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there's another thing you can do where instead of blaming feminism you just ask "wait, why do so many women imagine death preferable to rape?", talk to women, and find you actually have a massive psychological blind spot as a man to the unique extent of suffering possible from it.
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you need a quest. you're depressed because you don't have a quest.
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i've discovered that real life is a lot like this.
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remember when a study in the nature journal deconstructed all of politics and it really just came down to this?
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@Impish_Bunny "i have a breeding kink". shut the fuck up that's called being a fucking mammal.
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i'm sorry but america has the best flag. all the others are just worse
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just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit
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Goldman Sachs analyst survey. holy shit the banking world is brutal
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the first 9/11 simulator flash games came out just hours after the towers fell
wtf has gotten into the kids; my generation wasn’t making “hide your drink from bill cosby simulator” . what changed?!??.
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"why doesn't mankind build wonders anymore?". bro we built a cathedral to ignite the flame that burns at the heart of distant stars. you're complaining that we spend too much money on it
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popularizing that chart has to be one of my biggest regrets on this platform. never forget: it's impossible to overestimate just how illiterate the average person is.
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man. i really cooked with this one
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i've made over 200,000 requests to the deepseek api in the last few hours. zero ratelimiting, and the whole thing cost me like 50 cents. bless the CCP, openai could never.
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> "a 4.0 GPA CS major can't get employment after graduating". fixed it for you:. > "hoopjumper spends entire life jumping through hoops and is utterly lost when the trail of hoops to jump through abruptly ends".
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sucks that you have to start so young to become extremely cracked at things like math or chess. like nobody warned 6 year old me: "btw, while you're busy playing minecraft, your brain is irreversibly calcifying and doors to future potential are being permanently shut". wtf??.
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and yes, i'm not a dumbass, i don't give any particular shits about you all knowing my location to that degree of accuracy. honestly if someone puts in the effort to fly to vermont, find my house, break in, and then brutally murder me, they deserve it for the effort at that point.
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spend a minute or two considering the fact that your visual processing doesn't have reflectional invariance by default, and noticing which invariances it does have.
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so, we think it's blood oxygen, or what? how do i biohack this.
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the creator of neofetch archived everything. his last commit was changing his README to "have taken up farming". beautiful.
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elon: "this is dumb LOL 🤣".yann: "you will die miserable, bitter, and forgotten"
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why does woo always converge to "vibrations" as an explanation? it's weird how woo of all forms eventually arrives at roughly the same place.
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> have a file.> zip the file.> have a new, smaller file.> repeat, and watch size converge to zero. trivial. problem, nerds?.
I have an update for those trying out Neuralink's compression challenge. I put some effort into calculating the legit theoretical max compression possible and. tada it's 3.439
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adderall is unfair. i can't believe we found the limitless pill, the super serum, the fucking nectar of Athena, and only annoying 12 year old boys who chew on erasers get it.
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you don't make cigarettes obsolete by creating an alternative way to consume nicotine, you make cigarettes obsolete by creating an alternative justification to casually ignite and hold a tiny fire.
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i'll say it again:.a brain properly maintaining homeostasis is incapable of this.
Serious question. What do the hyper-productive know that most people don't?
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a guy i'm talking to has a very interesting problem:. his wife doesn't believe in the atomic hypothesis. she's simply never seen empirical evidence atoms exist. so, what easily legible experiment can he perform to demonstrate to her that reality is not made of a continuum?.
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@nypost I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS I HATE JOURNALISTS
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been obsessed with the implications of this poll result over the past few days. such an tragic failure of coordination. 46% of people pointlessly killing themselves by being well-meaning retards
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spent a while drafting before deleting a long insensitive tweet of observations i've made about depressed people, based on the many who have confided in me. tl;dr is that they're usually basically correct in their self-assessments and this makes things very difficult.
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double negatives serve a role in english, human language is not formal logic, cope, etc
i think i gain 20 iq points just by being non-unhappy.
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idk, i feel like people just don't quite get it. this is among the most expensive undertakings in human history. it's a scale mankind has never operated at before. there is literally no parallel.
Announcing The Stargate Project. The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure.
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I used reddit back in 2019, and recently checked back up on them. it's exactly how I left it. I'd estimate that at most a week has passed in their world. they're trapped in a time prison and completely unaware. imagine if the latest unfunny twitter bit went on for half a decade.
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pro tip:. do not compliment a girl by saying her makeup is "very effective". i make these mistakes so you don't have to.
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a guy once explained to me that he figured out a major life decision by writing a socratic dialogue between two characters each arguing for a different choice. i still think about how based that was from time to time.
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you simply have no idea how strange your world is about to get.
🚀 Excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc in the labs of @ClopathLab and Troy Margrie at @SWC_Neuro! We've reconstructed movies from mouse visual cortex activity. 📽️✨ #Neuroscience #AI 1/6.
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every time i remember we can do this i get a rush of excitement to be alive. literally just do dimensionality reduction w/ UMAP on neuronal spike data and you can recover topology from mental models of physical space
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like sure, yeah culture plays a role, but you simply have to acknowledge that you cannot empathize with that pain by default and yet it is real.
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White noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles white light. Pink noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles pink light. Brown noise was named after Robert Brown, who helped discover it. This is one of my least favorite facts. - Scott Alexander.
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this mf still thinks he's got a "true self" that he hides under a mask in public lmaooo. he doesn't realize he's always playing an act, even when he's alone
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Why can't neural networks ever learn sine waves?. So, for context, Stephen Wolfram wrote "Can AI Solve Science?" a few months ago arguing that neural networks can't generalize beyond their own training due to the constraints of architecture. A particularly interesting example
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i hate to say this but a lot of people actually can't "just do things". it's hard to imagine when you're not in the state, if your internal reward system is off, trying to do things outside your typical action space feels like trying to see outside your field of vision.
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There Are Cathedrals Everywhere For Those With The Eyes To See. for example, at the following locations:
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this process is tedious af, wish there was some way to do it faster. who's building this?
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depression is literally just this:. > usually, you can take actions to make your life better or worse. they've got some positive or negative score attached. you'll always be trying to take the "best one" (ie. highest score). > there *is* some small cost associated with taking an
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imagine working for the company that will censor your own tweet unless you write out a link as "stallman dot org slash apple".
here are some great reasons to not use apple (stallman dot org slash apple)
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cheesy as fuck to say, but that occult knowledge you're looking for IS real and it's pure math. like, the esoteric teachings that grant you sight beyond the veil to witness the underlying machinery of reality EXIST and ARE HIDDEN, just not by conspiracy but by their own nature.
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it's a shitty chart, there's ambiguity. but the relevant information is that the heatmap shows "extent", i.e., the widest ring people care about a non-zero amount
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bc people keep asking me how to get competent at ml: here's the fastest path. this is roughly what i did, but with all the noise and extra sidequests removed.genuinely a pretty good strategy imo
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To any investigators whom this may concern:. I confess that we, TPOT, played a key role in inciting this attack, and we admit full guilt to any and all related accusations. Our leader goes by the name "Yacine".
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he's not *dumb*, i suspect this just requires a very abstract intuition for pattern based deduction that most people simply never train. for reference i got it in like 7 seconds or whatever.
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i regret helping popularize this image. the people who i see using it most seem to have no idea what it means. i failed to account for the degree to which people don't like to think.
remember when a study in the nature journal deconstructed all of politics and it really just came down to this?
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"skill issue" can actually be seen as an incredibly encouraging statement with the right mindset. that's why i'm gonna start saying "talent issue" from now on.
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really? wishing death upon a mother of 5 because she made an app a little worse? . can you people please just be an adult human sometimes and drop the cringy techno-edgelord bit
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wouldn't it be great if you could ask people questions without the side effect of mutating their state.
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8-bit floats are literally the most adorable thing i've ever seen
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when i was 14 i wrote a raytracer in a day just off intuition and wikipedia alone. it's not like i've gotten dumber. i know this sounds ridiculous, but i think it's literally just a confidence thing. i used to believe i was smart. i need my ego back.
i output the most lines of code per day in 7-8th grade. only declined since then. and you think you had it bad peaking in your 20s.
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one of my favorite facts to tell people is:. > the probability of a randomly selected real number being computable is zero. it feels really counterintuitive at first if you haven't heard it before, but if you just think about it for a moment it becomes satisfyingly obvious.
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> warned ziz is a potentially lethal infohazard.> look inside.> utter tumblr-level slop. no offense but how do yall keep killing people over this shit
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diffusion is such an unserious algorithm. mf you're literally just repeatedly exclaiming "Enhance!" at an image of grey noise until it becomes an anime girl or whatever.
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been wandering for several hours now. not on any trail that appears on maps. 5 likes and i go down the hatch
my work is done, it is 2am, and i've still got many hours of wakefulness in me. current plan is to keep walking east until either i fall asleep or the sun rises.
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now that i'm friends with Elites, it's really funny to see that Elites literally just actually do all that Evil Illuminati Elite Stuff you'd think they do.
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i'm only not as depressed as them because:. - their life pretty much sucks and my life is just better. - they've tugged at threads i've very deliberately chosen to ignore. and i truly don't know how to help this.
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dude i'm trying so so hard not to be an asshole i was so painfully polite how the fuck do you people do it
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type of guy who’s smart enough to exclusively enjoy hanging out with extremely technical people but not smart enough to meaningfully engage with them as intellectual equals.
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found an extremely high quality introduction to computational neuroscience. complete with interactive simulations & everything
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"pigeonhole principle"? do you realize how dumb you sound? we're talking about files, not pigeons.
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how tf can you be poor if you've got adhd??. literally just make Acquiring Money your hyperfixation. it's that easy.
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@robswc yeah, rural vt is a bit different when there's 3 houses in the whole state though. and only 11 miles away to be exact.
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there's actually one datatype that's even cuter. this is the tiniest float type that still follows all IEEE standards:
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you're calculating (age / 2) + 7.i'm calculating (age - 7) * 2.we are not the same.
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ok read this. straight up pornographic
I love how whenever you randomly stumble across a mathematical notation or classification system with that specific vibe to it, you'll just instinctively know "Conway was here".
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@ProPaxMundi people believe that this means leftists care more about strangers in africa than their family. which is obviously wrong and retarded, the chart actually shows that the most distant people leftists still give a shit about are strangers in africa.
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i wish i could mute a community. the algorithm has conjured this slop-spewing wormhole to midwitland in my feed and it now seems impossible to shut
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kinda crazy that a group of people just decided they'd try to actually be correct about things and ended up being more correct about things than anyone else.
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@hatedballoon no, it doesn't. have you read the paper? that is explicitly not what the chart shows.
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what are you nerds talking about? it's INCREDIBLE that ai has near-perfect recall of movie frames. do you have any idea how significant that is? the implications for its compression capability?.
I'm tired of having to prove to people that generative AI systems infringe by default, so here's a megathread of images I've prompted you can use in your discussions. Article by @GaryMarcus and myself at the end. 1/🧵
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makes you take the symmetries it seems to acknowledge naturally much less for granted. try imagining how you'd implement them if you were building a human brain. (i was going to just tweet my thoughts directly, but i decided i'd save time and let you think them yourself).
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@amplifiedamp i appreciate how you'll drop into shitpost/half-jokes and actually provide interesting insight.
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terminally online degens will turn 16 and base their entire personality after one of these guys
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