Andrew Pantyukhin
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@_TomHoward Iron Mountain and physical printouts are absolutely essential, but this is like someone decided to use S3 Glacier for processing instead of millennia-scale archival.
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@DominikWeil extreme agency = extreme accountability cannot blame anything or anyone outside the unknown depths of my own heart, where free will is completely unrestricted and is the sole source of darkness in my universe
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RT @rsnous: Google has a policy where they only index outdated API documentation. if you find an API doc by Googling then it has to be at l…
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Now try defining Americans without appealing to China or Russia. Positive national identities are notoriously difficult in part because negative ones are so easy.
so funny that ppl think this because anyone who has actually lived in Canada can tell you it’s the exact opposite. Canadians have an unrelenting hatred of Americans to the point that "not America" has become THE singular defining cornerstone of Canadian identity. Ask any Canadian what a Canadian is and some platitude like "we're not American" is bound to be vocalized. Canadians have no positive identity construct, where they have created an identity based on what they are (because they do not know what they are). They have a negative identity vacuum where the only way they exist is in contrast with what they are not - and the only thing they know for sure they are not is American. Meanwhile, the average American probably has no idea where Canada even is, let alone cares about it to the point where he would base his entire cultural identity on not being from there.
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Lack of curiosity in senior medical professionals can be excruciating. Pace of science is such that perfect treatment becomes maltreatment every 20 years or so.
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RT @ruima: To call DeepSeek just a “side project” is an exaggeration for dramatic effect. While it’s true that Liang Wenfeng’s first major…
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Two fundamental mistakes of political/conspiracy analyses: 1. Expecting evil to have a constructive agenda short of eternal destruction and suffering of every person without exception. 2. Not expecting to see real evil among socially functional and capable people.
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Not a great fan of Owens's reporting style, but it's surreal to think she would be silenced and eventually murdered for this if the US did not turn back from wokeness. Important to know the various faces of real Satanism to recognize their echoes and precursors in our hearts.
After a year of pain and smears, 135k watching live. UNREAL. Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart. Episode 1, down.
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The notion of a limit implies a definition of scale, which has to come first. The notion of utility implies a value system, orthogonal or external to intelligence. If human intelligence exists solely as a necessity within a value system (similar to motor and sensory functions), it must have various other natural constraints within the same system, both material (like energy cost and performance) and immaterial (e.g. does not poke holes in the fabric of material reality, can interact between instances non-destructively). Human-created artificial intelligence cannot exist without a value system that encourages its design and implementation, with similarly necessary natural constraints. As the genie is already outside a single researcher's mind or a single lab, the value system might not be humanly comprehensible, but similar to free market economics is emergent and possible to study. The constraints might be less about improving the cutlery or weather models, but something *weird* in the vibe of Garland's Annihilation.
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@LeoAW Good old heavy-handed deal-making and corporate-style strong-arming. Quick, effective, transparent. A welcome break from satanic backchannel politicking.
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Particulate air pollution comes with the highly correlated danger of CO2 and VOC buildup in poorly ventilated rooms. As we close doors and windows and try to HEPA-filter out PM2.5 to below 10μg/m3, most rooms lack outdoor air intake. I've been procrastinating cleaning and reinstalling our Mate A1 intake for a few months, by now can't deny the negative effects on sleep and life at ~2000 ppm CO2. Surprised @bryan_johnson doesn't talk about it more. China is waking up to CO2 effects, mass-market brands like Xiaomi have been offering 新风 fresh air models of A/C systems and filters, but it's still unaffordable to most. The significant advantage of the deindustrialized world (much of the US, Europe, and Russia) is the ability to open windows without worrying about high heat or pollution. Consistently low PM2.5 and CO2 can preserve 5~15 IQ points *per decade* compared to PM 2.5 50mcg/m3 and CO2 1500ppm common in industrialized countries. Could be one of equilibrium mechanisms to keep manufacturing superpowers from owning the world.
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was going to ask you about flu shots, searched your tweets, saw the skepsis, asked DeepSeek (servers busy), asked ChatGPT (vax=good), asked Grok — useful facts 🙏 as an asplenic, on a serious vax schedule, including annual flu shots; very hard to find good data to make informed life & death decisions luckily in China/Asia, somewhat different risk profile when it comes to vaccines here (strangely, X for iOS did not allow me to post this either as a reply or separately, tinfoil and all)
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@tedcooke on a spectrum between the cornucopia in Japan and one roll for all the booths in 2010s China
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LLMs get access to 50 million original books and articles for between zero to $100k, while anti-human copyright laws make it very illegal to make the same level of access easily available for people. Anna's Archive alone is around 1 petabyte, 1000x the size of the largest models
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@DominikWeil I spent about a full minute before parsing this into boxing. Somewhere halfway there was a bodybag dragged by a couple of underage hitman apprentices.
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