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making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future

SFBA & Great Lakes, USA, Earth
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When we put the world economy back together after this thing is over, I'd like the engine of it to be American/Canadian/British/Aussie robots, not sweatshops in undeveloped countries.
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This is what infrastructurally mandated poverty looks like
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I forgot about this particular episode of institutional collapse MIT got sued by a group of deaf activists because opencourseware didn't have captions on a bunch of lecture vids so MIT's administration was like "bet, we'll just delete most of it" and settled the case
@mattparlmer They ran into accessibility issues
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Being somebody who has actually read a trivial amount of history I can say confidently that the establishment of a state "Disinformation Board" is a substantially stronger signal of inbound authoritarianism than something like the Jan 6 riot
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If the room temp superconductor paper is real then it’s one of the most profound indictments of the way we do science ever made
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If LK-99 is real we’re gonna get to redo all electronics and it’s gonna be awesome
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Ngl this looks overengineered
@burny_tech
Burny β€” Effective Omni
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Map of the Human Metabolic Pathways
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I think it may be hard for some people to appreciate how pissed off engineers and hard scientists are about the discovery that medicine/public health, economics, and a bunch of other prestige fields have been operating with a fraction of rigor expected in our fields
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If we had switched to nuclear in the 1970s there would be negligible risk of global warming Instead the green movement collaborated with the oil cartel and petrocrats overseas to lock us into infrastructure that cooked the planet The greens and their financiers did this
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So this is how it begins, huh?
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LK-99 probably ends up being one of if not the last great scientific achievement entirely creditable to embodied biological humans alone
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Yo dawg that’s not a β€œrare black deer” that’s the earthly avatar of the god of death do not fuck with it
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An incredibly rare black deer spotted in the forest of the Barycz Valley, Poland. Most estimates guess that only about 1 in every 500,000 deer is melanistic. [πŸ“Ή Jakub Wencek]
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Setting the economic barrier to entry equal to a mid three figure monthly car payment and gas bill and calling the resulting state of affairs "freedom" is pretty screwed up
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Utterly insane to turn people like this away, he’s spiritually more American than many people who were born here
@HotForMoot
Riley Read-Only
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Lowkey I love this guy
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I've been working on an N95 mask production project with a team for about a week now. We just got off the phone with NIOSH. They told us that approval for a new mask production facility in the US will take at minimum 45 days, but more likely 90. A lot of people are gonna die.
@EricLiptonNYT
Eric Lipton
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This is really shocking. We live in a nation of such wealth. And we have effectively run out of such a basic protective device at a moment of such need. CDC is offering advice on how medical staff can survive during a contagious disease outbreak without proper facemasks. Wow.
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Yes that would be absurd lmfao
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Publicly edgy but ultimately moderate bf reserved but terrifyingly extremist gf
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For those of you not aware of how this is being received out in the provinces
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Direct quote from my psychiatrist just now: "My patients seem to be doing fine, I think it was normality that wasn't working for them."
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Lmfao the flying stuff is gonna be made of lead hahahaha
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Therapy language is inherently manipulative, the point of therapy is behavior modification It is a highly effective tool for both psychopaths and chronically irresponsible people and has no place in healthy interpersonal relationships
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Twitter has cultural relevance because it is one of the only places where "experts" are on a level social playing field with the rest of the population And it turns out that when you level the playing field the "experts" are often revealed as shockingly inexpert
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In retrospect this tweet called the top
@tszzl
roon
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all the people that can make eye contact at openai joined in the last 6 months and they’re making me uncomfortable with their eye contact
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We should open US borders to anybody with an HK, Macau, or PRC passport who wants to resettle here permanently. Australia/UK/NZ/Canada should do the same. Our ability to trigger massive brain drain is a weapon we should start using immediately.
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You could easily have found this with an 1890s lab, which means that we’ve been fucking up the search process over the space of possible room temp superconductors in profound ways for over a century
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Vox then vs Vox now. Hard to see this as anything other than journalistic malpractice to be quite honest. The data were there, everybody in my world was aware of it and acting on it. So instead of actual reporting, they trotted out the "eccentric techbro asshole" narrative.
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The cursor crown goes extremely hard
@yacineMTB
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sigh.. gonna have to ban the Atlantic reporter off dingboard for this one. dingboard rule #1 is to not slander zuck
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This is one of the only places in the world where it was possible to see a Johns Hopkins dept chair get circles run around them by people with handles like "Illuminati42069" on things directly relevant to said dept chair's nominal expertise That has immense social utility
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Reply with the thing you're most stoked for if LK-99 turns out to be a room temp superconductor
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People who are saying "it's over" every time there's a lukewarm or conservative statement from a lab working on LK-99 have a bad model of academic research A lot of the big university and state labs have an incentive to slowwalk this for a couple different reasons
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Ross Ulbricht's work was one of the largest contributions to harm reduction in narcotics distribution ever The systems that he created removed violence from the drug trade by anonymizing and physically dislocating transactions He almost certainly saved thousands of lives
@RealRossU
Ross Ulbricht
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I turned 38 yesterday, my 9th birthday in prison. I made a timeline of my life, with my death estimated at 80 years old. Prison has been a major phase of my life so far. I’m not the man I was when I came in. I’ve learned from my mistakes and the harm I’ve caused.
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One of the most foul cases of artificial scarcity in our society tbh MRI scanners should be $500 and built into your shower
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I'm completely fine with a nuclearized and remilitarized Japan
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It's doubtful that people who are habituated to driving would actually "prefer" it in a situation where the rest of us who experience suburban scales of infrastructure as a nontrivial economic burden weren't forced to pay for their lifestyle choices via taxes
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Looks like PRC authorities cracked down on Naomi Wu, a prominent Shenzhen hacker on YouTube and elsewhere I really like a lot of the people over there and it would be great if we could get more of them out, but it doesn’t look like that’s in the cards for now
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Yeah this is actually fine tbh
@jachaseyoung
Jordan Chase-Young
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Seeing as you're YIMBY, you won't mind if we build the Shinzu Mega-City Pyramid in your backyard, will you?
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The JS developer to electrical engineer pipeline is gonna be huge
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In the past I have given credit where it was due to Eliezer Yudkowsky for not explicitly advocating violent solutions to the problems with AI development that by his own admission only he and a few other (mostly nontechnical) people see on the horizon He crossed that line today
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Lol the guy who dumped the original LK-99 paper on arxiv deserves a medal Not for all that much of the science from what it sounds like, but definitely for breaking the ice on the dumping of incomplete papers on preprint servers
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Room Temperature Ambient Pressure Lead Apatite Superconductor
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β–  Prof. Kim Hyun-tak on email "We will define March 4, 2024 as the day of RTSC. Because it's the day we prove superconductivity such as levitation and zero resistance." Wow. He's confident. I'm really looking forward to this meeting. APS meeting 9 hours to go
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Using Firefox like I'm a deadender holdout on a remote Pacific island still lurking in the jungle fighting a war that ended a half decade ago
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Lmao we might just have solved inflation via growth
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Either our discovery process is unacceptably inefficient or our allocation of resources to research and development is much too sparse, if the minds that actively work this discovery are the only ones who can - they need to get better, if not - we need more people doing it
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Lmfao if this turns out to be real (big if true) the Mexican govt presumably just broke an enormously consequential agreement with USG and we can probably call *that* (and not alien reveal in and of itself) the end of the 20th century order
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Clint Ehrlich
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Prof. Galetskiy noted that the aliens appear to lack nasal cavities. This suggests that their anatomy does not require them to warm the air that is entering their body.
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People who were paying attention to this predicted significantly hotter weather this year We were right It’s time to start putting dust in the upper atmosphere to stop the oceans from cooking
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For decades this area has been kept relatively cool by sulfur emissions from ships. But this changed in 2020.
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Scott Alexander is about to be doxxed by the NYT. This is ethically outrageous. If @puiwingtam and the other NYT editors choose to run with this they are crossing a clear line in the sand in front of a lot of people who will not take it lying down.
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This is the last thing a Bangladeshi child sees as she drowns in spring 2035 when the levee next to her village breaks
@Melanie_Vogel_
MΓ©lanie Vogel
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Sex is good but have you tried having your country shutting down its last nuclear power plants in 30 mn?
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The guy who has been attacking and extorting people in the Seattle CHAZ is an AirBnB superhost
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People be asking β€œhow do I trade this?” Start a niche hardware company and eat the one of the biggest free lunches in modern scientific history
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If econ is all you've ever studied, or if the only jobs you've had have been inside the medical guild, you might not even know that people with a minimum of scientific literacy can actually evaluate your literature See institutional macroecon's reaction to mounting criticism
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β€œexcess savings” lmfao Econ is truly the most inhumane major academic field
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US households still have an estimated $433 billion in excess savings remaining from the 2020-21 stimulus programs.
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CS masters is strong no-hire signal tbh
@Duderichy
the Rich
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> I did well at Facebook but I’m not some genius level programmer > BS _with distinction_ in CS from Stanford + honor society + …
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The normies don’t have a clue how back we actually are this time
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American company held up in replicating this literally because of the DEA
@andrewmccalip
Andrew McCalip
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1000c annealing furnace - check Oxy-Acetyl torch - check Quartz ampules - check High vacuum pumps - check Glass working skills - check Red phosphorus - not check
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GPT successfully kicked out a correct diagnosis for my grandmother’s autoimmune condition on a three sentence description of her symptoms Irl it took nearly two years of fighting with doctors at a crappy regional hospital and eventually going to Mayo to reach the same conclusion
@ctjlewis
Lewis
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based on my experience with doctors, not only do i believe this article but i think GPT is probably already a better diagnostician than many doctors working today. we could probably be doing more with this than we are.
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The virgin organic grape vs the chad genetically engineered grape
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Not gonna lie this looks overengineered to hell
@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
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This is ASML's new $380 million machine.
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They took these videos down right as lockdowns were hitting back in 2020 Wonder how many people never learned something important because of that decision
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Elections have consequences guys
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The future was stolen from you by cowardly people who think you should be poor
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A bank? We just invented the greatest augmentation to human cognition in the history of the species and you're talking about a bank?
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I'll be honest, I don't really find left-right political distinctions to be descriptive or interesting anymore The core question right now is whether you're a friend of the future or not, ie where you fall on the growth/degrowth spectrum
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While you were out having an LLM write your code I studied the lathe
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I think stuff like this is why I hear "MIT is evil" from so many alums I talk with, tho Aaron Schwartz is brought up more often
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If you encounter a group of people who - live in compounds together practicing polyamory - have an ornate selfreferential ideology - expect a vague doomsday scenario "soon" do you expect this to be a millenarian cult or an institute that researches machine intelligence?
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Half of the stuff in Star Trek just went from theoretical speculation to tractable engineering problem
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I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe
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These fields produce huge volumes of literature on the back of often shoddy data (which is usually sourced from govt organizations subject to political influence), an approach designed to drown critiques in an unaddressably large number of dubious claims, each requiring attention
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This is the future neoliberals want
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Insanely big whitepill news today, rack scale semiconductor fabs just got massively more plausible, we are going to achieve astonishing things
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Key point here, we're probably looking at an entire family of radically more practical superconductors irrespective of the performance of LK-99 at a given temp, pressure, and purity
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@mattparlmer LK-99 is just the tip of what I suspect is a giant new iceberg in material science. I'm more excited about future iterations and their properties.
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Wind turbines and solar panels are just a way to cut the aerospace and semiconductor industries in on the energy game at the infrastructural level They will never replace oil and gas Nuclear will, so it has been the target of one of the greatest institutional psyops in history
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People who do shoddy work in a field so habituated to shoddy work that it can't even differentiate shoddiness from rigor are able to produce literature much faster than it can be debunked Fields that operate like this must assume a much higher burden of proof for future claims
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Tbc the implication that I'm making is that MIT administration were very keen to use any excuse to curb what was a wildly popular diffusion of knowledge Gatekeeping in service of a misfiring selfpreservation function in academic institutions as the internet starts to compete
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This whole "sit on Slack and don't do more than five hours of real work a week" thing isn't actually gonna be economically viable for quite some time The number of people I know who do this give me the impression that we're gonna see some major layoffs in the coming years
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Balaji at FDA during the early stages of covid would have saved millions of lives globally
@micsolana
Mike Solana
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iconic
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"any little piece of information can be used by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life" It's even worse than that, hugely powerful cultural institutions will literally pay idle surplus elites to do this sort of thing to random private citizens all day
@LevineJonathan
Jon Levine
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NEW: Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist and breaks down in MSNBC interview
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I think 95%+ of the people chirping about how Twitter is gonna die due to recent changes have no clue whatsoever how little it actually takes in terms of money and personnel to run a site like this
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The virgin stand up immediately when the plane rolls into the gate vs the chad waiting your turn to deplane because you passed the marshmallow test
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My Instagram feed of people I worked with or went to school with is massively more bleak than anything on here, real civilizational death spiral vibes
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Chickenshit behavior on the part of Cloudflare management to cut headcount, pretend that it is an individual performance thing, and then run it all thru dedicated HR staff instead of tasking direct managers with axing people on their teams
@anothercohen
Alex Cohen 🀠
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Absolutely based video. Someone should hire this chick. > Cares about her work > Can read bullshit > Isn’t afraid to tell it like it is Recording is questionable but she’s prob never been fired before and I would have done something equally as stupid
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This sort of stuff is what locks in genetic engineering more than the ability to make superbrights ever could Once it's available the public will demand it
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Nontrivial amount of economic growth could be unlocked if mild prescription amphetamines moved to an OTC regime
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@greenTetra_ How dare you hate on this gigachad
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Since he has graduated from begging the question to openly stating that blowing things and people up is a reasonable thing to do I think we should dispense with the politeness that has been the norm around these discussions in the past EY does not know what he’s talking about
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
3 months
Tfw you study the blade
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
10 months
The rocks float guys
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
10 months
The end state for Apple is not bank but rather healthcare company
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
1 year
We have seen this movie before Myopic cowards who have never worked a real problem seriously in their lives assume that all problems are unworkable and ban people who can actually solve problems from doing so Applying this to nuclear energy directly caused global warming
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
10 months
The LK-99 will probably be really brittle, we're gonna have to build underground utility tunnels for conductive wires all over the country Might as well make them big enough to drive in, this would not be that hard
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
10 months
The physicists are cautiously optimistic, we're so back
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
1 year
He and the other hardline anti-AI cultists are out of their depth, both in terms of command of basic technical elements of this field but also in terms of their emotional states This is a multidecade anxious fixation asking calling for air strikes in Time, not a rational person
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
2 years
I'll go back to engaging seriously with mainstream macroecon when it starts producing models that are predictive and core datasets that aren't obvious piles of manure Until then I'm taking establishment Keynesians about as seriously as I take doctrinaire Austrians or Marxists
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@mattparlmer
mattparlmer πŸͺ 🌷
2 years
We're seeing the first steps towards formalization of the previously informal network of pseudo-feds working on censorship and surveillance while drawing paychecks from universities and think tanks This absolutely leads to the establishment of our own MiniTrue
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