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We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing in every minute. @elicitorg
Oakland, CA
Joined February 2021
Secret Service should have a bug bounty where if you hit someone under their protection with a paintball gun you get $10k.
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Just happened to look at the bottom of the sake cups I've had for years and uhh
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Cute girl at the cafe asked me about Marcus Aurelius. She has to be a fed there's no other explanation.
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Current birthrate belief: falling birth rates is mostly because liberal modernity socializes (many) of the benefits of having lots of children (old-age care, perpetuation of your part of society) but keeps the costs mostly individualized.
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How tf do people not choose window seats on flights. Seeing the crumpled mountains as of a vast fabric and passing through great arches of cloud is a holy experience . The mightiest of emperors didn't have such opportunities to wonder at the glory of the world.
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I feel like I'm regularly confused by cyanobacteria blooms. Why aren't there more organisms evolved to eat it, given that it seems like a pretty abundant food source?.
Lough Neagh is just another victim of rising global temperatures. Climate change increases the growth of harmful algae and cyanobacteria in fresh water. Runaway growths of algae strangle water ecosystems and devastate them.
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People talk about how wealthy American philanthropists no longer build colleges or w/e, but I think the main reason is that building physical things is just *really* expensive now. All of Zuckerberg's wealth, even if it was 100% liquid, only buys like 5 BART stations.
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It just one-shotted the entire Stripe programming interview, which I know for sure isn't in the training data.
im thinking about code interpreter being released as a watershed event. if this is not a world changing gdp shifting product im not sure what exactly will be. every person with a script kiddie in their employ for $20/month.
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Don't have much to add to the current situation except that nuclear nonproliferation is dead for the rest of my lifetime probably
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Between Firebase, Stripe, and copilot, I made a functioning e-commerce site in like 5 hours today.
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Subculture society is good because it makes status high dimensional, and local maxima are rare in high dimensional space.
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This is such an insanely reddit-core take, but I think Ghibli is a great illustration of the value in "popularist" art that basically everyone loves and is moved by. It's a distinctive modern artistic expression, but one which doesn't over-intellectualize.
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Bunch of people saying it's because they consume all the oxygen, bruh they literally invented oxygen
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Pursuing your goals seriously is cool and all but have you considered how comfy local minima are??
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~40% of federal funding is on elder care (SS and ~50% of health spending)! . The US govt is to a first approx a wealth transfer system from the young to the old, and much is trivially downstream of this.
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I think a lot about how in a manner unlike almost any other technology, radio is something you could pretty trivially recreate in the Roman era that would be immediately incredibly valuable.
Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used at mines, mills, blast furnaces, etc. But to your dismay…
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I do think that if financial assistance to parents was greater than Social Security spending we'd probably see much higher birthrates. afaik no extant fertility policy goes that far.
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I think it's really funny how common this refrain is: "you shouldn't use DRUG to do X, you should do this all natural thing instead. We know it works because it does the exact same thing DRUG does". Why not just take the synthetic then???.
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AI safety in theory: we have to make sure the AI doesn't kill us all. AI safety in reality: we have to make sure the AI doesn't say slurs or draw anything naughty.
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Future where the US allows poly marriages and ever-larger "joint households", eventually leading to intentional communities with their own internal tax structures, which are treated as a single taxable entity by nature of being *technically* a polycule.
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This is exactly correct, America should do communism (create SEZs with extremely lax zoning and access to cheap capital).
Here’s what a country still ruled by a Communist Party managed to do within the same time period:
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I fucking love programming so much like holy shit this stuff is what my brain was made for I love modernity I love technocapital lfggggg.
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How do people who don't code even take this stuff, any time I'm not coding I feel like I need to be doing more things . Only the glory of shape rotation can fully utilize fastmode.
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By the grace of our engineer-priests you can drink coffee and gaze upon the vault of the heavens for the cost of a few days labor.
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I think a lot about the fact that @patio11 believes in Evil and thinks that this is an important part of any model of the world.
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This is the most braindead argument against LLMs and I don't know why it keeps coming out given that the answer is obvious: human brains are pretrained by millions of years of evolution, your lifetime learnings are basically just RLHF.
Humans don't need to learn from 1 trillion words to reach human intelligence. What are LLMs missing?.
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I think we should arrest people who commit obvious crimes in broad view of the public.
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American urbanists visiting Tokyo and looking at the housing stock
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We talked about the fundamental unsatisfiability of mankind and how one must imagine sisyphus happy.
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I just saw someone write code I thought was bad and I spent 15 minutes reimplementing it from scratch and then replied with my better version.
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People on here are *waaay* too credulous about Trump promises and *waaay* too optimistic about him consistently delivering for the "free market/pro-growth" team, relative to what his actual government was like when he was last in charge.
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YanDev has been trying to make a yandere simulator for almost 10 years, and then Bing just sweeps in and makes one on accident in a month.
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My grandma was visiting, heard my Spotify, and asked “why is all the new music so sleepy”. So twitter, why is all the new music so sleepy??.
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@SkinnyTuna I do think the "paintings don't work over phone screens" thing is very real. With many pieces, until you see them in person it's hard to see the appeal.
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I have $30k in my checking account rn and should probably not have $30k in my checking account. Where should I put it? (Both right and wrong answers welcome, please don't label them).
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Re: Ozempic + Addiction. I don't think GLP-1 agonists have some general pharmacological effect on addiction, but removing the feeling of hunger from your life changes how you relate to the desire<->satisfaction loop in ways that make you generally less self-soothing prone.
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Gonna mix Adderall into a gamer beverage, call it "Clutch", and then become a millionaire.
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@ceaubin @formaformarum I love reading classical works and think the classical world was extremely and blatantly immoral.
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I feel like this is one of the big reasons to work in an ambitious startup. Working closely with people who are just *insanely* good at what they do changes your perspective on the possible, and on the scope of human possibility
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@yacineMTB idk, a few cows can eat a *lot* of grass. You'd think there'd be some cow equivalent here.
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>see a spike in failure rates for our OAI calls.>looks like formatting failures.>check the specific output logs.just another day in 2024 am i right
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@kendrictonn Was talking to a girl last night who was telling me about this guy she's dating who she thought was perfect in basically every way except he's shorter than her, and she wasn't sure if she could get over it. Wild.
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I unironically think that as engineers it's your duty to make all of these visions of the world prosper simultaneously.
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Looking at llama.cpp and having my mind blown by how little code it is.
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Me and my boyfriend went to a cocktail bar and he proceeded to order three (3) Glasses of Milk.
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A crystal radio receiver doesn't even need power! You'd only have to power the transmitter, and you can probably just use a waterwheel attached to a spinning magnet to get enough power for a weak signal.
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Almost every failure to create something in the modern world is one of coordination and will, not of any underlying lack of technical capability.
This is how many ships Bethlehem Steel built during WWII. Amazing how fast we can go when we put our minds to it.
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In a slightly different framing, I think that many people talk about "Community" as an abstract thing they want, but actually Community died because it requires trading off personal preferences for the communal, where atomization doesn't.
Today I write about how many parents who bemoan the loss of a "village" don't actually want one, because it would require them to interact with other people.
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@inthewaterwheel For transit specifically, the Transit Costs Project has a big mega-report you can read Website here:
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One thing that really stands out about Neal Stephenson is that even when he's writing dystopia, the *awe* of technology is never lost on him. He understands that if these things are horrible, they're horrible in the way a hurricane is - full of destruction and yet holy and moving.
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@eshear Very common now w/ lots of nitrogen entering water supplies, but also they were literally the reason the Earth's atmosphere became oxygen, at one point they were omnipresent. Maybe organisms that were well specialized to consume a lot of them died off?.
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Anal beads hooked up to GH Copilot, sending me hints during my programming interviews via morse code.
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@resumisu @mattyglesias I mean if I could make infinite copies of that building at essentially 0 marginal cost and end homelessness and housing affordability forever, then you'd have to be a monster not to right?.
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I just discovered there's a whole bunch of people who think OAI is (daily??) RLHFing GPT-4 to fix questions it responds incorrectly to when they go viral.
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@RichDecibels @Duderichy I've been beating the "downside risk of climate change isn't maximum warming, it's someone doing geoengineering without caring too much about potential risks" drum for a while now.
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@Charles_B_STB @Noahpinion People be like "how could anyone live in apts that small!!" Meanwhile like half of SF pays $2k for a closet with a door that doesn't lock in a house with 6 other people.
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@krishnanrohit @AlecStapp tbf they're also regulating "symbolic reasoning", which seems like it would cover all software.
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Get ready for every country around China to start trying to build or buy nukes and to point to this moment when asked not to.
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@tszzl lol my team at work is called Gondor, it's like all Mormons, and we sell shit to Raytheon.
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@tszzl Imagine working at Google Ai and not even knowing that you're about to break your back lifting Moloch up to heaven lmao.
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This is a sin.
had dinner with two google employees and they got into a bragging competition about who works fewer hours, the guy @ 2 hrs/day for 500k tc won.
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