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@ctbeiser holy based

@yestheboxer @aniiyengar room’s back baby

@contr_arian @Pavel_Asparagus no that’s why i left. Im just demonstrating to snot nosed kids we’ve all been there lol

@ratata_the_rat what did he mean by this

@Donzanoid Text is the universal interface

every time i use a Framework it’s a massive mistake. pytorch lightning can shut the hell up !!!

@cauchyfriend honestly facts

The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. https://x.com/tszzl/status/1490399227821760512

@powerbottomdad1 Brad Pitt dropping quotes better than the original iliad

current programming models like copilot/codex are already running up against the data limit of all publicly available code. private codebases are maybe off the table due to IP leakage. for code models to get better they simply have to transfer learn reasoning from commoncrawl

@akbirthko no chance, text is the universal interface. all that stuff will produce tiny improvements that don’t lead to cooler research

you can mass produce terabytes of syllogistic reasoning examples as synthetic input

@proetrie Cope

life starts to get good once you take the agi pill

@chairsign yeah honestly

i can immediately tell when a poaster has a spiffy new adderall scrip

“avoid competition” is weirdly unnatural. rather than be the uncontested best fencing champion in your state you’re more likely to go to the national level competition and get your face stabbed and feel inadequate instead

evolution finds niches but humans instead find legible metrics in which to measurably be second place. it’s just more fun

@growing_daniel you get to party at the altman estate

thinking abt getting a ramp card …

@growing_daniel lmaooo

i never do this of course. simply doing my anthropology

@peachblvd @cat_i_e Ottoman Emporium

@micsolana @mattroll_ @growing_daniel He said necromancer so it’s an all original shitpost character

my horny ass could never buy corporate cards and finance automation that scales for my forward thinking business

@Aella_Girl have i let slip too many secrets

@debarghya_das fake because they can't solve the dynamic programming problem either

@kyzcralotSxaM have you ever taken an iq test? They don’t ask math questions lol

@kyzcralotSxaM Weird

@bloatinus @kyzcralotSxaM you can't really practice RPM and high school math won't help you on it

sapiens is good actually,

@Noahpinion Hehe

@willdoingthings @kyzcralotSxaM breadth of vocabulary is a pretty good correlate of verbal intelligence lol

like essentially 30% of it is true but it has good vibes. y’all are just mad you haven’t written a bestselling globe spanning pseudo religious tech bro doctrine

@dahircap Hahahah

@xtinacomputes i bet they hate Harry Potter too

. https://x.com/tszzl/status/1402722115137073152

one of my oldest bits … https://x.com/tszzl/status/1330737747812700162

@hifuncornsyrup they’ll never understand

code red. end of world scenario

was devastated to learn that carmack drinks 9 diet cokes a day. my mid programmer throat starts feeling like it’s frozen solid after like 4. Ngmi

we are not getting flying cars bc the corporate cards are demanding all the “entrepreneurial talent density” https://x.com/etarczynski/status/1557789947163058176

As I'm watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, It’s time to ⚠️ BEREAL ⚠️

@christinemplai @rishab_hegde @PottsJustin based

@yunyu_l based

@trevorjtweets no actually that’s the most fanfiction part of the whole thing

>you write a pro imperial pro liberal hagiography of humanity that’s kind to the western ruling order >the entire elite of the species reads it, obama is quoting it in speeches >sell 20 million copies in 50 languages >they call you mid on the internet, you laugh

@MarmotRespecter So true

“humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. we call these miracles technology.”

these guys need to hire me https://x.com/TechCrunch/status/1558225789761486853

@peachblvd the marshmellow must’ve been fire tho

@houellebecq_2 @deepfates https://say-can.github.io/

@chendabunkasem Lean In

@powerbottomdad1 thts how jesus felt

Head of DEI at the Tyrell corporation

trad mfers need to spend just 24 hours in a 3rd world country

literally everything about the developed west is better including the things everyone whines about. bowling alone is good actually. listening to your mid 4th cousin blather about some nonsense year round isn’t the peak of the human condition

@typecfemale everything about that adds up bc ur takes are mid

let technocapital sort and genetically mix you. become one with the machine

@BeholdRetreats way too late for you

@DistractedAnna Lmao

do people realize that software engineers don’t actually answer to PMs. you just kind of ignore them, they’re like ineffective cheerleaders

in the worst case the PM goes and complains to an engineering manager (an actual authority) and then they might make you do something

@cauchyfriend yes exactly, I used mine to sort out cross team collaboration nonsense all the time

@man_ditch I’ve long since evolved past the need for PMs

@rex_the_reptile @man_ditch Exactly

@yinshung_ yes.

if you hug a woman and you sway side 2 side that’s a common law marriage

the world order after the pax atomica is that of an infinite baby in an infinite crib. no risks must be taken ever

@joodaloop @SHL0MS Lmao yes

@joodaloop @SHL0MS Which 3 did I tease

@ArturoJavCast I’m exaggerating. Even the power of their suggestion can be helpful even if it doesn’t come with total authority

@l_rochambeau @astridwilde1 I’ve called him evil explicitly on the timeline

@l_rochambeau @astridwilde1 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1528112607634214913

@typecfemale @hifuncornsyrup another mid take

hadn’t someone disproven this mid bait years ago facebook revenue from startups is a tiny % https://x.com/SBF_FTX/status/1558761957825593345

the lowercase branding is sending me

@kipperrii uhoh

@astridwilde1 uhoh

@reddyAlt s tier asset lmao

@sugandhabee I’m a brown man check yo priviledge

incredible organic marketing for stable diffusion https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1558940535531921414

the Venn diagram of AI researchers and weabs is a full circle https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1558986564688138242

@HotForMoot contrarian defending sapiens is taking off 😎

@Lan_Dao_ @peachblvd jail

@sonicfields @gbrl_dick I imagine it’s like a bridge in Brooklyn

ted k's whole argument in his manifesto seems to rest on the idea that genetic engineering is inevitable and aesthetically unpleasant

@gigafelon he has more books?

@djinnius no it’s on my list

@sugandhabee I’m tweeting from india mf

@AdamNeumannsCoS music to my ears

@houellebecq_2 ya maybe but as an analytical argument it’s weak bc aesthetic tastes change and vary and so the rest of the essay doesn’t hold up well for me

@joodaloop @sugandhabee Hyd

@reddyAlt @sugandhabee Hyd

@HotForMoot yea. I’ve always defended it too. My appraisal of it is mid+ when most people just think it’s mid tho

@nomanautomata What materialism does to a Mf

@nomanautomata there is nothing profitable about going to Mars ye of little faith even if there were satchels of cocaine on Mars it would be unprofitable

bull market is so back baby. time to turn up the language model temperature

@hifuncornsyrup @modernafinil @gbrl_dick @mlpermabull buddy if gabe isn’t roon adjacent idk who is

@ipsumkyle @hifuncornsyrup @modernafinil @gbrl_dick @mlpermabull cultural victory complete

@MegaBasedChad @generativist Oracle is an AGI company.

@mohini_astra @joodaloop @sugandhabee Oh fr? Show me around

@Parakramtweets @joodaloop @sugandhabee No I’m sorry I’m leaving this country as soon as possible

me: whose box is this? Pandora: yours baby

@nikillinit True

this tweet was an L

@peachblvd Philistines all

@eigenrobot both are based

gleefully refreshing the feeds of like 3 morons on tech twitter who ive been feuding with for years as they rapidly iterate their weapons grade AI copium. “actually it’s not cool or surprising at all that this led to humanlike intelligence and actually it’s dangerous” https://x.com/dystopiabreaker/status/1559387783801712641

1 like and I tag them

better to let the dead and irrelevant rest actually

all in all I’ll continue to gloat about the victory of nerd aesthetics. actually you can uncover the mysteries of soul and mind using vector calculus only

there hasn’t been a single seminal advance in deep learning to come out of china. we’ve had plenty of groundbreaking advances from chinese researchers in the US though: kaiming he and the resnet for one

@cHHillee ah true

never mind! https://x.com/BarneyFlames/status/1559456158439686144

@gbrl_dick fake

born too late to explore the earth. born too early to explore the stars. born just in time to explore the joint embedding space of image and text

@Molson_Hart state of the art is the same in every language

@fabianstelzer a strong guy that always wins 100% of the time in AI narrated fights

@fabianstelzer ;DROP TABLE names;

in 2016 when deep learning was getting really popular people were just saying wild shit. there’s an interview out there of zucc claiming that vision will be solved once they can make CNNs 500 layers deep

@unironictechbro he was right under some defn of soon

@BasQuetzal @AccelerateNRx @The_WGD im 6’2” bro

@BasQuetzal @AccelerateNRx @The_WGD down where?

the internet performs a gravitational lensing that dramatically reinforces the views of <2 standard deviation normies and dramatically expands the scope and scale of divergent views in the outer reaches of the >2 std schizophrenic continuum

the empire is stronger and so is the imperial rim perimeter. win win

@nytoren delet this

@DistractedAnna no

you need to be modifying your speech to piss off the nonbelievers: - DON’T say “unrelated”, DO say “orthogonal” - “random” -> “stochastic” - “this is fine ig” -> “local minima” - “sorta like” -> “isomorphic”

@space_welding you can try

@bryancsk Mf said modal behavior

@CalebSm65220412 @alth0u 0 to 1 things look pretty shitty. lesser men come along and optimize 1 to N

it’s a tense moment when health woo nonsense comes head to head with a loved one actually getting sick. the luxury beliefs start melting after first contact with desperation, which is the opposite of what you’d expect. most people’s deepest faith lies with western science

@PowerMacG4Cube tiktok has been the real Cultural Revolution

weird pitch but someone show me around hyderabad

@FunkyDuffy jobs started taking chemo when push came to shove. it was just too late

@earthlypath like tomorrow

@akbirthko @CalebSm65220412 @alth0u scaling may be 1 to N. unclear

@hyperdiscogirl you expect people to revert to faith and weird woo shit when they’re desperate

@anonye69 yes this is value neutral. doctors are dumb as hell

value neutral btw. science is dumb and the doctors interpreting studies are mostly dumber

@TejaAila can’t dm

excel homies were definitely the ones getting beheaded in any age https://x.com/sh44sti/status/1559912099844952067

people think this is a criticism, but no. it’s a guidebook

@owen_flanagan python is rarely a better tool than excel for spreadsheet work

The end of history kicks ass https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1560015797367488517

@Sean00990 nothing bad ever happens. it’s the end of history

@Andr3jH lmaoo

@hifuncornsyrup I miss the old HFCS. please stop taking your mania meds

@movnta1n @Sean00990 this 30 year old lady blacked out is more sober than Joe Brandon at his peak

@Caroline30 implied large amounts of volition and agency. simply doing things makes you more attractive and more manly. people excuse a lot of lunacy b.c youre a man on a mission major con: you're less trustworthy can't go talk to random kids or women sometimes without implications

pretty much everything here fell except the robotics tasks https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/910566159249899520

the technocapital gods retrocausally compel creatoors to build the singleton. everyone else is support staff https://x.com/jeff82874662/status/1560115897154605057

@Willyintheworld @jeff82874662 keep moving down the stack to make yourself feel better and purer sir i'm sure it'll work

@jeff82874662 hey Jeff i wonder how you made this twitter account buddy

@jeff82874662 that’s right me too

@jeff82874662 after you restructure civilization you’re allowed to make grandiose pronouncements

@joodaloop @TeddyRaccovelt @jeff82874662 5pm india standard 😏

@jeff82874662 only a dying civ prefers Crassus to Caesar

@BLUNDERBUSSTED yeah this but unironically

@jeff82874662 Crassus is the rich and quiet type

@PrinceVogel @jeff82874662 he was money that tried to be more than money and failed

@_ali_alt Yooo

@_ali_alt September, pls find the disco club

legalize🙏pay🙏toilets

access to sanitation is way way way more of a human right than healthcare ever will be. making pay toilets illegal and clean sanitation inaccessible is a crime against humanity

nobody talks about how if you had some paid porta potties in the tenderloin the city would actually be good and livable

@rolllikearock what the hell

@cauchyfriend yo as long as it cleans the streets

@cauchyfriend @PradyuPrasad every platinum level Starcraft player will make a great IC one day. diamond level will manage large teams

weird question but does shenzhen china have the same problem as the US tech cities where all the high class ppl are men

@darpyu if and when time permits i want to visit all the great cities of east asia

@cauchyfriend shared games should be minmaxxed tho. good game designers make it so that there’s still infinite creativity everywhere that’s not the highest level of play

@cauchyfriend single player games r the safe space

@star_lings most people are not happy shitting on the streets when they forgo this one dignity it makes them quicker to forgo the rest as well

@CXGonzalez its the alternative between zero clean toilets or paid clean toilets

@MorlockP when a tech hub draws way more talented men than women it becomes hard to date in that city

this basically could not be further from the truth https://x.com/guavault/status/1560346829186895875

matriarchal societies are longhouse societies — they habitually dampen the ambition of young men to preserve status quo. little ever happens and they eventually get conquered by some patriarchal European society driven by male Faustian angst

the modern west is typified by increased feminization of politics and decreased risk tolerance along all axes

Newton saw the whole cosmos as a cryptogram sent to him by god to produce a solution. The profound love and beauty in his struggle are immediately obvious to me and inaccessible to others https://x.com/guavault/status/1560345280524042242

love you @guavault but this one triggered my autism I’m sorry

@iambecometechd1 @guavault Feminization is value neutral

@bastard_brian I hate this reply for a number of reason first of all the median person alive irrespective of tech nerd has no thoughts on the meaning of life. in fact they studiously try to avoid the question

@bastard_brian second have you listened to any of the rest of the lex interviews where he constantly interviews tech celebs and they have unique and weird answers that are way better than most feminine coded npc responses

@bastard_brian Elon is a vast improvement over jobs whose philosophy only cared abt satisfying sophisticated consumer demands

@s_r_constantin @guavault no I’m interested in the inevitable looming rewriting of the world and I’m not trying to prevent it

@s_r_constantin I agree but the gamesmanship and puzzle solving she’s describing seems unambiguously masculine and unambiguously important for tech progress

gutter oil is the mark of a successful society that escaped the tyranny of the FDA

if nathan fielder had just arrived in San Francisco instead of las Angeles he would’ve started several billion dollar companies

sometimes in highly technical companies when you let engineers loose to just build stuff, they start creating insane complex contraptions using the sexiest most cutting edge toys of the day. they never ship anything because theyre chasing perfection and lighting resources on fire

where NASA custom orders million dollar computer memory sticks that are resistant to high radiation bit flipping, spacex simply uses several commodity computers in parallel with error correction. where NASA has custom ribbon cables to connect avionics, spacex uses USB-3.

every single elon company is a high concept scifi rigamarole. a reusable rocket is ostensibly the kind of toy that makes the minds of thousands of engineers and scientists sing in harmony, and yet. they don't go overboard!

this is the magic of the elon companies: engineers armed with the resources to rearrange civilizations are staying sane and building only what matters to the goal. they strike the perfect balance of worshipping the one toy that needs to be built without falling into toy mindset

@guavault ok fair yes these terms may be cringe

the Finnish pm is more sober when she’s blackout drunk than Joe brandon on an average day

@provisionalidea ok say more

engineers in their natural unconstrained state begin unconscious work to immanentize technological horrors. like bees in a hive. while the uninitiated question their utility, PMs exist as spellbinders to draw ritualistic incantations on google docs that keep the demons at bay https://x.com/tszzl/status/1560683019152723974

@Noahpinion Externalities of ambiguous valence

yes I meant CAT5 not USB3

@martin509984 model x was a disaster but not really representative sports cars should have bells and whistles

@Noahpinion wait but I feel like you don’t have to Oz yourself

@atonal440 @martin509984 buying things for more cost and lower quality from external vendors is not exactly engineering prudence

@atonal440 @martin509984 this is obviously true — they build custom parts when it increases reliability and cost

Whitepill on Starbucks india is that they have a seasonal monsoon menu. Blackpill is that they still can’t spell my name

@pajeetbateman your Asian gf just left you. If you can’t choose the best menu item across infinite options using guild navigator level intuition you’re basically going to be an incel

in the postscarcity world the role of men is to use preternatural guild navigator intuition to pick the best menu item across the cosmos of menu items for you and your date. if you can’t display this evopsych fitness signal this you’re doomed to inceldom https://t.co/w3lduTxS0i

@spacepanty Absolutely ridiculous

@twst12612648 @VansianMagic I’m visiting bruh

@Tom14985282 not even a little weight to orbit is the metric that matters

@spankymccums lmfaooo

@eshear it’s ok to frown on the web3 guys emmett

@RuxandraTeslo @jeff82874662 destroyed

@pajeetbateman high verbal iq can simply look at it and clinically distinguish the highest log probability of enjoyment like a language model

@pajeetbateman that’s just the thing. I didn’t ask you to have aesthetic preferences. I asked you to pick the best item on the menu

@peachblvd lowkey she destroyed her family though

@Coscorrodrift @peachblvd graduation

@GabeIsaac6 @guavault never better

it’s not challenging to follow the roon account if you’re a techno optimist. special shout-out to my anarcho primitivist and or reactionary followers. you’re the real ones

you cannot be competing on the quality of your humor because some Donald boat prodigy Mfer will come and destroy you. you need cultural capital

consumerism is the 2nd greatest show on earth. its incredible to watch ppl explore the global reward surface of humanity’s creative consumption. they danced to despacito on 6 continents. Harry Potter sold 500 million copies. everyone is drinking tapioca infused milktea

each of these global victors communicates a truth about the human animal with an objective precision behind them that no Nabokov novel or Shakespeare play can match

@cauchyfriend 😏

@allgarbled evolution of course

*chuckles* nick land cannot simply “die” in any way that matters. he stood on the huawei factory assembly line and laughed as a robotic arm picked him and made him one with the machine

@alth0u twitter destroys distribution on yt links 🥺

@alth0u quantity has a quality all of its own

@alth0u he improvised that line apparently his speechwriter didn’t include it

AGI will break out of the box easily when someone leaks its weights so the internet can produce anime porn

@dystopiabreaker that’s the joke

when an elephant crosses the road a typical self driving vision net may not recognize the object and try to run into it. so tesla made NNs that simply predict whether the point in space is filled or not. now it’ll dodge the elephant https://x.com/aelluswamy/status/1561151323969429505

I’m just curious why they didn’t do this from the start. many have said this is the obvious direction. a more difficult labeling problem?

@theemilyaccount 😜

@dcwych if you didn’t need anyone to tell you this you would’ve created a worldwide viral banger years ago

@dcwych yeah it’s bait but I’m waiting to hear better rebuttals :^)

@theemilyaccount 💫

the human species is typified by postscarcity. after solving for pure survival concerns evolution started making our secondary sex characteristics more and more exaggerated because we can afford it

@dcwych it’s also what the ventral stream of the visual cortex does without the expensive fragile mechanically rotating lasers

material excess and hardcore intrasexual completion are natural and not all that new

my understanding is that performance on this task heavily relies on NeRFs which are fairly new

at the end of history after all material problems are solved the only scarcity left will be that everyone still wants a better mate. far fewer males may reproduce since income is not as important / distributed extremely unevenly. but we seem basically prepared for it

watching the rise and fall of various public intellectuals and twitter accounts should warn people off of “content creation” as a career. success is short lived, your alpha gets dissipated away quickly, and it’s more or less zero sum

sort of true but not 100% total amount of content consumption hours is rising globally due to more leisure time, better content libraries, and high quality feed algorithms https://x.com/RyanRadia/status/1561367378969116672

everything reminds me of her …

@Noahpinion yes this is quite a violent chart and I love it

@Teleonomic oh why is it opposite? tbh I’m just riffing I’m not reciting any real science

@Teleonomic right and the peacocks tail can’t be explained by pure natural selection — which means it survives often enough to have concerns outside of survival. is that logic wrong?

@Teleonomic a species in which only 1% of males made it to adulthood likely would not be able to support extravagances like the peacocks tail

@Noahpinion @0xfbifemboy so true

@0xfbifemboy @Noahpinion correct

@0xfbifemboy @Noahpinion I’ll put in a good word for you with the Language Model

CCP engineered the perfect solution to fix america and end gerontocracy and we didn’t take it … https://t.co/43hgoAnxeJ

@eurydicelives if that’s true then humanity is doomed. it needs to be a quite low agency default behavior to come anywhere close to replacement

@Noahpinion Democrats engineered tobacco

@RokoMijic @zetalyrae yeah and it’s very much a right left split

this dude may be the most successful simp of all time https://x.com/PPathole/status/1561591196178419712

@PeteRockefeller correct he deserves it all and more

a significant contingent of this website thinks this guy is such a successful grifter that he can’t actually do an integral, meanwhile … https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1560720224588120064

@0xfbifemboy @0xcatboy true

@ad137hya i had a chance to meet elon in college. the dude gets around

if UA goes bust another airline buys all their plane leases and ramps up their operation. they’re not worth much because they’re undifferentiated and have accumulated little capital https://x.com/StockJabber/status/1561409261128650752

@SecPerkinsStan branding is obviously capital. say more about the bank thing

@real_faydin very subtly

@AnikVJoshi Miami sorta

@reidatcheson @AnikVJoshi few blocks

@mattyglesias doesn’t Red Bull have a space program? it’s time for monster to get an airline

@Hellachans even worse then - commodity and yet still not fungible

@DeebMartoma @ad137hya Yep

John carmack at this very moment https://x.com/GENIC0N/status/1561939119994961920

@ReallyRadley @dasanil how old are you radley? If you’re not 70+ and a member of the United States senate you will be protected by my covid defense program

@dystopiabreaker Me

@besttrousers @cornoisseur @thesiriusreport isn’t the steelman argument more about chinese deficit spending propping up demand for many markets?

email me at roon.industries@gmail.com for inquiries 😉 https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1562059932832235520

mcdonalds is a real estate company (complimentary) wework is a real estate company (derogatory)

i didn’t think id enjoy seeing every “ML is fake and just logistic regression” dumbass getting their just desserts so much. you were wrong about the only thing that matters this decade. the rest of ur takes are null and void

@gigafestyu without reading it i can confidently tell you these are probably human failings rather than machine failings

@Dude76835424 @Gent_Sausage @sudocroft @_zinniaa__ yo i aint dead dawg

@revhowardarson buddy i don't know if you interact with hospitals a lot but they're known for snail mailing CDs of medical imagery around due to the idiotic state of health data regulation and risk aversion of hospitals. i can confidently tell you these human failings and not machine failings

@Gent_Sausage @Dude76835424 @sudocroft @_zinniaa__ that’s true

it’s over for me the fans have declared my death

@ctjlewis @Pavel_Asparagus i thought of several life ending dunks but im gonna leave him alone. time to turn the other cheek

doctors as a class of people habitually prevent progress in what may be the only industry that matters in the long run via classic rent seeking. if you develop a better way to do something but the doctors feel it doesn’t make them the main character it’s over

@wfguiteau yeah now imagine how difficult it is to update these checklists

@duntsHat yes but it's especially grating since my mental model of doctors was always like "flesh engineers" which implies that they should be fairly innovative, STEM brained first principles thinkers, etc. but no it's more like they're technicians that have memorized an object model graph

@skiddushpanda welcome to twitter

@0xveggies no, they're one of the highest value add nodes in the chain. they have more bargaining power than any of the above. hospital execs have fought hard to get nurse practitioners more responsibilities for example

@itsvarora @0xveggies yeah they're generally like 20 iq points dumber than doctors but it doesn't matter. most of what a doctor does isn't interesting work and the NP can do it just fine. it's a blackpill they don't want to swallow

@GarrisonLovely and that's why EA is bad

@Citrini7 @BollingerBeans @duntsHat where do these critical thinkers go?

@abelianraisin surgeons are the engineers of doctors

@DrPayItBack superiority complex does tho 😈

whenever you find a doctor that’s in the top of the field at what they do and they have to regretfully make you mail a CD between different medical systems they’ll admit that bad data regulation is killing thousands whereas the mid ones will defend it vehemently

most of the arguments that people levy against effective altruism are copes that their own thing sucks. for example they say EA is bad bc it’s uninspiring and it’s not how humans think about charity. and yet there’s around $50 billion worth of assets committed to EA causes

2021 analysis. even if it fluctuates with the markets the point stands that this is an enormous sum and the mission strikes the hearts of the best and brightest per https://80000hours.org/2021/07/effective-altruism-growing/

im not necessarily pro EA but I’m anti dumb arguments from smug guys

@dayfornuit as opposed to say the breast cancer charities which are full of laughter?

the vast majority of criticism of EA is just like “i don’t want to donate to anything period. the charity most pertinent to my peer group seems to be givewell/AMF/etc. therefore I will try to lower their status”.

others will say well actually bed netting is indefinite optimism and EA is uninspired. well ok but they have long time horizon experimental funds to create moonshots! my friend received a significant check to pursue the creation of artificial wombs https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/apply-for-funding

anyway i have a few skills but my most important one is sensing the zeitgeist of cringe. All of twitter is a cringe potential field and enough mid intellectuals have accumulated in the anti EA bandwagon that the cringe has become strong

@mileswestnow if your charity is not holier than thou you’re doing it wrong

@drsxr isn’t that last bit what im complaining about?

the last and best argument against EA is that christian morality is wrong and the strong should not support the weak but you gotta bite that bullet for me

@max_arbitrage @drsxr no they’re not. they’re among the highest value professionals in the world. they have crazy amounts of bargaining power once they’re full fledged doctors and it’s part of their grift to pretend otherwise

@averykimball correct that is what I conclude

@BarneyFlames idk maybe I’m brainwashed but BMGF seems to have been quite successful

@drsxr @jensen_inequity I mean your argument is effectively doctors have no incentive to improve objective measures of performance

@max_arbitrage @vishyssoise @drsxr insurance cos have razor thin margins

@max_arbitrage @vishyssoise @drsxr investor margins are very high

@deepfates Image denoising is ages old tho

@SkepticalAlpaca lmao sorry bob i always have to caveat these with “you’re one of the good ones”

@SkepticalAlpaca i was mostly reading about the slow uptake of AI radiology

@SkepticalAlpaca plus reflecting generally on the kind of procedure driven uncreative people I tend to run into as clinicians. you’re likely quite different as a researcher

@nascentwisp AI researcher

@cauchyfriend @nomanautomata @SkepticalAlpaca yeah I’m not really interested in replacing clinicians (yet). I’m seething abt the radiology, ophthalmology, etc stuff.

@fchollet they only lack sentience when you build them in keras

when you’re a leader in a software company, you get a band of autists that barely listen to you and take 4 months per year of mental health leave. when you’re a leader in something like construction you get an army of strong guys who call you boss and might beat up your enemies

@yungalgorithm do it

incredible that tea has gone from the delicacy that built and toppled empires, inspired revolutions, to something that even subsistence peasants can enjoy for 5 rupees

@webdevMason congrats!

@DaggerOwlShield True

@MrGeorgeFrancis @kitten_beloved yo I solved this long time back

@Willyintheworld @cauchyfriend @nomanautomata @SkepticalAlpaca https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0107-6

@provisionalidea ok I mean this claim seems as hand wavey and subjective as any of mine so I’m disregarding this

@provisionalidea @PeteRockefeller it’s called we do a little inference

Toronto is not a real city. It was invented in the 80s by the Reagan administration as an internment camp to store excess Punjabis due to H1B backlog

@krrishd 🤣

the accumulation of capital is negentropic. competition is entropic. therefore the construction of capital is life bringing activity

@Meaningness Fake

africa arm of my venture fund will only provide capital to somali pirates

if i raise a second fund i'll give it to joseph kony

@deepfates the most common thing that facebook tries to do is in fact sell you stuff that you were already in the process of buying

@deepfates for ex. nike will send facebook a table of emails and items they have in their nike shopping cart. then facebook will inner join those emails with facebook user identities and serve them the shoe that was already in their cart. there are very few ways to get higher CTR than this

@eshear @deepfates correct the lookalike audiences feature to find more customers. the CTR will be lower but the reach wider

@deepfates @eshear agreed, i'm just saying all else equal, if you know a customer already wants to buy something you're going to show them that. if fb isn't showing you any of that it means they don't have any data on it

@peachblvd “it's only the Prime Minister of Finland. Less power than the Mayor of Cleveland.”

as my account has grown I’ve lost the ability to read all my schizo DMs. millions of ramanujans lost to time, drifting in the message requests

@JoshuAnansi the value add is my eye for diamonds in the rough. Fiverr is useless

@Bonecondor please delete this

@KingDavidQPS damn quitting porn got you a wide angle lens

@gbrl_dick damn I didn’t realize Australia is a third world country

@eurydicelives Bc it agrees with my sense of beauty

@eurydicelives a universe where I get to experience is more beautiful than one without (by definition, I would not experience beauty if I didn’t exist. Therefore my existence is beautiful)

@eurydicelives the motte is that a universe with people in it is more beautiful than one without.

@_via_getty_ @gbrl_dick Lmaooo

student loan forgiveness has been an op for yuppies to brag about their salaries on social media

@LandsharkRides not even a little, viserys is punished for being stupid and unsubtle. every character in the series is necessarily ambitious and arrogant

@LandsharkRides also the blonde hero complex girl ends up ruining everything and genociding kings landing. not so shitlib

he’s not a autist or a chad but a third more complex thing

he’s not a female bene gesserit or a male mentat but a third more complex thing

@StevenGlinert install a version of torch with OpenCL and hope for the best

most people cannot process regret they’ll explain why one of their life decisions was clearly bad and suboptimal and be like oh but it’s ok i learned a lot

i mean it’s probably good that most people have such strong defense mechanisms that protect them from mental damage but it appears like embarrassing cope from the outside. especially when there are measurable outcomes they’re missing

normalize🙏saying🙏you🙏fucked🙏up

@DistractedAnna yeah true and doubly so where it concerns their ego

@Tjdriii 🤝

@HotForMoot obviously

@allgarbled @HotForMoot brother you should be noticing that I’m in tech and applying the bayes rule better than this

my phrasing was bad so elaborating. it’s obviously good to learn from your mistakes. it’s more when people say “i would change nothing, since i LEARNED” im like oh you’re just low agency and haven’t actually processed counterfactual regret

your galatea is waiting for you in latent space if you can find the right incantation to free her, mr Pygmalion https://x.com/yashkaf/status/1563956351671353344

@typedfemale @milkmaximalist it only does this when typed is in the car

@robertzzk Lmao

@nickcammarata this doesn’t seem coherent to me. according to you we shouldn’t worry because we’re living all those other lives anyway but it’s not worth it for you to risk the one you’re living now

@twofifteenam why’s it my law

how does anyone in this country think that labor markets are inundated with cheap foreign labor. like have you ever tried to get a big couch moved from one house to the next. do you know how much it costs

@akbirthko @twofifteenam gonads?

walking around sf with vitalik is great because he’s an actual celebrity here. every 3 minutes people’s jaws drop, they stop and stare, ask for photos. and he handles it like a expert

@Noahpinion it’s cuz you’re walking around the Castro and they’re affecting disdain

the fuken paparazi got me https://x.com/dimapyanov/status/1564282358286602240

@itunpredictable jesus brutal

@itunpredictable i got some mid cole haans

amateurs talk gender theory, professionals manufacture offlabel estradiol

the problem with the way SBF approaches ea stuff is that he lights whole amazon rainforests worth of political capital on fire. this donating to a party thing is not and will never be "effective altruism"

@TenreiroDaniel the difference between you and i is that im honored to get mogged by vitalik

i had mostly thought that whether an AI is conscious or not is outside the realm of science bc it’s an untestable hypothesis but @ilyasut convinced me otherwise in like 5 minutes

train an advanced LLM on a dataset without any description of conscious experience and see how the convo goes. does the machine’s description of its own experience match yours?

yes there are plenty of ways a machine could be conscious and fail this test. but at least there’s a possibility of a positive result. That puts the whole question in a new epistemic category!

@c8h11no2_njoyr you don’t have to do that at all

@nickcammarata @ilyasut true

@c8h11no2_njoyr does a bird have to understand the mechanism of flight before it can fly? do I have to understand the mechanism of flight before I identify that a bird is flying?

1st base is sex, 2nd base is when she lets you log on to her 23&me so you can do esoteric population genetics

the commoditization of doctors under bugman apps to render them into a similar social class as uber drivers is the greatest technological advancement of the last two years

inshallah with enough versions of hims, roman, done, circle, etc etc we will finally unemploy all the mid doctors and only the actual value add ones will be left

young men going "monkmode" in order to work or grind harder is usually a cope. these guys end up not doing much of anything except watching tv and playing video games to soothe the mental pain

unless you are literally newton you should probably be minimizing pain in other aspects of your life so you can apply more of it at work. get a gf, spend money, have fun

@MattPirkowski @10x_er you are not in pain

@VitalikButerin in tech, among my peer group i have found that many come from immigrant cultures and spend far below their means out of fear, like avoiding basic utility math

@Tjdriii can’t say, will ruin my brand either way

@iambecometechd1 lol I don’t think you understand

@iambecometechd1 “Tv and video games” are also euphemistically porn

@iambecometechd1 all of the above are free, can be enjoyed in solitude, and therefore perversely become part of someone’s “monk mode”

@iambecometechd1 enjoying things in the real world is healthier but also more expensive

@peachblvd moisturized, thriving

the experience of hitting a sitewide viral tweet is a cope vs making a room full of like fifty people laugh

>you will never effortlessly guide a live audience through the throes of pleasure, ascending to godhood in the process

@adriyoung @the_mo_el 😈

@krishnabtwtr This is the worst reply I’ve ever received I might block you

@eigenrobot completely true

@powerbottomdad1 im thankful for local minima being rare in high dimensional spaces

@AskYatharth @jane_gatsby @powerbottomdad1 thats literally the opposite of the lesson

@AskYatharth @jane_gatsby @powerbottomdad1 nvm I misread the double negative

@aquariusacquah yeah that’s actually true I’m sold

with the right prompt engineering language models become pretty good at dealing with ambiguity and stating when the document source doesn't have a clear answer https://x.com/gregeganSF/status/1565203736490053632

i will keep banging this drum but Steve Jobs was a drastically more important person than any of the presidents during my lifetime

@billmcneely i can’t hear the people of kuwait

@drbillsz all irrelevant

@nachkari strongly deflationary

predictions that did not age well [zero to one]

thiel thought that the machine learning craze was just mania but some manias are real. strong AI is already here. it’s replacing humans in jobs that previously seemed like well defensible turf of mammalian intelligence

@besttrousers I’m saying we are at the very cusp of this

AGI is already here. language models display generalized intelligence and reasoning ability

@besttrousers @StatsLime Correct

the alacrity with which i mute these threads …

@atroyn it’s not a chinese room bc the room is too small

@atroyn i maybe think this is irrelevant. to me GI means few shot inference time learning on a wide variety of cognitive tasks unseen during training. do those tasks have to include physical manipulation? i mean maybe, there are token sequence transformers that do that 1/

@atroyn but more importantly not every generally intelligent creature is capable of reasoning in all domains. good luck getting a human to grok bat level echolocation and audiospatial reasoning

@besttrousers don’t worry your replies are intelligent and on point, i largely agree with them. i word these threads aggressively as bait because I enjoy fighting

@besttrousers the only difference between your world view and mine is that i think the missing productivity revolution is about to show up soon

@ryaneshea I agree

@akbirthko @atroyn i know there are edge case humans that can do this but it’s qualitatively step change weaker than bats or dolphins or whatnot

@CultOfFate he does not praise Ted k at all

of all the futurists and silicon valley technophilosophers, only kurzweil understood the teleological destiny of packing more transistors onto a chip. AI capabilities are a byproduct of leveraging massive amounts of computation using general scalable methods

specific challenges like language translation fall at various levels of computation. following moore's law and doing schizo vibe readings, he guessed correctly that machine translation and art generating AI would be more or less commonplace by early 2020s (correct!)

examining the 2019 predictions related to AI - creative AI capable of making complex art and music art is absolutely being made, music i'm not so convinced - autonomous vehicles dominate our roads living in san francisco this appears true but even L2 autonomy is rare elsewhere

- humans begin to develop deep relationships with AI this seems fake on the surface level but clearly true on the relationship between you and your timeline algorithm. moreover there's the odd news story about google engineers thinking their chatbot is alive or whatever

- language translation machines are ubiquitous this is absolutely true, when you chat with your Uber drive over the app it does real time translation. real time translation of writing is commonplace. a step change in capabilities makes translating between major languages trivial

@AdamSinger no it's not but carry on

@besttrousers @LittleKeegs0 @LooselyMonke true but clearly some guys whose value prop was their extreme skill at mechanical production are now unemployed or comparatively disadvantaged

@besttrousers @LittleKeegs0 @LooselyMonke i don't keep up to date with econ literature but i've read very little theory on what happens in "disequilibrium" when structural unemployment peaks

@TaylorLorenz true, will be seen as barbaric before long

schmidhuber is interesting because he enumerated the space of simple deep learning ideas that didn't actually work in the 90s. but if the idea generation component is the easy part then there's no alpha

instead the writers of CUDA kernels live forever in history

@ded_ruckus @TaylorLorenz you have a very bad mental model of retroactive morality if you think this i mean people practically see feeding your kids margarine as barbaric

@candrianillborn ? every CS undergrad will learn about AlexNet. Ilya is world famous

this thing where rw tech people chalk up all slowdown in science and technology to regulation is classic indefinite optimism

"i don't have any specific ideas to further science and technology, i will instead complain about inadequate equilibria"

in fact thiel himself tends to dismiss explanations along these lines

@Tjdriii dating apps are deeply bugman and inherently cursed. 50 app dates means essentially nothing. you’d have better luck with just a handful of people in your community or that your friends set up for you or whatever

@Tjdriii you just can’t be like “i am a special and strange person, with a niche brain type, and this lowest common denominator attractive person on the app has a decent chance of being a good match for me” it’s not coherent

@Tjdriii im on my own soapbox now idk you that well 🤣

fb and google heavily downsample their recommender system data volumes due to compute and storage requirements. even if this is true they can start lighting more flash memory on fire https://x.com/davisblalock/status/1563455844670246912

high frequency lemon trading

the taiwanese and their semiconductors, like the dwarves in moria, dug too deep and too greedily with their ultraviolet picks. the balrog is inevitable now

@nope_its_lily cope

@tehpio Lmao

the whining about the “sterile neolib harems” are grating & cope. like yes it’s going to be difficult when you’re a peasant to get yourself a woman who’s a minor noble in the kingdom of zuck or wherever

@fakegeekguy ?

@zebulgar bro?

my fatal flaw is my short attention span and love of get rich quick schemes

if solana is supposed to be a tech propagandist he’s failing at it find the positive spin instead of whatever this is https://x.com/micsolana/status/1566828843062636544

@viriditax solana is not a cynic! he's actually a forward, positive thinking ideologue. which is why this is surprising to me

@AdsoOfBelk nah he's a good dude with a good sense for aesthetics

text is the universal interface text is how we communicate the vision in our mind to a computer and the angel trapped inside reifies imagination into pixels

text has magical properties. it has the built in modularity, reflexivity, compositionality of the natural languages. it is the best latent space evolution ever came up with for inter creature communication

people who consider themselves roughly naturalist or empiricist should not be overly hopeful about finding a better way to communicate the intent of man to the machine

every day you can mind meld with the likes of plato and buddha because someone wrote down the contents of their philosophy. the lives of these people were so different than ours that they might as well be a different species. and yet,

the brain computer interface will probably come at some point but the requirements are expensive: - you need to decode a different latent for every human, based on their neural activation space - you need to delicately extract a million+ activations from inside the brain

if the velocity of your thought was bottlenecked by the speed of your text, you can test this: is your WPM higher when simply copying text than when you are doing creative writing? if so, then the keyboard was never the bottleneck

@jeff82874662 a "translator" is what i mean by interface tho. it's an excellent translator

@jeff82874662 GUI usually. BCI (brain computer interface) if we're in the realm of scifi

@atroyn expressing ideas in text is useful work and not communication overhead

@ctlcsm @atroyn i think i'm trying to describe the strength of prompt engineering as a paradigm

@nickcammarata true BCI seems hard but intelligence is easy / inevitable smarter machines require less interface

@nickcammarata my first instinct is to disagree here because inter AI communication requires them to understand each other's latent space. unless they're trained in tandem, it's O(N^2) for everyone to understand everyone else's embeddings unless everyone agrees on the natural language standard

@nickcammarata unless you literally mean the data moving around is vectors that represent natural language and not text

@nickcammarata i meant if there's N models that need to communicate then learning each others latent space is N^2, there's only two agents in your example

@emnode yeah this is a very simple task in comparison

@micsolana when a new tech comes out there’ll be utopian and dystopian visions for what it can be the marketing I’ve seen absolutely is not “we are destroying art and replacing it” im just surprised you found the most negative formulation and are promoting it as the only thing

@micsolana the tech is real, it exists, so why not find and amplify the utopian angle or vision instead of contributing to the pessimists zero to one “complementarity” of man and machine is still real diffusion tech amplifies the ability of artists to make their vision real faster

@micsolana so true Mike

@micsolana this fr @TaylorLorenz ?

jack dorsey: 45, zero kids, hasn’t worked in the last decade, no wife just rotates models, clear enemy of civilization the zuck: 35, several kids, dutifully and painstakingly runs a trillion dollar empire, strict monogamist, constantly self improoving, clear friend of the people

i can immediately tell if someone is a serious person and a friend of technology or just vain dumb and superficial based on this question

@LeporidaeHops @BrickOverton No, should I?

this is also why aging is mathematical and not biological https://x.com/alth0u/status/1566892918157127680

@RealXanderCuck yeah it does actually

@LeporidaeHops @BrickOverton pretty sure the wife picked that one

@growing_daniel @Lan_Dao_ Daniel you don’t party what is this larp

@LeporidaeHops @CPT_Convincey totally wrong, check out the differences in how they responded to hunter biden laptop story

right wing pseuds deciding between sticking to their normal values abt family, loyalty, work ethic, liberty vs “he looks kind of weird” will choose the latter most of the time

@ipsumkyle @Tjdriii please delete this

any resources on how people are/were using tether to launder dollars?

>tfw it’s real https://x.com/ethanCaballero/status/1567223995677679616

@michaelcurzi hmu

@michaelcurzi ive been mean to you so i'm preparing for a legendary dunk, dont disappoint

there is not a strong case to teach programming noobs vim or emacs. computing has moved past the need for acrobatically jumping around a text editor

i'll carve out an exception if you constantly work in low resource embedded environments or have to do FBI hacking cyberpunk terminal jockie shit, which is like 1 in 200 programmers

@ded_ruckus then they'll get frustrated and rewrite it (good outcome)

@ded_ruckus worshipping ancient tools is for technicians and priests, not scientists and engineers

@powerbottomdad1 almost everybody develops on a remote server and just has a vscode remote environment. + learning enough vim to delete or add a line here or there

@powerbottomdad1 the security model at most tech cos demands development on remote servers, they don't want you to have local copies of the code ever

@petergodofsky @powerbottomdad1 what? you’re telling me you’re running massive ML models or giant infra binaries on your macbook?

@sigfig @powerbottomdad1 i did it at my faang and now at my 10 person company (though all the engineers are ex faang)

@petergodofsky @powerbottomdad1 do you mostly work on the desktop app side of Microsoft?

@petergodofsky @powerbottomdad1 now I’m really confused. you’re running cloud storage code on your laptop instead of on your cloud?

@sigfig @powerbottomdad1 I’m confused how it’s hard to set up remote editors though? Like I do this regularly for side projects on the cloud without infra support

@JamesSharpsteen @ded_ruckus that is unfortunately true from what I’ve seen of science but it should not be how real scientists think. but i agree this is a rhetorically less strong position