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No way am I going to fall for this trick, Hittler

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Had dinner with a woman who worked for Bumble during the pandemic. Apparently during the lockdowns of 2020, women’s engagement was steady but men’s completely cratered. The user experience team, which was 80% women, could not figure out why.

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Just met a guy in the Marina who said, “GPT-4 is obviously very technically impressive, but one important reason it now outperforms Google for certain search tasks is that Google deliberately compromised the quality of the product in order to optimize for ad sales.”

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@BarneyFlames Most cynical way to put it is that most men are on Bumble to get laid but women like chatting

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Trump’s effect on the English language is at the level of Shakespeare. It’s ubiquitous but few even know when he’s being referenced

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@Marq_Lafayette9 The latter

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One of the only remaining funny things about dril is how badly he failed to monetize his fame

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@Rationalbot How is this thing planning to liberate Al Quds when it struggles to liberate the tray from the Hungry Man box

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Hot take: Mackenzie Scott showering a bunch of grifters with money will have no lasting negative impact because the recipients just blow it all immediately

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1 year

People who are in that one magical groupchat already know

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If I remember right @nntaleb often tweeted the phrase “low IQ Saudi Barbaria” until he was shown the results from Lebanon, after which he waged a jihad on the measurement

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@Y_Contributor

3 months

Some groups have trouble learning fundamentals. Since 1981 Saudi Arabian education spending has been its 2nd largest government outlay and as a % of GDP has averaged 6.27%, far higher than many OECD countries, yet after more than 40 years of spending the results are dismal.

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4 months

Google laid me off today. I solved Math Olympiad geometry problems for them at the silver medal level. If you have any leads for jobs, please DM

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@quocleix

4 months

New York Times article on AlphaGeometry Geometry was my favorite subject in high school because solving them requires many step of reasoning and planning. Geometry problems however have been difficult for AI to solve. Our Nature paper shows my team’s progress in Geometry

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If you marry your cousin it might be no big deal, but if half of your neighbors are doing it, your country might end up looking like one of these:

Joe Henrich

@JoHenrich

3 months

Puzzling to see the @TheEconomist offering an analysis of the impact of cousin marriage without considering the recent work in Economics showing the powerful effects of the practice on economic and political outcomes. Let's review. First, the Economist's discussion:

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I'm a bit late on this discourse, but every single one of those math professors who claimed that no student is incapable of understanding calculus are completely full of shit. As in lying through their teeth, not just deluded

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10 months

Startup idea: @telmudic comes to you, learns all your deepest insecurities, and motivates you to accomplish things in life

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@RadishHarmers

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I defended my thesis yesterday, completing my PhD. How's Musk's Twitter going?

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This guy analyzed 13 months of his dating data

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Doctors making top 1% AMA-cartel-inflated salaries after getting blown out by GPT4: "It's actually about the soft skills"

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Aella at the birthday party:

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@NikkiHaley

3 months

12 fellas down. 1 to go.

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Do you think Greg Brockman is going to practice leetcode hard problems now that he’s unemployed?

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GPT-4 got a 1410 on the SAT. You know who else got a 1410 on the SAT? Eliezer Yudkowsky at age 11. The singularity has begun.

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May I please read more tweets

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I cannot stress this enough: if you think actually think University of California admissions committees follow the letter of the law, you are retarded. There are no exceptions

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1 year

UC Berkeley, which has banned affirmative action, is only 19% white in its incoming Freshman class. Conservatives are going to get what they asked for good and hard if SCOTUS actually overturns AA nationally lmao.

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The student loan pause cost at least $150 billion, much of it to people who didn’t really need it. Thinking about all the more socially productive ways we could have spent that money is tragic. We could’ve built a cluster of 5 million H100 GPUs

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You’re looking at it, buddy

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If you’re 30+, unmarried w/ no kids what TF do you even do after work?

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Catherine D. Tan

@Catherineoscopy

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We are all doing the same job. We teach the same number of classes. I don't think my labor is worth $20,000 LESS than that of my econ colleagues. More money please.

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His name literally means “short time[lines]” in German

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Ray Kurzweil is sticking to his long-held predictions: 2029 for AGI and 2045 for the singularity

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@rmcentush We could start with crows which can breed at age 2.

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@wasphyxiation Being the founder of Salesforce is probably attractive for a lot of women

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"What is the probability of seeing results at least as extreme as the ones observed if the null hypothesis is true?" "But the null hypothesis isn't true"

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Extremely funny to watch bitter loser failed comedians attack Jerry Seinfeld

Sridhar Ramesh

@RadishHarmers

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Many comedians do standup only because they want to break into TV. Not Jerry Seinfeld. He did standup and TV only because he wanted to break into talking about comedy.

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Idea for Substack: a newsletter for "wonks" where you just explain things completely incorrectly

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@growing_daniel Seems very unlikely

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Finally got around to reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” He is confused by people who are unable to generalize what they learn to other contexts. Then he claims people are “memorizing” or faking, not truly learning. Might be relevant for thinking about LLMs.

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Not so hard to guess what parts of academia are fake and which are not, even within social science. When it's just a funnel for corporate keynote speeches or nonfiction books sold at airports, it's fake. When the top researchers are painfully autistic, it's probably real

Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

10 months

ALL OF ACADEMIA IS FAKE Look at what gets exposed. It’s like they’re trying to get caught. And it took a decade to catch Ariely doing this. You imagine there must be a hundred more of these for each one they catch. People are just making stuff up.

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There is something about basic facts from behavioral genetics that drives many completely insane in denial. Otherwise normal people end up behaving totally viciously, as if it’s other people’s fault that the universe is kind of heartless.

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A $10b model + data is going to BTFO this cartel of midwits and we’re all going to be better off for it

Scott Truhlar

@ScottTruhlar

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In New York. Another stratospheric job ad, and again, shades of 1998-2004 for me. There are no Radiologists out there left to hire.

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Explosive economic growth due to AI

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What part of Kahneman’s work has best survived the replication crisis? Genuine question, not trying to speak ill of the recently deceased

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His lawyer, introducing the case to the jury: “Some people see attempted murder…others see an innocent man who reached his breaking point”

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Man behind viral blue-black dress illusion charged with trying to kill wife

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There hasn't been an hour of memorable standup comedy in more than a decade. Completely dead form of art, should be banned

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It’s funny watching the based Community Notes messages fall into the same traps of scope creep, using biased language, etc. that discredited traditional fact checkers.

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About the same CO2 as a return flight from SFO to London

Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗

@SashaMTL

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So LLaMa 3's carbon footprint is... huge? 🤯 They estimate it to be 2,290 tons of CO2eq, compared to 550t for training GPT-3 and 66t for training *all* of the BLOOM models (1B-176B) 🌬️

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Two generations of imbeciles are enough

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*obscure government commission proposes forcing everyone to wear a clown nose outside* Guy who is above it all: lol, we're turning noses into a culture war battle ground now? Just accept what's happening to you

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There's always one guy in the group chat

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A few years ago I met a Russian Jewish immigrant who grew up in Siberia because his family was deported there. I asked him what it was like, and he said: “Mostly horrible, but the doctors were top notch!”

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@cremieuxrecueil

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This paper was finally accepted! TL;DR: The Communists persecuted intellectuals, but the intellectuals persisted. The areas the Soviets sent those "Enemies of the People" to are more successful today, with higher GDPs, more profitable firms, and greater average wages. Short🧵

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I bet this feels good as hell for the cork oak

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Cork harvesting is done entirely without machinery without inflicting permanent damage to the tree. A cork oak can be harvested from five to seventeen times in total [read more: ] [📹: ]

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@powerbottomdad1 He treats all his power bottoms that way

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I’m in love but unfortunately my parents won’t let me marry outside the “Ivy Plus” community

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An ounce of shame and honor?

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How is it a miracle? If anything she’s underutilized

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Woman born with 2 vaginas, uteruses and cervixes gives birth to ‘miracle’ baby

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Journal of Social Psychology:

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I thought this one was funny

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East Asian TFR is going to zero like a shitcoin

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How old does a baby really have to be to learn the lesson “If you do something I don’t want you to do, you won’t enjoy the consequences”?

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@aravosis @MayorBowser @DCPoliceDept You voted for this

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@tszzl The agricultural revolution

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"Self driving cars are always 5 years away. The tail of edge cases is too long"

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@phl43 Fits with the general pattern that women are more likely to support censoring speech they disapprove of

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Tesla actually pulled off the WeWork EBITDA turnaround projection

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The competition is shitting its pants

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Is Urbit just Esperanto for right wing computer guys?

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my lips part like the first petal of spring delicate and eager But not for you Zionist

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I received an invite from the Biden administration for a Diwali event being held by the VP on nov 8. I decline any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children.

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Oh, you went to an “Ivy Plus” school? How was Duke?

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Israeli comedy being this terrible is the ultraviolet catastrophe of ethnic stereotypes

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"Columbia Untisemity": Israel's No. 1 Satire program mocks the support for Hamas on college campuses @mulisegev @Eretz_Nehederet

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@tszzl Agree, I think it’s missing the forest for the trees

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@AlanMCole Highly correlated with niche, narrow, and unprestigious, but I look for: experts in the field should be disproportionately autistic, want to talk about the subject in their free time, and like to debate controversies

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Love human art but it’s wasteful and terrible for the environment — time for a ban

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Very interesting paper: using generative AI to produce text or images emits 3 to 4 orders of magnitude *less* CO2 than doing it manually or with the help of a computer.

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This is rarely considered in novels or films but a huge long term problem in post-apocalyptic scenarios is that breast implants need to be removed every 10 years

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@BDSixsmith He’s not always been this insufferable but his prose has always kind of sucked. The stories are good which is why they are always getting loosely adapted

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My communist friend from college was clearly trending towards insanity before 2020 but Covid broke him. In addition to defending North Korea, he now makes TikToks about how alienated he feels about still wearing an N95 mask outside

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Embarking on a 6-hour car ride with someone who takes zero COVID precautions. Chilling in the back seat with this respirator and trying to keep the CO2 under 1,000 ppm. Wish me luck!

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This makes me madder than the 2+2 = 5 tweet People who think modern day prosperity emerges from magic (or worse, theft) are the worst

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

@kareem_carr

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If companies are mostly using AI to do a very mediocre version of something they could have paid a person to do, then the primary contribution of the AI is just saving folks money. The "transformative innovation" in that scenario is the equivalent of getting a discount coupon.

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The role of women only Facebook groups (which almost always have enforced ideological conformity) in the culture wars is under reported on

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@sarahbeth345

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I was in a lawyer moms FB group with this woman. She wasn’t the only rabid antisemite in these online communities. Most, if not all, of the antisemitic comments in these groups were from Black or Middle Eastern women. When Jewish members tried to protest these comment, “call

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@rmcwhorter99 That’s nothing compared to renowned mathematician Robert Solovay who literally retweets porn

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Before the plagiarism scandal, when people asked why Claudine Gay only had 11 papers (cf Lawrence Summers, h-index of 138), the response was usually that each was a gem and her record of scholarship can't be compared to that of people in sloppy fields like economics

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Reading this article about a future debt crisis and feeling an overwhelming sense of dread about the medium term future

How Higher Interest Rates Could Push Washington Toward a Federal Debt Crisis

Today’s trendy economic argument asserts that the current debt-to-GDP ratio of 100% has not harmed the economy, and therefore Congress can easily afford large new government expansions. But that...

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This is true, but the solution comes from the fact that most of these people commit a ton of less serious crime before they commit the heinous crime that everyone agrees makes them irredeemable.

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I'm not sure how you deal with the problem of people who think "let's steal a car, run over someone, and then post it on social media." You can't deter someone like that because they clearly aren't rational and probably have a very low IQ.

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Tiger moms end up having no grandchildren.

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Homework bad, young couples living together good

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It's kind of funny that despite being the country being only 0.1% West African, Israel's fastest sprinter is from Ghana

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@AdamRutherford

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@nathancofnas @melissasigodo That of course is a false proposition, and two unconnected statements. You cannot know if Jamaicans on average are faster than Jews cos that data is not available, and the numbers of athletes in the Olympics is statistically insignificant.

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Average sociology PhD student

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45 Employees at a “research institute”, but when you look at the research page it’s just a dashboard showing Covid deaths by race that was discontinued in March 2021

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Eg this is probably pretty common But I haven’t actually looked into this so maybe I’m wrong

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@mualphaxi

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Forgotten history via @TheFP : Mackenzie Scott (Bezos) gave $12 million to a small hispanic college. Her gift tore the place apart! The sociopath president used the cash to hire her own son and turned into a dictator. Then they had a $10 million budget gap! Genius philanthropy

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“Today nearly everything is made in China-except for courage, it’s made in Guyana.” - Anthony Bourdain

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@kitten_beloved parents with multiple children do in fact predict the heritability of traits more accurately

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Maximum (normally distributed) skill in a population scales like sqrt(log(N)) so the Olympics are more fair than you’d expect despite population size differences

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You know, in Denmark, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is just called “quantum mechanics”

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@len0killer What’s funny about this? Condescending prick

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Genetic databases are good actually

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when Sama arrived on the ganges in his chariot to slaughter 6 million Upwork drones, the first word he said was 'namaste'

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Study found that "within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT, copywriters and graphic designers on major online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings". From @jburnmurdoch

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“Oh you have the most successful TV show of all time? Well I’ve tweeted thousands of jokes to my middle aged communist friends”

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@jeff82874662 we have Andrew Tate at home the Andrew Tate at home:

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@browserdotsys Hi, grad student expert here. This isn’t funny, phd candidates only do this when they’re very scared

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I wish this was true but even now the amount of camera surveillance we live under is a political negotiation, often driven by a fear of making legible how much dysfunction could be prevented

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@yacineMTB

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the only reason we don't have cameras literally everywhere, on every street pole, is because we don't have enough humans to review the footage. But now that video understanding got cracked: get ready for cameras literally everywhere

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My prediction is that this trend will make humanities departments even more insane. When the fight for the tiny number of remaining jobs is this intense, you can't dissent at all as your field becomes unserious

John Arnold

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WVU is but the tip of the iceberg of cuts to humanities departments as colleges face perfect storm: - lower undergraduate enrollment - sharp decline in interest in humanities - constraints on raising tuition revenue

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It is better to have tweeted cringe and deleted than to have never tweeted at all

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MDs trying to justify their top 1% salaries in 2024:

John Nay

@johnjnay

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Google's New Medical LLM Beats Doctors In Double-blind Text-based Consultations -LLM trained in self-play simulations across diverse disease conditions, specialties, & contexts -Eval on diagnostic accuracy, management reasoning, communication, & empathy

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When you work for a think tank that publishes this dreck but then play endogeneity police on twitter

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I’ve been thinking about this too. Technopessimism isn’t just left coded, it’s mandatory for most leftists. Not sure why but I think it’s partly because we associate technological progress with specific billionaires

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@thecaptain_nemo

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the current technopessimism of the left is not normal. massive rockets capable of settling the moon? near human level AI running on supercomputers? hints at finally solving fusion power? soviets would have been all over that shit

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