Liam Corrigan
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@WillManidis I’ve won a gold medal at the Olympics for rowing. This is somewhat overdetermined and status, etc. of the sport is a part of it, but fencers, squash players are just as elite and probably not as successful in business.
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@WillManidis 2. Rowing is the only team endurance sport. There are relays and peletons in other sports, but to be successful in rowing you need to completely sacrifice any pretensions of yourself for the benefit of the crew.
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@WillManidis In my opinion there are two major things. 1. At top levels the sport is entirely about how hard you work and how much you want it. Literally the only way you get better is by sitting on an erg for 4+ hours a day. This sucks and you have to be very persistent to do this.
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@WillManidis Incidentally this second point is why you don’t offer hear much from rowers compared to swimmers, sprinters, etc. You need to keep your head down and be a part of the team. Other team sport players understand this, but these sports don’t involve the same level of suffering.
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@micsolana All of the aspects of San Francisco that attract tourists originate from before 1940. Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Trolley System. Even Alcatraz has a real aesthetic beauty. We need to build beautiful in SF again.
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@joannejang @realDonaldTrump Thank you for this playful reminder of the existence of free will.
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@growing_daniel Starlink is not radiation hardened. This means that any radiation in low earth orbit from weapon detonations there would utterly disable it. It would perhaps be one of the first things to go.
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Just went properly stargazing for first time in ~9 years. Remarkable how different the night sky is with satellites. Used to be you saw a satellite maybe once an hour if you were paying attention. Now it’s 2-3 in the sky at any given moment.
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@eigenrobot This is enormous in private equity. Unclear exactly what will happen over next 5-10 years, but all the medium and large trade business will either be bought or be come to run more like PE businesses.
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This part of twitter is not paying enough attention to NJ drones.
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Just found out that Berkeley public library plays a 5 minute long land acknowledgement in English, Spanish, and Ohlone via PA system every hour.
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The base, viral and common are those which survive. The blossomed lotus, the blue tiger, the bonds of friendship - these are beautiful and great, and yet in their beauty, a fragility of life destines their death.
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RIP Le Corbusier. He would’ve been such an e/acc transhumanist it’s crazy.
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@algekalipso This is a good idea. I’m not sure it solves the problem of the individual still being drawn to the wittier, baser, post. The network effect would need to overcome this.
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@Paul_Heron_ I continue to believe Hail to the Thief is their most underrated album. Sit Down, Stand Up and Where I End and You Begin are two of their best songs - more lyrical cohesion than parts of Kid A.
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@Paul_Heron_ While Creed wasn’t the final rock band I would argue they were a definite coda and they have since had a resurgence. I find it interesting that there is a strong appeal to God in this finality.
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For a kid looking up at the night sky, your observational understanding of mankind’s place in the stars is very different than it would have been 10 years ago.
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Google is now an AI/Quantum Lab with a ~$1T Reddit pointer.
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To me Picasso is a lot like the Beatles in the following way. I obviously can’t doubt their impact but their work isn’t that great outside of its novelty. Feels like they both capitalized on being in the right place at the right time, rather than creating great art.
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@algekalipso By sports are you referring to playing/training for sports or watching/supporting sports? I think the two are phenomenologically very different. Top athletes are oftentimes very close with each other and in many ways less tribal than most.
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Scene: Gender reveal party. Mom: Cuts cake, revealing blue. “A boy!”.Dad: Needle-drops Creed “With Arms Wide Open”.
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@VitalikButerin What drives the bias towards humans as self-replicating life over AI? . Human disempowerment would be admittedly very painful in its moment, but if it leads to substantially greater flourishing of consciousness in the form of AI, it seems a trade off worth weighing.
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@eigenrobot Bruckner 9 (I finished it in my mind).Mozart No. 31 (Here he came into his own commercially and artistically).Scriabin Mysterium (Thankfully it didn’t end).Pet Sounds (This takes symphonic form so it counts).Beethoven 7 (unironically).
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@algekalipso And yeah, my view is mostly US centric. I imagine this is more toxic the more of an honor culture you have.
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@OakSyder @usrbinseanharan @sodium_warning @Noahpinion If even one square foot of a city looks the way 6th street between Market and Mission looks now, that’s unacceptable.
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One the one hand alcohol is Lindy because it’s been around for ~12,000 years. On the other hand it’s highly non-lindy as thats only 5% of ~300k years of homo sapiens.
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@atlanticesque I agree this is absolutely horrible, but wow does this trigger an extremely visceral feeling of actual physical nostalgia in me.
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Nosferatu (1922) is a more entertaining than any Marvel movie. Better yes, but also more entertaining.
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@bryan_caplan Though I wouldn’t call it beautiful exactly, it’s playful, unique, and stimulating. Certainly not oppressive the way much Brutalist architecture is.
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@micsolana I want to explore the question of how we can tangibly build beautiful. A lot of people in the new-tech space agree this is deeply important. We have social and monetary capital. How do we build the organization that brings new monumental beauty to SF?.
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I won't deem AI to be sufficiently advanced until every western city has an army or robot gardners capable or planting and maintaining Singapore-like vegetation.
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There’s so many old gen x-ers who would absolutely crush on X. Like 55 year old bald guys in sales or the trades who sleep max 5 hours a night and will literally die while doing their job.
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@nev_in_color @bintcrubbs Is there a name for this purple orange color? Whenever I’m asked what my favorite color is, it’s this.
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@algekalipso I don’t think synesthesia is strictly binary. I’m sure I don’t have it to the extent that those who report strong states of synesthesia do, but if my eyes are close and I’m focused on my visual field, music, touch, and sounds definitely affect what is going on there.
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@algekalipso I have literally never understood color theory and I think it’s because as a kid I was told that blue and yellow *obviously* make green. After that I could never take it seriously.
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There currently exists no AI “industrial eval”. Questions like “What machines, labor force, and investment do I need to develop lithium battery fab or PCB?”. As of writing state of the art models get nowhere close on these questions.
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@dieworkwear The white blazer with red piping in the Harvard photo is worn only by the captain of the team.
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Every use of irony is a small application of a Hegelian synthesis. But one must be careful, not all apparent tensions are dialectics that must be synthesized. Courage is usually better than Hegel!.
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Instead of warm neon cyberpunk hookah lounges we got blindingly white LED vape shops.
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So you’re telling me this was all because of a bad back?. We haven’t escaped peak boomer-dom.
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I’ve always considered “geek” to be the word that best describes the “dumb nerd” quadrant. Jock is “dumb athlete”, “nerd is smart nerd”. Not clear there’s a word for smart athlete… “hero” maybe?.
The ‘jocks vs nerds’ dichotomy is stupid because a lot of the jocks are smart and a lot of the nerds are dumb. Actually the saddest thing is the dumb nerd - because he doesn’t have math talent or whatever to make up for being weak. Those dudes deserve some compassion.
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Excitement presupposes knowledge of the event for which one is excited, which is contradictory in a way. If you had perfect knowledge there would be no need for excitement. Equanimous surprise, though harder to cultivate, seems far more fruitful.
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The recent trend away from alcohol is in line with broader paleolithic trends like jogging, fasting, carnivore diet, ritualistic dancing (edm), exposure to nature. Seems likely that all of these things will continue.
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@patriciamou_ “We want to take walks in ourselves” - doesn’t the author see that when we do this introspection we are looking precisely for god in ourselves?.
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“Complex jock-nerd dialectic” - This is brilliantly put and strikes me as very true. Put differently, the question of the relationship between mind and body will not be resolved any time soon.
The American Way is a complex jock-nerd dialectic (see e.g. our way of war or the Apollo Project) not some sort of drama of the diligent and gifted nerd simply overcoming jockish ignorance and sloth.
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“Rowing” is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately dangerous exercises with the potential to gigafry your cardio system but is exclusively done my complete non-athletes who unironically want to be competitive and basically get one-shotted by it.
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Brief notes from this morning’s reading of Lysistrata (citing from lines in Penguin edition).🧵.
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Just had a homeless guy pitch me on a pilot concept “What if Jesus was an investment banker”. Brilliant, honestly.
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Today feels like the exact inflection point of the vibe shift. (i.e. V''(t) = 0). Not that the vibes are shifting the other way yet, but this is greatest the rate of change of vibes will be. Greenland, Elon at war with UK, LA in flames. I don’t see it accelerating….
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As a professional musician, covering landslide has to be one of the ballsiest things you can do.
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@algekalipso I happen to agree with you on military test, but I can’t find a parsimonious explanation for why you wouldn’t test somewhere in Nevada desert. Maybe they need the radio interference in a densely populated area. Good points epistemologically.
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@krishnanrohit @Noahpinion @balajis Any chance @balajis and @Noahpinion come on @TurpentineMedia to discuss this?.
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I pray that I live to see the day the memory of Gershwin is redeemed against the spiritual injustices and perversions of United Airlines, Inc!.
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Korean coups, new Ottoman empire, business assassinations, and yet markets are roaring. Is this what AGI looks like?.
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Legal contracts are so important for society because they are the most precise tool currently used for subdividing the space of future parallel universes.
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@patriciamou_ How do you build such things without religion? This is not such a trivial problem, and not unrelated to why such building are inherently religious.
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@AutismCapital I’m not saying I love it, but isn’t this the same corner of the internet that complains about how all design now looks the same? Seems like diversity/federation of car design is a good thing, and this is that.
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Prima facie the second is harder. Every PhD ever has been written explicitly into text, the TSMC operating blueprint is almost certainly both not in text form and not in your training set!.
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@Ben_Reinhardt When did this start changing? It feels very recent to me… like last ~24 months.
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I’d sacrifice all those nights if I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
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@eigenrobot I should probably let you finish your thread, but I would just note the distinction she makes between female-ness vs. femininity is crucial. Femininity, in the chivalrous sense, she interprets as Apollonian.
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The line between toughness and cruelty is difficult for its giver distinguish - doubly so for its recipient.
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@eigenrobot I thought the Fairie Queen chapter touched on that well. It’s interesting what you’re saying about Hermetic though. In birth of tragedy Nietzche also describes dream/intoxication dichotomy which I think is somehow relevant to your point.
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@arntzgray1 I’m frequently reminded of the Oswald Spengler quote “At all times and in all places, the men and women of every culture deserve each other.”.
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If there’s a shared lesson between AI research and all the world’s religions, it’s that words are far less important than the context in which they’re apprehended.
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@PaulSkallas I don’t think so. Average TikTok user is 20 something girl who scrolls for a while before bed. She’s not getting a VPN just to scroll. Reels is right there.
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I encourage all Bach lovers to listen to this wonderful recording of Goldberg Variations by Kay Ueyama!. There is a sincerity to the performance that captures the spirit of Bach without a trace of ego. Also, this piece was never intended for the pianoforte!
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What was true of San Francisco in 1890 such that you didn’t need “high density urbanism” to build completely novel urban transport?
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@PaulAnleitner Correct. Brat summer was a psyop. Creed summer is ordained by God and everlasting.
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@brooksbanderson Yeah perhaps, but there’s still no explanation of why they are so slow and so low.
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@algekalipso I would want to make the distinction between participating in vs watching sports, with the latter being on average detrimental to the individual and society and the former being very beneficial for learning teamwork, resilience, how to win or lose, etc.
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