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Erik Bethke

@BethkeErik

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30 years of making online games. Making the most feature rich AI workbench. Created Starfleet Command, GoPets, MafiaWars, FarmVille. 3 year sailing sabbatical

Austin, Texas
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@BethkeErik
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2 months
@levelsio Can’t you just pull out your laptop in Europe and pretend to do some work in order to provoke the check!?
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@kitten_beloved Because he does the opposite of nearly everyone else: he makes himself purposefully beige and so the guest can cook and we taste the food and not the overly loud music. It is intentional. That is how you hook these people. They all have huge egos and would not do it
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@RichardHanania Scrapping the absolute bottom of the engagement septic tank
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@Aella_Girl The IRS does not have the funding to catch all of this. They apply a return on effort estimate and if the juice is not there they do not squeeze the rock. One day they might seize assets. But got to have assets to seize. Or garnish W2s But they are happy to settle for %
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@burkov It is simply being compute throttled at the agent and orchestration layer. It makes sense because power users can smash that $20 a month. I have built my own so I can get around this.
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1/🧨 OpenAI just reshaped the AI - err tech! landscape at their Spring Event, clearing the decks and sending Big Tech and indies scrambling - whether they know it or not! And guess what? They saved all their dry powder. Let me unpack how the engineering at OpenAI is a beast of
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@drvolts It provides leverage for employers to have additional tools to impose duress on their employees and to enjoy a less free market. It is all a matter of perspective!
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@Sassafrass_84 @mcuban I saw your numbers for IRS and Border Patrol, and did my own homework: Border Patrol agents: 20,000 IRS Auditing Agents: 8,000 Or apples and apples: Department of Homeland Security: 240,000 Whole Internal Revenue Service: 74,000 So your post is false facts
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@anothercohen @sa_lamoureux Oh really, is the Fed going to printing money? Yeah, I think the dollar will continue to lose purchasing power relative to hard real estate
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@nicdunz My direct experience on testing both: Sonnet beats the snot out of 4o on business intelligence data. So more than code. Overall, I find overly strong conviction in opinions a red flag.
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@AdamSinger Also, art and music are a waste of time. Work, eat rice and beans. Nap. Get back to work.
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@StealthQE4 10 year max mortgages Only human USA citizens may own a home Zero foreign or corporate ownership of homes, condos, duplexes 5% annual landlord tax on the 2nd home, +1% for each additional house. Prices will drop like a rock. But what do people really want!?
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7 months
@BlainePoliceMN @MnarMuh Seems like you are saying that you want people to really, deeply understand that she does not work for you anymore?
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@Liv_Boeree Moloch is strong in this thread
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1 year
@piper4missouri So, when are we having the opposite meeting? I am in! :)
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7 months
@jspujji Big Tech lobbied Congress to screw small tech just in time as all current SaaS is obsolete and needs to be re-written
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@TravelXeu @VisionaryVoid @fasc1nate Law and Order >> Right and Good
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@bindureddy That is funny, I continue to have this experience with humans.
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@AgentSelf99B She was born with all of the lady parts. She has been a woman her whole life. Only with modern chromosome testing would you know she has a Y. This is not simple
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@shitcoinexpress @anothercohen @sa_lamoureux I do not see how it is possible for thee fed to stop printing money. We are going from 36T of debt to 50T over the next tens years assuming no recessions or other black swan events. We have over 50% of the population dependent on that printed money.
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@levelsio @Kdenkss You have it correct on the Plaza Accords. Now read about the “IMF” as an event to South Koreans and you get Book II.
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@levelsio @Kdenkss Yeah, Japan told us that they had enough of being in the penalty box. We let them out. That crushed the other tigers as investors wanted out of Korea and back into Japan. We told Korea to allow the capital to flow out. They ran out of reserves. We told them no problem, pawned
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@KanekoaTheGreat @reidhoffman Why would you list NATO expansion as a bad thing!!!? Who pays you?
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@levelsio @Kdenkss I built a 100 person game company there 2003 - 2008 and learned about capital controls on hard mode
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@WifiMoneyPlant My uncle is a two person plumbing company. He personally SAVES $250k a year and takes 5 months of vacation a year.
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@airkatakana You guys need to understand that this is happening in South Korea and not the United States. Air is doing the best that they can, but no right to an attorney, and even if they wanted one, South Korean attorneys- especially criminal lawyers with experience with foreigners are god
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6 months
@Jason 1) Putin simply outmaneuvered Tucker in the first 30 minutes and made it clear that there would be no Q and A. Just Putin using Tucker’s access to X to make his appeal. 2) Putin’s skillful history and honey dipped words will be welcomed by those that are short term thinkers
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@MichaelTrazzi Very disturbing how focused he is on making super WMD to dominate the world and have everyone submit to a cadre of alignment folks inside the USA NatSec community to run the future. Very disturbing. I now think that alignment work is actually dangerous.
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@jefielding $200k? Circa $1m rounds? Pre-seed is a fine label. Angel also happens here. I think that other VC should go do some burpees to shake off their extra energy
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6 months
@StatisticUrban No action to stop school shootings. Our kids know our guns are more important than their lives. This graph is simply rational feedback.
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1 year
@kneerecon @MikeSington No reason for anyone.
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2 months
@CrazyFenaker @JoshuaMZeitz What about well regulated? Words do not mean what they used to mean
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@ylecun I am looking forward to this happening for all of STEM
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2 years
So excited! We sold out of our Martizens today! 6000 total sold across this crypto winter. Having a real game seems to help! ;)
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3 months
@nisten @MichaelTrazzi This, not enough of this
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@noahflk @FounderKyle Its binary: A players perform better WFH B and C perform better RTO A players naturally get together in person to tackle bespoke challenges B managers want to see their C players A managers measure outcomes
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@ID_AA_Carmack Prevention makes crap money. Chronic symptom management that is where the money is at. Just like social media with engagement farming vs rational and good discourse. We get what we pay for.
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@burkov Which is why I am favor of automatically breaking up any company once it reaches say 300B in size
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@deepfates He understands his ego << guests ego.
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@gtconway3d Wait, wait, wait. Just removing the income cap and taxing everyone the same, rich and working keeps it solvent without raising taxes, or making the retirement age later, or reducing benefits. Why is this NEVER brought up??? I know why, do you?
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@dysmemic @ybfollard @StevenMAnthony1 Or you are on social media and trolling.
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@airkatakana Many, many stories!!! Successful exit to Zynga. But learned so much about myself and being an American. Too much to unpack! So sorry about your advisor using you as slave labor. But not at all surprising!
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@airkatakana Also university professors have an odd amount of power, above a state senator in the states, below a congressman. There are large opportunities for this to go very difficultly. Oddly enough I am flying into Seoul now for a 15 hour layover. I have respect and fear here.
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1 year
@FractalThink @sniderstyle @ewarren Gains in productivity should be reflected in wages.
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5 months
@lorgiusti Two things. This is not really that crazy of a list. Second, they already have the candidate on and hand and this was written so that they can hire that person without triggering a DEI violation.
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@RokoMijic At 800ppm all humans have cognitive decline. We went from 250 to 425 in the last 200 years, and most of that in the last 25 years. I am all in favor of Geo engineering. In fact we are doing tons of negative Geo engineering now! But we actually do have to reduce CO2 back to 250.
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1 year
@GeorgeHristov7 Lack of existential need to practice the skill
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4 months
@AdamSinger But why pick that aesthetics and not others? Your original post is like a subjective opinion on modern art… I honestly would like to see humans be more novel and less conformist
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5 months
@primalpoly Even better, go back to allowing college debts to be discharged in bankruptcy. That Will return critical market pricing feedback.
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7 months
@AlwaysAndrewH @sweatystartup This is the way. I build online games with my sons.
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4 months
@DJSnM You could use your fusion to power sabatier reactors and create as much methane as you want from the atmosphere and keep the liquid fuel Party running
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2 months
@levelsio Also, I am Austin based. Can I buy you a beer?
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@Scobleizer @besemer_amanda @GoDaddy This is the way, I literally won a federal case in the 9th circuit over this. Just follow the process and you will be fine.
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@algekalipso I am pretty excited about no jobs. Seriously. Our current model is have 63% of Americans working, 37% not working. We have the intelligence and tools and drive, let’s make it 0% working. We could make all the stuff that need to get done by machines wrapped in a game layer
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1 year
I am deeply impressed with @emmanuel_2m and extremely grateful for @Scenario_gg - they have created the tools that have unleashed us and accelerated our mission to empower our players to create and grow the universe with us at Million on Mars!
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Another breaking news for ! Introducing Structured UGC, powered by Scenario, right within the games! 🚀 We're thrilled to partner with @BethkeErik and @MilliononMars , a city builder-style game where players develop industries on the red planet 🪐 1/ 🧵
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@ID_AA_Carmack Related to this, I am always annoyed when I go to click or tap on a button, but by the time my fingers perform the action, the underlying view has been updated and so I tragically have clicked on something else that I have not intended to click on. If < click less than 20 or 40
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@blader I totally agree and have been saying this in close circles. It is one of the reasons (not only) that I speak with respect and kindness
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@anothercohen I am sure each of these homeboy are diligently saving the $ it will take to rebuild their home and that they will refuse any federal assistance after the next hurricane
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@chrishelman @secretsqrl123 His last day on Earth.
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@sashayanshin @GreerPoplin He also harvested his own sand and made his iPhone from raw ingredients
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8 months
@lowkeyGPT @burkov My own interface, with loads of power user features. And of course I can now point at any model I like…
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@JoshGellers @ValidScience @A_Nelson1818 @NateSilver538 Does this sort of prose come naturally or do you have to lay it down slowly to get this?
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1 year
@DirkGently4242o @joeywreck Those three allow the bad cops to operate darkly. ACAB
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@Hallon_HH @Jason Years. Years. Years this has been known. Check the daily show trying to give Thomas a new RV and $3m to work for us the people
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@waitbutwhy $100m now, and I will take the longevity gamble and get 2:3
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11 months
@Pixelbarks Here is an easy way to think about it: if you can render a 3d view, then put the camera above and lower the resolution to taste. Everything else is optimizations, like orthographic projection, and working from lower resolution textures to start with. But think of a model for
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@MegaBasedChad The orchestration layer is being compute throttled
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@HamEggsnSam @US_Stormwatch This makes flat Earthers look smart.
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@thecaptain_nemo I am suspicious of whether or not wooden wheels would have survived from 40k years ago
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@blader It is incredibly challenging to find a reason for all of this that satisfies these simultaneous conditions: It had be a secret and remain a secret It had to be done in hours and violate the bi laws It had to be a complete surprise and mystery to the CEO, chairman and all 700
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9 months
@eyeslasho Cannot count churches. Take them out and the graph would be reversed.
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6 months
@piper4missouri Did the Toddler play with a Doll and a Truck!? Hmmm?
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3 months
@eshear Have it auto-sunset at the maximum of 3 years. We need legislation to keep up with speed of tech, or at least some semblance
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@rickasaurus @michael_nielsen Well, there have been suspicious handouts of blankets
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5 months
@hotrod_lb @realEstateTrent Fastest path? No. Print $36T and pass it out. That’s your inflation.
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@bindureddy GPT5 is all about the agent and orchestrating of tools, not a model update
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4 months
@PhoebePlague How about turning on a flashlight?
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@DaleStarkA10 @smilesturner This!! Be worth more to your fellow humans alive and thriving than be a negative drag. Why rich people think that property claims will survive a collapse is risable.
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@_david_ho_ Hydrogen in the home!? Just say no!
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@patio11 I heard that errors of title are in the range of 0.5% to 1.5% Interesting gamble, like fire insurance
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@_britmonkey @velohistorian I don’t care about people who don’t care about migrating birds.
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1 year
@tracyjarchow @mrgreen Explain how human emotions can come from a soup of chemicals. We are just debating form factor?
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1 year
Check out this amazing gear! Created using @Scenario_gg via their new control net feature! What a wonderful time to be alive! Thank you @emmanuel_2m and your whole team!
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@JuanSanchez0x0 @Austen Yud is speculating way, way outside his area of expertise
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Both rigorous and with dry humor, Zubrin mans his post and slays another pair of barbarians attempting to regress humanity! @robert_zubrin
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My review of the allegedly “deeply researched,” “sobering, and “eye opening” anti space manifesto, “A City on Mars” was just published in @Quillette . Please read and share my review of this “impressive,” “must read, “best book ever written.” @elonmusk @SciGuySpace @jeff_foust
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@airkatakana Built a company named GoPets in Korea from 2003 to 2008
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1 year
@VerhoevenVV @drugstorehehe @corncommunist @Seanphicks Guys, this account is an engagement troll.
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@EdLogsdonJr @deaflibertarian I think if we were directly billed for: Police Fire Education Libraries Parks and recreation Local jails and mental facilities … All in an itemized bill with % for each, and their current performance metrics, we would all appreciate it.
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@MaxFern0 @9mm_smg @Jax55555555 This. The better solution is to figure out in an apocalypse what would it take for hordes of desperate people to want to see you and your family thrive!? That is the homework.
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@emmanuel_2m @followmarcos @InfoKG @KaliYuga_ai @rodrigon @MilliononMars @NetherworldDAO @jaystansfield @IrenaSophia @icreatelife @Tadmajor @alchemy_plastic @BoneHeadArts @iColoringStar @ScipioSiberian @HeyNorby @jradoff @Scenario_gg "Wicker" this is when I fell love with your stuff @emmanuel_2m ! This fantasy backpack generator I created with just 5 source images! It freaking rocks - I have scores more great looking backpacks with just one word for this one!
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@NCC_1985 @JoJoFromJerz Word salad = zero help
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