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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

The real bangers are the mutuals we made along the way

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1 year

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

@____foo____ Shake your head during the first half and nod during the second so everyone knows you disapprove of the rise but approve of the fall.

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billy

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8 months

Imagine absolutely mogging your mum and dad like this

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billy

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3 months

@docno1r All the "sad clown just because someone is laughing doesn't mean they're ok" think pieces after he died made me so annoyed. Like sure it's a fine point, just completely irrelevant in this case.

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billy

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4 months

All men secretly wish they could live like tony soprano (have a tight group of friends they see and dine out with regularly)

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

@____foo____ Shake your head during the first half and nod during the second so everyone knows you disapprove of the rise but approve of the fall.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

also the comments are all like "she's clearly very responsible with money" lol no she isn't she didn't 5x her money on sensible steady return investments in a year

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

Dudes rock

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

*guy who has written some of the most influential and beloved essays of the last 20 years*

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

One side of overheard phone call on the bus: "No." ... "No" ... "Because I am opposed to having meetings for the sake of it." ... "No"

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

Dragging your own parents kicking and screaming into the arena with you

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Nothing white pills you quicker on your prospects than hiring and seeing the quality of the median job application.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Me and my gf have a winner stays on system for picking what movies to watch. You get to keep picking as long as the other person liked the last movie. Once they don't you switch.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

Not gonna lie this looks overengineered to hell

mattparlmer 🪐 🌷

@mattparlmer

3 months

Not gonna lie this looks overengineered to hell

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

@ESYudkowsky

1 year

@Aella_Girl So what you're saying is that we should have a kid

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billy

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5 months

Nutrition science is one of the hardest things to study. You're working on 20y time-scales, it's confounded by basically everything, people lie all the time about how much they eat.

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5 months

Most accurate nutrition meme of all time.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

28 days

Penn Jillette renouncing libertarianism because he learned at like 60 or whatever that sometimes personal liberty is at odds with the safety of others is incredibly funny.

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@billyhumblebrag

7 months

@smylkshmn

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Periodic reminder that weightlifting beats out lots of pharmaceuticals in changing your life

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

6 months

Yahoo News

@YahooNews

6 months

While American YouTuber MrBeast’s goal was to provide clean drinking water for 500,000 people, activists say his actions shamed the Kenyan government and helped perpetuate the stereotype that Africa is "dependent on handouts."

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

10 months

Interesting perspective on the legitimacy superconductor paper.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

Gf said "will you still think I'm beautiful when I'm 70" and a said "of course I will that will be post singularity I will interact mainly with a virtual emulation of you represented as a physically perfect 25 year old version of your body" and she got annoyed??

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

The best revenge is living well

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

My gut reaction is that this sucks and the vibes are dystopian af, but also, it's not like I spent every moment my daughter was asleep on me staring at her and contemplating the miracle of her birth. So if I think about it I can't come up with any actual issue.

Anshel Sag

@anshelsag

3 months

Dad mode: Already found a great application of the #VisionPro , watching Avatar: The way of water while my daughter sleeps on me. I eventually adjusted the angle of the virtual screen so that I could easily recline and rest my head/neck. This feels like one of the premium…

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Heard a crazy story last night from a professor at a dinner. Needed to hire a phd during covid, fully remote interview process. Candidate (interviewing from a middle Eastern country) knocks zoom interview out of the park, very confident and good understanding of the science.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Is it normal to smash through huge chunks of a coding project some days and achieve literally nothing on others? Is this why everyone takes adderall?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Anyway guy does nothing in the lab, gets 4 months of salary, nice visit to Denmark, then finally gets fired and heads home.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Kid at daycare told my daughter "my dad is stronger than your dad" what is the protocol here?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

"This could cause issues with data privacy"

Future of Life Institute

@FLI_org

1 year

Health experts call for a halt to self-improving general AI development until regulation catches up. @GlobalHealthBMJ warn of harms to patients, data privacy issues, and a worsening of social and health inequalities, among other potential dangers.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

e/accs be like "I'm on my grindset always building" then spend 8 hours straight following a twitter fight between a 16 year old and a convicted fraudster

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

I'm an L6 engineer in Europe (TC = $45 000)

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

"What's this Christopher? You said there's something going on with the Bing?" "Nah not *the* bing T, Bing. The search engine. Could be concious."

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

7 months

getting fired and it's genuinely a skill issue 💀

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

People on here will have bios like "completely unhinged schizo poster" and then you'll see them reply guying with shit like "Yes, I agree markets can solve problems efficiently in some scenarios"

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

real

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

10 months

Gf said I had a body like an ancient statue of a Greek God. I'll be honest it hurt to hear so bluntly that my chest is underdeveloped but was a good wake up call for what I need to focus on going forward.

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@billyhumblebrag

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

So that guy who got fired from Google for thinking the ai was sentient *checks date* 10 months ago, would he still be dismissed if it had have happened today?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

Peter Singer is actually a very good utilitarian his orgasms are just incredibly intense. The positive utility he gets from busting outweighs basically any negative you can think of from his affairs.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

qt with a meme u made

ricky

@rickyflowsinyou

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qt with a meme u made

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

Scott Alexander explains his process (2018)

billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

*guy who has written some of the most influential and beloved essays of the last 20 years*

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

6 months

@nosilverv Yeah it's fucked the actual specific thing is number of fingers too. Counting my fingers and getting too many was the dream check that eventually worked and then like a year later ai images with too many fingers were everywhere.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

Becoming a man is realising Tyler Durden actually kinda sucks

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

proposed to my gf of 5 years and she said seeing me down on one knee gave her the ick

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

Within the last full year, despite not following her, Aella tweets showed up on my tl on average once every 2.3 hours. I had a 6% worse mood, on average, on days I saw her tweets vs days I didn't. My longest gap with no Aella tweets was 14 hours.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

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It's actually not that surprising that anxious people are pretty good in a crisis. 'Ah yes, as I suspected all along things are utterly fucked. No need to adjust my cortisol levels, what needs doing?'

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

Pour one out for this guy, whose AI gf called out the name of the guy his ex wife cheated on him with during sex.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

@8chabard Was a woman so more like this

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

Good evening everyone hope you're enjoying the big game

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

*person who has enjoyed a life full of unparalleled economic growth in one of the richest countries in the world and just retired with more wealth than 99.999% of humans in history and 99% of humans today* "Do we need to always focus on economic growth? Don't we have enough?"

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

Oof

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@billyhumblebrag

3 months

Gn

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

24 days

My theory is eigen knows that vegetables are tasty and complement a meal and this is all a bit to see which of his followers will go along with some obviously ridiculous position just for the sake of being non-conformist.

eigenrobot

@eigenrobot

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"suppress your disgust and eat your vegetables" "suppress your misery and date this chick who's fucking some other dude" you see how this is exactly the same principle right refusing to be a veggiecuck trains a self-honesty and force of will that serves one well in many areas

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

6 months

"I want mummy to read my story tonight mummy is better at reading stories"

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

I've been in Denmark long enough that for the first time last year they let me in on a national secret, they're all really fucking miserable but the government makes everyone lie on the happiness surveys so they can win please they're trying to silence me I don't w

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

When i was a 19 year old cringey reddit athiest/ sceptic once got chatting to a woman who did reiki and was being all smug and condescending. Then she grabbed my arm and started fiddling with my chakras or whatever and I felt super intense tingles.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Have to spend months giving this guy warnings before they can get rid of him, and everyone knows he lied, he probably knows they know, but no one wants to come out and say it.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

What to do? Dude has a signed DANISH contract now. Can't fire him. No recording of the interview as evidence but everyone is sure now.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

@eigenrobot

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Is your twitter account training a LLM? Cause that's a lot of flops I'm seeing

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@billyhumblebrag

1 year

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

@zeta_globin If you don't think Taylor has a dedicated facility of harvested eggs with a full time technical staff maintaining them then she doesn't know anything about expected value calculation

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 months

Am I crazy or was Sam Altman not that long ago like "we're not currently training gpt5" and now he's out here saying "strap in everyone gpt5 bout to wreck your shit". What is the timeline on this? Is he just guessing based on scaling or are they playing with a model internally?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Is there a single instance of a programmer being annoyed their code was used to train the coding ai without their consent?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

People of TPOT, After talking with many of you and sensing the earnest desire + need for spaces to share lift prs, speak about difficulties progressing lifts, and be in a group where they can grow muscles together, we will be forming a(nothet) TPOT training/fitness groupchat.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

gross

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

@exuberic Evolutionary psychology is dumb but isn't this clearly just, like, the butt is made of large muscles important for running and doing stuff crucial for survival in hunter/gatherer times?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Takes him to meet the rest of the team, some of whom were in interview. One of them immediately says after meeting "that's not the guy we interviewed". Clicks for the professor that nah this isn't the guy they spoke to.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

House MD is a medical genius who knows to use LSD to cure a migrane but still gets his opiate fix through vicoden giving himself liver destroying doses of acetaminophen every day rather than just taking a straight opiates

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

8 months

How is it anything but this?

Khoa Vu

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Apparently, all men have a favorite economic graph. Spill it, gents.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 months

MARTY! I just cut a deal and paid future you $10 million! So here's what's gonna happen....

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

Big ups to the USA

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Apologises for poor lighting during interview but doesn't have anywhere else quiet to go, all good. Gets the job.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Shows up at the lab day 1 and prof sits down for a first meeting and then chat a bit about project, feels like the guy is kind of off. Not really engaging. Oh well, just did a big move etc.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

Anyone have good tips for lowering productivity? I find everyday I get everything done by like 11am

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

avi 🐀

@ratbitebaby

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misogyny checkpoint: what’s the first tweet that shows up when you search “women” on your page ?

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🧵Thread: The New Yorker publishes the wild tale of how an affluent liberal town’s school district imploded after numerous intersectional pile-ups over race and gender identity. Details below. 1/

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

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lmfao

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Good fun! You can decide to burn your streak on something they hate if you really want to see it. You can give them a pick and hold control if you don't have anything you're psyched about. Halfway through some trash you've picked you can see a smug look from across the couch.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 months

"Urgh got another kids party this weekend" Ah bro that sucks you have to spend two hours of your Saturday watching your child experiencing overwhelming joy playing with their friends? Being there for the incredibly finite number of parties at any given age for your child? Bummer

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

>go to gym >get pump >wish I was this big all the time >work hard for months >now as big as old pump all the time >repeat

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 month

Someone offers you a magic pill that will cause it to constantly rain moderately heavily in a 10km radius around you. You can't stop it. It lasts the rest of your life. You will never see the sun again. You are free to monetise/exploit this however you like.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Haha bro look at the Bing search protesting that it's conscious and feeling emotions lmao so funny clearly it's not really concious and I am confident in my ability to continue accurately assessing the qualia of these completely novel systems going forward

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

6 months

Read somewhere that telling chatGPT to add internal thoughts in your custom instructions can help get better results. Now I gotta deal with this shit when I'm getting code to do pandas operations

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

@_holyweather Diseases from smoking kill you much more quickly than other diseases in old age and thus rob pharmaceutical companies of years of continuous revenue.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 months

Gm

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

@AISafetyMemes I'm not worried until the ai agents invent llms and then make their own virtual world with ai agents

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

I have heard two people bring up the "chickens are smaller therefore less ethical to eat" argument outside of dedicated EA forums 1. Scott Alexander 2. Karl Pilington

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

There's an undiscovered species of gorilla that is very abundant and often encounters humans, but they have evolved to only walk past when we're focussed on something else so no one has ever noticed them.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

My wife watching me single handedly manoeuvre our expensive coffee table thorough the door.

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

"I'm sorry Dave, but today is not 2023. Today is 2022."

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

9 months

I saw @bryan_johnson at MacDonald's at 3am he was really drunk and eating a large big mac meal with a (not diet) coke and he offered me $500 000 not to tell anyone when I said I recognised him

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

11 months

Jokingly message him to ask numbers? Ask if he wants to lift together one day? Challenge to a fight?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

4 months

Is this anything?

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

3 months

T minus < 6 months until the zoomers start replying ironically with "sorry, as a large language model I can't fulfill that request" to everything and it is truly so over

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

5 months

@thechosenberg Ummmm

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 months

New portfolio benchmark: do your returns beat the "losing everying in ftx" strategy

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

1 year

Rather than being curious or fascinated i was just mad

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

2 years

"But what if all our charity just went to malaria?" Umm then malaria would be eradicated in like a week and we'd move onto the next most effective thing??

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billy

@billyhumblebrag

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@astridwilde1 Gotta be much quicker now though.

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