of thousands

@nickcammarata @strangestloop dont get me wrong i think it's amazing and wonderful but i know a certain type of math guy who i can predict with 100% accuracy will hate it

@atroyn @nickcammarata @strangestloop you get a pass for also hating crypto

absolute best grift in the game is populist finance posting. literally nobody understands it and the tickers are sexy. BRB convincing everyone that vanguard zombie fund 4 with ${big_number} AUM is interfering in the primary elections

starting a bounty hunter founder research firm that gives VCs the downlow on how founders are spending are spending their time and money https://x.com/samuel_spitz/status/1515114563577925633

@atroyn @nickcammarata @strangestloop btw I agree with you. It’s very postmodernist. but reality is postmodernist unfortunately. Einstein kinda ruined it and then Copenhagen guys really ruined it

@atroyn @nickcammarata @strangestloop @KolmogorovGhost he’s right here bro

robinhood is now showing me my margin maintenance line lmao

@MereMirabel your best bet is to wait for max hodak to make this radically better

the day i stop liking all my replies is the day you know the e-fame has gotten to me

@zoink @gfodor lol yeah someone made a memecoin for me which I then tried to kill

@typedfemale @typecfemale Don’t do it

@nickcammarata @TimHenke9 imagine a neural net of infinite depth,,

@eigenrobot @liminal_warmth theyve gotten much more competitive over time

@RogersBacon1 @dwarkesh_sp @erikphoel @krishnanrohit @ctbeiser @DKThomp @slatestarcodex long boring unhinged screed sorry and it doesn’t even refute the main point “the last annus mirabilis was 100 years ago” yeah Bc we’re quite laconic now when praising the greats. fuckin Torvalds wrote git and Linux kernel in the same year that’s an annus mirabilis

@RogersBacon1 @dwarkesh_sp @erikphoel @krishnanrohit @ctbeiser @DKThomp @slatestarcodex gotta love pieces like this in the talebian vein that spend 90% patting themselves on the back for the only rational adult on earth and 10% doing a sophomoric object level rebuttal

@RogersBacon1 @dwarkesh_sp @erikphoel @krishnanrohit @ctbeiser @DKThomp @slatestarcodex ok sorry i may not have even made it through the whole thing i just got mad at the clickbait

@varunramg you gotta know as well as i do that a legitimate customerbase will see this in san francisco

@drprotocrypto @varunramg wondering the same thing

@DeanPreston L + ratio

@AishvarR @AlecStapp @grantadever oh wow that’s a lot. I might be doing some math wrong

@Teleonomic @AlecStapp @grantadever it’s not news it’s just propaganda. it’s like balancing the federal budget by getting rid of pbs

@Teleonomic @AlecStapp @grantadever again I might’ve done the math wrong

@jeff82874662 @_Sowellsista_ hair transplants King

@jeff82874662 @_Sowellsista_ if elon can do it what’s stopping you

fucked up thing is that i appreciate nature most when i can see that it’s a machine

@AlecStapp @grantadever yeah I ducked up my math

@jeff82874662 lmao what

@jeff82874662 no like the machinery of nature. the earth moving in its orbit. the sun rising and setting like clockwork. the moon shadow moving with its inexorable logic during the solar eclipse

@pseudolad @gbrl_dick my

@ElConnekto mf thinks left brain is real stfu

@sadlyoddisfying it’s over for me

I’m a jailbird but I’m free

the a16z people have worse music than founders fund. but people are actually dancing

@cdixon talking about the Miami parties lol

more cranes than buildings on the skyline. bullish

@eigenrobot You literally look like this

tech is the industry where connections matter the least and networkers are the most unimportant because of the high openness of its rich. “I know x y z” rarely matters anyone mildly talented will end up in front of a capital allocator before long

@paulg @GarettJones you can measure performance in finance perhaps even better than in tech but it doesn’t lead to the same high openness high risk hiring culture

@Hellachans it’s true but the pedigree required for big tech is like - “went to a state school, got As in a technical subject”. to me that’s a comparatively low bar

this the most american video on the planet https://t.co/FTeeIt18nB

@parafactual @Jebriel @jachaseyoung why? he replies and QTs lowbies, he does spammy tweet storms that other big names might shy away from for fear of bothering a large high class audience. he's definitely a more down to earth 'poaster' than anyone else i can think of at that scale

@petergodofsky @alth0u @paulg @GarettJones i disagree - the culture of sv tech and the people it attracts are fundamentally high openness. this is why we see all the adjacent sex parties and extreme libertarianism and stuff like that. it's a bit different w stodgy 40 year old google/microsoft lifers or whatever

you guys have no understanding of how easy it is to get a 'warm intro' in tech vs other places. i talked to a fairly famous angel investor the other day who said he has met literally ~5000 people off of twitter for coffee https://x.com/JoshuaOgundu/status/1518306821278081026

@gptbrooke my dude's a chaos monkey

@Sean_M0 irresponsibility with dangerous powers is the most american thing there is

@typedfemale no

@kyzcralotSxaM i love this one but cred to pbd for bringing it back

@jeff82874662 the discourse has been elevated

@petergodofsky @alth0u @paulg @GarettJones the same practices are not true tho. for example goog will not hire new grads without first screening GPA and transcripts. facebook on the other hand could care less and i would argue is higher openness

@petergodofsky @alth0u @paulg @GarettJones but it's just a continuum. even google is way higher openness than eg goldman sachs

@rarichad exactly lol

@Jack_Wondering there's just not 5000 famous people on tech twitter lol

the bottomline is this -- the fundamental shortage in the world is of talented high agency people and not structural factors. most people will not be able to turn a 'warm intro' into anything nor even a suitcase nuke https://x.com/gbrl_dick/status/1383216889988456448?s=20&t=otIgo2GuvVKG9wmJLQNbng

there's plenty of people who are high agency but low talent (NFT / sneaker salesmen) or low agency but high talent (google employees) but the cross section 99% percentile of both is vanishingly small

@Pvelkovsky true, that's the other thing. they just like to meet smart ppl interested in tech! it can turn into something more

@stableshaman bc you're staying in giant liberal cities bruh

@Hellachans super common in sf to the point where i've gotten tired of it a bit and raise my bar for what actually merits a coffee date lol

@entirelyuseles wrong on all counts this guy has been in sf tech for a decade+ and told me holds court on the weekends and meets a lot of people consecutively

@AlmostMedia whoa that's actually incredible care to give them a shoutout?

@gbrl_dick ml researcher*** for the fans

@jeff82874662 useful knowledge for sure

@TheCaptain_Nemo yeah facts

i think i'd be a better researcher if someone i respect came around and just vehemently disagreed w my ideas from time to time

would be so insanely motivated to prove them wrong contrarian twitter dunk style

@nickcammarata lmao

@IgorBrigadir yeah it can't be literal spite. it has to be brotherly competition

@Pidud2 wolfram

@jeff82874662 @nominalthoughts sorry it needs to be someone i respect 😎

@eurydiceuntil come yell at me

*miami tech voice* have you read the sovereign individual yet?

the whitepill on miami is that people with average exits can buy like 3 houses and still live in a top tier city

i don't know how many real builders actually live here but tons of real builders congregate here for random tech events

what i'm learning is that the proceeds from crypto fund an endless global party like something out of a science fiction novel. amsterdam one week, miami the next, and on, with the same recurring cast of characters

@can i don't think it's quite the same though i could be wrong. like gatsby wasn't hopping around various cities

@can hmm did they really all congregate like this in another city every few weeks or so? seems doubtful without the advent of remote work and airbnb and shit. at least it must have been limited to the really fabulously wealthy

anyway i'm not coming back here until im rich

@ForkHume @can oh shit that's exactly the one i was thinking of

Ringworld

@jicapal lmfao

@ibeckermayer2 very much

@HonoredMatyre i'm merely a part time observer of the crypto escapades, someone else has to do that

@WFeanor yawn

@tarunchitra i completely agree and i think ML & bio and other people would benefit from hackathon vibes too

@tarunchitra inb4 "you can't move fast break things in hard tech" clearly nobody has read the story of Falcon 1 imploding mid air en route to Kwajalein and random interns saving the day by literally getting inside the chassis and releasing pressure

"you can't move fast break things in hard tech" clearly nobody has read the story of Falcon 1 imploding mid air en route to Kwajalein launch site and random interns saving the day by literally climbing inside the chassis to release pressure and save the day

if your rockets aren't blowing up en route to launch you're not moving fast enough

@storebrandguy @PradyuPrasad because taleb fundamentally believes the world doesn't get better

@storebrandguy @PradyuPrasad and therefore he's our enemy

@0xgilbert exactly! i particularly liked the part where they were using hypergolic chemicals that were so smelly they could kill a man

@storebrandguy and i would've gotten away with it too

this dude is def checking emails. but i respect the grind https://x.com/zebulgar/status/1518262245309956096

@can yeah thats probably true and im prodding you to explain lol no need to be mean

@can i'm not really sure what this sentence means but i'm gonna go out on a limb and say if we're talking about ppl flying the concorde btwn places we really are talking about the fabulously wealthy. the crypto circuit includes sort of average people so it's qualitatively different

@buccocapital my brother in technology you literally just endorsed a management theory w the most famous 2x2 on the cover https://x.com/buccocapital/status/1518391699491504128?s=20&t=ZkNmyGY8UKtsZb_Evs2VCw

@GritGrowthCap bro idk about satoshi but i think we could get in front of vitalik without much problems

@eurydiceuntil i think the scarier reality is that you treat women like failed men

@eurydiceuntil i simplified just the right amount

@cauchyfriend often times the reward for refactoring code is a lot larger than the reward for rewriting

@lordnikon42069 because frankly they're considered very successful and therefore not requiring language based protection

@sarthakgh a year of profit?

@sarthakgh yeah I think rivian is a startup

@nw3 @sarthakgh so like operating profit

@alpharivelino greatest Collab in history

honestly it was super fun growing a second account from 0 on my jail week. every high performing banger felt more meaningful

vitalik just added new tenets to the gradient descent ideology https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1518492559974313984

@nickcammarata i have to give it to the crypto guys it turns out they're shape rotators

@nickcammarata but yeah everyone (offline) groans when i use yet another optimization analogy

@Duderichy @eurydiceuntil yeah this was honestly brutal to watch it's over richie

@pmarca this is final proof that negging works

@nebulousverde i mean no it's an easy math concept but i am using it as an analogy for life and civilization level problems and stuff

the marvel cinematic universe is running a long campaign to turn the mass public into everettians

thiel's comments on the chinese are actually kind of funny once you consider the germans https://x.com/fawqasfal/status/1518463952128147456

@GuilleAngeris @ks_kulk not sure how this translates to the real world analogy but yes

@eth35298683 facts

@tarunchitra @_prestwich @nikete @reachtarunhere

@mattroll_ @realjdburn I actually remember it better than I do Hyperion

@typedfemale @Tjdriii I’m built way different

never mind you can’t afford anything here abort abort

https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/13/tesla-urged-chinese-government-to-censor-critics-china/ https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657

@WillManidis but enough about the thiel fellowship

elon bought twitter just so he could ban the jet tracking account

what kind of crazy banned spirits are going to come out of Pandora’s box now? how will it change the future? Milo? Shkreli? Trump?

the free speech compromises twitter and fb have made are a delicate balance between users, employees, governments, and ad buyers. this is what they’ve had to do to run them. i think “glorious leaders” can help on the margin but it’s not the same as an engineering megaproject

these are mostly not technology problems

@0x49fa98 more competent leadership would look like facebook which pretty much bans all the same cast of characters anyway. their machine learning is a bit better in terms of false positive banning

@0x49fa98 yeah lmao the fact that the twitter disright exists at all is amazing

@nachkari rip I forgot yishan’s take

revolt of the public https://x.com/mbesheer/status/1518581620969771009

@nachkari damn bro even unfollowed it’s over

@nachkari many have shorted me many have lost

@homsiT yo I wasn’t saying that tho

however I’m sure the platform still gets massively better in all other respects. i mean the tech here just sucks

shoutout to @paulbohm. absolute G in miami. building an empire

also the X factor of the worlds greatest entrepreneur owning the product I love most is just 🥳🤩

@homsiT twitter will never replace Instagram imo, not in its current form, nor should it. twitter is the very last text based social media - everything else is images or video. scrooling through photos will always have higher TAM than text blurbs

@homsiT the quality of this platform is because of the abundance of textual thinkers and the perfect competition of shitposts

@powerbottomdad1 blackpill bro thats the worst account on the website

@nachkari @nachkari short position in flames. Margin calls everywhere https://t.co/AtWRrWXY3G

@finnitejest was the dude Indian? very Indian trait to self immolate for ridiculous causes

@TheCaptain_Nemo i wouldn’t want to be a VC full time tbh I think it would be a depressing outcome. scout or dealflow is cool though and I’m already kind of doing it

@blueorigin @OfficialMoonDAO congrats @LarrotizPablo you made it bro

@himbodhisattva @powerbottomdad1 @finnitejest self immolating is indian cultural appropriation

@himbodhisattva @powerbottomdad1 @finnitejest i could've fixed him

so according to the terms of the LBO, every shareholder gets bought out except those among the top 2000 who decide to stay. how many shares would it take to reach top 2000?

@eigenrobot @mattparlmer regulatory requirement unfortunately

@TurnerNovak good point

@TurnerNovak @proetrie never trust anon bios

@Andr3jH @powerbottomdad1 and he owns twitter now

@alth0u @caraesten to third parties or as a share buyback?

@default_dad correct

@garybasin @alth0u @caraesten cash wym

@HaydnBelfield @ben_j_todd my bro how are you a cambridge researcher and you don't understand the difference between an investment and an expense

@abettertake @kyzcralotSxaM @default_dad he deletes his account every 5 minutes

@ScorpioRising31 Yeah low EV high variance

i have no idea how to interpret this. someone can give it a shot

mutuals only graph

@chaosprime lol

@LockeBenji lmfao

@nickcammarata how to stop being self judgmental

@Andr3jH sounds like something elon would say after these edits

probably not worth worrying about anon accounts getting rekt by proof of personhood. i mean it’s very clear that elon and grimes probably use several alts themselves

arthur chu account is incredibly based. ive never seen anything like it

dude openly worships weakness and death. he’s like if a male brained internet schizo completed woke ideology to its finality. it’s like the repugnant conclusion for woke and he just bites the bullet. …based?

@eigenrobot that’s what gives him his power

@medved_bjj @eigenrobot yea I remember reading a story where she recounts spiders falling out of the clothes he’s wearing. A demon of the ancient world

@Andr3jH you will never understand the power of the chen weihua rt

my sources tell me that google brain is hemorrhaging talent for reasons that are possibly political

@Lux_Stella_ culture war

@amasad Yeah I mean I’m fundamentally a techno optimist so I hope you’re right and most things are technical problems How would you approach it as an engineering issue?

@amasad There are pareto wins such as better language translation models allowing us to censor calls to violence in rare languages without taking the whole thing down

holy based

@BarneyFlames Pro I believe

these professors have had it too good for too long

what if we crowdfunded this https://x.com/tszzl/status/1518716098228670464

to be honest it seems silly not to. The elon meme stonk bonus is well known and will be absurd when it goes public again. this thing will be massively oversubscribed. I’m thinking of opening an equity crowdfund on Republic. LMK if better ideas

@gfodor wym

@chaosprime my bro actively worships death, again i gotta hand it to him, kind of based

@deepfates https://x.com/tszzl/status/1424078404844855298?s=20

@Willyintheworld @amasad agreed

this is the approach that facebook and all others started w years ago and immediately got shitrekt https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

i mean it’s ok as a North Star but thus far everything elon has said publicly abt his free speech approach or proof of personhood has not been novel or interesting

@strangestloop twitter polls

i actually think elon has very little plan on how to solve social media issues, which is extremely based. @BroductManager’s dreams have come true and we’re witnessing technobarbarian Caesar mode. win massive populist appeal via battle performance / private market machinations

@keshavadhyay but think about why they got rid of it

barbarian Caesar mode is completely fuckt metaphor but I’m not deleting 😎

@lillybilly299 Facebook already does this it’s not any kind of panacea

@PradyuPrasad why? there should still be a massive stimulus effect even if 25% was stolen

@PalmerLuckey and I’m glad the pendulum is swinging back - but can he permanently solve the problem w technology? or does the culture change again in 5 years

@peachblvd disclaimer is that i love normies and i might be one myself depending on who u ask but there is something very special about nerd social and intellectual norms that need to be protected. like, an extreme & dangerous level of earnestness that becomes impossible if ur performing

@paulbohm true it’s time to execute not talk

@tolstoybb boo @ this financial nihilism

>definite optimist >clown car gold mine patriots in control

@congobongo42069 check my feed bro half of it is critique

always amazed how many ppl are still trying to teach the public how money works. it’s over give up

@digitalgnomead ya honestly even when I mildly push back against him my audience gets mad

@jes5199 bro please log off

@SecPerkinsStan @clifford_banes idk I thought the low end of that range actually seemed feasible but upon reading it seems to be (1) terrible analysis and (2) marketing

@SecPerkinsStan @clifford_banes I’m vaguely bullish on digital identity efforts. I think it could make welfare less not more expensive. Have no specific thoughts on http://ID.me

@deepfates @CausabonT @generativist well i think it's complicated. warm intros are cheap but you also need somebody to take you under their wing and take a risk on you. this tends to be easier at smaller institutions that are more startupey and risk seeking

@deepfates @CausabonT @generativist then there's a matter of the kind of job you probably want to do ("AI alignment") which is the sexy stuff that a lot of people want to do vs the kind of job thats easy to find "data engineer". I would say aim high and try to do exactly the thing you want to do

@deepfates @CausabonT @generativist but don't get discouraged if like the 3 institutions in the world that credibly work on AI alignment aren't interested explore the concentric circles around that like mb "NLP engineer" at primer or something. and yeah via your twitter network you can get a warm intro most places

@deepfates @CausabonT @generativist if you wanna do MLE stuff then do some independent projects related to the subject matter to show in portfolio if you wanna be a scientist then need to get someone senior to take you under your wing and help you out. i've also seen independent research work for like 1 guy

which bank is doing the twitter merger?

@Matt_Levine_1 all of New York celebrating rn

@storebrandguy lmfao

@_Sowellsista_ Yes

it’s kind of telling that people find Jack the most relatable of the tech founders and he’s also by far the worst. fired from his own company for being a lazy deadbeat, failed redemption arc, etc. all of its supposed censorship problems were created under his rein

now an unrelatable freak of nature will take over and probably run it 100x better. and so it goes in the technocapital machine

it's been said before but competence seems to require or correlate w some level of inhumanity. being part machine and part object. i think maybe only patrick collison seems normal and well adjusted of the tech ceos (though i hear he's been kneecapping bitches)

@terronk yup

@TheCaptain_Nemo that is true but i think twitter might've died in this case like i'm pretty sure they fired him for good reason the first time around

@0x49fa98 this is what he wanted obv, all of twitter talking about him at once

@LennyNero2022 @0x49fa98 ya i like elon a lot and i still got tired of this like 6 hours in. i mean free speech maybe but that man truly loves attention

@atroyn oh based

@TaliaRinger burden of proof is on you to show that other systems exist because every single system that ppl have ever lived in seem to feature narcissists and sociopaths at the top

@Miles_Brundage well he's got the hippie goatee vibes, meditates, very publicly runs off to islands w supermodel gfs, etc

every home not owned by blackrock is a policy failure.

@Aella_Girl @proona5

@ju_sung_lee @powerbottomdad1 archnemesis

@MaryJackalope Johnny depp rocks

@gbrl_dick ngmi

@LandsharkRides I beat a chess chick at chess and I never felt better

@aquariusacquah he's relatable in that he's human you know dude gets rich and starts mostly partying with supermodels on remote islands. he does all the wacky hippie stuff that you see on the shows. jack probably has his own guru or whatever

@aquariusacquah elon otoh is pretty alien to me past the superficial level. i don't know what drives someone to live or work like that. the reddit stuff is like a thin facade over pure workaholic sociopathy. dude is 50 and sleeping in a shack at starbase

@aquariusacquah you don't think there were legitimate reasons for why they fired jack?

some of you are alright. Don’t log onto Robinhood today.

@aquariusacquah not wearing shoes is the kind of superficial larpy weirdness that gavin belson might've affected on the show

@aquariusacquah https://x.com/terronk/status/1519752124942274560?s=20&t=zV03rP6E8RYEhHfIHBZWTQ

@_debarshi wtf

@_debarshi having whiplash from seeing a pleasant doob reply

@aquariusacquah i certainly admire him for the creation of twitter and he definitely seems to be a product genius but it's clear to me he never had it in him to be one of those top tier trillion dollar CEOs

@aquariusacquah obviously as an armchair critic my job is easy to say shit like that but someone needs to once in a while

@gbrl_dick I’ve been saying this Californian ideology is based

telehealth valuations plummeting in real time https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1520179558665887744

@growing_daniel @elonmusk @pmarca Lmfao

@pataguccigoon @TheCaptain_Nemo twitter feudalism

@pataguccigoon @TheCaptain_Nemo I am a mere simp in the court of elon

@coopslarhette @aquariusacquah Ya it’s not close

@BroductManager real talk i doubt he has "adhd" i think he's a creative & probably just doesn't have zero self control like the rest of us lol

@samvwaal yes he’s mostly an investor and not an operator (ie wordcel)

elevated* https://x.com/Samirkaji/status/1520203369352396800

@KyleKashuv @EverettRandle Everett has been ingroup since he got the tattoo

gradient descending into hell

banned accounts coming back to life when the homies take over

@GarrettPetersen interesting i'm always thinking about valleys possibly because of physics background. where are the low potential zones?

@lastcontrarian @MightyApp @Suhail https://x.com/tszzl/status/1509040059416121344?s=20&t=2-6oahPGGnB_cRHAa4Y1QA

cloud atlas is a Hindu movie. I will not be elaborating

gravity is 20x better than that bookshelf black hole garbage https://t.co/crMKpsswfo

@_highspren_ as opposed to bookshelves in black holes

@uneventomato @Tjdriii lmfao

@jachaseyoung @Andr3jH I think that all the characters in interstellar suck & the plot sucks & the theme is super heavy handed

EEAAO was like a carbon copy of rick and morty down to the specific character dramas and multiverse tropes and even the humor

Evelyn is exactly Beth - under achiever on a cosmic scale. laundromat === horse surgeon the dad is exactly jerry - sort of dorky loser that leads competent mom astray

@bastard_brian Eh

@Anoneconomist1 @bastard_brian Agree

jobu tupaki is the infinite godlike rick whose power drove him insane and into nihilism and the only philosophical response that evelyn or morty or anyone has is a kind of impassioned douglas adams absurdism that to me is not all that satisfying

the immigrant angle is purely aesthetic as far as i can tell. all the characters in the movie are americans with american values

@rustcohlnikov hmmm

@houellebecq_2 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

@atroyn but that's my point the family drama and philosophical conflict is the exact same beyond the superficial multiverse level

@atroyn yes and you clearly don't remember the R&M episode where they see the world where jerry is a successful actor because he doesn't marry beth but he still runs over to find beth in that universe and says they should've gotten married to do boring shit together

@atroyn https://youtu.be/BEhiVy_TqBI?t=104

solid movie tho would recommend

blackpill on miri researchers is that they're not firebombing deepmind offices

yud is writing glowfic instead of training private armadas

@orthonormalist ya i've heard this, do they have any writing on it?

@CapitalHousecat @bookdepth oh come on this is one of the least bad capital spends

@disconcision no i think yud is pretty smart and could contribute to AI if he wanted but that's not what he wants

imo multiverse fiction is a good approximation of the feeling of being on the internet. both represent absurd optionality and overwhelming novelty that may drive many people to nihilism

@CapitalHousecat @bookdepth don't be mean

@eurydicelives the mind is software and if you were to stop running your mind on one brain and restarted it elsewhere consciousness would persist

@eurydicelives also that higher layers of abstraction may experience things too albeit in alien ways

@eurydicelives hmm well it implies that death can be defeated though i don't know if it should be

@eurydicelives it means that i might believe in a soft form of open individualism - if i inject an idea into your head you start running my software, we're sharing a mind?

@eurydicelives if people don't die civilization reaches stagnation imo it requires the forming of new minds and granting them new resources to create progress

@eurydicelives if immortality can coexist with fertility then it might be ok but it seems unlikely

@ResonantPyre @eurydicelives yeah something like that

@Noahpinion lmao why

@Noahpinion ok true high exposure to the internet since i was ~11 made me like Alia from dune. i'm precociously cynical

@alth0u substrate is easier to study

@alth0u i think if we could've measured neural activation at a fine grain like 3 decades ago we would've solved human intelligence by now easily

@alth0u debugging simple FPGA code is much harder than debugging massive distributed programs -- because you don't get much in the way of output bits to study

@alth0u yeah we have to study individual neurons like that because we have no hope of understanding neural circuitry and what it might encode otoh with neural nets you get https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/curve-circuits/

@NemoBane it does not

@NemoBane you didn’t see Evelyn gleefully say “nothing matters, there are no rules” towards the end? it’s fundamentally the same thing. “Be kind because nothing matters”

i like people who extrapolate their convictions to their logical ends and plan for success even if it seems ridiculous at the moment for example sam altman seems to be working on solutions for personally distributing UBI after openai creates complete postscarcity

@BarneyFlames correct but still may cause arbitrary amount of inequality that can be smoothed

@Miles_Brundage deleting, it's not worth making people uncomfortable over this. i think i'm right though

@Miles_Brundage if they are serious about their convictions incendiary tweets should not be the thing that pushes them one way or the other

@Miles_Brundage @himbodhisattva i don't think china is a serious competitor in agi

@Miles_Brundage that's a fair point

@tolstoybb @hamandcheese @ESYudkowsky well i joked about it and several ppl DMed me saying its an infohazard and i should delete it lol

@zenhew evelyn was whitewashed as fuck her character arc of getting over her dad's disappointment is a fundamentally american trope

there's a massive difference between a company that creates technological progress vs one that merely seeks profit and i think it's most easily seen in uncaptured positive externalities

@eurydicelives wow i had never even heard of this

@RealBenSobel the positive externalities of AI research are already massive and AWS cloud has enabled whole industries on top

@mnovendstern true

@bryancsk yes

@leepavelich yooo whats this from

@gbrl_dick yes everything literally recursively self improves that's the whole MO of the technocapital machine ai is technocapital coming alive and iterating without any human input at all rare gabe L you haven't read your nick land

libertarian mfers in giant signal groups will be sitting at home watching police helicopter trackers and getting slightly aroused when one of them by chance flies over them

"bros the feds are coming to confiscate my 3d printed guns its over"

@gbrl_dick few understand that neal stephenson doesn't write "cyberpunk" he writes techno accelerationist screeds

@doomed_lidar this tweet is several years late

i'm surprised there's only been one ted kazcynski the butlerian jihad is quite weak

there really are many high minded reasons to hate technological civilization and yet not many terrorists

@dystopiabreaker yeah technology rewards most kaczynski archetypes

@blurryelectron you have to take ideas seriously in order to do anything of importance

@surcomplicated @Noahpinion the truth is my aesthetic is cynical but i am really radically optimistic about technological progress

@NeilThanedar i am not joking i am wondering fr

@peachblvd 😎

@chaosprime @LudditeHacker @peachblvd yes

nobody can stop me from buying longer and longer black coats while brooding on the roof of various Tokyo skyscrapers

@Noahpinion Know any good rooftops?

@Noahpinion Ok let’s pleas throw a rooftop rager

@ivashko Miltons Satan is so much more interesting than Bible satan

All in podcast is completely dead. It’s over

@PradyuPrasad this is orders of magnitude off lol

@PradyuPrasad rare pradyu L

@PradyuPrasad Elons cultural impact is greater than his technical impact. I would wager people like SBF may not even be around were it not for PayPal and internet money and techno optimism

@SingularkeyPlay ?

twitter seems to now be using the facebook model of letting random product teams try uncoordinated efforts into a successful app https://x.com/Safety/status/1521540727557218309

@andykopas where did I say that it’s bad?

not knocking it by the way. facebook gradient ascended their way into one of the largest gold mines in human history

cultural alpha is when you’re the first person on the preference cascade

@statsdman @BolognaFishMD @Jason @friedberg @DavidSacks @chamath none of that stuff matters what matters is that they don't have original thoughts on these matters from any part of the spectrum

@BolognaFishMD @statsdman @Jason @friedberg @DavidSacks @chamath yeah friedberg is pretty good

lmfao https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-bay-area-house-party

am i tripping or did i popularize "there's no alpha left"

@floperatorrr they use it in a different context

the rallying cry of silicon valley

@gbrl_dick @boop

let a hundred human star systems bloom; let a thousand worlds contend

the Everything Everywhere directors are more ingroup than I thought https://x.com/slatestarcodex/status/1301649499215941635

they have never given me factorio levels of satisfaction which makes me feel like there’s alpha left in gamified nocode pipelines https://x.com/monodevice/status/1521698778180431877

you reach enlightenment once you realize they’re the same https://x.com/TageErlinger/status/1521633118901395457

karma yogis and jnana yogis must get along https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1521757054851031040

@creatine_cycle Lmfao

@chuck_daniels_ truth is rarely beautiful

you need to go to war with the substrate

attack and dethrone god

@eigenrobot excellent subtweet

every time our startup gets a new hire i put all my hopes and dreams on them. this guy will solve all our problems and bring us sanity for sure

the robber barons were the good guys

"we started a literal money fire that was more protocol than business and are mad that zuckerberg scaled it to most of the world's population" https://x.com/neerajarora/status/1521964283466113024

@jeffreycider the Infinite Redditor -- a god,

ads are good and prosocial

@ctbeiser not if the brand cost is higher than the gain -- other people would need to agree with me that ads are prosocial

@Francis_Aln @yashevde no there literally wasn't lol you're mad

@Francis_Aln @yashevde the internet scaled several orders of magnitude in the last decade there was no opportunity for there to be an equivalent model before 2010 ish

.@Noahpinion and I are gonna post up at The Interval in the marina tomorrow. 7pm show up!!!

@R1Jack @Noahpinion Def Noah

@nope_its_lily @Noahpinion cancel them lily

@nope_its_lily @Noahpinion schizopost takes precedent

@gbrl_dick @Noahpinion you rn

@tolstoybb @Noahpinion no way

@gbrl_dick @Noahpinion come for the king you best not miss

@rsg 🤌🤌🤌🤌

@Andr3jH i was at home eating smegma butter

who is keeping track of the xrisk of teaching aella how to do python

@typedfemale popcorn

@Aella_Girl you need to ask exactly one person instead of the internet imo

@zebulgar lmfao what your source:

@zebulgar imagine being jeff bezos and seeing this on your feed

@AbraxasLucid @micsolana @zebulgar apparently the bar is low lol

an accord has been struck. the war between east and west has ended

a little company named facebook sets up some server racks in a remote village in Oregon and as a direct consequence materializes new children, mass movements, cults, modifies borders, starts and ends wars, elects presidents, reshapes the world

my new thing is that bits and atoms is faek

blackpill is that all the nerds helping aella are too puritanical to just tell her to use replit or something

@Pidud2 i don't think it is this whole thing is pretty wholesome overall

interval at 7pm. show up. theyre prolly gonna kick us all out if too many people come through and the long now foundation will take revenge against my descendants in 10,000 years but that's just how the cookie crumbles

@Willyintheworld cities convert biological capital into memetic capital both of which are pro human

@amasad @Aella_Girl new collab just dropped. i'd like 1% finders fee when @Aella_Girl becomes a replit evangelist

@localghost not there yet

there in a sec lol

the inventor of BitTorrent has shown up https://x.com/tszzl/status/1522724226972626944

@Aella_Girl My secret is that I don’t give a shit what he thinks he already lost my respect

good turnout last night - interesting crowd. hope you had fun & i will plan better next time,,

@iiiiiiaaaann yeah almost literally

@AliKiassat lol nice

ive been saying this, san jose is logistically further away than LA https://x.com/ElonJet/status/1522716398631456769

@Saurya @makootage gaunt lmfao

@Saurya @makootage mf could've said skinny but had to go with "essentially malnourished"

@proetrie bro … so true

@devahaz 70?

roonchat is the greatest digital social scene this side of the great firewall

this is true and it’s a good thing - most people who act sure are wrong but everybody who’s unsure is both boring and wrong https://x.com/mechanicalkurt/status/1522986750456610817

VCs get on twitter to judge the panic level and then self propagate it

Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The visions that said we would be angels.

nge invented depression. nobody ever got depressed before evangelion was made

@i__am__aka beat it bitch

@eurydiceuntil wtf

@eurydiceuntil no complaint the language is just colorful

@LandsharkRides Same with “Sherlock”

time to get a second and third job

@MatttCronin @AdamNeumannsCoS @zebulgar I agree with the op (derogatory)

@_debarshi facts though I’ve been delegating job 3 out to @tehpio for years now

the highest achievements of mankind today come from a culture of pretty much staunch materialists w rare exception - whether it’s rockets or AI or coastal media there’s a lot of coping and postmodern word shuffling about this https://x.com/LostLandshark/status/1523485492192235520

@losingcontrol23 didn’t that guy literally worship Satan? anyway he seems like a small part in the long history of rocket propellant and engines

most popular religion among these types is the Californian ideology - secular reinterpretations of Buddhism that allow for technocapital striving

@losingcontrol23 fine in that sense I also worship the occult. The occult being model parameters we summon forth from the platonic void

@npmedium templeos isn’t actually good you know this right

@jeff82874662 I literally included media dude

@polyparadigm Yeah based

@PrinceVogel I’m talking about the modern day

@jeff82874662 the Brooklyn media circuit seems to me like a bunch of people that praise religion but are themselves mostly atheists Hollywood is of course california concentrated

@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel Ok I mean in the last 10 years sir

@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel That’s exactly my point

@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel Progress doesn’t rely on mysticism or materialism or anything in between

yes that’s my point! people that are mystics and materialists and everything in between are making giant leaps in arts and science and there’s no bell curve as far as I can tell https://x.com/michaelcurzi/status/1523794213531385857

@michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel yeah it definitely seems to require strongly fleshed out philosophical perspective