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@thecaptain_nemo
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i like the rationalists. i like woo postrats. i like grounded engineers. i like neitzschean romantics. i like strict utilitarians. i like earnest christians. i like buy side finance guys. i like transhumanists. i like the degen traders. i like the lesswrongers. i like the EAs. i…
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nuclear submarines are a Dune ass technology
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@thecaptain_nemo
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i asked google gemini to generate an image of the canadian prime minister
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lmao
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@thecaptain_nemo
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repeating the “fear is the mind killer” mantra to myself as i buckle my seatbelt for my United flight in a Boeing plane
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@thecaptain_nemo
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most people don’t realize what an accurate portrayal this was of an extremely specific and real type of guy
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@thecaptain_nemo
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The Dunes here are amazing, and they're how I learned about geomorphology, which is the study of movement landforms. We've had a great trip
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@thecaptain_nemo
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a coming of age ritual for all autists
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@thecaptain_nemo
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what embracing physicality does to an mf
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@thecaptain_nemo
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reading doctor subreddits is a huge blackpill on the medical system clearly seem annoyed at patients who do their own research or question them despite being self-aware that all most of them do is go through simple checklists to catch common issues like high blood pressure
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@thecaptain_nemo
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“slurp ice cream so good yes yes yes slurp gang gang” i mutter to myself as i check into my hotel room on the 23rd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel with no motive
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@thecaptain_nemo
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wtf is going on in mexico
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@thecaptain_nemo
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i’m starting a kickstarter campaign
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@thecaptain_nemo
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steroids are still underrated
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mfers in the 1700s got a bigger dopamine release from listening to the local drunk playing a piccolo than you do from watching a $100 million dollar budget avengers movie on imax while taking dmt
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@thecaptain_nemo
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squid is so slept on 1. it’s absurdly protein dense (25 grams per 100 calories) 2. it can’t be farmed 3. it’s ridiculously cheap 4. tastes amazing cooked simply. just drizzle with olive oil and lemon
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@thecaptain_nemo
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wouldn’t it be funny if 99% of all technological progress depended on a single company based on a small island subject to increasingly unstable geopolitical forces haha
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@thecaptain_nemo
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SF city government rn
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@AP
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San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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@thecaptain_nemo
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the nerds finally seized power and the first thing they do is automate themselves
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how the fuck did christian bale do this body transformation in SIX MONTHS between filming The Machinist and Batman Begins
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@thecaptain_nemo
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peaty friend said to taste liquid zinc to see if i have a deficiency. “if it tastes like water or slightly sweet, then you have a deficiency. bitter if you don’t” taste a drop of it. tastes like sugar water so i drink a spoonful of it sleep for 11 hours straight. feel amazing
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@thecaptain_nemo
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“sorry to fire you from your own company but we feel like you haven’t been consistently candid with us”
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@thecaptain_nemo
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what are your most useful automations?
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@thecaptain_nemo
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crazy how many ridiculously smart guys there are who can't get anything done without a metaphorical gun to their head
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people in everyday life: “humans are a blank slate and are shaped almost entirely by their environment” people ordering from a sperm bank: “hi, I’ll take 5 orders of the 6’ 7” ivy leauge olympian gigachad sperm please”
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@thecaptain_nemo
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"elon's a fraud!!! he's only successful because he's a nepo baby from his dad's emerald mine!!! nothing special about him at all, just another guy that got lucky!!! you'll all realize he's a fraud any second now!!! just you wait!!"
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@thecaptain_nemo
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“why shouldn’t i leak the weights… i co-founded the company after all… just this one time…”
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@thecaptain_nemo
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guy who has experimented with every stimulant known to man but has never tried putting their phone in the other room before sitting down to work
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@JeffBezos jeff bezos shedding his linkedin npc shell and finally deviating from the dialogue tree
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you people are fucking degenerates
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most americans don’t fully grasp how fucking resilient the US economy is and just take ‘number go up’ for granted many countries people think of as wealthy (Japan, the UK, Italy) have been economically frozen for over a decade while the US keeps chugging along
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lmao I strongly suspect elon won’t be hearing back from wfp
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@thecaptain_nemo
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millennials: noooooooooo it feels like tiktok and constant scroooling is restructuring my brain and making me retarded!!!!!! gen z:
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@thecaptain_nemo
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in another life Steve Ballmer would have been a khan uniting the steppe tribes and birthing a 1,000 year empire
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@thecaptain_nemo
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somehow i totally missed this openAI recently updated their “company structure” page to include a note saying the Microsoft deal only applies to pre-AGI tech, and the board determines when they’ve reached AGI
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50th percentile GPA and 99.99th percentile standardized test scores is the most powerful combo
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@thecaptain_nemo
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rare and powerful esoteric physiognomies from the ancient world
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@thecaptain_nemo
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just a reminder that you can gain 1.5x more muscle using steroids without lifting as you can lifting without steroids
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unpopular opinion oldschool grimey 24 hour diners are spiritually rich places (temples of grindset) and are aesthetically superior to whatever brunch spot you go to
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lol they had elon agree not to buy more than 14.9% of twitter in exchange for his board seat
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@thecaptain_nemo
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unpopular opinion. psychedelics are harmful and counterproductive to the vast majority of people but *very* rarely you meet someone who has clearly gone to the other side, seen the void, crossed the river styx and returned with skulls. you can sense it all over them
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@thecaptain_nemo
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modern psychedelics enjoyoor: "embracing psychedelics will usher in a new age of enlightenment" meanwhile, the only culture we know of that actually embraced psychedelics:
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any serious "psychedelics will usher in a new age of enlightenment" take needs to reckon with whatever the hell was going on with mesoamerican civilizations
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@thecaptain_nemo
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there hasn’t been a single world leader with this level of energy in the last 2,000 years
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@Alsheikh_eth he was not going to achieve that transformation in 18 months naturally unless he’s a genetic freak or was secretly jacked af under all the fat
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@thecaptain_nemo
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why does fasting almost always trigger a flow state
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@thecaptain_nemo
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the bene gesserit are the crown jewel of Dune. stroke of genius by frank herbert. fully distilled vision of men’s unconscious psychological model of women and the fears/desires/reverence wrapped up in that
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@thecaptain_nemo
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basically never expect a general practitioner with an MD to do anything a nurse practitioner couldn't do even though general practitioners make 5-10x more for some reason
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shape rotating at wordceling in UC Berkeley: the woods:
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pulled the ultimate karen move an airline employee called my gf a cunt and no one at the airline would apologize so i called a PE firm that owns a chunk of the company and complained - within an hour i got a call from someone high up at the airline apologizing and refunding us
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@thecaptain_nemo
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engineers have the lowest ratio of ambition to talent of any profession
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@thecaptain_nemo
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pov: you’re about to have your life’s work burnt to the ground by someone desperate to be the main character
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west elm caleb was doxxed and looks a lot diff than i was expecting
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the look on a sales guy’s face when they realize you’re an autist and they aren’t getting money out of you
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never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or boston dynamics if their robots function reliably in any real world environment
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most people can’t be bothered to do 30 minutes of back of the envelope math to see if their long term plans even make any sense
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@thecaptain_nemo
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you’re depressed? you mean your life lacks a narrative flow and the plot hasn’t progressed in a while?
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@thecaptain_nemo
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funny how the wachowskis dropped a once in a generation banger totally out of the blue then proceeded to unload pure dog shit for the next 20 years
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@thecaptain_nemo
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my gf’s dad is literally the anti-huberman. smoked his entire life, drinks heavily on occasion, never cared about sunblock, never went to therapy or cared about “mental health” mf is 80 but looks like he’s in his 50s. healthy af, sails competitively and is mentally sharp as hell
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@thecaptain_nemo
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italian fascists may not have had much else going for them, but they were definitely cooking aesthetically
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high IQ low conscientiousness mfs are like sleeper agents waiting for a god king like Steve Jobs to activate them and force them to reach their full potential
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@neuralink fucking incredible. man made wonders beyond comprehension
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@thecaptain_nemo
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the only thing that reliably ends centuries old blood feuds is superabundance neither side really “won” northern ireland. younger generations were just too rich to give a fuck anymore
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i refuse to believe the journalists who made this saw it as a dunk on zuck
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there should be an antipsychedelic that strengthens ego, reinforces separateness, and increases competitive drive
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blackpills you learn as you get older: -most jacked guys are secretly on steroids -people rarely change dramatically after 30 without a chemical intervention or religious conversion -envy (not greed) drives the world -highschool clique dynamics persist into adulthood
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“leg day” is the most successful psyop against men ever created
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@thecaptain_nemo
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you were actually destined to be happy and fulfilled but a seemingly harmless decision you made in your early 20s had ripple effects that cursed your entire timeline sorry i don’t make the rules
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@thecaptain_nemo
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i have now seen the lives of two Very Smart People™ fall apart within a year of diving head first into buddhism
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@jyarow this should be the plot of the next pixar Cars sequel
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@thecaptain_nemo
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> read gwern > “hm this nicotine stuff isn’t that bad” > “fuck i’m out of nicotine gum… maybe a vape would work” > (furiously chain vaping while having the most productive all nighter of your life) “hahaha fuck yes!!! Ahahaha” > (a month later unable to function without…
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@thecaptain_nemo
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@Zorvyyy lots of issues associated with farmed seafood. plus the animals get to live a natural life
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you’re telling me you didn’t have faith in this man?
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impressive even if he was roided up on some soviet mystery chems
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TIL the manhattan project had its own brothel
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@blamblamtheman incentives rule everything around me
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founders who reach >8 figure liquidity exits only have 3 choices: - found another company - become a complete nihilistic degenerate and spiral into an increasingly lonely abyss of whippets and nervously forced vibing - become an insufferable thought leader npc
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ngl, slightly alarming that dall-e 2 generated this based on the prompt: “dall-e’s final form”
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@thecaptain_nemo
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the biggest fraud finance bros ever pulled was convincing the world to use the term "investment banker" to describe a job that is nearly identical to being a real estate agent
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@BecomingCritter deleted scene from oppenheimer
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has anyone successfully gone from consistently sleeping 6 hours a night to consistently sleeping 8+ hours a night? bonus points if your problem was staying asleep instead of falling asleep
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@thecaptain_nemo
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pov: you’re visiting a zero interest rates era web3 founder’s apartment
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top tier fiction writing talent is shockingly rare 7.8 billion people and we can really only make one book or movie that isn’t mid every 5 years?
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@jonpadven lol this is not an average natty lifter
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@GAE_USA nothing wrong with women wanting a man to support them, but... only 0.12% of unmarried men between 18-30 are over 6 feet tall, not obese and make at least $120k per year
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love yann but this is straight cope
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@alwarming think it’s more likely he started ignoring his PR team
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the most repeated quotes from legendary physicists are always something new agey they said once in an opportunistic attempt to get with art hoes
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the fact that we’re not conscious in non-rem sleep is one of the biggest blackpills for people hoping AI is or will be conscious
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blackpill on gfs is that they completely derail your life if you find the right one
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better start building a time machine if you want to stop baron from creating a 1,000 year interstellar empire because it’s already inevitable at this point
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parties in SF should just have one of these at the door instead of serving alcohol
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if scale is all you need then why are sperm whales (20 lb brain) dumber than humans (3 lb brain)?
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mfs trying modafinil and nicotine for the first time after reading gwern
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every day it gets clearer that david bowie was 100% correct here
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what would happen if elon donated sperm to 1000 mothers and gave the resulting children million dollar trust funds to pay for their education and startup seed funding?
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nerve signals travel 99.99999999% slower in your body than signals travel in fiberoptic cables why didn’t evolution settle on a fiberoptic-like delivery system? there are bioluminescent animals so it should be possible
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