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epistemic father. committed all to bits
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2010
"Bitcoin" comes from the old Hebrew "Beit Cohen", meaning "house of the priest" or "temple". Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem by driving out the money lenders. The implications of this on Bitcoin vis a vis interchangeable fiat currencies are obvious and need no elaboration.
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this is a remarkable resource for learning to write non-fiction well. LLMism are just signs of thoughtless writing; humans are no less prone to this than clankers https://t.co/67NBr2D5Ww
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Stir up the group chat with a "let’s go to Florida this weekend 😎”
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this is the synthesis of several takes I heard from female friends in their thirties. don't shoot the messenger!
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dealing with straight men is scary and risky for a woman on her own. traditionally, her male relatives interfaced on her behalf. today, women build up to it by being "bisexual until graduation", then befriending gay/queer men in their twenties, and only dating seriously after 30
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2025 SF 🤝 1875 Paris - "philosophy salons" - rich benefactors sponsor revolutionary manifestos - wearing layers bc no indoor heating - aspirational orientalist aesthetics - aspirational orientalist spirituality - "it's all about taste" - sleep with anyone except for your spouse
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economists say America is richer than ever, but some people warn it takes more than ever for an American to be richer than their neighbor
$100k is officially lower middle class. Here's how much it costs to live "comfortably" in every US state:
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@TheAnnaGat @TheHopeAxis @natashajouk @sariazout @Gena_I_Gorlin @Noahpinion @xsantiagoramos Natasha asked why AI companies pay so much for writers. The answer is that frontier AI is about writing magic spells to summon a djinn and the better-written your magic spell is, the more the djinn obeys you. https://t.co/hJDYlGRMcg
With Opus 4.5, we didn't just use this spec to produce *rewards* or *demonstrations* that teach the model the behaviors described in the spec. We also trained the model directly on the text of the spec. https://t.co/BGBVRMHmUk
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those who fail to learn from history are doomed to live in unprecedented times
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what's the funniest you've seen an LLM be in conversation? not when you ask it to write humor in a very specific format like a greentext, but just randomly cracking you up in the middle of a normal discussion
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so the 1s conscripted a bunch 3s and 6s to build out Effective Altruism as a rule-following respectable global institution and the 5s seduced a smattering of 7s, 4s, and 8s with the promise of forbidden knowledge to throw fun events and festivals around them (and to shitpost)
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a fun way to think of this schism is that the sequences originally attracted enneagram 1s (tell me what rules to follow to be a right thinker) and enneagram 5s (show me what rules to break to arrive at truth) and the two always had trouble co-existing
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about a decade ago rationalists started splitting into "EA culture" vs "Lighthaven culture". each June you can go to LessOnline for eugenics and cuddles OR to EAG for eval charts and career 1:1s but not both. you can tell just from the twitter avi: pro headshots vs cartoon anons
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using AI-powered AI-detectors is worse than posting AI-generated stuff in the first place. you can't blame writing quality if you've given up on *reading*
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if your biomarkers prove you're half your actual age, that's also who you're allowed to sleep with
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if you're want to know the difference between "rat" and "post rat" without prejudice against either, read this conversation between me and John and see who you intuitively side with
@myhandle The thing about stuff that's true or false, as opposed to things that are subjective, temperamental, moral or personal is that there really is a right and wrong. I would say that about fewer things than many people but I do say it about this.
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young women generally have tighter deadlines for figuring out dating, especially for things like social grace which differentiate a short-term partner from a potential wife and yet we've collectively memed ourselves into preventing young women from acquiring useful RLHF on dates
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