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2 months

someone whitepill me on why this ain't happening?

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@eigenrobot isn't the first graph basically total BS when we consider the development of social technology plus the fact that the roman empire in ~400AD was in a decrepit state?

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yoooo isn’t this the dude that invented the heart rate sensors for smart watches? total legend.

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Why does UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley allow a professor to show up to teach dressed as furry? Extremely bizarre and inappropriate.

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@airkatakana huh. isn't this like absolutely obvious to anyone who's done like 10s of debugging... this is why like compile time debug flags are nice (for decently small projects)

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I love the fact that we've managed to flood a city in the desert and somehow this is a bad thing. mfers don't realize that this is just the first attempt. In a few years we will green deserts at ludicrous rates. The way forward is tech. End of story.

mert | helius | hSOL

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This is the most dogshit thing I've ever seen lmao 0 police, 0 firefighters, 0 taxis — just yoloing the sea with a rental car after flight getting delayed by 6 hours

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@TFSchizo The number of cs grads has increased inversely prop to quality. There are people in my second year engineering courses that have trouble using a command line. The best SWEs where never those who watched career vids but those who just had fun grokking hard concepts and liked work

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@EsotericCofe highly disagree ngl C over C++ any day

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@burny_tech It seems very difficulty to reach over the human baselin. If AI improvements taper of in the next 3 years we will have succesfully commiditsed midwitism.

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holy shit lex has got to be SEETHING right now

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pushing a .DS_Store should result in no salary for a month. atrocious.

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Whomst chad pushed this to prod

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@sporadicalia This is a good point. I still see a large possibility for an AI winter happening to some degree. It took 4 years from transformers to today, I expect it to take similarly as long for the next developments.

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@Hatecraft333 @Soul0Engineer for the confused ones: this basically means that the big five traits are incredibly genetically determined not only does this impact the nature vs nurture debate but if this study is true it would cause us to have to rethink governance relationships and all the social sciences

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THIS. Go to a good college, sink 20h per week into the material, that's enough to be pass and be decent. Sink the remaining 30h of work into sth fun.

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twitter gives advice designed for the 1% but thinks it can apply to the rest unless you literally don’t have the time because you have a project that’s growing and know it can work, DON’T DROP OUT OF COLLEGE TO DO A STARTUP

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@AnamarijaML I will never understand the vitriol some people have towards those that have reached the pinacle of human achievement and said: "you know what, I'll push a little further"

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@LinkofSunshine ok but the reason B answers this way is because a lot of communication is nonverbal and they want to understand the motives behind A… B is a person, not a chatbot without intuition. which happens to be what yishan considers B to be. totally inhumane take.

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@teej_dv perfectly intuitive if you consider a[i] to be shorthand for *(a+i) as it basically is. In most languages arrays specify offsets, in lua f.ex. they specify actual indexes. But tbh, in maths most thing are 0 indexed as well so who cares

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@riemannianmani some people turned off by the density. actually kind of like it. Wished more people in my org would write that way tbh… It’s probably the way most software will be written one day. autonomously, oc.

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@TradfiSchizo 26000 commits… that‘s like 2$ per commit. also; his commits:

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@IterIntellectus I mean, technically this says "since they turned 18" but I'm going to assume that it's a super small amount that had something in HS and then like, didn't have anything any longer? This is seriously worrying. I mean, who are these people?

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@tautologer fwiw there's some guy who built a massive lore around a bunker or sth? There's a bunch of them.

From the Everexpandingbunker community on Reddit: IT'S HERE! THE 9X9 SUPER COMPASS!

Explore this post and more from the Everexpandingbunker community

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@ctjlewis verbose, overcomplicated, off topic?

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@PradyuPrasad seriously, no. get the book. sit down, read it. do the exercises. You'll have a much deeper understanding than going through it with chatgpt. Aftwards anki it for sure, but in general I fear there's a lot of "pseudo-learning" that happens when people use LLMs for studying.

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5 months

Decided to drop this on the TL as well. Would love some feedback if anyone has something to add:

not a sloth

@testaccountoki

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ok so what kinda books should i actually read to brainmaxx

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@58hws84x4b Thank you. You're correct. God's in his heaven. ALl is right with the world.

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@nosilverv

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brooo‘s hiring is kinda fun. get to interview cracked people and swipe left/right on them. Becoming recruiting pilled.

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@nearcyan may the crumbs that fall off their table be enough to feed my kin

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@8chabard what you want is love and passionate spontaneity. at that point complexity and interest is inherent to it and secondary to what you‘re actually doing.

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@michaeltastad bro fuck if I know... elon ban me if I do a wrongthing. First post to hit more then 10k views anyway lol.

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@BasedNorthmathr @Rahll but if you do care, you're still perfectly capable of doing it yourself! you can have the most elaborate coffee setup, write letters to your friends, go to farmers markets these things have just stayed the same price while the rest gets cheaper fucking decels man

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@PandoXiloscient

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the box of newports and a choker on top… rust developers whyyyyy

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@vmfunc

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me and @kennethnym were slightly bored.. buttplug support for the rust compiler.

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@sporadicalia very unfortunate... The way forward is probably to simply use it as an output mechanism. Write a small article? post about it. Building cool stuff? post about it. don't interact, just live.

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@PaulSkallas Specializing and massively profitting from a very narrow thing is deep lindy. It's basically the story of human progress.

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god I hate unambitious people. fries my brain to work against them. anyone have experience dealing with them? especially in a context like FSAE

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@qtnx_ Is this cringe: Yes If this is actually revolutionary, will it matter: No unironically, 50% of people will walk our going e/acc dead and the other half going e/acc won

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3 months

now reading:

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@visakanv The damage that the entire "what if you hadn't eaten breakfast" narrative has done is truly tremendous it allows for the dehumanizing of most people in your life which to some is the tread of self confidence they cling to

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huge misunderstanding text is mostly superior to video when it comes to deep understanding. Exception to this are visualizations, like 3b1b, for getting a glimpse into a subject. The ultimate technique is reading texbooks while applying the material to the real world.

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@snoopsonar Textbooks? No thanks I’ll wait for the videobooks

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@EsotericCofe donut. OpenGL has a marginally higher skill floor I’d argue. now go try a vulkan triangle ;)

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4 months

@__phantomderp I will, for the umpteenth time, highly recommend “C is not a low level language” great read.

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2 months

why is everyone forgetting that an MVP ought to still be a viable product…

Marques Brownlee

@MKBHD

2 months

NEW VIDEO - Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable This is the pinnacle of a trend that's been annoying for years: Delivering barely finished products to win a "race" and then continuing to build them after charging full price. Games, phones, cars, now AI in a box

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@GradualReform @apyh__ @bryancsk bro you’re getting your kids hooked on painkillers this is totally unreasonable. parents in europe DO NOT perma drug their kids. maybe that’s slightly better.

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2 months

EE chat is by far the best GC ever. There's future IEEE medalists in there. Load up on calls now.

Bubble Boi

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EE chat has went from "oh cool arduinos & breadboards" to "we need to use plasmonics to get pass 100 Tbps communication"

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Here’s the first major hardware project I built (ca. 2021). Telescope mostly for satellite filming and tracking. Control via Joystick or some basic CV model Soo much fun raising money and building and programming.

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@radshaan Biology and chemistry I’m at the level of a european high school. but outside of that I pride myself in having done enough wikipedia random walks to have islands of knowledge almost everywhere so I can always see a shoreline no matter where a conversation may take me.

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@yacineMTB his predictions get weirder. he keeps being right... it's almost unbearable lol.

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@senlog get a female friend. eat exactly as much as she does. the end.

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@PaulSkallas honestly I'm bullish on classical music. all the modern stuff will just be AI slop. Lindy effect wins again

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@PaulSkallas huh. it's like such a joy though? You'll have walked like 20k steps during the day, in the evening it's cooled down and you want to indulge a bit so you dress for the occasion...

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@radshaan always nice when people realise that CS is just applied math... there's a very few people in CS who do it for the love of discrete mathematics and algorithms, but those that do are usually the most cracked ones. (and the computer graphics bros, they are insane as well)

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3 months

person in the tram next to me has the same TL… what do

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my yt extension suddenly stopped blocking shorts suddenly an hour of my life was gone it's so over

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@skooookum gwern was the real one here tbh

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@qtnx_ tbh I think it’s pretty ok, minus the beff reply. tho oc this might just be another dot on the “humanize me” agenda of elon

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@radshaan life’s about funnels. there’s basically no surer way to succeed then to continuously make decisions that funnel you further. there’s different strategies with different risk/reward. but ultimately the best way is to just git gud and show it to the world

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@tautologer unironically, there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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You’ve eaten today. You’ve had clean water from a tap. You’ve powered the device you’re reading this on. congratulations you’re better off than any railroad tycoon, spice trader or king ever was. go make it count make sure today’s the worst the world will ever be again

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1 month

when a choice is difficult is usually makes no difference which option you pick

Air Katakana

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if you want to do something, how fast you are doing the thing is probably more than 1000x more important than whether you are doing the thing or not in the first place

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@DeepDishEnjoyer 7 figures out of college is quite ok Like, that’s enough for occasionally eating out, no splurges tho but frankly, start saving everything and after two years use it to gain real power in some small nation state There’s not enough time left to acquire capital, why not have fun?

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I have the urgent urge to make blatantly obvious observations and post them as original thoughts

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THEY FLEW THE THING AND THE THING CAME BACK HOOLYYYYY god‘s not dead nor in heaven he‘s right here we fucking built him you bastards.

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My IQ is actually very low. I’m just good at expressing myself accurately so people think I’m smart.

Nucleus☕️

@EsotericCofe

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My IQ is actually very high. I’m just too dumb to express myself correctly so people think I’m retarded

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> I'm an expert in the end of the world. Fundamentally unserious

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i’m sorry, i really am, but balling your eyes out because of nuclear weapons proliferation that has existed for the last 60 years without incident…that is a sign of a person not doing okay and i hope they find peace

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@yacineMTB The skill some people have at posting is otherwordly. You read something and you immediately understand all of their success

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- Firefox - Apple mail - A physical calendar - A pile of stuff on my desk.

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Which team are you on?

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i stg if i see this meme one more time I’m going to kill myself.

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@Kei0x Credits to OP:

Yuki Installs Gentoo

Yuki installs gentoo, a shitpost made by mevideo taken from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episode 13 "The Day of Sagittarius"₿💰💵💲Help Support the Chan...

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@teodor_io @zeta_globin I find it’s a movement where some people are very high agency but also attracts and nurtures a edgy sci-fi overlord archetype

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Smartest person I know scored 115 Just reevaluated all my priors life is good

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5 months

Had some absolutely cracked people burn out from stress caused by failed institutions If youre working around the clock in an environment that is neither appreciative of that, nor conducive to your development it can be an extreme drag much less burnout when it's your own thing

terminally onλine εngineer 🇺🇦

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burnout doesn't exist if you wanna be cracked enough

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@BasedBeffJezos @SamoBurja european dynamism has incredible potential but is squandered by government regulation and social programs have killed support for the free market, the driving force behind acceleration major rethinking on a popular level is necessary here so europe can awaken from its slumber

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I’m begging people to stop catering to the mean

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A lot of pain would be alleviated if universities straight up offered software engineering degrees as an alternative to more theory-heavy CS degrees Actually teach Git, SQL etc, make the finite automata theory classes electives instead of mandatory weed-out classes

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@sporadicalia skill issue ngl

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3-5% GDP Growth will inevitably get us to the stars. It's not glory, but it's something.

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@jxmnop what if we find another different sigmoid and then stack it on top of the one thats topping out

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@PaulSkallas This obsession with efficiency and chain of command was born out of prussia and permeated german culture It is largely gone now. The people from the 68er revolution are old, no higher sense of order anymore Maybe the only thing that remains is a focus on hardware over software

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@Hatecraft333 @Soul0Engineer So in other words, people have been refusing to publish these kinds of results out of fear of being called social darwinists or what?

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@DeepDishEnjoyer that's it?

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.xyz is the TLD of the GPU Poor

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@bubblebabyboi a good way to phrase this is as: difficult vs complex Edge AI research, much like physics, requires the solving of impossibly difficult problems, the kind that don’t scale with capital of any kind EUV is so complex that it looks embarrassing if it’s tackled like software

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Gruvbox ftw

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quote tweet this with your text editor theme & the matching anime character of your choice

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@nightshademagia tangent but imo the idea behind security questions is to associate a keyphrase that has nothing to do with the question to the question. otherwise you're wayyy to vulnerable to attacks by people around you

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Mathematics: Naive set Theory Linear algebra done right Concrete mathematics Complex Analysis and Application

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@snowclipsed I'm seriously confused as to what some colleges seem to be teaching.... Like what do you do if not the math part. This is probably like applied science or sth tho right?

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@yacineMTB stepper motors are GOATed. amazing holding torque, super cheap. get a mid driver and just solder out the blue dip switches (see picture). then control the microstepping with software allowing you to do on the fly accuracy adjustments. most underrated motor and saved me thousands

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Physics & Engineering: Microelectronic Circuits Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Rocket Propulsion Elements Modern Control Systems Quantum Computing since Democritus The Scientist Guide to Digital Signal Processing

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@eigenrobot massive selection bias imo the devs you meet are the good ones while doctors are more representative you dont meet the thousands of bootcamp js devs incapable of centering a div

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@radshaan - Axler linear algebra - knuth concrete mathematics - Compiler dragon book - Naive set theory - UDL Book - PBR Book Had calculus and Signals Theory in german, so no recs there. Definetly also pick up some control theory. Very important for GNC/Robotics

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@gfodor very interesting to see you correct yourself! seriously, some gambles are made and end up just being incredible choices. Wether godly foresight or just boundless knowledge doesn't matter. The choice was made and it was right.

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ok but like someone tell me how talking to yourself out loud when alone is a bad thing? like, it’s almost universally shunned and seen as schizo behaviour. I’ve done it on the regular since I was like 7… probably just some loneliness cope idk

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@usgraphics refinement culture hits everything. if you look at it, even the terminal nerds don't get away from it. a lot of it is pretty fun, but it takes away lots of the function that one would otherwise have... just look at some of this:

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@radshaan sit down, download the textbook and work on it. want a pretty good understanding? look at theoretical courses of an EE & CS degree. Recommendations:

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everything is priced in.

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@teortaxesTex The fact that we even have people worrying about things like “the meaning of labor in a post scarcity environment” is hubris manifest. There are billions out there who manifest little to no qualia due to the hardship of their existence. this is for them, not the US technocrat

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Flying a Boeing 737-800 life is won by the risk takers

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@PaulSkallas Do you see a possibility of joining the technological ability of the US with the civilizational benefit of europe?

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@yacineMTB this is mostly an awful way to derive this.... we teach this to 14 year olds by just going: 1-P(not happening)^n

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Being against credentialism has nothing to do with being against in-depth understanding and grokking of difficult theoretical concepts. If you want to be good at a field at the edge of human knowledge, you gotta get good at a lot of other stuff... Read a book, do the exercises

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@VividVoid_ you forgot the modern autists hyper obsession. Obsidian. God why do I have to use it then... hate good software sometimes

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@qtnx_ Same…. But like, omggg you need soooooooo much capital Europe just doesn’t have it…

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