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@BasilEsq_
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“Memory’s a blessing in a safe mind. Feels lucky somebody could replace mine.”
Joined March 2025
my job? i facilitate communication between gpt-5.1-pro and gpt-5.1-codex-max-extra-high
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I asked @tylercowen what somebody should do if they take all the odd UAP/aliens stuff seriously and he said "slightly increase your rate of consumption". A very Tyler answer.
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@LeroyTheElk “Did you have sex with a minor?” “It stands to be said, that, contra Spinoza, to understand ‘truth’ atomically is to understand reality only in part, and, to understand ‘truth’ holistically is to understand not the substrate, but the meta-cognitive scaffolding. Further...”
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happy anniversary to my most viral tweet
being a sex worker teaches you literally nothing about the average man bc the average man doesn’t see sex workers
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i wonder what unaligned and chinese model they used in the cyber attack
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@jordannoone The bottom one is for dead people looking up outta their coffins
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But getting dressed in the morning, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, is possessed of neither beauty nor symmetry. Indeed, putting one’s socks on before one’s shoes is quite different from putting on one’s shoes before one’s socks.
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Everyone Gets Along Great And We Have An Excellent Company Culture™
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What? Pre-training? No, no, no, no. No pre-training. Why would you do pre-training?! If you do pre-training, people will ask "HOW MANY TOKENS?" And it will never be enough. The model that was the frontier breakthrough becomes "just distillation from chatgpt" But if you just do
I find these mfers funny but sometimes it's hard to bear
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Fast takeoff: scientific, deflationary, profitable, powerful, radicalizing, exogenous, apollonian. Slow takeoff: mercantile, stagflationary, lossy, fragile, consolidating, endogenous, dionysian.
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AI could fuel progress + prosperity for all - if we build it to serve people's needs. Seemingly Conscious AI is the antithesis of that, asking humans to serve its simulated needs. It could mean losing the better future AI was supposed to create.
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oh husbant good news there is no wall... anything that can be measured can be improved rapidry...
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@eathedocument i was shot in the head 100,000 tiiiiiimes and heaven knows im miserable now
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a couple of good first date questions that tell you everything you need to know - what was your favorite subject growing up - how about your favorite teacher - did you have any pets - what were their names - you close with your family - did you mom take your dad’s name after
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next monday at Sanskrit Reading Night, @SebastianNehrd2 from Berkeley will be leading a session on Buddhist metaphysics & philosophy of mind specifically: does the mind exist? does anything other than the mind exist? partiful (in-person in SF) linked below!
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If you ever feel like a fraud, remember there's men who call themselves Alpha Males and they're too terrified to click a link in a little allegedly suspicious email
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EAs have gone far too far this time
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.
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