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Danielle Fong 🙋🏻‍♀️
@DanielleFong
imo this is the moment of the very greatest latent possibility like if you were an intelligence warped in from another timeline, to make the greatest effect on the future, i would be hard pressed to suggest there is any time more important than now
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Devon ☀️
@devonzuegel
A common thread in interviews of people I admire: when they were young, they felt like they were "born too late" and missed the golden era of their field For example, this came up in an interview with @ID_AA_Carmack. I nearly laughed out loud when I heard him say this, because… Show more
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Jonathan Taufer
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I used to think that. At least until the last couple of years. Now I think that there's probably not going to be another opportunity for change like this for another hundred years.
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Andi 🇦🇱🇺🇦 (IN 🇬🇷)
@Nexuist
Elon gets so much clout for being CEO of 4 companies at the same time just because he filed them independently instead of as subsidiaries of SpaceX (which, if we’re being honest, that’s what they are). Sundar oversees like 50+ companies in the Alphabet portfolio but nobody cares
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Emmett Shear
@eshear
One of my favorite policy ideas is "25 at 25": every American inherits $25k when they turn 25 years old. At that point you've probably been in the workforce a few years, and you understand the world a little. This would everyone to take a risk on a venture or career.
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autumn 💚🔍
@adrusi
locksmiths are criminally incompetent 99% of household locks can be decoded, and a new key fashioned, in under 15 minutes using less than $1000 of equipment if you don't need a new key, they can be opened in seconds with $10 of equipment your locksmith will drill it
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sophia { is soulmaking }
@sophianegativa
I had an ex-bf, Eric, who was a musical genius he toiled for yrs over hyper-maximalist, lore-backed, Mars Volta-style opuses that were truly stunning but he never signed to a label, didn't promote much, his music never caught on sometimes I wonder how many Erics are out there.
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roon
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does any state government not have insanely low GS scale payment bands? why not? have none of the 50 states discovered the nice hack of hiring smart hard working people?
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Anthony Aguirre
@AnthonyNAguirre
This interview with Hofstadter is kind of devastating and expresses something that often gets missed in discussions of what the progress in general-purpose AI signifies: the collapse – among many intellects I respect – of a world model in which AI is an intractably hard problem.
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Edward Kmett
@kmett
Douglas Hofstadter on the rate of AI progress and his collapsing belief system. youtube.com/watch?v=lfXxzA
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anton 🏴‍☠️
@atroyn
there are two kinds of people who can get anything real done; those who are so convinced of their destiny that they can’t help but live it, and those who are so fatalistic that all risk is apprehended equally
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near
@nearcyan
the reason there are not more sam altmans is solely that video games are more addictive and rewarding to most people than building agi
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shako
@cauchyfriend
If you look past the surface level feeling of unfairness you see a remarkably well functioning economic system, where those with means keep trying to find new ways to put money to use to create new industries, companies, products and inventions to create employment.
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Jason Leow » plugins.carrd.co
@jasonleowsg
Recently re-read this. So good. I'm that middle class kid. I had my one throw, but now trying to afford more tickets for more throws, through things like freelancing. All the while just hoping I'll never have to go back to working at the carnival.
Screenshot of HN post about Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games.
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Alexander
@datepsych
Something else in these charts: Women see themselves about as attractive as men view them. Men see themselves as twice as attractive as women view them.
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𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰
@Grimezsz
Art is the skeleton consciousness leaves behind when it's gone
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Alison Fisk
@AlisonFisk
An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own #Archaeology
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AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes
@AISafetyMemes
Big news: Douglas Hofstadter, a legendary scholar and famous AI skeptic, changed his mind: "I think [AI progress] is terrifying. I hate it. I think about it practically all the time, every single day.” “It feels as if the entire human race is about to be eclipsed and left in…Show more
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Liron Shapira
@liron
Doug Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, is an AI doomer. Hofstadter was previously known for being dismissive of the potential of artificial neural networks & deep learning. Recent AI progress has apparently sparked a major change in his outlook.
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Markov
@MarkovMagnifico
one of my most strongly held beliefs is that rainbolt is proof that data scaling laws apply to humans too and that, with enough data, we can achieve demi-god status in ~any domain
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anna
@annaarthoe
of the 110 billion humans that have ever lived, the arc of technological progress has been driven by maybe 10,000 people
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snail
@tallsnail
fun fact: the US forest service lets you rent these restored historic wildfire lookout cabins for cheap
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Visakan Veerasamy
@visakanv
i have never been able to persuade myself to be interested in the snail thought experiment here's one that bothers me instead: there's some set of words in your subconscious that, if you said them out loud in the right way, would rearrange your entire reality. what are they?
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Swann Marcus
@SwannMarcus89
It is absolutely incredible that nobody in the Democratic Party ever says "ya know, maybe the universities are partially to blame for student loan costs since they're the ones charging $100,000 for a creative writing MFA at Columbia"
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Nick
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Ineffective (2 to 5 min) forced meditation seems like the worst strategy. It will teach people 1. meditation does nothing 2. they know because they’ve done it thousands of times 3. It’s annoying like homework Meditation does a lot of things but not in five minutes
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Sam Sager
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hmmm forcing kids to do "mindful breathing" feels like the best way to make kids not want to do "mindful breathing"
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nicebyte
@nice_byte
early-career people should take the time to download and look at the leaked farcry code. not to learn some new technical lessons, but to disabuse themselves of the notion of “clean code”.
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