Ludwig Yeetgenstein
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My Amazon package came but it was already opened from the bottom. It’s pretty clear that the thief changed their mind once they saw what it was.
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I’m in China and found the Chinese translation of Infinite Jest. Cover text reads:
You need physical strength, this book weighs 1500 grams; mental strength, 267 characters appear in this book; and a pair of sunglasses, be careful not to get burned by the author’s dazzling talent.
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Skaters, or as I like to call them “guys de ‘board”, created hypebeast culture, or as I like to call it, “the society of the spectacle”
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The year is 2090. I’ve been waiting in the bread line for 7 hours. I get to the front, they say it’s 3 ETH plus gas fees for a loaf. I have 3 ETH but not enough for gas. Can you offer anything else? In tears, I admit: Y-yes, my Eminem Bored Ape, but it’s a family heirloom…
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Being force fed luxury meals at FAANG like a duck to produce the finest foie gras quality code
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Pitchfork re-rating albums just reveals what was already clear, that Pitchfork ratings are really about signalling a certain taste and a certain kind of “being in tune with the zeitgeist”, rather than a measure of anything “real”.
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We already brought it back
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Which philosopher should I read exactly 10 pages of and then pretend I am an expert on next
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Ok I’m reading Infinite Jest, I’m 1/3 of the way through, it’s a good book, I don’t understand why it’s such a meme to hate on it. I guess because “bad men” tend to read it? The thing is that the book is very sensitive, if a “bad man” read it, he might become a better man.
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On hospital bed, alone, dying: bruh my tweet doing numbers
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One problem is a lack of public spaces to just hang out without paying money. The second problem is that even if you are willing to pay, you have to drink coffee or alcohol or eat something, and I don’t want any of these things at 3:30pm.
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Kids want to be WHAT??? when they grow up? Youtuber? Influencer? Get real!!! They should be aspiring to write SQL queries for a living!
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This chart from Alex Karp’s op-ed in the NYT is insanely misleading. The y-axes are not comparable.
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It’s so funny how Yudkowsky is out here being like Oppenheimer “I am become death” all the time even though he’s literally done nothing and literally made no contribution. What a fucking ego trip it must be to literally think you’re John Connor.
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WTF is this???? Why is there sheaf theory on this bus stop ad?????
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Educational materials (books, lectures) don’t matter. There are no good books, there are no good lectures. What matters is doing the exercises. When you’re at MIT you’re in an environment where you are encouraged to do all the hard exercises.
fwiw many of the MIT courses aren't as good as the better stuff on YouTube, particularly eigensteve's videos or random Technion recordings
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Do NOT speak to me of Web 3 while we still don’t have a Web 2.0 Goodreads
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Some people worry computers will become smarter than them. Have you considered that this can be prevented by simply becoming smarter yourself? “But computers are getting smarter at an exponential rate.” Have you considered simply getting smarter at an exponential rate yourself?
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I find Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” product naming to be offensive but only because they did not use the obviously better wordplay “Trader Zhou’s”
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The internet is increasingly useless, everything is ephemeral, rots away and is forgotten in a few years without maintenance. Even just writing blog posts and preserving them online is a radical act in the current world.
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My main thesis for why the internet sucks now, and why Google sucks now, is that before this current era of social/viral throwaway garbage, more people put more energy into making websites with links and more lasting information and content.
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@empty_box_10
She said do you love me I tell her only partly I only love my mom and bushido I’m sorry
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One idea I have is a “novel” that’s actually a sprawling web of Wikipedia pages. There are entries for the main events of the plot, there are entries with the back stories of each of the characters, etc. Citations to fictional external sources. Has anyone done this?
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Rationalists are like: oh, you've lived and experienced real life? Cute. I have read over 100000 posts.
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WHY BERACIST,
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,UST BY OUETS
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Another cool part of Oppenheimer is that the public can finally see a scientist who’s well-rounded and not horrific Sheldon Cooper stereotype. Oppie read the Bhagavad Gita (of course), but also TS Eliot, Marx, Freud, etc.
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In math or physics, there is no reason to read the original papers of Newton or whatever. Over the ages we polish their works and exposition until it's all very easy to understand and explain. There is no reason why this can't also be the case for Marx.
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I came across this google doc coauthored by
@Grimezsz
on her notion page today and this passage (written in 2019!!) really struck me as the correct attitude to have about AI bias
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The “go to therapy” discourse is annoying because everyone seems to skip over what this imagined therapy is meant to do. I went to therapy for years and I never quite figured out what it was meant to do, either.
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Everyone who ever solves a hard math problem is always labeled as a "math whiz"; maybe one day someone will solve a longstanding problem in an extremely stupid and brute-force way, and we'll finally get to see a headline like "Math Idiot Solves Centuries-Old Conjecture"
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Every once in a while a new god-tier poster appears on this site and it's like wow where did this genius come from? But after a while it always comes to light that their skills had been forged in the fires of tumblr or 4chan a long time ago.
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I contain multitudes (several different social circles in which I feel slightly alienated for different reasons)
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When people ask hypothetical questions you can simply refuse to answer. When they say “ok but what if you had a gun to your head”, you can still refuse; the gun is still hypothetical. I’ll answer if you care enough to put an actual gun to my head, but you probably don’t.
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You, misogynist: Damn, girls are so hot.
Me, woman respecter: No. Women are normal. They’re all ordinary.
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All girl gamers are beautiful. All boy gamers are disgusting. These are facts. Only women should be allowed to play videogames.
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Having my weekly existential ponder about “wtf am I doing with my life”. Climbing the corporate ladder seems kind of pointless. Becoming some kind of weird niche twitter microcelebrity seems ultimately pointless as well. What else is there?
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"Death of the Author" refers to when the author dies, so they can't tell you the meaning of their work anymore, because they are dead.
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Crouching tiger,
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I love this chart. It's a great way to evaluate what's actually easy and what's actually hard. AP English Lit and Leetcode are actually hard. The most hardcore wordcels and the most hardcore shape rotators have survived this round. Who will survive the next round?!
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The reason why google sucks now is because the internet sucks now. The reason why the internet sucks now is because we, the people, don’t produce good webpages anymore. And if we do, we expect to be “incentivized”. We need to rebuild a culture of making webpages purely for fun.
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“A few ex-Stripe buddies of mine had great things to say about you” — This is haunting, terrifying. American Psycho remake material.
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The name “neural network” is a bad name and it creates a lot of unwarranted AI hype. They should be called what they really are: directed acyclic weighted graphs, or DAWGs for short.
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For some reason being on flights is a uniquely conducive environment for me for thinking. My thoughts go crazy, I have racing thoughts on everything, but in a really pleasant way, I feel inspired by everything. Anyone else get this? Maybe it’s because of reduced oxygen levels?
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People like to say that Yudkowsky is very smart but actually I literally think he’s one of the dumbest people on earth. The reason I think so is because skepticism is an important component of intelligence and Yudkowsky seems to have little skepticism.
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Turns out it’s not hard to explain Deleuze. A rhizome is a directed graph, potentially considering all connections between things in every which way. A body without organs is an emergent phenomenon, a hive mind, in which no individual plays any particular specific role (organ).
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Chess is so hot right now, everyone is getting into chess. This is despite computers being better than humans at chess for a few decades now. I doubt computers will become better than humans at writing but even if it happens, we’ll still write, same as how we still play chess.
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Shockingly, the Henry Kissinger op-ed on ChatGPT turns out to be extremely good. It's probably the best piece on ChatGPT I've read, no exaggeration.
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I need Christopher Nolan to make Oppenheimer Extended Universe films: Einstein, Gödel, Turing, Von Neumann, Feynman
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“This is fine” but unironically. We are surrounded by fire, and this is fine. We have always been surrounded by fire, and it has always been fine.
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If you think this is impressive then you need to learn more linear algebra, sorry
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Jokes are just reverse-puzzles where the objective is to figure out why the given solution’s logic is wrong. Whereas regular puzzles have the objective of using logic to find a correct answer. When you get a joke you’re happy because you correctly solved the reverse-puzzle.
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It’s called Tinder because your relationships will burn into flames. It’s called Hinge because your relationships will depend on a single point of failure. It’s called OkCupid because it’s a mediocre matchmaker. It’s called Bumble because your dates will be swarms of bees.
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At some point, our concept of "science" changed, from the search for explanations -- beautiful and elegant ones, even -- to the mere study of data. This happened very recently, actually. It is almost certainly coupled with the rise of the digital computer.
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@andrewparker
Yeah, see, this is exactly the kind of thing that I don’t get. 1/4 of the book is about AA!! Which is at the very least therapy adjacent. Plus, what’s wrong with writing your feelings? Therapy is the only sanctioned place in the world to talk about your feelings?
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Are my coworkers fundamentally boring or is it that they’re afraid of really expressing themselves in work settings?
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It’s the year 2040, and I’ve dragged my kids with me to the exhibition of your tweets at the MOMA. “I was there,” I’ll proudly say, “I retweeted that one.”
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Feynman has a story about how the kids made fun of him for not knowing the name of a bird; but his father had taught him that knowing the name of a thing doesn’t tell you anything about the thing. Here, a famous “scientist” brags about knowing that gold is also called aurum.
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Sometimes I simply enjoy my little hobbies, the chess I play, the Chinese I learn, the stupid tweets I write. Other times I am overtaken by insecurity when I think about how other people are doing great things and becoming super successful and I'm just doing basically nothing.
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Pierre Menard, Author of the GPT Prompt that Produces the Quixote
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I worked in NLP 2015-2020 and it strikes me how GPT makes all the work I did completely trivial. The more I think about it, the more I think GPT is revolutionary. It’s revolutionary in two ways: (1) it’s just very powerful, and (2) it’s easy for anyone to use, not just engineers.
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We needed praystations... We were given playstations... What we really got were paystations...
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The reason why Thoreau said “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” is because they didn’t have the internet back then. Now the mass of men lead lives of desperation and they post about it online.
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What the fuck is a rhizome & how the fuck does everyone on this website know Deleuze & why the fuck do I need to read an entire book to understand a tweet
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Having studied chaos theory, I release a swarm of butterflies to specifically wreak havoc upon my enemies.
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To illustrate commodity fetishism, Zizek talks about the appeal of Coke as something that transcends its physical qualities. Caffeine-free Diet Coke takes this to an even greater extreme. Perhaps this is apt for the most successful capitalist of our time.
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What if we made something like 4chan’s /r9k/, which blocked any text that had already been posted before, except now your text has to pass some threshold of GPT sequence probability before it can be posted or viewed. Any SEO or LinkedIn tier post gets automatically blocked.
the AI thinkbois popping up are unbearable
so many shit linkedin tier takes about the future of work, the future of “community”, the future of learning, the future of the idea economy, the future of whatever the fuck
what about an LLM powered extension to mute them all
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice cream so good, yes yes yes,
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Truly, there is no need for any new commentary on LLMs because Borges already wrote all the relevant stuff 50+ years ago: The Library of Babel, Pierre Menard, On Exactitude in Science.
As LLMs become better the "Library of Babel" () effect will increase: vast amounts of wonder and brilliance will be hidden in them that can only be unlocked by the right, incredibly detailed/specific prompt, and usually never will be.
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Has Sridhar Posted Any Good Henry Kissinger Death Jokes Yet? NO!
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It’s called Tár because there a lot to unpack… like the Unix file format… Ok I’m kms now for this bad joke bye
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It’s weird, when did we start to socially require corporations to care about “ethics” instead of just regulating them?
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Hilarious to me that Houellebecq is using his Chinese wife’s zoom account
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*sees someone respecting their parents* confuciuspilled... based
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How do normal people make friends? Serious question. If it wasn’t for twitter I’d have literally no friends in NYC.
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Do not give oxygen to the idea, which comes up with great frequency, that we are approaching some kind of strong AI.
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Are there any cool, vibrant, productive intellectual scenes in the world that are based in a physical location anymore? Like the existentialists in Paris or the beat poets in SF or Bell Labs or Xerox PARC. I guess everyone’s just online now. But maybe physical space is better…
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The fear shouldn't be whether machine learning will surpass human ability, but whether the range of possible human experience and expression is so small and limited that machine learning is enough to replicate it.
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Right wingers will buy a pistol and then believe that it can protect them from the tyranny of a government whose power derives from its astronomical police and military budgets of which they ardently support
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I think “postrat” used to mean “nerds interested in epistemology beyond rationality” but it now seems to mean “nerds interested in touchy feely stuff and psychedelics”. That’s fine, but can we make a new term for the first category?
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Hospitals be like: Hey! I'm so glad you reached out. I'm actually at capacity right now,
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I love the engine correlation stuff that’s come out of the chess cheating accusations. The engines are basically oracles or Gods who can tell us Absolute Truth. But even then, it doesn’t end human activity. Instead, it gives us mortals something to aspire to.
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