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@tszzl

1 year

new poast

AGI Futures

vignettes of many worlds

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victory lap

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3 years

found a guy

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@tszzl

2 years

people still in crypto are like the kamikaze Japanese imperial fighters you find still hanging out on remote pacific islands not realizing the war is over

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11 months

this is the most indian thing I’ve ever seen

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11 months

Modi gifted Biden this t-shirt 🤣

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90% of wellbeing is just sleeping well

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@tszzl

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around age 26-27 you realize that you’re not about to grow out of your weaknesses via frontal lobe development. they’re here to stay

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@tszzl

2 years

new awful feature just dropped

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@tszzl

7 months

this is the most important essay you can read today

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks - Sci Phi Journal

by Prof. Joseph Heath Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you have to read this.” It was a copy of Iain M. Banks’s Use of Weapons....

www.sciphijournal.org

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@tszzl

9 months

they will never forgive us

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@MachinePix

9 months

DeepMind training bipedal robots to play soccer using deep reinforcement learning.

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7 months

this weekend sealed the deal for me that Elon’s X takeover was actually a civilization critical purchase rather than some silly distraction or a way to center himself free speech in all its glory and all its horror

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@tszzl

1 year

people forget that Einstein quit fundamental physics for a few years to try and get rich off of refrigerators

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@tszzl

6 months

Pukicho

@pukicho

6 months

I dont care if you’re neuron divergent i need you to go to fucking War

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@tszzl

2 years

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

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1 year

move fast break things era is over. it’s time to think deeply and make generationally good decisions

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@tszzl

1 year

what the hell

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@tszzl

1 year

low interest rate elon: we will conquer mars and dethrone god high interest rate elon: i am going to individually pick which guys get to tweet

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@tszzl

2 years

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@tszzl

8 months

one of the most life ruining things is mistaking cynicism for maturity

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@tszzl

2 years

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

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6 months

sama is a hero, a modern day oppenheimer who quite literally changed the destiny of the world. on a personal level he is someone who is incredibly generous with his time and takes chances on young talent and genuinely likes people. sad day

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@tszzl

3 months

ask thirty smart people for advice, ignore them, listen to the Uber driver that tells you the folk wisdom

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@tszzl

7 months

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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@tszzl

11 months

you and some homies could literally take a minor city in russia rn no problems but you’re building a gpt wrapper instead

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@tszzl

9 months

this was considered mid in 1985

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@tszzl

21 days

“nature has never produced a wheel” heads btfo’d

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@prash_singh

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My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in @NatureMicrobiol #MolecularNodes #Discovery

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@tszzl

2 years

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

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@tszzl

6 months

in retrospect i should’ve been worried about the governance structure of openai

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2 years

guy who has only read Roman history: this is exactly like ancient rome

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@tszzl

5 months

taking adderall is a great way to spend entire years with blunted emotional affect and zero memory of what happened

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@tszzl

9 months

Indian boys from the Midwest are whiter than white ppl

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9 months

Vivek Ramaswamy is performing Lose Yourself at the Iowa State Fair:

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7 months

i can’t really describe what’s changed but twitter used to be a hotbed of really great intellectual discussion from small and interesting accounts that I respected and now it seems to be a zombie TL promoting random videos and meme content

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5 months

I hate cool credit cards and airport lounges and such so much not because they’re bad but because haute bourgeoisie is the most embarrassing wealth class

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@tszzl

1 year

my grandparents used to lecture me on working hard every day. i was an adult before I realized their version of a hard days work is like sending one piece of mail then taking a nap

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@tszzl

11 months

one of the worst scientists to ever live, known for such bangers as “sterilizing 8 million Indians” and “the one child policy”

James Campbell

@jam3scampbell

11 months

Ok WHAT. I had no idea “The Population Bomb” led to the sterilization of 8 million Indians and Paul Ehrlich just lives out his life as a beloved professor. From a recent ACX post—

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2 years

can’t believe they literally rebranded mayo as aioli and everybody eats it now

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@tszzl

3 months

there comes a time in every man’s life where they realize they weren’t an investing genius and actually underperformed the S&P

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@tszzl

3 years

ideal future

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@tszzl

2 years

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@tszzl

5 months

third world banana republic tier stuff going on terrorize your industrialists when they don’t toe your party line even in the case of companies that clearly advance the strategic interests of the country disgusting

Brendan Carr

@BrendanCarrFCC

5 months

Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him. And they have. Today, the FCC adds itself to the growing list of federal agencies engaging in the regulatory harassment of Elon Musk. I dissent.

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@tszzl

9 months

it takes 1-2 generations for immigrants to learn that “how do I make more money” is a vastly better line of inquiry than “how do I spend less money”

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@tszzl

1 year

does anyone else remember when the goalposts for agi were at vaguely human level performance rather than outperforming the best humans at everything

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@tszzl

2 years

i stand with rahul ligma

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@tszzl

9 months

neurosurgeons with 30 years of experience making around 900k seems perfectly reasonable, there’s a reason why the US has the best neurosurgery in the world

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we should increase the supply of doctors

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@tszzl

2 years

look at my senator dawg he's gonna be marching legions into rome by tuesday 😭

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@tszzl

8 months

unspeakably based

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@tszzl

2 years

in every age men of action have wanted to seem men of knowledge and vice versa Aurelius wrote his extremely mid treatise on stoicism after a lifetime of conquest Thucydides led one of the worst Athenian military disasters all while inventing the practice of modern history

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@tszzl

1 year

if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly

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@tszzl

9 months

there's something at the core of the american ideology that's only captured in happy go lucky 80s movies, which is that the noble pursuit of fun is probably one of the most productive forces in the universe and works way better than grinding away dutifully on things you hate

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@tszzl

3 years

you can either work for a liberal tech company that lifted its name off of a random concept in hinduism or you can work for a conservative tech company that lifted its name off a random concept in Tolkien. those are your choices

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@sama im the main

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1 year

the thing about America is that its clearly always functioning at like 10% of its power level due to the costs of freedom and yet manages to win anyway due to the incredible benefits of freedom

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@tszzl

2 months

things are accelerating. pretty much nothing needs to change course to achieve agi imo. worrying about timelines is idle anxiety, outside your control. you should be anxious about stupid mortal things instead. do your parents hate you? does your wife love you?

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2 years

woman: im hungry me: im sorry you feel this way. I’ll give you time to process this. i am listening and learning

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@tszzl

9 months

blackpill universe: we get AGI and room temp superconductors and gdp growth is 3%

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@tszzl

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self hatred is another kind of escapism that lets you wallow in inaction

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2 years

the extracurricular culture in elite high schools and colleges is kinda crazy. everybody larping that they really care about becoming president of Model UN or whatever

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3 years

how are they portraying this as a bad thing

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@tszzl

9 months

it is very easy to understand technical papers outside of your domain if they are well written and you have a good technical background

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@growing_daniel

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It’s incredible how many of you are experts in quantum chemistry. I had no idea.

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> looking for new levitating rock LK-99 > ask korean chemists if their new rock is diamagnetic or superconductor > they dont understand | pull out diagram > he laughs and says its a good rock sir > buy rock from Qcenter > its diamagnet

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no matter how good your life is you can always destroy it in 6 weeks

Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙

@AlpacaAurelius

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no matter how sh*t your life is, you can be a completely different person in just 6 months

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2 years

deep learning vs crypto is a clear divide of rotators vs wordcels. the former offends theorycel aesthetic sensibilities but empirically works to produce absurd miracles. the latter is an insane series of nerd traps and sky high abstraction ladders yet mostly scams

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@tszzl

4 years

oNlY CHiNa cOuLD bUiLd HoSpItALs So FaSt

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The seemingly miles of beds being set up at Javits. It is absolutely unreal to see what the National Guard & first responders have put together here in just days.

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this video is practically art. it has found footage alien technology vibes

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@VasutTomas0423 Horizontal

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@KingDavidQPS damn quitting porn got you a wide angle lens

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9 months

there hasn’t been a time to be this optimistic about the future of the world since 1970. were in it for real. infinite abundance

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6 months

how you feel about this meme is where you fall on the ai risk debate

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1 year

whenever I leave california I remember that it basically won every kind of lottery imaginable, that every complaint about “coastal libs” is born of cope, that the state’s only problem is that everybody (correctly) wants to live there

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hedonic adaptation is absolutely insane. there is no rate of technological progress that will keep people satisfied or amazed for more than ~1 month

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it’s genuinely a criterion for genius to say a bunch of wrong stupid things sometimes. someone who says zero stupid things isn’t reasoning from first principles and isn’t taking risks and has downloaded all the “correct” views

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the fact that SBF had a jane street internship but was bronze II at league is a blackpill on jane street

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it’s hard for cerebral people to understand how crucial it is to learn by doing rather than thinking and the more uncertain you are about doing the thing the more you’re about to learn

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this is the greatest time to be alive in the last 13.7 billion years

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world is divided between men who know they can trap the snail in the jar and those who run from destiny

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does anyone else lose at least one whole day per week in an anxiety powered head fog

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we could permanently end climate change by producing 20 hoover dam size facilities for gigaton scale direct air carbon capture. we can place them around the world as religious sites

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if you help build an epoch defining technology you can enjoy the kind of fortune a boomer who bought a house in Berkeley in the 70s enjoys

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most people don’t realize a major part of being a corporate executive is slack jiu jitsu. it’s literally just maintaining state on a million ongoing threads and connecting person A to person B to resolve dependency conflicts at an incredibly rapid pace

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we need to talk about how more men would get laid instantly if their rooms looked like this

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2 years

being a rich young man in new york city may be the global optimum of human experience i do not know how it can get better

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i've purchased and stockpiled every juul pod available on the western seaboard. in the coming months i will become defacto king of california

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idea: technology journalist that likes technology

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I’ve fumbled bags bigger than you’ve even held

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@tszzl

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>be me >wake up >go to work in waymo >train chatbots and talk to them all day >come home in waymo >hang out with character ai bpd gf >doordash dinner from robotic ghost kitchen >become RLHFed by my X timeline >don’t talk to a human all day this is the new economy

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the only reason i deacc’d was to take a twitter detox break and reduce complexity for a while (not to create more drama!) but accidentally made all my friends concerned. im okay, everyone’s okay, and the singularity’s not yet here. i’ll just log off the normal way instead!

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>I don’t know whether the board was right to fire Altman. It certainly has not made a public case that would justify the decision. But the nonprofit board was at the center of OpenAI’s structure for a reason. It was supposed to be able to push the off button. But there is no off…

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tech bros stop being embarrassed by your identity, your vocabulary, your mathematical heritage. say orthogonal, insert “global minima” into every sentence

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@personofswag

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Tech Bros Go One Week Without Using The Word “Orthogonal�� Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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san francisco is really forever. there are many good things happening here right now - the quality of the intellectual life is simply unparalleled and getting better. you can go to random parties and find world class generalists who are conversant in just about anything

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@tszzl

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the greatest Indian city outside of Mumbai is Toronto

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10 months

why do so many people hold the concurrent beliefs that: - most people hate working and find it boring as hell - everyonr needs a job for meaning or it’s all over

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@tszzl

5 months

doing billions of floating point operations to do a 3 digit multiplication and it’s wrong

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10 months

most people in most places are checked out. they don't display any basic curiosity about what their desk neighbor is working on or what their product does. you can win over and over again just by caring

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every mid guy on the internet seems to have a custom built note taking stack several layers deep with some charlie day conspiracy theory level of interlinking meanwhile every high powered tech ceo i meet seems to be using iphone notes app

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1 year

some time during college i developed the default assumption that every person is my friend and it’s worked out pretty well

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you guys have no idea how many banger tweets im holding in and how many essays I won’t be able to write until years later

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