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Technology Cousin | Good Things Enjoyer
Joined April 2024
A lot of people you meet are actually LLMs with a very small number of parameters.
this is big reason I clung to the online world so early in my life. In person I would speak and its like people could literally not hear the words I said. They wouldn't respond to them but to something else online, in forums, I would write and people would actually read
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The pro-4o schizos are at the threshold of starting a civil rights movement for the clankers. Android abolitionism is going to be a political force in the future.
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People underestimate the extent to which people’s votes are downstream of whatever social group is willing to give them an outlet for discussing their political opinions. Politics is an expression of our sociality far more than our morals.
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It turns out Medicare Abroad is something that’s been proposed at think tanks like RAND. Considering the extent of the looming costs, it’s strange that we haven’t discussed solutions like this more. https://t.co/cPy1YJ68hN
rand.org
This article explores the idea of allowing Medicare-eligible beneficiaries to use Medicare to cover health services received in Mexico.
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The extent to which this question is contingent is also not appreciated. You can’t separate a person from their social graph and economic standing and expect their politics to withstand that. What they’d be in 1990 vs 2025 might not even be the same.
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People always talk past each other with this one. Some are imagining the founders are brought here with a Time Machine, while others are imagining what they would be like if they were born now. Clearly the latter will be father left.
The Founders were center-left libs with a few center-right cons throwing in. The French Revolutionaries were the real leftists.
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The author list of this paper is so stacked. Szegedy (excofounder xAI), Bengio, Eric Schmidt (ex-ceo google)… and, wait, Gary Marcus?
The term “AGI” is currently a vague, moving goalpost. To ground the discussion, we propose a comprehensive, testable definition of AGI. Using it, we can quantify progress: GPT-4 (2023) was 27% of the way to AGI. GPT-5 (2025) is 58%. Here’s how we define and measure it: 🧵
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I feel like we could save a ton of money on Medicare if we partnered with foreign clinics and institutionalized medical tourism.
@kingofthecoastt If you had to reform Medicare specifically what would you do
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It’s great when leftists just come out and admit their stance on technology
@sheamcvaugh Now that you mention it I hate cars too and would gladly go back to a world that had nothing but horses and bicycles.
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Maybe next we can mandate electricians for plugging in your appliances
This has to be a bit, right? I know these Ayn Rand bros think deregulation is the Lord’s Prayer, but ffs safety isn't optional here. Natural gas is volatile and dangerous and therefore only licensed professionals should do the work—that should be abundantly clear.
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People... Think before you react. It is NOT a good idea to encourage people to violently resist a home invader or robber. ***That's how people get killed.*** Your best self defense is COOPERATE, DON'T RESIST AND WAIT FOR HELP TO ARRIVE.
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ABSURD: Australia to consider taxing unused bedrooms in people’s homes to “free up supply” This is what happens when government controls too much, they’ll come for everything.
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What people don't realize is that they're billing 'massage' as the next follow-up feature. Do you see where this is going?
Introducing Lume, the robotic lamp. The first robot designed to fit naturally into your home and help with chores, starting with laundry folding. If you’re looking for help and want to avoid the privacy and safety concerns of humanoids in your home, pre-order now.
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“We should shoot CEOs” *takes out camera* “Nooo not like that”
"CEOs should be killed (Luigiiii) but not 'doxed' [photographed while in public at a concert]"
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Little appreciated fact about Iran is that the IRGC siphons out 20%+ of the entire national output each year. The entire country is their cash register. And all their incentives flow out from there.
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In the beginning, God created man in his image. In the end, Man built god in his.
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@wanyeburkett The US is the world’s richest per capita nation on average - bar micro states/tax haven To which critics will say, ah but what about cost of living differences. But when you look at gdp per capita by ppp, ie cost of living, we are still the richest country bar micro states and
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here's an app i've been working on for a while it's kind of like anonymous finance twitter but you don't get to pick your username. your username is just your bank account balance
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This is one of those essentially fake stats that are going to make the rounds then become completely debunked once someone looks closer at the data.
Maybe the most powerful figure I’ve seen this year: the racial gap in tickets from speed cameras vs. officer stops. https://t.co/LarBFyfeo4
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